This is more what I'm used to, partisan atmosphere, hostile crowd, there's no love lost between these cross-town rivals. As I mentioned in the last post both these teams play at the Subiaco Oval which is in the trendy East Side of Perth, it's a real nice area with loads of bars, restaurants, boutiques, whatever tickles your fancy can be found in Subi really. The Eagles are based here, it's where they train, have offices etc, it's really there home ground in my book but it's owned by the council, the Dockers play there home games here but train down in Fremantle at their own Oval and are based in the seaside town. From start to finish it was more like a football game that I'm used to, loads of shouting at the opposition, songs, threats
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