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Hi gang,
JF still in occasionally near monsoonal Brisbane today,
One thing that I think needed instant attention and recognition were the incredible amount of SWANNIES supporters at the game up here last night. You may not have seen them, as people were scattered here and there around the ground.
Unfortunately despite the clubs official allocation on the HBF (where Old Royboys was I think) most of the Swans in the crowd were scattered everywhere. You look at the goals we kicked down the other end in the last quarter. Even despite it being near the Lions Cheer Squad there were heaps and heaps of Swans leaping around deliriously when Bazza's kick went through.
With Lescygnes now living in Vegas, and regulars like Annette now very much part of the gang, it is imperative for the club to try and make attempts to tap into this SEQ/NNSW supporter base. We need a Queensland-based supporters club for our mighty Swans!
You will surely see the pictures JS and Old Royboys will put on here from after the match at the Pineapple Hotel. Even before the game there was a nice little throng of Redandwhiteonliners (and Gayfooty.com.au-ers as well-big Ryan fans too there Bon Bon!
). But after the game we TOOK OVER THE WHOLE PUB. There would have been at least 30 renditions of the club song. Peter and I even broke into "Up there for Sydney" as others fumbled for the words. I don't think I have celebrated this hard after a win in ages!
To be so far from home, yet to be in a pub that was wall to wall in red and white (with very little organisation officially, apart from me posting here) was just an incredible feeling. The Lions in attendance were completely shocked, as we sang, danced, waved flags AND even pour Strongbows over one's head!
The thing is, does anyone know how we can get a QLD/NNSW based Supporters Club going? What do we have to do? Who to we have to approach at the club? (Tony Morwood?) What does the club need for us to take things up here to the next step? I spoke to heaps of SWANS supporters who had come from places like Coffs Harbour, Lismore, Ballina and the Gold Coast. Whilst it seems a few had moved up from the south to live in Brisbane permanently.
I know you got the business card of the old Bloods guy LesCygnes. But are you willing to be the public head of any moves to get an SC going up in Brisvegas. Maybe with regular meet-ups at a pub to watch matches? And trips down here for games too!
Would Tony Morwood or the club putting a letter or ad in the Courier Mail (or Northern Rivers papers) help in generating support up here? Maybe telling Swans supporters that if they wanted to sit with other Swans fans that they could get ticket through the office in Sydney?
The support IS already here. We had fans who flew from as far as Tasmania for the match. We just have to have everyone sitting together. As in unity there is strength. We still couldn't fill 2 rows in the Cheer Squad. Even if many supporters came from other areas in the ground to sit with us, because they were on their own and were getting heckled by the feral locals.
Let's see where this thread takes us. Taking greater steps at tapping into the huge northern NSW supporter base we have will do the club no harm at all. They get NSW TV, they ARE New South Welshmen, but because of proximity can only get to the Lions match up here.
JF( who wants to take shares out in the Pineapple Hotel)
JF still in occasionally near monsoonal Brisbane today,
One thing that I think needed instant attention and recognition were the incredible amount of SWANNIES supporters at the game up here last night. You may not have seen them, as people were scattered here and there around the ground.
Unfortunately despite the clubs official allocation on the HBF (where Old Royboys was I think) most of the Swans in the crowd were scattered everywhere. You look at the goals we kicked down the other end in the last quarter. Even despite it being near the Lions Cheer Squad there were heaps and heaps of Swans leaping around deliriously when Bazza's kick went through.
With Lescygnes now living in Vegas, and regulars like Annette now very much part of the gang, it is imperative for the club to try and make attempts to tap into this SEQ/NNSW supporter base. We need a Queensland-based supporters club for our mighty Swans!
You will surely see the pictures JS and Old Royboys will put on here from after the match at the Pineapple Hotel. Even before the game there was a nice little throng of Redandwhiteonliners (and Gayfooty.com.au-ers as well-big Ryan fans too there Bon Bon!
). But after the game we TOOK OVER THE WHOLE PUB. There would have been at least 30 renditions of the club song. Peter and I even broke into "Up there for Sydney" as others fumbled for the words. I don't think I have celebrated this hard after a win in ages! To be so far from home, yet to be in a pub that was wall to wall in red and white (with very little organisation officially, apart from me posting here) was just an incredible feeling. The Lions in attendance were completely shocked, as we sang, danced, waved flags AND even pour Strongbows over one's head!
The thing is, does anyone know how we can get a QLD/NNSW based Supporters Club going? What do we have to do? Who to we have to approach at the club? (Tony Morwood?) What does the club need for us to take things up here to the next step? I spoke to heaps of SWANS supporters who had come from places like Coffs Harbour, Lismore, Ballina and the Gold Coast. Whilst it seems a few had moved up from the south to live in Brisbane permanently.
I know you got the business card of the old Bloods guy LesCygnes. But are you willing to be the public head of any moves to get an SC going up in Brisvegas. Maybe with regular meet-ups at a pub to watch matches? And trips down here for games too!
Would Tony Morwood or the club putting a letter or ad in the Courier Mail (or Northern Rivers papers) help in generating support up here? Maybe telling Swans supporters that if they wanted to sit with other Swans fans that they could get ticket through the office in Sydney?
The support IS already here. We had fans who flew from as far as Tasmania for the match. We just have to have everyone sitting together. As in unity there is strength. We still couldn't fill 2 rows in the Cheer Squad. Even if many supporters came from other areas in the ground to sit with us, because they were on their own and were getting heckled by the feral locals.
Let's see where this thread takes us. Taking greater steps at tapping into the huge northern NSW supporter base we have will do the club no harm at all. They get NSW TV, they ARE New South Welshmen, but because of proximity can only get to the Lions match up here.
JF( who wants to take shares out in the Pineapple Hotel)
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