Re: What does our club stand for?
Reply #5 –
I think you will find that 'a healthy mind in a healthy body' or 'a sound mind in a healthy body' goes back well beyond Juvenal's Satires. The Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who lived around 600 years BCE is the likely originator of the saying.
While there's nothing wrong with 'a sound mind in a healthy body', it doesn't really provide any inspiration or motivation, something that's sadly lacking with our club.
I half heard Buckley on the news tonight and my ears pricked when he said something like, "This will test our side by side." Clearly, Collingwood use what is a very good line in their club song to reinforce behaviours and I would love to see our blokes sticking together.
That got me thinking of our club song and the line "We're the team that never lets you down." sprang to mind. They have certainly let us, their coaches and themselves down far too often over the last 15 years. Rather than investing in a new slogan each season, why not make the team focus 'never letting us down'?
However, whether it's 'never letting us down', 'a sound mind in a healthy body' or 'side by side', it is the behaviours that are more important than the words. Behaviours that should include earning and maintaining the respect of team mates and opponents, ensuring that opponents know they've been playing the Navy Blues, making life a misery for taggers, busting a gut to get the job done, never taking a backwards step, being proud of the jumper and its legacy, getting the most out of natural abilities, working diligently to improve skills, etc, etc.