Club or the Team??

[|Andy|]

Ok, well personally, i started barracking for the team St Kilda without the knowledge of any of the players except maybe riewoldt, and no clue what the players were like... well i followed saints because my friend did as well.

Anyways, getting to the point, once you know who all the players are and all about it, im sure most of us think of St Kilda as the team of players, not a club. So if say, just for the sake of Discussion; if all St Kilda's players got transfered to Geelong, and Geelong's players viceversa; would you still follow St Kilda as a club, or would you change to Geelong?

I think the point im trying to get to is, does the team make the club? or is the team just part of the club, and it is the club that matters?

[Darren]

I'd stick with the club still.

[esaint66]

i would still definately support stkilda as a club because players come and go but its the club that you love. Thats the thing that will never change just the players that come and go.

[HSVKing]

The old saying goes...

'No individual is bigger than the club.'

I'd never leave 'My Club'.

[ausfatcat]

well when you have barracked for the club for a fair while you have seen completely different teams. But only one club.


In other words I barrack for the club, and who plays for the club, not individuals or a team as a whole but ST KILDA.

[The_Dud]

I'm actually the opposite, i go to watch the 22 guys play who i've grown a kind of emotional attachment to, so the 'name' of the team isn't as relevant as the guys who make up the team to me

but but its never going to happen, so i guess i'll never have to make that decision

[Teflon]

I follow the jumper.

[|Andy|]

i'm along the same line as the DUD!!!.. i mean, i havent lived to see like 5 generations of st kilda players play, so i am attached to our current 22, rather than whoever is wearing the red white and black.

[Bernard Shakey]

Innaresting thoughts from a youngster, who will, no doubt, mature and grow to love the club first.

[st_Trav_ofWA]

every year the team is differant be by delistings trading retirments players come and go but the club is constant . by supporting the club you support the clubs past preasent and future . im only 25 and i never had the pleasure to see plyaer like doc cowboy big carl play but i still think they are great .. i never saw george younge play but i met him the other day and i was like a giggleing kid cause he was part of our club !!

[Huzzad]

I follow the team/club. Players always come and go but the club is always the same. I have been following the saints constantly since 1996 and the only player still playing from that squad is Robert Harvey. I love the Saints and always will, no matter who plays for us and who leaves. Players represent the club, not themselves.

[ben_fff]

Club by far, guys like Lappin, Smith and Everitt were amongst my favourite players, I never considered supporting any one else when they left.

(I'm 21)

[saintdooley]

club, colours, history....its all apart of you! you cant ditch the club for players!
never!

[esaint66]

i'm along the same line as the DUD!!!.. i mean, i havent lived to see like 5 generations of st kilda players play, so i am attached to our current 22, rather than whoever is wearing the red white and black.

when some of this 22 move on you will start to support the club rather than the team.

[Lennon]

I'm pretty attached to the guys we have at the moment.

[HSVKing]

Reminds me of a young girl who was on the forum years back.

Her username was SpiderGirl... obvious an Everitt fan.

When 'Peter' left the club for Hawthorn... she also went.

That is the kind of supporter I wish we didn't have to put up with... atleast we know she hasn't seen too many wins in her lifetime

[luke.l_26]

I think I'm a club supporter as well.
I too used to like Spida and more recently Heath Black.
However could never have dreamed of leaving the club to follow them.
I want to see the club win a premiership just as much as I would like this team or any other team we have to win one.

[esaint66]

like russell holmesby once said ' supporting st kilda is like taking out the same lotto numbers every week the chances of winning are minimal but you would never be game to give up for a week because that might be the week when something happens against all logical odds.'
its the club i would find it impossible to support one or two players.

[Mr Magic]

I saw Ian Stewart depart us for Richmond.
I saw Big Carl depart us for Melbourne.
I saw Plugger depart us for Sydney
I saw Nicky Winmar depart us for Footscray.

Since 1962 I have never once considered supporting any other team/club than St.Kilda.

[HSVKing]

I saw Ian Stewart depart us for Richmond.
I saw Big Carl depart us for Melbourne.
I saw Plugger depart us for Sydney
I saw Nicky Winmar depart us for Footscray.

Since 1962 I have never once considered supporting any other team/club than St.Kilda.

I saw Sam Cranage depart us for Carlton...

Neither did I

[The_Dud]

to clarify, i will never change from StKilda, and have never even considered the idea (even when Plugger left), and of course the list changes every year and players you like leave the club.

But if the whole list got wiped and replaced with 40 new players, i don't know how connected i'd feel to them as a team anymore, and probably wouldn't have any great desire to watch them every week

but like i said, its a situation thats never gonna happen

[esaint66]

to clarify, i will never change from StKilda, and have never even considered the idea (even when Plugger left), and of course the list changes every year and players you like leave the club.

But if the whole list got wiped and replaced with 40 new players, i don't know how connected i'd feel to them as a team anymore, and probably wouldn't have any great desire to watch them every week

but like i said, its a situation thats never gonna happen

well said

[|Andy|]

to clarify, i will never change from StKilda, and have never even considered the idea (even when Plugger left), and of course the list changes every year and players you like leave the club.

But if the whole list got wiped and replaced with 40 new players, i don't know how connected i'd feel to them as a team anymore, and probably wouldn't have any great desire to watch them every week

but like i said, its a situation thats never gonna happen

well said

thats why i wrote, for the sake of discussion. ofcourse it wont happen. just wondered on your thoughts but.

[esaint66]

to clarify, i will never change from StKilda, and have never even considered the idea (even when Plugger left), and of course the list changes every year and players you like leave the club.

But if the whole list got wiped and replaced with 40 new players, i don't know how connected i'd feel to them as a team anymore, and probably wouldn't have any great desire to watch them every week

but like i said, its a situation thats never gonna happen

well said

thats why i wrote, for the sake of discussion. ofcourse it wont happen. just wondered on your thoughts but.

of course it will never happen im just saying i agree with what he said up until that change part but with what your saying if our whole list changed to geelong i would still support the saints because we would have at least 22 premiership players

[dcstkfc]

CLUB!