Collingwood sacks cheer squad

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

OFFICIAL COLLINGWOOD CHEER SQUAD APPLICATION.

Name:______________________
Prison Reference Number:____________________
Emergency Contact (Parole Officer):_____________________
List three qualities you bring to the cheer squad (Please don't list
smuggled in Grog, drugs or witty 1970's insults
here):__________________________

What is the best word to describe yourself?:
a) Unemployed
b) On Parole
c) On Compo
d) All of the above

Do you have any special talents?:
a) No
b) yes - I can escape buildings surrounded with Barbed Wire
c) Please explain Special Talents?

How can you source the $790 membership fee?
a) Baby bonus
b) Poker machine winnings
c) Criminal activity

How many of these statements apply to you? Circle where applicable.
1. A Halloween pumpkin has more teeth than my wife does.
2. I let my twelve-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of
her kids.
3. I have been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
4. Jack Daniels makes my list of 'most admired people.'
5. I wonder how service stations keep their restrooms so clean.
6. Someone in my family once died right after saying: 'Hey, watch this.'
7. I think Dom Perignon is a Mafia leader.
8. A ceiling fan once ruined my wife's hairdo.
9. I think the last words of Advance Australia Fair are: 'Carn the Maggies
.'
10. I lit a match in the bathroom and my house exploded, right off its
wheels.
11. The market value of my car goes up and down, depending on how much
petrol is in it.
12. I have to go outside to get something from the fridge.
13. One of my kids was born on a pool table.
14. I can't get married to my sweetheart because there's a law against it.
15. I think 'loaded dishwasher' means my wife is drunk.
16. My toilet paper has page numbers on it.
17. My front verandah collapses and kills more than five dogs.
18. I use protection during sex, a bus shelter.

Are you prepared to wear the official Collingwood cheer squad uniform at
games? -
a) Yes.
b) No.
c) As long as the pants accomodate my prison issue ankle tag.

JF

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

They used to have one in the 70's, they were actually better than the official cs. But...they would sit in the outer, next to the visting cs. It was scary!

Joffa was originally part of the Rebel faction. But when Cath Johnstone & her cronies got voted out, his lot came in after much in-fighting & blood-letting.


I have worked at Telstra Dome behind CCS a few times this season & was horrified by how quiet they were. Several people I know who are in NSW Collingwood Supporters Club have even said they won't sit with them any more. Apparently people in there have joined so they can freeload decent seats on the cheap for big games like Anzac Day. The chanting is virtually non-existent with the chant leader stopping after a few seconds each time because nobody would join in.

I have spoken to members of the NSW Collingwood Supporters Club who told me that Eddie apparently told the CCS that he didn't want volunteers at the club "because you can't tell volunteers to do something & expect it to be done". This is the guy who had the Cheer Squad rip a message off the back of the banner out of spite & pettiness at the AFL & Andrew Demetriou a couple of seasons back. Charging people $700+ for memberships they can't afford is Corporate Collingwood at its most evil. They are DELIBERATELY pricing lower end supporters (and let's face it, the Pies have a LOT of those!) in a bid to 'gentrify" their supporter base & make their club more interesting to high-end sponsors & corporate partners.

It is easy to laugh at the Pies, but when your head could be next on the chopping block in the face of over-corporatisation of sport it isn't so funny.

It makes the $20 I pay each year the BEST value ever. I wouldn't trade my Melbourne Cheer Squad membership & the friends I share my time at the footy or at the Rising Sun pub for anything in the world.Going to the footy is so enjoyable BECAUSE of the people I watch games with. Even when we lose & are in a bad mood we have people who feel the same way who we can have a yarn & a laugh with over pizza at Patonys.

JF

[Veszpremi13]

Joffa was originally part of the Rebel faction. But when Cath Johnstone & her cronies got voted out, his lot came in after much in-fighting & blood-letting.


I have worked at Telstra Dome behind CCS a few times this season & was horrified by how quiet they were. Several people I know who are in NSW Collingwood Supporters Club have even said they won't sit with them any more. Apparently people in there have joined so they can freeload decent seats on the cheap for big games like Anzac Day. The chanting is virtually non-existent with the chant leader stopping after a few seconds each time because nobody would join in.

I have spoken to members of the NSW Collingwood Supporters Club who told me that Eddie apparently told the CCS that he didn't want volunteers at the club "because you can't tell volunteers to do something & expect it to be done". This is the guy who had the Cheer Squad rip a message off the back of the banner out of spite & pettiness at the AFL & Andrew Demetriou a couple of seasons back. Charging people $700+ for memberships they can't afford is Corporate Collingwood at its most evil. They are DELIBERATELY pricing lower end supporters (and let's face it, the Pies have a LOT of those!) in a bid to 'gentrify" their supporter base & make their club more interesting to high-end sponsors & corporate partners.

