as a long standing season ticket holder,i have endured many ups an downs whilst supporting the swans,the old cold days of re election applications to the league,the highs of top flight football.....ahh great days...BUT we failed to generate new support in enough volume,by that i mean the youngsters who will be our mainstays over the next twenty years.so this time around we have a golden opportunity to reach out and embrace new fans,not ridicule them for last season wearing a liverpool shirt,or a manu away kit.everyone is needed and welcome to support our LOCAL premier league side.
i would hope every youngster in Swansea and surrounds would be a fan, then try and get their bums on seats
Not really aber. For the teens yes that's how it works, but you have to get them before that. Get them going with their dads at 5, 6, 7 etc. when they are still happy to just be doing something with their parents and it will become ingrained in them.
if you take 2 or 3 kids to watch any profecional football club it will cost a small fortune...people cant afford that when there is more important things to spend money on...
at £50 a season ticket, and get the sweets and snacks in before you get to the game , its not a small fortune in my mind. My daughter is 8 and has been going with me for 3 years now. My boy is still two , but I plan to take him to a few games when he's 3 , and to them all from age 4...
I took my son to the away FA cup game with Reading must be some 6-7 years ago. He would have been around 6-7 at the time. He just couldn't take it all in the stadium, the crowd he just couldn't stop talking about it. He's been an avid fan of the Swans from this day. Must say he's never wavered to another team, don't ask me why be he does look for Spurs results. But a DIE hard Swans fan. I say get them to the games at an early age and they will be hooked.
Absolutely! As everyone has said above, get 'em in early. I didn't get into it until late (about 18/19) and really felt like I'd missed out. That feeling of going to the ground, hearing the songs, getting into the occasion and having a focus for you happiness/rage (delete as appropriate) and going home knowing that you've taken part in something. 15 years on and I'm still getting excited about going to games. This season more than ever as it would appear we've ended up in the cowin' Premiership.
I'm so glad I got to have a season ticket at the Vetch for a few years. As a kid growing up the environment there felt so steeped in history, it was a large part of the attraction at the beginning. I've always wondered whether anyone ever made any aerial footage of the Sandfields on a friday night when we had a home game, for example? It would have looked amazing watching all the streets full of people converging more and more as they got to the ground...
I agree - catch them when they are young ! I saw my first game at 8 years old. Still here 45 years later. I've seen the "ups & downs" - saw 21 out of 23 home league games in the old Fourth Division in the late 60s. The cup-tie against Arsenal, Tosh's first game as Player Manager & the subsequent promotions through to the old First Division. Then what seemed a long downward spiral, through the "Petty" days, the Hull match - and now like a phoenix, we've risen from the ashes!! It has been a great journey - it's never "easy" with the Swans, but let's hope we stay in the top flight longer this time !!! STID
