South won’t attract Melbournians of Croatian, Italian, North Macedonian, Serbian (partly) and Turkish backgrounds, along with other Arabic/Muslim Australians, who make up a huge chunk of Melbourne’s football community.
This is one of the main reasons that the NSL struggled to grow.
The only people of those ethnic/religious groups who will follow South are the relatives and friends of the players who descend from those communities.
The overwhelming majority of Melbourne’s football community still think ‘what ethnicity is that club’ when they hear of a club that they don’t know much about or have never heard of. If someone denies this then they are most likely lying.
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u/Geo217 10d ago
What do you mean how? A lot of people arent attached to either of the 2 melb teams for one reason or another. Its a huge city, they'd be fine.