I was thinking the same.iwantmeseats wrote:REAL cheer squads, Collingwood , Richmond, Carlton etc do NOT have members made up nearly completely of old people and bloody kids ! Thats the problem. You want it loud and proud,it wont be while it remains the domain of the near blue rinse set and very young kids. Just WILL NEVER happen.
Joke.
The one time I sat near the cheer squad I and one of my companions found ourselves being told off for some minor behaviour infringement by someone way older than us and when I looked around I noticed that where once upon a time the cheer squad consisted of mainly young people as part of their rite of passage as a Saints supporter, and now it looks like it's lopsided in terms of the aging demographic.
A somewhat sad situation and we as a club need to get as many of the young people to take up the battle for our club.
I was expecting the arguments about why don't I get out there and join them etc,. It's not for me, as I'm way too old (well I think I am) to join a cheer squad and a few of the Collingwood cheer squad members look like they're ready for the 100th birthday telegram from the Queen.
My point about the the cheer squad is that I would have thought, is that the Cheer Squad is supposed to be actively barracking, cheering, making noise to intice the other Saints supporters to beceome more vocal and cheer out team off.
You would have thought it was just a bunch of ordinary supporters sitting there instead of our cheer squad.
I'm going to sound like someone out of "The Gruen Transfer" but if you had watched the promos for Collingwood on the big screen yesterday, the smartest and most simplest promo for that club was the chant of
"Coll-ing-wood" clap-clap-clap . Not many words but it said it all.
