Sports Stadium

I will do a what i have been up to type blog over the weekend although nothing exceptional has happened rather I have just found my feet a bit.

I have wanted to a blog on sport and stuff in the city for a while .. here is a quick run down of the teams etc that play "out of sydney".

AFL:

Sydney Swans : Current premiership holders, They won the grand final last year and Sydney had a winning team for the first time in 72 years. Actually the Sydney Swans were in a previous life "South Melbourne" but they relocated and renamaed a few years ago. The swans by the way are the team Tadgh Kenneally plays for. Melbourne is where AFL rules though most of the AFL teams hail from there or the surrounding arrea.

The Swans play at the SCG (Sydney Cricket Ground) oval, the Oz cricket team plays there also when they are in town. Aussies are really really cocky about there cricket team the genuinely believe them to be unbeatable. To be fair they have a mega squad. The test team is full of world stars. The one dayers is practically a different team, I think you have to earn your spurs in the one dayers to get a chance at test level.

Sydney's Soccer team play at Aussie stadium. They are the current A-League champs, The A- League is a new competitioon with only I think 6 or 7 teams in it. I think they changed it around in order to bring the quality up. Incidently Dwght Yorke plays for Sydney and is paid more than most of the rest of the teams put together. I think he ended up playing midfield for most of the season. Probably impoortant to note that Aussies are really proud of the fact that they are going to the world cup for the first time this year. Gus Hiddink is really revered for his acheivements.

The other big sport here is Rugby league. Sydney has to many teams to mention I think but all big macthes are palyed at Telstra stadium. I think the Dragons are the current holders of the title and hail from the western suberbs. Other Teams of note include Sydney Roosters, Manly, Penrith.. .
One other team worth mention is Souths or the "rabbitohs". They were just a few days ago the subject of a hostile takeover by Russell Crowe. They are rooted to the bottom of the table. But are/were a stauchly working man's club. So it was resented bitterly when "Rusty" came calling with his dollars. On sunday at a "Historic" club meeting Rusty and his hench men got the 75% majority they required for the takeover. He promply promised a premiersjip winning team within two years. Think Red Roms revolution at chelski and you get the idea.

As I see other sports items worth metion I will catalogue them here.