At every Swans home game – regardless of the weather engulfing the SCG – there’s a young family of four swimming in red-and-white supporter wear.

Parents Dave and Jo have a boy and a girl, one of whom they named after 286-game Swans champion Ryan O’Keefe, and a newborn called Elyse delivered this year.

They trundle in from The Ponds in Sydney’s west well before the opening bounce and take up their positions behind the Swans’ bench.

They ride every bump and tackle, and every chase and shot on goal, as they join the raucous cries of the 30,000-plus choir willing the Swans to victory.

Dave and Jo met in 2005, became members in 2006, and after 12 years and two arrivals their passion for the Swans burns as hot as ever.

Meet the Knights – a bunch of die-hard Swans fans.

“You get the games at the beginning of the year and it’s the first thing that goes on the calendar,” Jo said.

“We write it up and if there are things on we’re like ‘no sorry, we’ll be at a Swans game’, and all our friends and family know that if there’s a Swans game on we won’t be able to come. It’s just our family time.

“We drive in early, Ryan has a kick outside the SCG before the game and has a kick after the game. We sit right behind the bench and just talk all about the players.”

Dave and Jo were huge O’Keefe fans and when Ryan was delivered on June 5, the number belonging to O’Keefe throughout his glittering career, his parents knew their little boy was destined to take on his name.

Ryan turned four on Tuesday and blew out the candles on a Swans-themed cake.

His whole family was decked out in red and white and the craze wasn’t new to his younger sister as it was the choice of dress for Elyse’s newborn photoshoot.

Elyse wore a Swans guernsey and scarf and a little red bow in her hair, but it wasn’t the first time she was at the centre of all things Sydney.

One of the family’s favourite Swans memories is of Sydney’s miraculous come-from-behind victory over Essendon in Round 14 last year.

Elyse was in her mother’s womb as the Swans clawed their way back from 19 points down late in the final term to steal a win after the siren.

Gary Rohan took a mark in a one-on-one contest in the goal square, before sealing a one-point victory that put coach John Longmire in disbelief.

The Knights were as equally stunned.

“We were in shock,” Jo said.

“We could not believe what had just happened. We watched the replay when we got home and John’s reaction in the box was unbelievable.

“Because we’ve been in the same seats for quite a while we have come to know everyone around us and we were all giving high-fives and it was just an incredible atmosphere. You’re on the edge of your seat and there are 40,000 people doing the same and then to win from nowhere was unbelievable. We were ecstatic.”

Although the Knights have lived and breathed a number of unforgettable Swans moments, Jo says the family’s love for the red and white is credit to the mix of young and experienced talent.

“We love that the Swans have always had great young players coming through and also those players who have hung around for a long time, like Adam Goodes a number of years ago and now Josh Kennedy and Jarrad McVeigh,” Jo said.

“You’ve got the consistency and then you’ve got the young, exciting players. We all love Isaac Heeney and Ben Ronke is the newest star of the lot.

“The Swans have just always been able to strike the perfect balance between experience and youth and it’s no different this year.”

Evergreen defender McVeigh is enjoying an outstanding season at the age of 33 and Jo says the family gets right behind him.

“We call him ‘Trusty’ – ‘Trusty McVeigh’,” Jo said.

“That’s our nickname for him because if he’s got the ball we can trust that he’s not going to give it away to the opposition.”