Dey terk urr jerbs crowds

Because I give not a fuck for Victorian Rules Football (to the point of leaving Australia to get away from the shit) I don't actually want to write this post, but I will, because rancid cuntery. That's about the only even-handed description of failing 'n' flailing Greater Western Sydney Giants coach Kevin Sheedy's inference that only dirty unAustrayan foreigner boat people types support soccah, and because the Golden West is full of said illegal immigrants, noone wants to come to proper Strayan footy games and instead they go to wogball, set off flares and spread typhoid.

I may be paraphrasing ever-so-slightly. But only ever-so-slightly.

On the long laundry list of dumb shit said by Sheeds, this is remarkable for its ignorance, its casual racism and its boneheaded lack of logic. All ignored AFL apologists, who inevitable as gastric after a 3am kebab have trotted out the usual excuses and disclaimers:
'he was quoted out of context' - no he wasn't
'oh that's just Sheeds he's just a knockabout Aussie rogue' - no he's a cunt
'this is just more lefty hashtag outrage derp' - my personal favourite, given the Red & Black Block have always struck me as about as left-wing as Fred Nile; about the only thing vaguely leftist about them is the red on their shirts, and their faces after they lost the final

There was context to his cretindom, that being a blathering list of excuses for why GWS had pulled a home crowd of 5,830 on a beautiful clear sunny Sunday afternoon (that crowd figure coming courtesy Super League Crowd Counters Ltd) - mainly pinning the blame on the AFL scheduling a game on Mothers Day, clearly picking on small clubs. Aside from Greater Western Sydney being full of sheilas, wogs and pooftas.

Here's a thought. If you want to pull a crowd that wouldn't even embarrass the Wellington Phoenix, maybe play some decent football and win a fucking game or two?

Another GWS sellout at Skoda Stadium

This isn't just an argument based on the 'AFL is unwatchable shit' line of reasoning - though it is - but the simple fact that noone wants to pay money to watch a fucking awful football team wobble about the paddock getting lapped by everyone, even other fucking awful football teams. If there's an audience for AFL in western Sydney, that's not the way to find it. The AFL, in their wisdom, decided to hang their campaign for control of Western civilization on two personalities: coach Sheedy and NRL recruit Israel Folau. Folau turned out to have as much personality as footy-playing ability, and has fled back to egg-chasing for the Tahs. Sheedy's personality turns out to be making pissant excuses for his own inability to coach an incredibly well-resourced team past even the worst clubs in the AFL. GWS might not have the Immigration Department recruiting supporters, but they do have multi-millions in AFL HQ largesse to spunk all over the Golden West. The Wanderers had goodwill, two bucks fifty in Cabcharge vouchers and some natty red and black playing shirts.

So far, the result of the battle for Western supremacy ain't even close. Much like most of GWS' recent on-pitch contests. The amazing thing isn't that only 5,830 people turned up yesterday to watch GWS lose by 135 points. It's that anyone turned up to watch at all.

The Doctor is OUT.