GWS have toughness and it has come about from having to fight harder for their part in September
Kevin Sheedy, the inaugural Greater Western Sydney coach, says he has never seen a club change its culture as much as Collingwood. “The whole culture at Collingwood has changed. The coach now lives in Toorak and so does the president,” said Sheedy with almost unbearable grandness in his present day role as Giant spruiker and elder carnival barker.
While Sheedy’s line was one in a staccato succession of prods at the Magpies (“They’ve won two premierships in 50 years – that’s four hours of happiness in 50 years, that’s enough…that’s over the top”) that should be taken with the back-pocket plumber humour with which it was delivered, it’s interesting that he didn’t reflect on the changing culture of his former charges.
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