Do we Have the Passion

[westernswan]

Hi there.......just wanting too let all swans fans out there who made the trip West yesterday, what a great specticle they created, i sat in the cheersqaud and was amazed by the amount of pride and passion our club has, i thourally enjoyed serving it up to the Dorker supporters and even though we didnt win i had a great time, i am making the trip east though too watch swans vs essendon, just wandering what crowd is expected for that game ????

[anniswan]

Re: Do we Have the Passion

Originally posted by westernswan
i am making the trip east though too watch swans vs essendon, just wandering what crowd is expected for that game ????

Welcome to RWO WS.

Depending to where we are situated on the ladder, but I would hope to see 60,000 there.

Cher and I are travelling up from Melb so it may be 60,003

[westernswan]

thanks for the welcoming, but i do think 60,000 is out oof the question i mean we barely got 50,000 to the collingwood game and considering they have the largest away support in the AFL i think maybe we should focus on 45,000........but in order to get a large crowd peopel are going too have to spread the word at work let people knoe the game is on and so on, we must promote the event, for the game has the potential too be huge

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Re: Do we Have the Passion

Originally posted by westernswan
Hi there.......just wanting too let all swans fans out there who made the trip West yesterday, what a great specticle they created, i sat in the cheersqaud and was amazed by the amount of pride and passion our club has, i thourally enjoyed serving it up to the Dorker supporters and even though we didnt win i had a great time, i am making the trip east though too watch swans vs essendon, just wandering what crowd is expected for that game ????

It is 12am WST today and I've just gotten home. The Swans efffort was deplorably inept at times, yet ok in others. Considering the amount of passes and handballs that went straight to Medhurst and Farmer in our defensive 50 we can be chuffed that we got as close as we did. In theory this was a very very very winnable game. Freo's forwards are arsey around goals and Sandilands makes a huge difference in the ruck, but we had more than enough ball to win today. But when a sad percentage of your kicks don't even resemble drop punts and defenders are either running around like headless chickens (and thus getting caught holding the pill), firing off handpasses to players in a worse position, often being 5 metres behind theur Freo opponents at times, what hope do we have of winning a game of footy, especially in a place like this on a huge ground like Subi.

The WA Supporters Club know us now, so the faces we met at the Eagles games are now well acquainted with the travellers from "over east". I feel sorry for them that we have to be served us the rubbish they got today. Not only are they highly highly passionate and committed Swans supporters over here, they bloody well know their footy. They would be 1/3 expat Sydneysiders, 1/3 expat Victorians and 1/3 locals, but I respect them immensely for their passion for this club. Again the Irish club was packed after the match. RESPECT WA Swans Supporters Club!

As WS said, we gave as good as we got today and certainly stirred up the Freo supporters with our chanting and banter. I was actually laughing at times when Peter got the chants going, getting barns about the score from some of the locals, as others looked on laughing. But it stirred the locals up, that's for sure. The flags and Bam Bam's banners looked awesome, even if the TV only briefly showed us. Peter had a Freo supporter come up and say Hi; this bloke was actually sitting next to him when Plugger broke the record a couple of years ago.

The Freo supporters are great, infinitely better than the pathetic Eagles 'fans'. Wearing their colours with pride and chanting extremely loudly all around the ground, they sure know what passion is about. Very good colourful Cheer Squad too (with a big flag too Robbie!) The fact that a whole side of the stadium stood up to give Barry the razz (and duly laughed when he threw the phone away) when he got dragged is indicative of the larrikan nature of those in purple. Feral, but not aggressive personally to any of us. Good value the Docker fans. RESPECT FREMANTLE!

Peter Dave from Waikerie and I went back to Port1978 and Swans 63's place, where we watched the replay over a pizza. Was a good night with good people. Weird being in a house with a Swans supporter from Sydney, a Port supporter from Adelaide, a South Aussie from Waikerie and me in a house, in Perth!

BUT the highlight of the day AGAIN was Michelle, our number one WA Swans character! If you were thinking of the Swanzblondz in Sydney you have not seen anything till you have seen Michelle and her band of 3 legging blonde bombshells in their cowboy hats and red bra tops in action. Groupies would be a complete understatement.

Some of you may have seen Michelle recently on the Perth edition of the AFL Footy show screamingly drunkenly about her love for Barry Hall. You may also remember that after the Eagles game at the Irish club she stormed up on stage demanding to see Barry Hall so she could give him a small buddha statue that he had to pray to. Well, she was back complete with "Big bad buddha Barry Hall" banner and mouth even louder than ever. (Er, yes she was very drunk too). She proceeded to go up to Ryan O'Keefe at the after match screaming at him that he was "****ing hot" and then had photographs taken with him as if she were giving him a tongue kiss. She then went on to nearly crash-tackle Barry Hall, again. She then thrusted her breasts at at least 3 players asking for them to sign her guernsey, whilst she was still wearing it. Stewie Maxfield got up on stage and had to keep a straight face as Michelle screamed about how HOT he was. She was last seen outside the Irish club trying to get inside the Swans players coach, as the players were both bemused, embarrassed and laughing. And this after just storming up and eating a certain supporter's chip that he just bought off his plate without asking.

