: Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:23 am  

Having spent plenty of time in both cities Sydney is far nicer but Melbourne has a lot more happening. To say nothing happens in Melbourne except AFL is ignorance personified.

Face it Sydney people are lazy when it comes to RL. Other cities show it up on sporting attendance every time.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:41 am  

i liked melbourne

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:09 pm  

The Glorious League Freak wrote:

Yes, a 31,000 all seater stadium.

any chance they'll fill it or get anywhere close?

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:14 pm  

JB Down Under wrote:

Having spent plenty of time in both cities Sydney is far nicer but Melbourne has a lot more happening. To say nothing happens in Melbourne except AFL is ignorance personified.

Face it Sydney people are lazy when it comes to RL. Other cities show it up on sporting attendance every time.

mate 3 days in melbourne and its like a country town.

no traffic, the centre of the city is hardly busy.

nice cafes and shopping but there isnt much to do down there.

its bleak city

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:14 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

any chance they'll fill it or get anywhere close?

they got around 20,000 last year for a game at telsta dome at the start of the year so why not!

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:26 pm  

dally messenger wrote:

they got around 20,000 last year for a game at telsta dome at the start of the year so why not!

is there an amateur league in victoria? maybe some kind of system where the local amateur clubs and their members get discounted entry/season tickets.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:09 pm  

dally messenger wrote:

mate 3 days in melbourne and its like a country town.

no traffic, the centre of the city is hardly busy.

nice cafes and shopping but there isnt much to do down there.

its bleak city

There you go a typical Australian view - culture - wow can't do with that - pity there isn't a RL side that can compete on attendances with the AFL in Melbourne.

Sydney is to culture what an amobea is - and that is the intellectual level of most of it inhabitants.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:16 pm  

dally messenger wrote:

sydney people dont drink XXXX, its a queensland beer.

melbourne people are the most one eyed and ignorant when it comes to sport.

for example they believe AFL is an australian sport and people should support it because its domestic unlike RL which is from england.

sad thing is AFL originated from RU too. when an article was published stating this fact, they more or less attacked the author.

RL is the biggest Australian sport when you include TV ratings together with crowds.

sure our crowds could be bigger but then again we have a team in New Zealand as part of our competition, Origin and test matches.

Is rules played in any other country? no its an Australian sport.

Even if it was it doesn't alter the fact the biggest spectator sport in Australia is rules by quite a margin.

It may have come from union - unlikely given its make up

In my limited experience I enjoyed Melbourne far more than Sydney - and I lived in Sydney nine months - for Melbourne was far more cultured more interesting and a greater diversity of population. Your view is typical of the attitude of most Sydney bods - but then you would not expect them to get culture

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:50 pm  

I love it when some pom starts telling an Australian which at the better cities (because I was there for a little while) and how one sport in Australia was formed.



Just stick to Yorkshire please!

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:04 am  

The Glorious League Freak wrote:

I love it when some pom starts telling an Australian which at the better cities (because I was there for a little while) and how one sport in Australia was formed.



Just stick to Yorkshire please!

OK how much time have you spent in Melbourne in the last 10 years?

Stick to Chorley