CORRECT NOW- but my historical reference proves my point!
Sydney Kings are still located in Sydney - while Melbourne lost their Tigers mascot when they merged.
Club location is critical to why MOST people support a team!
Having said that - I understand people do choose totem mascots and use that as their cross-code support justification.
Hence the NFL Bengals, Richmond Tigers and Collingwood Magpies etc crossover supporters on this forum and other social media.
For me as a kid in the Ryde district - we played under the Balmain juniors - so that was my local club in my eyes!
The vast majority of my school peers supported Parra (due to close proximity PLUS their first grade success in the mid 70s-80s) - so the club location was critical to those Parra sheep too!
It wasn't like they were crossover fans from the Enmore Eels!!