What should the cheer squad do differently

[Missing-Dog]

No seriously - the on field stuff is all well and good. But in the stands we dont seem to have developed any particular advantage.

Interstate teams playing at home have huge help. The Essenpie Collingbombs seem to have willing armies of zombie helpers.

We are just a bit luke warm - like some of the "smaller" vic teams.

What should the cheer squad do differently to engage everyone else? they seem a bit limp most of the time

remember a fish rots from the head

[Dry Rot]

Re: What should the cheer squad do differently

Perhaps should the question be asked in reverse?

ie what should the average Dogs fan be doing in the crowd to bolster the efforts of the cheer squad and bring the house down?

[bresker]

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I'm very loud and vocal, I can lead the chants up on level 3.

If anyone wants to join me I sit at aisle 40...something, I forget. I'll let you know when the season starts.

I've tried getting alternatives going to "Bulldogs...clap clap clap.....Bulldogs." I grew up watching soccer in Europe and I've attempted stuff like "GRANT_EEEEEY" on the great man's 330th, but it's alien to most folks, I suppose, because not many join in.

I've no real interest in joining the cheersquad but I like chanting. And shouting.

[Bornadog]

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What about if the cheer squad adapted something like what the Barmie Armie did during the cricket? They were fantastic. They are very organized and they have a number of songs that try to intimidate the opposition players. They hand out the words so every one can sing. They also have their anthem which we already have ie the club song, but we could have one for during the game.

[The Coon Dog]

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Obviously our game is VERY different to soccer. I've been to many of the Melbourne Victory games & the atmosphere generated is unbelievable. Part of this could be that Australian Rules is so much quicker & perhaps doesn't need the crowd to generate the atmosphere to the same degree.

Perhaps some simple little songs about our players, tho they need to be clever, short & catchy, for example if Brad Johnson kicked a goal the cheer squad could sing:

Brad,
Braddy Johnson,
Ooooh, aaaaah,
I wanna know,
How did you score that goal?

(The above is from a song my 8 y.o. son goes around singing all the time, not too sure who sings it, but it's very catchy).

Or as the Barmy Army sing for Freddie Flintoff:

Soooo-per
Super Brad
Super Braddy Johnson!

Be good if they had a dozen or so little songs that could be put up on a website where fans could listen to them & learn them.

Just a thought.

[LostDoggy]

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FWIW, I think the AFL should shut the Cheer Squads down. While they are terrific and loyal supporters who travel all around to watch their club I just don't see that running through the banners adds too much to the spectacle of a game. Let them have an area to sit behind the goals and support the players but don't have them on the ground.

[GVGjr]

Re: What should the cheer squad do differently

FWIW, I think the AFL should shut the Cheer Squads down. While they are terrific and loyal supporters who travel all around to watch their club I just don't see that running through the banners adds too much to the spectacle of a game. Let them have an area to sit behind the goals and support the players but don't have them on the ground.

A bit tough there BB. One of the great traditions from the good old days.

[Twodogs]

Re: What should the cheer squad do differently

FWIW, I think the AFL should shut the Cheer Squads down. While they are terrific and loyal supporters who travel all around to watch their club I just don't see that running through the banners adds too much to the spectacle of a game. Let them have an area to sit behind the goals and support the players but don't have them on the ground.

I'm not a cheer squad fan but I really like the banners. Thery add something unique to our game0.

[LostDoggy]

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I'm not a cheer squad fan but I really like the banners. Thery add something unique to our game0.

To me it is just a waste. I think I would prefer the National Anthem to be played than having to watch the Cheer Squad struggle to get the banner up. While we are at it, I'm not a fan of having the players bring their children onto the ground for milestone games either.

Perhaps I'm just having a bad day.

[Missing Dog]

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To me it is just a waste. I think I would prefer the National Anthem to be played than having to watch the Cheer Squad struggle to get the banner up. While we are at it, I'm not a fan of having the players bring their children onto the ground for milestone games either.

Perhaps I'm just having a bad day.

you're just having a bad day

[Twodogs]

Re: What should the cheer squad do differently

To me it is just a waste. I think I would prefer the National Anthem to be played than having to watch the Cheer Squad struggle to get the banner up. While we are at it, I'm not a fan of having the players bring their children onto the ground for milestone games either.

Perhaps I'm just having a bad day.

Like I say I could quite happily do without the cheer squad so long as someone else takes the responsibility for making the run throughs.


The pointlessness of spending hours making something, decorating it and carrying it vast distances with the intention of letting a bunch of grown men smash it to pieces in seconds appeals to my perverse sense of fun.

[Dry Rot]

Re: What should the cheer squad do differently

The pointlessness of spending hours making something, decorating it and carrying it vast distances with the intention of letting a bunch of grown men smash it to pieces in seconds appeals to my perverse sense of fun.

Are you talking about Carlton? Sometimes they last at least a quarter.

[Twodogs]

Re: What should the cheer squad do differently

Are you talking about Carlton? Sometimes they last at least a quarter.

Very good.

[alwaysadog]

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Without being critical of the cheer squad, it seems to need a recruitment drive. It's some years since I had anything to do with it. In those days it was full of some very nice and very earnest people. Cheer squads need extroverts and show offs and lots of supporters in their teens and early twenties.


IMHO they need to cash in on the increasing number of young people wearing our colours at games. If it were me I'd organise them to be at entrances to the ground with invites to come and sit and cheer with us.

When I lived in London, a few years ago now, in fact quite a few years ago, all right a bloody long time ago, I used to go and watch Chelsea play. The crowd had a brief song to greet each player. Often it was just the players name sung several times to a popular tune. We could coordinate it with the scoreboard guy so that everyone knew about it.

The cheer squad should get that going, the whole crown at least the Bulldog supporters would join in. It just needs someone to get it started.

[LostDoggy]

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I really do not see the value in the Cheer squad being allowed onto the ground. It was a great idea at the time but it is now very much an outdated part of the game.