Your interactions with Swans in public

[bloodspirit]

Heartwarming stuff! Especially good posts from grarmy and goswannies. It's good to hear the positive and less positive accounts.

I remember, around 2000, I used to walk to work through Centennial park very early in the morning and see Plugger jogging slow laps there quite often. Also during his comeback effort. Never attempted to speak to him.

Maybe I will feel easier about approaching a player or ex-player next time I see one.

[S.S. Bleeder]

Bobby Skilton - lovely guy who loves the club. It's hard to get much time alone with him as everyone wants to talk to him.
Peter Bedford - very down to earth. He'll spend time chatting with anyone. He loves the club and also South Melbourne the area. He does a heap of voluntary work for junior footy, and I suspect sport in general, in the area. I get the impression that in his younger days he would have lovely a durry and a frothy or two.
I've also met many other such as Horse, Jude, Macca, et al. and never had a negative experience.

[swansrob]

On GF day last year, the mate I was with in standing room got a text just before half time from his brother-in-law saying to come meet him at half time and the same place we'd run into him before the game because he'd managed to wrangle some seats for us. We rocked up in our Swans gear and his mate Dean Cox gave us his seats - up on the wing and the best seats I've ever had at the footy. Cox and Adam Selwood - who was also there - joked with us about it feeling wrong to give tickets to Swans fans after 2005, though 2006 kinda made up for it. Really nice dudes and Cox especially kept getting hit up for photos and quick chats, which he was more than happy to oblige. People were probably too scared to approach Selwood because it's impossible to tell those three apart.