Silence please!

[Selwood07]

Something like "I pledge allegiance to the Blue and White hoops"?

I pledge (shout!) allegiance (louder!) to the Blue and White hoops (deafening roar!) Go Catters! (fever pitch!)
Sad - doesn't happen!

 

[TFLUA-Tiger]

Yeah as i suggested before, PM the GFC about lack of noise at SS games and say that by establishing a Bay 114 type thing you will be helping bring some enthusiasm and noise to each and every of the Geelong games.

 

[mattyh]

Gday guys,

It was funny reading this thread today because many Swannies fans on our supporters website (not Bigfooty) were saying how Geelong have some of the most parochial supporters in the game.

Perhaps you are underselling yourselves!!

 

[Selwood07]

Gday guys,

It was funny reading this thread today because many Swannies fans on our supporters website (not Bigfooty) were saying how Geelong have some of the most parochial supporters in the game.

Perhaps you are underselling yourselves!!

Parochial? Us? Yep! But not noisy as a rule these days. The crowd has deserted rowdy support in favour of knitting (true!) or sipping from the thermos cup. Fewer "lads" giving the umpire hell or even stirring up the opposition players. We dominate Skilled Stadium with our members' seating so we don't get the "friendly/heated" exchanges with other supporters - except at Telstra Dome or the G.

 

[kickingoals]

90% of the people who attend kp are in fact in age care facilities and have just been given there lunch snack and mediaction , so in fact most of the old grannys and pops , are sleeping whilst its game time and only awake after the final siren , thats why the final siren sounds for 5 seconds instead of 3 seconds like the other quaters .

 

[jess_555]

Hey I do yell sometimes! I yell at Telstra Dome.

Yes, Eliza is telling the truth Shell! She does yell!!! She is almost as nuts as you.

I found it so hard to concentrate at SS on the weekend. My brain was so frozen and my hands were so cold it hurt to clap. I'm still thawing out after sitting there from 9:45am-4pm in the freezing rain. But it was worth it in the end, so glad they won! GO CATS!

 

[Selwood07]

90% of the people who attend kp are in fact in age care facilities and have just been given there lunch snack and mediaction , so in fact most of the old grannys and pops , are sleeping whilst its game time and only awake after the final siren , thats why the final siren sounds for 5 seconds instead of 3 seconds like the other quaters .

Don't know how you see this, living on the Gold Coast but it is amusingly true - a lot of oldies. We've said before - many of them do not even know the players. Two old ducks, during the curtain raiser, kept asking me which one was Tom Lonergan - "No. 13" ( he was playing off the bench) - every time they saw No 15 they'd ask, "Is that him?" Finally I thought it easier to say yes! At one stage Byrnes had the ball (he had it quite often) and they asked again - Byrnes is about 1 metre shorter than Tom L. !!!

 

[Copernicus]

Don't know how you see this, living on the Gold Coast but it is amusingly true - a lot of oldies. We've said before - many of them do not even know the players. Two old ducks, during the curtain raiser, kept asking me which one was Tom Lonergan - "No. 13" ( he was playing off the bench) - every time they saw No 15 they'd ask, "Is that him?" Finally I thought it easier to say yes! At one stage Byrnes had the ball (he had it quite often) and they asked again - Byrnes is about 1 metre shorter than Tom L. !!!

Old bags just don't belong at the footy. If they're going to just go and knit and drink coffee they might as well stay home!

Make some room for the passionate younguns, grannies

 

[TheTimeCometh]

is there any evidence to suggest that perhaps the club is followed by white, middle (aging[?])class peeps - the kind that generally don't go too nuts?

 

[Ricardo]

There was some evidence last year that we had one of the highest percentages of concession memberships in the AFL...

This either means we have a heap of younger members or we have a considerable amount of older members.......i'd hazard a guess and say its the latter

 

[Prismall32]

There was some evidence last year that we had one of the highest percentages of concession memberships in the AFL...

This either means we have a heap of younger members or we have a considerable amount of older members.......i'd hazard a guess and say its the latter

No hazard in your guess (av. age circa 70) - better duck as I'm not all that young except mentally - and vocally!

 

[Hood007]

There was some evidence last year that we had one of the highest percentages of concession memberships in the AFL...

This either means we have a heap of younger members or we have a considerable amount of older members.......i'd hazard a guess and say its the latter

Or just a bunch of unemployed members...

 

[SJ]

There was some evidence last year that we had one of the highest percentages of concession memberships in the AFL...

This either means we have a heap of younger members or we have a considerable amount of older members.......i'd hazard a guess and say its the latter

I think we have a lot of maybe 18-25 year old supporters too, who would mostly be concession (like me). I seem to notice a relatively high proportion of people my age support Hawthorn, Geelong etc., and - I kid you not - I do not know even one Richmond fan.

 

[Hood007]

I think we have a lot of maybe 18-25 year old supporters too, who would mostly be concession (like me). I seem to notice a relatively high proportion of people my age support Hawthorn, Geelong etc., and - I kid you not - I do not know even one Richmond fan.

Hahaha! Me too!

 

[TFLUA-Tiger]

I think we have a lot of maybe 18-25 year old supporters too, who would mostly be concession (like me). I seem to notice a relatively high proportion of people my age support Hawthorn, Geelong etc., and - I kid you not - I do not know even one Richmond fan.

I fit in that age group - and i'm a tiger fan , but we're a dying species, only 5 or 6 people I know my age go for the Tiges.

 

[TheTimeCometh]

go to a tiges/pies...blues game. i just don't see a similar demographic with cats' fans. there is no rabid anger or excessive passion that these other groups bring. the ones that call for "ball" incessantly, warranted or (mostly) not.



we should promote the club thru the prison system!