It is easy to laugh at the Pies, but when your head could be next on the chopping block in the face of over-corporatisation of sport it isn't so funny.

It makes the $20 I pay each year the BEST value ever. I wouldn't trade my Melbourne Cheer Squad membership & the friends I share my time at the footy or at the Rising Sun pub for anything in the world.Going to the footy is so enjoyable BECAUSE of the people I watch games with. Even when we lose & are in a bad mood we have people who feel the same way who we can have a yarn & a laugh with over pizza at Patonys.

JF

After reading that, I have nothing but sympathy for the low income Collingwood supporters. How can Eddie McGuire, do this to his own kind? @@@@, I hate that man.

How he doesn't want volunteers too? Without them, football clubs wouldn't exist around Australia.

[goswannie14]

I have spoken to members of the NSW Collingwood Supporters Club who told me that Eddie apparently told the CCS that he didn't want volunteers at the club "because you can't tell volunteers to do something & expect it to be done". This is the guy who had the Cheer Squad rip a message off the back of the banner out of spite & pettiness at the AFL & Andrew Demetriou a couple of seasons back. Charging people $700+ for memberships they can't afford is Corporate Collingwood at its most evil. They are DELIBERATELY pricing lower end supporters (and let's face it, the Pies have a LOT of those!) in a bid to 'gentrify" their supporter base & make their club more interesting to high-end sponsors & corporate partners.

When you have proof that Eddie actually said this then you can have your beef. Apparently holds no water whatsoever.

[Wardy]

After reading that, I have nothing but sympathy for the low income Collingwood supporters. How can Eddie McGuire, do this to his own kind? @@@@, I hate that man.

How he doesn't want volunteers too? Without them, football clubs wouldn't exist around Australia.

It proves even more what a contradiction they really are. Perhaps Eddie wants Collingwood to be the "footy" arm of the prestigious "Melbourne Club" (and I'm not talking about the Demons here! )- wouldnt put it past him to try and pull a stunt like that.

He wants his club to resemble an empire, he doesnt want riff raff - he wants those of good standing and wealth to be a part of his empire - the bloke is a prize tosser of course.

He has to be very careful to not cut off his nose to spite his face!

[ShockOfHair]

When you have proof that Eddie actually said this then you can have your beef. Apparently holds no water whatsoever.

Regardless of what Eddie did or didn't say, it was a great post, JF.

Told me far more than I ever want to know about the Wobbles cheer squad, but thanks for reminding us of the simple joys of footy, and how ordinary punters are being squeezed out. Thanks.

[Xie Shan]

Collingwood cheer squad fanatics sacked, told to reapply | Herald Sun

What? Not beautiful enough?

[goswannie14]

What? Not beautiful enough?

That should contain a warning "Contains real pictures of Collingwood supportersiew at your own risk".

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

When you have proof that Eddie actually said this then you can have your beef. Apparently holds no water whatsoever.

Well I was at Wests Aussie Rules Club at a trivia night & one of them told me Eddie said that to them.

Whether this person was talking rubbish will never be known. But knowing Eddie & the things I have heard that have happened at Collingwood with their cheer squad, I'd say comments like that would be right on the money. He wanted "professionalism" through the whole club (ie he wants people he can boss around and bark orders at, Collingwood 'democracy' at its best )

Magpies supporters are obviously fuming at the new prices too
Nick's Collingwood Bulletin Board :: View topic - A serious proposal for the Cheer Squad!

JF

[Cheer Squad mbr]

Nick's Collingwood Bulletin Board :: View topic - A serious proposal for the Cheer Squad!

Why don't we have a forum like that of our own?

[laughingnome]

Why don't we have a forum like that of our own?

What? Phpbb? I prefer Simple Machines personally.

Confused over what it is the subject of your statement...

[Cheer Squad mbr]

What? Phpbb? I prefer Simple Machines personally.

Confused over what it is the subject of your statement...

i.e. we should have a Sydney Swans Cheer Squad forum where CS members can congregate.

[laughingnome]

Right.

[ScottH]

i.e. we should have a Sydney Swans Cheer Squad forum where CS members can congregate.

We did once upon a time.

[goswannie14]

i.e. we should have a Sydney Swans Cheer Squad forum where CS members can congregate.

Would it keep them off the main boards though?