Posting with permission from Eddie

Hiss · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: Geelong

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Jezza · 2023 PREMIERS! Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End

Today I received mail regarding reserved seating in the Ponsford End and the details regarding the active area from the club.

The letter seemed to suggest that it was only sent out to those who have reserved seating in the area where the cheersquad and active area will be occupied next year. So from reading it the cheersquad will be reallocated to M33 where my current reserved seat is located and the bays surrounding it will be occupied with an active supporters area.

These are the three options that I can choose to consider regarding my reserve seat:
1). Remain in M33 and become a member of the cheersquad
If I choose this option this means I will go onto a waiting list to become a part of the official cheersquad of the club. Those who opt to choose option 1 will be given reserved seating behind the cheersquad in M33.

2). Move your seat to an adjacent bay (M32) and be a part of the broader group of vocal supporters on the ground level of the Ponsford Stand.
This option entails that I become a part of the active supporters group and my reserve seat will differ very slightly. The row and seat number remains the same but the aisle is different.

3). Move your seat to an alternative area
I guess this area suggests anything outside the region of M32, M33 and maybe M34 as I thought the active area/cheersquad will cover three aisles of the Ponsford end.

As a member I have been given a form to fill out deciding which option I'd like to pursue and this needs to be sent back by Friday October 3 2014. Overall it's good to see that the club is addressing this problem.

Has anyone else received a similar letter from the club?

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

Not yet and we are in the bays mentioned!

Jezza · 2023 PREMIERS! Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End

Wokko · Come and take it. Joined: 04 Oct 2005

I always liked sitting with or near the unofficial cheer squad in the 90's. Made tons of noise/rude chants/police warnings. Was great. One of my favourite moments was getting the idiot 'kick a vic' Adelaide sign guy to sit down and put his moronic sign away. Laughing

The cheer squad needs some mongrel, not just "Collingwood *clap clap clap*"

Ian · Joined: 14 Jun 2001 Location: Nicks BB #104 Adelaide

optimax · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Location: northern suberbs

Haven't received mine, but happy to stay in M32

Neil Appleby · Joined: 11 Feb 1998 Location: Melbourne

Sav · Joined: 09 Apr 2006

Holbrook Bloke · Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Location: Sydney, but Holbrook beckons

I wonder what will happen to the cheer squads for interstate games. This year Collingwood, to their credit, did their utmost to involve members of our club to be a part of the cheer squad. We were given priority access to rows 4 & 5 behind the goals and amongst the cheer squad. If they were after more colour & movement they achieved the colour but by and large the movement was still absent. This is the first time I've sat amongst the cheer squad and i was full of admiration for the firestarters as I called them. These poor souls tried to fire up chant after chant, each time enthusing those around us for a limited time. But I was also annoyed by the constant bickering by some members. It was embarrassing. I loved that the entire bay was black & white and in full song, especially the slow Collingwod chant, it was spine tingling and made me so very proud to be a Collingwood supporter.
I'm a passionate and mad supporter who can get carried away like many of us but I'd be no good in a cheer squad - most times I just want to concentrate on the game.
If Eddie is looking at all facets of the game to engage supporters, how about more interaction with the cheer squad after a win. Maybe they take beating the Swans for granted up here but usually at the end of a game the players trudge in the direction of the cheer squad, stop about 20 metres out and clap us.
Last year for the first time in ages they came up and high fived supporters along the boundary line and looked genuinely happy. I thought Bucks may have initiated it but it happened again this year with just a few of the younger players, gleefully running along the boundary line.
Maybe the players, like many supporters have grown complacent in the knowledge we are the biggest in the league and our supporters will maintain their rusted on support, come what may.

die4pies · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 4:24 pm

Lazza · Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

35forever · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 5:33 pm

So nice of Eddie to send Joffa here to placate the faithful, shows he understands the importance of 'ordinary' people going to the footy. A club won't survive if all it has is the champagne sipping, caviar-munching corporate people looking down their patrician noses at how 'cute' we are in our Black & White garb.
Still, it saddens me a bit to think that no one can see this thread for what it is, but at least someone pointed out that the great moments of supporting Collingwood at the game were spontaneous, like the 2010 Geelong prelim.

Oh, and great post Scribe, very well written, but I don't subscribe to your gloomy view. But then I was raised in Dandenong, Dandy North actually, so what would I know?