Letter in the Herald-Sun today

[swansrule100]

on a semi related note whats wrong with people jumping on the bandwagon. People complain the swans dont attract new fans in nsw and so forth, then the same people complain when everyone jumps on the bandwagon, gotta start supporting sometime.

Everyone jump on for all i care if they want to follow and support the club its better for everyone!



im feeling angry about that letter it sums up the attidude of a lot of people ive met!

[Frog]

I sincerely thought this was a National Competition. We have Sydney Swans supporters in Perth. Adelaide, Los Angeles, London, Singapore ... Sorry, got carried away.

Clifford is some-one of limited vision. The Sydney Swans stop at the NSW border, probably the same way his world stops at the edge of his property.

Leave him be. He will go away, someday.

[Plugger46]

That just makes my blood boil. Who does this idiot think he is.

[swansrule100]

Originally posted by Plugger46
That just makes my blood boil. Who does this idiot think he is.

should send the real plugger over to see this fool!

[dawson]

Then you have this which was in yesterday's Sydney Morning Herald....

After a drought lasting several years the AFL premiership has finally been taken out by a Melbourne team, South Melbourne.

It became clear during the presentations that the team was still South Melbourne. The players and the coach saw themselves as South Melbourne players, based in Sydney. The coach only just remembered to acknowledge Sydney in his speech when he was presented as the coach of South Melbourne.

After years of toil to earn a place in the hearts and minds of this city, it is clear they never really were Sydney's team and should go back to Melbourne. A new team should be created, with none of the unwanted baggage that came with the South Melbourne team.

Douglas Pook
Dee Why

[cruiser]

Originally posted by dawson
Then you have this which was in yesterday's Sydney Morning Herald....

After a drought lasting several years the AFL premiership has finally been taken out by a Melbourne team, South Melbourne.

It became clear during the presentations that the team was still South Melbourne. The players and the coach saw themselves as South Melbourne players, based in Sydney. The coach only just remembered to acknowledge Sydney in his speech when he was presented as the coach of South Melbourne.

After years of toil to earn a place in the hearts and minds of this city, it is clear they never really were Sydney's team and should go back to Melbourne. A new team should be created, with none of the unwanted baggage that came with the South Melbourne team.

Douglas Pook
Dee Why

I think we should all ignore this baiting. We are united as one and should ignore these fools. However, Bob Davis introducing the team at the end of the GF as South Melbourne was wrong and a rather inflamatory thing to do.

[anniswan]

Just remember the banner

One Team, Two Cities

Living the Dream

I had enough Victorian members rubishing Sydney members this week to make me want to scream, I didn't react, just quietly made the point that we all follow the team in a different way.

When I started the Swans yahoo mailing list in 1998 there were numerous threads that argued that the old bloods supporters were the real supporters as opposed to the people that started following the swans after they arrived in Sydney and vice versa.

This whole issue needs to be put behind us and each cities supporters should just accept each other and get on with just enjoying the moment.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by SwallowdaFonz
Clifford sounds like a Saints fan to me.

Down, Footyhead, down!

JF

[swansrule100]

maybe whoever wrote it was a guy from street talk who doesnt support richmond (from memory) anymore because they dont play in richmond or use players only from richmond.

[swansrock4eva]

I fail to see how "baggage" can be a detriment to the club! I jumped on the bandwagon before it was even a few planks of wood in 94. I didn't know about the history, I didn't understand it, but as the years have gone on, my pride in my club has only ever grown - that goes right on back to 1874. In the last few weeks I've had a lot of people say "why is there a banner in the CS with 1874 on it?" and the explanation, although somewhat simple, has always been a pride-filled one. As has recognition of the greats of the years gone by, be they from north or south of the border. As long as the club acknowledges the two entities of South Melbourne and Sydney are forever entwined because of the roots of South and the relocation, then it is something we should all be proud of. Same way that on Saturday night it was the "mexicans" and the "northerners" partying on together, the same way so many people opened their doors to fans from elsewhere for games this season - we are all as one, united by history and united by the red and white, and they can never take that away from us. In all hoesty I feel sorry for the morons who can't understand that, because it is something they can never be a part of either.

[BeeEmmAre]

Cliff, Doug and anyone else who feels this way = oxygen bandits

Go procreate with yourselves

[ben.carbonaro]

Originally posted by garethb83
Word! I'm a Sydney based member and i was in Melb for the entire GF weekend... you guys (melb based) have as much right to the team as we do... not to mention people who live in the rest of the world! Another one of my loves baseball, the team i follow has a good philosophy, they call their supporters 'Red Sox Nation'... implying that their fans can come from wherever they want, it doesn't matter!

Come on, he lives in Potts Point, enough said!

Yeah, I don't think location should have anything to do with where you live.

Am a Victorian based Swans supporter, so can you can please explain Potts Point thing ?

Is it a rich area, North Shore or something ?

[anniswan]

Originally posted by ben.carbonaro


Am a Victorian based Swans supporter, so can you can please explain Potts Point thing ?

Is it a rich area, North Shore or something ?

Potts Point is just down from Kings Cross, it is an expensive area.

Comparison in Melbourne would probably be St Kilda

[ben.carbonaro]

Thanks for you help, Ann.

Whilst not siding with this bloke at all, isn't wrong to judge what someone has written based purely on where we live ?

[R-1]

Yeah but it's fun, and it's the favourite past-time of this city aint it?