I think she's being a bit generous on Tom being a "talking point" ...
GWS gets next to no coverage up here. I work in sports media and have contacts at the Sydney papers and trust me no-one cares.
When it is launched it will get some publicity, but not what the AFL want or need. It is not going to conquer all in the western suburbs. Not now, not ever.
Tom's contract situation has crept in a couple of times, usually on the back of a second hand Mike Sheahan piece, at the bottom of the last page of the Daily Telegraph.
Nothing is coming from the Sydney sports media, because none of them really give a toss. Wilson is right, people up here don't know who he is nor do they care unfortunately.
And why would they, really? The West is going to be very hard to take.
And this small recognition is only to say the bare minimum of what is going on, and to make sure that (some) people are still a little aware that there is a multi million dollar sports organisation trying to build itself at Blacktown.
Because there is no real impact being made.