My parents are English and came out here when they got married.
My Dad prefers soccer, but when we were little took me and my brother out to league games sometimes as weekend entertainment as it was the bigger sport. Went to lots of games - Tigers, Parra and North Sydney mostly as closest to where we grew up. Back then league games were just one option of many for things to do on a weekend. Always had a tendency to support Tigers, probably around 1993 was when I became an actual Tigers fan
Big respect to my Dad who didn't really like or understand league at all (still doesn't given how many games he's been to), but dedicated huge parts of his weekend to it just to keep me entertained.