WHEN the Red and Black Bloc chant "Who do you sing for?" they now have a surprise inclusion to their legion of fans for the reply - Andrew Demetriou.

During his visit to Sydney this week, Demetriou has heaped praise on the fledgling A-League club's all-conquering debut season.

"Any team to do what they have done in their first year is phenomenal," Demetriou said. "Credit where credit is due, they've done a superb job.

"Not only are they successful on the field they have a fantastic following.

"They're a very professional outfit and you can see it on the park."

The Wanderers have achieved their amazing success with just six months preparation while the Giants have had more than two years to get their club ready.

The Wanderers claimed the Premier's Plate, and the Giants the wooden spoon.

The A-League team also did it on a fraction of the Giants's $200 million budget. While full of admiration for the Wanderers' efforts, Demetriou argues the Giants project is very different.

"Our build is completely different," he said. "We are taking a long term perspective; it's a 20-30 year project which has a lot of pain in the early years. We have to build from the bottom up and we never expected to have immediate success.

"The GWS have taken a very youthful approach to building their list but they may at the end of the year decide they may want to get a bit more experience injected into the team. Maybe they will decide to trade some of their youngsters to get some experience."

Giants CEO David Matthews was a guest of the Wanderers at Parramatta Stadium for the derby against Sydney FC.

"There's plenty of room for everyone," Matthews said. "The people of Western Sydney deserve their own A-League team and they deserve their own AFL team."

Wanderers executive chairman Lyall Gorman believes they two clubs can co-exist and both add value to Sydney's west.

"We don't see the Giants as a threat to what we're trying to achieve at all and I say that respectfully," Gorman said.

The key difference between the two clubs is the participation platform on which both sports operate in Sydney's west.

"We have 100,000 registered players in our core area," Gorman said.

"We have a very rich heritage which is the work the football associations did well before we came on the scene."

Originally published as Demetriou heaps praise on Wanderers