JF_Bay22_SCG
13th September 2004, 12:45 AM
Take a look at these pictures from North Adelaide's banner today in the SANFL.
http://www.rocketrooster.com/NAFC/Forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1530
Look at the artwork on the sides of the banners.
I've been talking to the CS manager about taking over the banner co-ordination next season, and dream of having such banners at Swans home matches.
We already have great banners in Victoria. Even if the slogan on the back of Fridays was embarrassingly bad. ("2004, the Year of the Swans")
But due to the low amount of people we get to make the things up here, they are often rush jobs with little artwork or witty sayings. (Some of the slogans on the banners have been terrible this season; I used to enjoy the threads here about what slogan we could use. Sadly those days look to be a thing of the past :frown)
I want to start thinking about how we can improve the whole idea of making the banners here in Sydney. I guess the 1st thing we need to think about is when they are made. In Melbourne they get 30-50people to come and help make the banners on a Wednesday night. How do you guys down there get everyone to turn up?
I think that banners are a part of AFL footy culture. And hence it is important to cultivate them. However as with many things up here in Sydney where the culture is still only ust starting to develop, we really need help in getting this moving along. Hopefully the club can come along to the party here and give the Cheer Squad and banner-making more exposure than they do presently. As we need their help to spread the message that banner-making is a tradition that needs to be fostered. Hence it Sydney we have to try extra hard to establish this culture up here.
Does anyone have any expertise in cartooning or design? as I'd be prepared to cough up some of my own hard-earned to have more caricatures etc on our Sydney-based banners. I just want the banners we make in Sydney to be as good as those of the interstate squads. And will stubbornly not stop until we do.
JF
http://www.rocketrooster.com/NAFC/Forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1530
Look at the artwork on the sides of the banners.
I've been talking to the CS manager about taking over the banner co-ordination next season, and dream of having such banners at Swans home matches.
We already have great banners in Victoria. Even if the slogan on the back of Fridays was embarrassingly bad. ("2004, the Year of the Swans")
But due to the low amount of people we get to make the things up here, they are often rush jobs with little artwork or witty sayings. (Some of the slogans on the banners have been terrible this season; I used to enjoy the threads here about what slogan we could use. Sadly those days look to be a thing of the past :frown)
I want to start thinking about how we can improve the whole idea of making the banners here in Sydney. I guess the 1st thing we need to think about is when they are made. In Melbourne they get 30-50people to come and help make the banners on a Wednesday night. How do you guys down there get everyone to turn up?
I think that banners are a part of AFL footy culture. And hence it is important to cultivate them. However as with many things up here in Sydney where the culture is still only ust starting to develop, we really need help in getting this moving along. Hopefully the club can come along to the party here and give the Cheer Squad and banner-making more exposure than they do presently. As we need their help to spread the message that banner-making is a tradition that needs to be fostered. Hence it Sydney we have to try extra hard to establish this culture up here.
Does anyone have any expertise in cartooning or design? as I'd be prepared to cough up some of my own hard-earned to have more caricatures etc on our Sydney-based banners. I just want the banners we make in Sydney to be as good as those of the interstate squads. And will stubbornly not stop until we do.
JF