Swan Supporter Status

[AnnieH]

Originally posted by cruiser
Moved to Sydney late 86, converted to a Swan for season 87. "Up there for Sydney .... ". I wanted to be Leanne with my own pink helicopter and access to all the players.

Cruiser, can I be your fag hag?
I have references.
Pretty, pretty pleeeeeaaasssseeeeeee????

I wanted to be Leanne too.

[goswannie14]

Dad bought me a swans jumper for my 6th birthday, so I've been in the red and white since 1968.

[nat]

The first AFL game i ever watched was the 1996 preliminary final and i was 7 at the time. Watching it i probably didn't even know who Tony Lockett or Paul Kelly were. Anyway, been supporting them ever since.

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Uh, 95 to now, no option there for me...

[BeeEmmAre]

I was hooked in 1986 by the Edelsten era, and especially Capper. I was six. Mum (also a Swan - since 1964) bought me a membership in 1988 and I have been ever since.
However, my grandfather is a Swan since 1934 and if I was older I would have been a Swan longer.

So can I vote for No.1?

[swantastic]

Me im a 4th generation bloods supporter and so my kids are the 5th and they love the swans.Both have been able to sing the swans song since they were about 2.5.I've been brain washing them ever since they were born.My little girl went to her first match at the SCG in 2001 when she was 5 months old we played melbourne and we lost My little boy went to his first game when he was about 6 weeks old at Telstra dome from memory(dodgy) i think we won.

[Nico]

Originally posted by possumfeatures
Moved from Brisbane to Sydney in 1986. Met a guy from Adelaide, who took me to the SCG for Swans V Carlton as our first real date.

I think he expected me to barrack for the Blues, alas for him I was hooked the minute I saw the red and white team.

Moved to Melbourne the next year and took out a Melbourne based supporters membership which I have maintained ever since.

Thats about as romantic as Carlton supporters get.

[Nico]

Re: Swan Supporter Status

Originally posted by Bloody Hell
Without rehashing the old argument, it would be interesting to see the demographics of the RWO members....

Bloody hell you missed the most obvious demographic.

Melbourne based supporters who live in Melbourne but not in the vicinity of Lake Oval.

Clayton, Noble Park, Springvale and Oakleigh (SE Suburbs)were chocker block with bloods supporters who went every week. This was our metro zone and players such as the Morwoods, Ryhs Jones, Foschini and Capper and a host of others came from the area.

[swantastic]

Wardy,ex Carlton what a disgrace.
Giant how could you ex,Wet Toast.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

I had a rather firey fling with the ex Vice-president of the Fitzroy Cheer Squad (Yes, we ALL inter-breed, you know! ). He said the Swans should never have left South Melbourne. I nearly hit him. I then said that Fitzroy should have been moved to Brisbane in 1986; he nearly hit me.

Fitzroy went under with the remains sent up to Brisbane about 3 weeks after that. We now don't speak at all.





















Because he knows I was right all along.

JF

[swantastic]

Originally posted by JF_Bay22_SCG
He said the Swans should never have left South Melbourne.

and he was bloody right ,i wish he did hit you

[573v30]

Swans fan since 1995, before that I couldn't give a damn.

[Alibi Monday]

First game I went to see was Sth vs Nth at VFL Park in 1977 as a 5 year old. Never left from then. Just so happy that we relocated to Sydney when we did, otherwise we'd be buried like Fitzroy.

[The Undertaker]

In 1996,whilst my beloved Roosters were having their best season in a decade and charging thru the year!Rugby League was in the middle of a corporate war!A war that would change the game forever!

At the same time whilst the Roosters were winning games with their new leader,Mr Brad Fittler and delighting big crowds at the SFS(Aussie Stadium),next door at the SCG!.....a new force was emerging!

That force led by Lockett,Kelly,Roos!.They were the ugly ducklings of the AFL turning into the Mighty Sydney Swans!!!

They were kicking ar5e and taking names!Packing out the SCG and making a Swans game-the hottest ticket in town!

I couldn't get one of these hot tickets!ALL THE OTHER BANDWAGONERS!!!


i came to my first game in 1997 and have never looked back!

[Zlatorog]

Followed them intermittently from 1992, start watching them more seriously 1995 and joined the club in 1996 after their great win over Brisbane Bears.