She however gained a huge fan in a supporter who shall remain namesless. Numbers were exchanged, and she was even offered to come back to Sydney in said person's car. I'm kind of scared she will accept his offer as well.

If you go to a match in Perth and get to see her in action at the after-match, it is seriously worth it. She should be awarded the Troy Luff Medal for sure for her effort today.

I had fun again today.

JF

[footyhead]

got any photo's of the Swans chicks in action ??

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by footyhead
got any photo's of the Swans chicks in action ??

Yes, I do. But they are on a throw away camera. Pete has some on a digital. But he is heading for Esperance today.

You will die laughing when you see them.

Highlight of the day for sure, hey Western Swan.

JF

[westernswan]

sure was,JF_Bay22_SCG were you the bloke sitting infront of me, i was the bloke who followed Subiaco in the WAFL

[Cher]

Re: Do we Have the Passion

Originally posted by westernswan
Hi there.......just wanting too let all swans fans out there who made the trip West yesterday, what a great specticle they created, i sat in the cheersqaud and was amazed by the amount of pride and passion our club has, i thourally enjoyed serving it up to the Dorker supporters a

I watched the game with a few Vic Cheer Squad members - and we all commented how good you guys looked on the tele, just sad that our players didn't look as good!!

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by westernswan
sure was,JF_Bay22_SCG were you the bloke sitting infront of me, i was the bloke who followed Subiaco in the WAFL

T'was I my friend. Must have been hell in your purple household last night.

Thought you were watching Subi today mate. Was invited to go, but wasn't up to it.

JF

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Re: Re: Do we Have the Passion

Originally posted by Cher
I watched the game with a few Vic Cheer Squad members - and we all commented how good you guys looked on the tele, just sad that our players didn't look as good!!

I don't think people realise the efforts we are making these days to have support for our team around the country. Never before the last 2 seasons have we had a real Cheer Squad in both Adelaide and Perth. They didn't show us much on the TV, but even when Freo were shooting for goal the waving of the flags looked heaps good in my opinion. Robbie's flags made a huge difference. As did the WA Supporters Club buying eight 1.8 metre poles so that I can do what I do in SA and just bring the flags to the game in a laundrimat bag.

It may mean bugger all to the average person watching the tele. But I see what we are doing is trying to make a difference, even if it is generally quite a peripheral one. To hear Jude Bolton come out publicly and say that the players were disappointed in Melbourne against Hawthorn a couple of years when the Melbourne based CS sat upstairs is not ony a shock but very very pleasing. It means they know you are there trying to make that extra bit of difference for THEM. He apparently even said to a couple of members that they actually look for us at each away match. This fills me with tremendous pride, even if the results away from home don't always.

It is weird that this season we have had awesome away support in both Adelaide and Perth. We even had a whizzbang cheer squad with all its bells and whistles in Perth for the first time this year, at BOTH games! And to a lesser extent Brisbane too. And that we have impressed the home supporters with our passion and good nature cheering commitment and banter at every match, even when the scores haven't gone our way.

Sadly this does not change the fact that it is at home in Sydney where the biggest changes need to happen. It pains me no end that people look at the Sydney crowd and laugh derisively when hordes of people leave before the end of the match. It pains me no end that I'm leading chants to heaps of empty seats at every home game. And that there are people who will sit with us at away matches but still refuse to at home matches. I need all hands on deck, but never get it.

Hopefully with guys like Myles and Tony Morwood (who both came up to me yesterday at the Irish club) we will start to look at ways of building up the numbers and involvement in the Sydney-based Cheer Squad. That that involves the office working with us not against us. And it involves everyone understanding what we do and why we do what we do. And that I'm afraid is something that we struggle to do. As Sydneysiders really have little culturally to compare footy culture with.

But we'll struggle on regardless.

JF

PS:- Sorry to come across as a tad melancholy today. I just am a tad blue today I guess. And hung over and sleep-deprived.

[westernswan]

yeh mate i did end up going to watch my mighty subiaco thrash souths by 28points in the WAFL...around 2000 attended the game i reckon which is very rare in our local competition...but im still impressed with sydney effort in the second half yesterday aftrer been 53points down peter turned around a said "lets do some @@@@ stirring now" and we did had a great time annoying those purple po****rs and even though i coped it from the rest of my family i just reminded them about finals and how they were crowing last year aswell.......

[port1978]

Re: Re: Re: Do we Have the Passion

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG
I just am a tad blue today I guess. And hung over and sleep-deprived.

Hung over......thought you might be!
Seeya in Sydney next year!

[port1978]

Originally posted by westernswan
yeh mate i did end up going to watch my mighty subiaco thrash souths by 28points in the WAFL...around 2000 attended the game i reckon which is very rare in our local competition

Yeah.....Subi were great!!!!


And did you see those feral Subi supporters behind the goals.........

[westernswan]

Oh them feral behind the goals were amazing, made it like a subiaco home game....pretty damn good for chardonnay sippers