No question the derby with the swans is now the bigger of the two but likewise it undoubtedly means more to the average jack. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just reality. I’m sure many derbies are like that.

Personally, it’s knowing this that makes it meaningful for me, because I know it means that much more to them. Sadly for us, our recent record is woeful and exacerbates this.

If recent head to head roles were reversed, the derby would feel closer to the one with the wurzels for me personally (I’m under 40). Still a derby but relative.

Whereas I just don’t think it would fluctuate in the same way for the jacks, they’d take just as much joy out of it had they beaten us ten times on the bounce. They despise us in a way that just isn’t as reciprocated to the same intensity.