Vegas Seagull
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Then the 80% are season ticket holders who should damn well know the words already IMO.
HawkTheSeagull
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It was, but we lost. Had we won - the clacker idea would have been forgiven immediately. Similarly with Derby, you think the reaction to them having words on a screen would have been different if they didnt win ? I certainly think it would have been. Having words in the programme is a better idea, also do a history of the song etc - not to mention it opens it up a bit for away fans so they know a bit about us.
Bwian
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- Jul 14, 2003
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So lowering the beer prices would get the atmosphere going? Brilliant. Maybe you should email Tony Bloom and Paul Barber with your idea.
Iggle Piggle
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In the Play off 2nd leg, we were drowned out when they sang that. I was hugely impressed at the time and wasn't standing there thinking 'How tinpot putting the words on the screen' I was thinking 'Kin Hell, When was the last time I was in an atmosphere like this? I said it at the time but the way Derby have the away fans plonked in the middle of 2 sections who sing really helps the atmosphere and the way the club was together is something we could learn from.
For what its worth, Put the words on the screen. I went to my first Albion game in 1982. I don't know the words. I can't be the only one.
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They damn well should, but as was apparent last week, they damn well don't. Maybe they could be tested at the turnstyle before they are let in, turn them away if they damn well don't or, alternatively, the words could be put on screen until they damn well do ?
But many of them, especially the younger ones DON'T. Repeating that 'they damn well should' is helping nobody and achieving nothing. You can offer proposed solutions, as Tony Bloom has requested, or you can sit and sulk. Whatever.
First - your post assumes that Derby only put the words up for that one match. They didn't.
Having words in the program would achieve nothing. There are only 4000 programs sold, and nobody who even has one, would bother flicking through it trying to find the right page at the given time, when they want to be clapping and singing.
Its words. On a screen. Get over it.
Gazwag
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How hard is it to sing "I wanna be *clap* *clap* glad all over" or YNWA come to that - if people are worried it will give the away fans a giggle then put it on the South screen and not the north then the away fans might not notice. Have you ever listened to how many sing SBTS Ner Ner Ner Ner andweregoinguptowinthecupforsusbytsea
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I'm off to the beach for the day now and when I get back to Brighton for the next home game I damn well expect the damn words to be on the damn screen 
HawkTheSeagull
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Well it could increase sales for a start, FFP and all that. Besides, who said you have to read it like a church hymn. You read up the words BEFORE the song. Its a football match, not a singalong.
Yes, it is words on a screen, but its pretty bloody tinpot. If Derby frequently do it, then effectively we are needing to copy another club whilst admitting our fans cant even learn the rather easy words to a song which is about a minute long (the Amex version anyway).
Taking Palace fans off the tweet from the club, it (vaguely) looks like a near 50/50 split. A better poll or survey is needed if they really want to gauge fan opinion on it, and yes - i would be saying the exact same things to the club as I would be now.
Gazwag
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Quite I think that game has been tainted with the way a certain manager approached the game I personally thought the buzz before that game was superb and the opera singer was brilliant - our humiliation that day was NOTHING to do with the fans or the clackers
HawkTheSeagull
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2 songs which are longer than GOSBTS for the record. The Der Der is bad, yes, but sticking words on a screen is asking for trouble, stick and almighty piss taking from other fans when it inevitably back-fires as things do for us.
Albion_Dave
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Do you really care that much what other fans think of us? If you do then you really need to get a life.
Thunder Bolt
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We'd had clackers several times at Withdean and I don't remember all the whinging about them then. Maybe there was?
Iggle Piggle
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You really think people will buy the program to learn the words of a song?
Pearl's Jam's Alive is one of my Favourite songs of all time. I don't know the words.
I had Sussex by the Sea played at my wedding when I walked out the church and at the reception by a band. The song means a lot to me but I don't know the words. My brain simply isn't wired that way. As stated before, stick the words on the screen. We all sing the same version (the pedants will argue what that is) and it will create a better atmosphere. Most football fans aren't MENSA members. It's unrealistic for the majority of the crowd to know more than 1 verse of any song. Christ, most of us can't get past the first verse of God Save the Queen.
HawkTheSeagull
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Personally I couldnt care, but Palace bang on about the Clackers a fair bit - this idea is up there with them - IE sh*thouse.
Its my personal opinion on it, there are better ways to go about it, its football - not pub karaoke.
Iggle Piggle
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