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Just Curious
i am just curious about how many of u so called die hard swans fans were about back in 1982 when they first came to sydney????
not too many i bet .........
not too many i bet .........
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I was - since '75 - what about you...?Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
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I became an AFL/Swans supporter in 83. went to my 1st game in 84, arriving at 3pm in time for kick off. (My union following dad worked out that we started out games at 2pm after that.)Originally posted by chookie
i am just curious about how many of u so called die hard swans fans were about back in 1982 when they first came to sydney????
not too many i bet .........
That count?
You are only opening yourself up to every old South Melbourne fan to say how long they have barracked for the club for.
Quite a few of us were there in the 'dark days' of the early 90s. Where we averaged 9000 to matches (more than some NRL clubs at the time) despite not having won anything for 27 straight matches. You would personally get slagged for barracking for the team, but you were there every week rain hail or shine. Because you could grow and be part of something.
There at the Moore Park Bowling Club with the fellow faithful, thinking of a better future for our club, dreaming of a success that at the time many of us never thought would have come, growing as the once ugly duckling of the AFl grew into being the most important cog in the games strategic expansion plan in the country. I hark back to those days with a great deal of fondness for some strange reason. I guess when you kept losing you had to make your own fun.
Several of us on here are expat southerners who swapped teams. Many are people who were never attracted to sport before. Many are white collar, many are professional, many are female.
Yeah, our club is a weird pastiche of misfits lost souls and wanderers from not only interstate but abroad. It has been said that the Swans crowd is an "accepting place to be". Because we have all come from somewhere to having our team in our lives. And each of us has their own story as to why they got behind the team.
See below for that.
So hop onboard for the journey. Let's just hope that our yellow brick rod actually leads us somewhere constructive. As making the finals at this club is no longer good enough. We are Australia's Number One City; we want to be NUMBER ONE IN THE AFL as well.
I feel better after writing this. Not been a great week for me personally, capped off by today's effort against North.
JFLast edited by JF_Bay22_SCG; 3 April 2005, 12:42 AM."Never ever ever state that Sydney is gone.They are like cockroaches in the aftermath of a nuclear war"
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i am just curious how many bigots there are on this board that believe they are some kind of yardstick for swans fandom.Originally posted by chookie
i am just curious about how many of u so called die hard swans fans were about back in 1982 when they first came to sydney????
not too many i bet .........
i've been a fan since '98 after being introduced to the game. i sincerely hope i fail your standard.Last edited by timthefish; 3 April 2005, 03:36 AM.then again, i think it would be worth trying 15-16 players on field so what would i knowComment
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Well said.Originally posted by timthefish
i am just curious how many bigots there are on this board that believe they are some kind of yardstick for swans fandom.
i've been a fan since '98 after being introduced to the game. i sincerely hope i fail your standard.I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his timeComment
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I jumped on the bandwagon at the start of the 1934 season thinking I was on the right track to schoolyard glory. I should have known better. A decade or so earlier I started barracking for the North Sydney Bears.Originally posted by chookie
i am just curious about how many of u so called die hard swans fans were about back in 1982 when they first came to sydney????
not too many i bet .........Comment
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Saw 6 games in 1982 joined in 1983 and member ever since, don't tar us all with the 'ROK is sexy' tag, many true believers don't post or care about RWO, but we are all around....
Check out the thread "why I follow the Swans" for some insights...Sports do not build character. They reveal it....Heywood Broun
I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures......Earl WarrenComment
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Why thankyou. You all know it's true.Originally posted by Rob-bloods
don't tar us all with the 'ROK is sexy' tagComment
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Im better than you cos I started supporting the Swans in '96.Originally posted by timthefish
i am just curious how many bigots there are on this board that believe they are some kind of yardstick for swans fandom.
i've been a fan since '98 after being introduced to the game. i sincerely hope i fail your standard.
The bandwagon was bigger and fuller that year.Comment
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I think a more appropriate question is not when people started supporting the Swans but rather, after yesterday's crap, how long they will be able to keep supporting them.---------||--ANNE--||----------Comment
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I wasn't even thought of.Vicky Pollard: Oh my god I so can't believe you just said that this is like the time I threw Anita's nokia in the canal as a joke and she's like you have well got to buy me another one and I'm like get over it and then Paul came over who's adopted anyway and started saying that I fancy Mark Bennett but oh my god just because I have sex with someone doesn't mean I fancy them.Comment
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Been following the Swans since the move North, as for my first actual match attended it was in 1985 when I was 10.Originally posted by chookie
i am just curious about how many of u so called die hard swans fans were about back in 1982 when they first came to sydney????
not too many i bet .........Premiers 09,18,33,05
"You Irish Twit", Quote attributed to a RWO member who shall remain nameless.
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I am the third in three generations of Swans fans, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it. I sometimes wish my grandfather had lived in a different suburb
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even those of us who do think ROK is Sexy still bring our own voice and passion to the club. It takes all types. It doesn't mean we're not "true believers".Originally posted by Rob-bloods
Saw 6 games in 1982 joined in 1983 and member ever since, don't tar us all with the 'ROK is sexy' tag, many true believers don't post or care about RWO, but we are all around....
Check out the thread "why I follow the Swans" for some insights...
I'm so sick of these mine is bigger than yours threads.Here's my heart and you can break it
I need some release, release, release
We need
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If you were 8 years old that makes you 79, which probably makes you the oldest on this site. What gets me is that you are so deft on the computer for one of your generation.Originally posted by ROK Lobster
I jumped on the bandwagon at the start of the 1934 season thinking I was on the right track to schoolyard glory. I should have known better. A decade or so earlier I started barracking for the North Sydney Bears.
The upside is you have a sense of humour.Comment
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