Help me - my brand is being diluted!

[TheGrimReaper]

I'll show you my dad's recollection and raise you. My Dad told us that we were called the Bloods until after the bloodbath. The issue is when the club was officially called the swans as distinct from when they were perjoratively called the swans. The swan has to be the most insipid brand logo in footy since the Mayblooms. Not a big issue admittedly but accuracy gentlemen please.

Wrong!

[swantastic]

Pretty sure thats wrong. The name 'Swans' was picked up in the 30s when South had a lot of Western Australians in the team and thus picked up the name 'Swans'.

I think your right from my little memory bank i think thats what my grandfather told me.

[ScottH]

Crofts Stores didn't mean much in Port in the thirties. Another Wik error.

It is free for people to correct.

[SCGonasunnyday]

that was a very funny article.

Marketing execs can be a bit hard to take.

Serious issue though. The fate of the swans in 100 years time may well rest upon the branding battle between syd and west syd. As I've said before, I would hate for west syd to be the working class, tough people's team and the swans be the silvertail toffs.

[Bear]

I'll show you my dad's recollection and raise you. My Dad told us that we were called the Bloods until after the bloodbath. The issue is when the club was officially called the swans as distinct from when they were perjoratively called the swans. The swan has to be the most insipid brand logo in footy since the Mayblooms. Not a big issue admittedly but accuracy gentlemen please.

Nothing like a glass half empty attitude, yet so full of confidence!

Almost amusing how wrong you are on widely known and accepted hitorical fact. But if your Dad said it....

[sprite]

This link seems to confirm the WA players reference from 1932:

Nickname - AFL

[connolly]

That, along with the club's home ground being alongside Albert Park lake where the large white birds were often seen, possibly led to the 'Swans' gaining widespread acceptance. The Foreign Legion winning the 1933 premiership solidified the 'Swans' popularity. The nickname was kept when the team relocated to Sydney.

Small problem with this. No historical reference dates the year that the wretched water bird was imposed on the club officially. My family folk history says it was after the bloodbath. I concede that toffs from Albert and Middle Park might have preferred the less confronting benign bird symbol but in Port it was the Bloods.

[connolly]

Nothing like a glass half empty attitude, yet so full of confidence!

Almost amusing how wrong you are on widely known and accepted hitorical fact. But if your Dad said it....

Sorry but I have a healthy scerpticism about widely and accepted historical "facts".