True Supporters/Fans - Your definition

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG
Because it is pathetic & soft to abandon a team no matter how badly they are playing.

If you are serious about your allegiance to your club, you stick by the team when they need it most, when they are losing.

Hell, it can be horrible at times. But sticking by your team in the bad times & have the courage to cop @@@@ for doing so tends to make the successes all the sweeter.

JF

What if you leave early while watching on TV?

Does it make any difference to the club if you leave before the siren?

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Originally posted by Sanecow
I've left a few minutes early a number of times (never a whole quarter though). Big deal. I think waving flags and banging on drums is pathetic unless you are five.

Agreed, although hat doesn't apply to cowbells or duckcalls surely?

[Travelling Swan]

As a longterm suppoter i.e. pre 82 I think there maybe a tendancy to think that the longer you support the team then the more credence you have. That may not neccessarily be true though, as time is only 1 of many factors that make a true suppoter. I know how hard it has been over the years to attract supporters and how important for the future of the club it is so really the more the merrier.

I am passionate to the point that I have in younger days and also occasionally lately lost control of my temper when we have lost a game which we were clearly in control of, Saints at SCG against Plugger was one, as was a game at Windy Hill in the late 70's which my father a dons supporter often recalls with delight how I kicked the @@@@ out of the wire fence over the course of the last couple of quarters. Possibly I should have turned my walked away from both contests but then sometimes you do get caught up in the battle. Who I am to say the someone should stay to the bitter end though.

On sunday at home I was about to go elsewhere at 3/4 time however part of me couldnt as there was still a very remote chance of making a game out of it. Plus in my heart I couldn't see us losing the qtr by anther 5 goals to go down somewhere near 15 goals and I wanted to see what fight we had left.

[stellation]

Originally posted by tara

How old is Jolly? You may find he is worth giving a bit more time to develop. Carlton supporters were calling for French's blood for years (spoilt by Matty Allen when playing well) yet now if he goes down he makes the difference from having a chance to getting smashed.

A good point, Jolly is only 24.

[Ryan Bomford]

Is never having to say you're sorry.

[Mike_B]

Originally posted by Ryan Bomford
Is never having to say you're sorry.

So John Howard is our truest fan huh?

[wyatt]

For mine, the most important quality of a true supporter is passion.

For 30 years I supported my beloved Royboys through thick and thin - mostly thin. I bawled my eyes out at the last game they played in Melbourne.

Since 1997 I have thrown my considerable passion behind the Swannies. I am now in my 10th year of membership and miss games only when it is absolutely unavoidable. Sometimes I get stuck into them, on occasions I'll leave the game early or turn off the TV early, mainly to spare me the stress on my fragile ticker. But it doesn't mean I like them any less. However if another supporter or outsider has the audacity to have a go at them I'll be all over them in a flash defending the team.

[Glenn]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG
Hey, people on the next table to me at the SARC actually left at quarter time of the Essendon game, muttering "Well, we can go & watch the game at home".

These people are pretty funny to be honest.

JF

LMAO, why would you make the effort to get to the SARC then leave after 1 quarter

[anniswan]

Originally posted by Mike_B
So John Howard is our truest fan huh?

Nah, he can't recall at the moment ;-)

[Travelling Swan]

Originally posted by wyatt
For mine, the most important quality of a true supporter is passion.

For 30 years I supported my beloved Royboys through thick and thin - mostly thin. I bawled my eyes out at the last game they played in Melbourne.

Since 1997 I have thrown my considerable passion behind the Swannies. I am now in my 10th year of membership and miss games only when it is absolutely unavoidable. Sometimes I get stuck into them, on occasions I'll leave the game early or turn off the TV early, mainly to spare me the stress on my fragile ticker. But it doesn't mean I like them any less. However if another supporter or outsider has the audacity to have a go at them I'll be all over them in a flash defending the team.

Was it the fact that the Roys were sent North to Qld that you left, I always thought a merger with the Roos was their best option and that we gained so much more being shifted in total in '82.

Anyhow gr8 to have you aboard thankgod for the Roys and their son Roos.

[stellation]

What a self important little thread. Shame on you, Mike, shame shame shame!

[Quiet_Observer]

Waiting till the three-quarter-time break to go to the restroom knowing full well there is still at least 25 minutes of play left even though that Beef Vindaloo you finished off the night before has no interest in AFL football.

PS. In the middle of the 2004 season we came out to a Saturday night match at the SCG. 20 mins before kick off our brand new car got rammed from behind squashing us into a 4 wheel drive. The car was a write-off. Not wanting to miss the match we collected everyones details, got them to help us push the car into a No Standing zone and we ran up from Queen St to the SCG. I think that shows commitment! On the way to our luck we saw a Tow Truck driver, flagged him down told him where the car was and left him to it! Downside was all the CDs went missing from the car...

[Ryan Bomford]

Originally posted by Quiet_Observer
Waiting till the three-quarter-time break to go to the restroom knowing full well there is still at least 25 minutes of play left even though that Beef Vindaloo you finished off the night before has no interest in AFL football.

PS. In the middle of the 2004 season we came out to a Saturday night match at the SCG. 20 mins before kick off our brand new car got rammed from behind squashing us into a 4 wheel drive. The car was a write-off. Not wanting to miss the match we collected everyones details, got them to help us push the car into a No Standing zone and we ran up from Queen St to the SCG. I think that shows commitment! On the way to our luck we saw a Tow Truck driver, flagged him down told him where the car was and left him to it! Downside was all the CDs went missing from the car...

... but did the Swans win?

[Quiet_Observer]

Originally posted by Ryan Bomford
... but did the Swans win?

Yes I forgot to mention they did win -but I can't remember who we played - must have been the concussion

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by Sanecow
I think waving flags and banging on drums is pathetic unless you are five.

So you don't believe in Cheersquads?