The Bloods Culture

[CureTheSane]

I think it sounds kind of cool, just doesn't make much sense.
The media jumped on it and ran with it without worrying that it didn't make much sense.

It would be good to know how the club have defined the bloods culture within the club.
Whether they see it as a reference to the past, or just a quirky line they went with, or if it's just a marketing tool (like the NDH 'policy')

But like I said, I love that we have the phrase and the nobody seems to really care that it has no real definition.
These are the kinds of things that give clubs character.
Like Collingwood being reluctant to trade with Carlton, various rivalries, Essendon & Collingwood and Anzac day, even Geelong and red heads

[goswannie14]

I am auditorily challenged (i.e. about as deaf as the proverbial) and I have often listened as carefully as I can to Kirk's GF onstage statement. My impression is that he actually said, "It's the Bloods" as he clutched his guernsey. From other reports I understand that he was excited when he first discovered that South Melbourne used to refer to themselves that way and decided to make it a marker (I detest the word 'brand' in sport contexts) for the current Swans. That decision, adopted by the team, fulfills several aims: it embodies tough times and the tough discipline needed to deal with them (like 'blood, sweat and tears'); it taps into the South Melbourne passion in a way that seems to grow over time; it feeds directly into the ethos proclaimed on both our recent Premiership game day banners, 'Two cities, one team, together (again) living the dream.'
In a sense it was tailor-made for our culture, even if that is a recent creation. I think it has become one of the more significant statements of our club.

I think he said "This is for the Bloods".

[Big Al]

The Bloods Culture

I think he said "This is for the Bloods".

Yep and Jude said "This is for the Bloods again"

[satchmopugdog]

Twice in a lifetime... Gotta love that

[goswannie14]

Twice in a lifetime... Gotta love that

I'm hoping for more!

[dimelb]

GS14, Big Al - thanks for the subtitles!

[Mountain Man]

I was able to see Chairman Colless during the Collingwood Swans final.

He was still writing into his programme the name of the Swan who kicked a score,, all through the game.

All we had to do was win, but he was taking no shortcuts. I was very impressed.

[satchmopugdog]

Did Jetta's goal get a gold star sticker

[Old S.M.Blood]

Around 1944 till 48 I lived at 356 Albert Rd Albert Park just across the road from the old
South ground. I can still remember hearing the cry "Carn The Bloods" as far away as the Albert Park railway station. As you can see I had wait a "Bloody"long time to see my beloved South Melb Bloods Swans now Sydney Swans win 2 premierships.I still look on them as South Melbourne .As long as they are Red and White they are my team.

[Swansongster]

Around 1944 till 48 I lived at 356 Albert Rd Albert Park just across the road from the old
South ground. I can still remember hearing the cry "Carn The Bloods" as far away as the Albert Park railway station. As you can see I had wait a "Bloody"long time to see my beloved South Melb Bloods Swans now Sydney Swans win 2 premierships.I still look on them as South Melbourne .As long as they are Red and White they are my team.

I'm with you OSMB. There's still heaps of us that can walk to the-morning-after Grand Final celebrations. I'll have to check out No. 356 tomorrow.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Did the players in the 30's play for each other rather for individual kudos? is this how it equates to the current squad?

The players and club in the 30's were the exact opposite of the way our team behaves now.

Archie Croft?s recruiting splurge had far more in common with Edelston?s idiocy than the targeted recruiting practiced by Longmire etal today. Players were recruited from all over with no idea how they would be incorporated into the team (some expensive recruits didn?t).

The playing group also contained some big ego?s and what would today be called behavioural problems. Austin Robertson left the club mid season to pursue a running career, Ron Hillis quit the club after being dropped, Hugh McLaughlan got involved in a punch up with the coach, one almighty piss up got so out of hand the club secretary resigned. And then there was the 1934 grand final, which ended with several players (including Bob Pratt) accusing team mates of taking money to lose.

Incidentally the team of the 1930?s were the first to be known as the Swans rather than the Bloods!

Conclusion: In a way, by choosing the name ?Bloods? Maxfield etal have in a way repudiated the teams of the 1930?s. Was this accidental, was choosing the "Bloods" name just marketing, or did they take a serious look at our history?

[Old S.M.Blood]

I can still remember in the middle 50s I took up smoking because there was an add for Turf smokes with a pic of Jim Taylor 20 and Don Scott 34 Saying "We too Smoke Turf"
Turf were in a red and white pack. After the last quarter you could buy hot dogs cooked in little chip heaters .There was never enough to go around. 356 Albert Rd is still there the same as it was over 60 years ago I googled the pic up.

[wolftone57]

Yeah calling it the Bloods culture makes it sound a lot less sterile and corporate than "an institutional environment characterised by effectively-given omnidirectional feedback, in order to foster accountability and unity", doesn't it?

Do you work for the Government R1? I used to come across that sort of language quite a lot dealing with the Department of Health. Nobody said straight out what they meant and it was all wank-talk/Gov-Spik. they used terms like 'In the fullness of time', 'In the current climate', 'Funding is essentially consequential to the positive egalitarian position of the relative agencies and dependent on budgetary considerations'. Not exactly something you can either understand or rely upon. It is gobbledygook.

i agree a footy team needs something simple to get their teeth into.

[wolftone57]

I think it sounds kind of cool, just doesn't make much sense.
The media jumped on it and ran with it without worrying that it didn't make much sense.

It would be good to know how the club have defined the bloods culture within the club.
Whether they see it as a reference to the past, or just a quirky line they went with, or if it's just a marketing tool (like the NDH 'policy')

But like I said, I love that we have the phrase and the nobody seems to really care that it has no real definition.
These are the kinds of things that give clubs character.
Like Collingwood being reluctant to trade with Carlton, various rivalries, Essendon & Collingwood and Anzac day, even Geelong and red heads

There was a lot of iron in them there hills of the Geelong Zone. Probably accounts for the Redheads LOL

[goswannie14]

There was a lot of iron in them there hills of the Geelong Zone. Probably accounts for the Redheads LOL

Strangely enough there aren't that many redheads in the genaral population down here.