The Importance of Fans ... By Adam Goodes

[cruiser]

Are there any current people using RWO who once supported another team?

Sorry its a little of topic.

Yep, Richmond (Tigers like my SANFL team Glenelg) until I moved to Sydney to live in 86, although Swans became my second team as soon as they relocated to Sydney in 82 because they were no longer Victorian and we had them on telly in Adelaide every other Sunday arvo.

[hammo]

Are there any current people using RWO who once supported another team?

Old Royboy?

[AnnieH]

Hammo ... you know my brain thinks faster than my fingers type!!

Of course, it's A.F.L.

[hammo]

Hammo ... you know my brain thinks faster than my fingers type!!

Of course, it's A.F.L.

Gordon Shumway was more popular than AFL in Sydney in the 80s

[swansrule100]

i still think davis was a swans fan and his manager is a tool bag.

watch his interview after the semi final in 05 he goes on about watching plugger kick his point in 96 and how magical it was

sounds like a fan to me

[royboy42]

Are there any current people using RWO who once supported another team?

Sorry its a little of topic.

I suspect Old Royboy and I wear our hearts on our sleeves!

[AnnieH]

Gordon Shumway was more popular than AFL in Sydney in the 80s

I hated ALF. That show got on my last nerve!!

[connolly]

Hmmm, makes some comments on here in the last week look pretty stupid, doesn't it?

The commentary that Bevo was the worst footballer in the comp etc, etc was really off the stupidity meter. I have been restrained about this but there are a few here who are wiping egg omlettes off their faces. I find it extraordinary that people still contine to defend Davis despite the evidence that:

His management shopped him around to opposition clubs mid-season, despite being a required player.

His management planted stories in the media that Davis was still committed to the club, for the obvious purpose of disinformation, to keep his market value up as a required player.

The Eagle story is either true and i do find it somewhat unusual and interesting that a kid whose dad played for Collingwood (with distinction) and the Bloods followed a WA side that were easybeats at the time and who he possibly never saw at a match or it is bull and the story was planted to ingratiate himself to a potential employer.
Either way the story is interesting in regard to Davis obvious lack of committment to the club. It was crystal clear that Davis has played without committment to this club for two seasons. i don't know the bloke and make no comment about his character. However, if my Dad had played for Collingwood or the Bloods i'm damn sure i would have followed one or both of them as a kid. There are a lot of issues here that no one who doesn't know Davis cant or shouldnt comment on. However it is interesting that Davis says that as a kid he didn't follow one of the clubs his dad played for. The story is either oedipus or idiocy (courtsey of his management) . But why some find it stupid that i find it interesting beats me.

[Jeffers1984]

I'm pretty sure someone a couple of years ago had inside knowledge that Davis was an Eagles supporter growing up but i can't remember which poster it was. Perhaps a search on the archive list could bring up the post but i cbf, nor do i care much about which player supported which team when they were younger.

[hammo]

His management shopped him around to opposition clubs mid-season, despite being a required player.

Even though I think Thompson has overstepped the mark, we don't know how common this is in the AFL. You're admitting Davis is a required player?

His management planted stories in the media that Davis was still committed to the club, for the obvious purpose of disinformation, to keep his market value up as a required player.

Where is the evidence to the contrary? Davis said with his own mouth that he is committed to the club, so how is that disinformation? His manager may be sounding out other clubs because of fears the club will delist him.

The Eagle story is either true and i do find it somewhat unusual and interesting that a kid whose dad played for Collingwood (with distinction) and the Bloods followed a WA side that were easybeats at the time and who he possibly never saw at a match or it is bull and the story was planted to ingratiate himself to a potential employer.

This is the most erroneous claim of all. Kids follow teams for a variety of reasons. As I said his Dad played at Collingwood when Nick was a toddler and at Sydney for 9 games only when he was 8. Nick may not have even been interested in the game then. If it was anything like my school, AFL held little interest in the playgrounds of Sydney back then.

Not sure how you can claim the Eagles were 'easybeats'. Didn't they win 2 flags in the early 1990s when Nick probably started following the game? The Eagles rise coincided with a very low point for the Swans.

Either way the story is interesting in regard to Davis obvious lack of committment to the club.

It shows nothing of the sort.

There are a lot of issues here that no one who doesn't know Davis cant or shouldnt comment on.

You should heed your own advice!

[TheMase]

The fact he decided to support a francise with no history from the other side of the country instead of the Swans (or any of the other 3 clubs his Dad played with) is, well, as connolly said 'interesting'.

That's all connolly said, 'interesting' and I agree with him. Your crusade to sink the slipper into connolly at any opportunity is also 'interesting' but I have my own opinion on what 'looks pretty stupid' at the minute.

Bandwagoner. Davis would have been growing up as a junior around the time WCE came in, and then the 1992 & 1994 premierships.

[Lucky Knickers]

Nick's a fan of the game. He likes everyone but Collingwood.
Nothing unusual in that.

[dimelb]

However, if my Dad had played for Collingwood or the Bloods i'm damn sure i would have followed one or both of them as a kid.

I can't remember the details, but I seem to remember a Brownlow night when one of the stars (Hird?) was interviewed with his young son. The compere asked the son his favourite player and he said (Buckley?) Howls of laughter as the audience fell in the aisles. Kids make their own rules, and sometimes parents need to let them!

[connolly]

I can't remember the details, but I seem to remember a Brownlow night when one of the stars (Hird?) was interviewed with his young son. The compere asked the son his favourite player and he said (Buckley?) Howls of laughter as the audience fell in the aisles. Kids make their own rules, and sometimes parents need to let them!

And Bucks would have given the same answer

[AlexC]

the key word being was