This is what Sheedy said today in his column in the Sunday Herald Sun:

"My thoughts about the new club have centred on whether I have the energy, capacity and hunger to build a club from the ground up. They are crucial and essential ingredients and I think I have them. Developing a team in Western Sydney is the AFL's greatest challenge."

He wants the job.

There was a surprising statistic in the papers today. There are 75,000 people in NSW who are members of an AFL club but only 20,000 support Sydney. Perhaps this partially explains how Collingwood had a travelling support of 15,000 at their away game with Sydney last year. According to the AFL, the bulk of the 75,000 live in the Western suburbs and the Swans support is primarily based in the East. Can they tap into this market if these people already have an allegiance to a club? It might work - a large proportion of Melbourne Storm's supporter base in the NRL are Queenslanders and New South Welshmen now living down here.