jakarta
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I must get into Aussie Rules, I have always thought it was a fight between blokes in vests, which you can see any Bank Holiday in the UK...
To be fair, there's a few absolute bangers in those anthems - there isnt a soul alive unmoved by Tigerland, YELLOW AND BLACK!Is it just my imagination or were all those daft gung-ho club anthems with the deeply naff lyrics written by the same bloke?
To be fair, there's a few absolute bangers in those anthems - there isnt a soul alive unmoved by Tigerland, YELLOW AND BLACK!
and Carlton's jaunty little number is decent too, of the old skool ones. Brisbane using la Marsellaise is inspired.
I presumed that all the relatively new clubs had a shite song just like Freo, but the GWS theme is really bloody good. Am i jealous? f*** yeah i am
Seen a couple of live games when we were in Australia one a full house at The Oval The Crows v Essendon featuring Eddie Betts could he play, plus the park and ride scheme was very good.
I used to work in a city centre pub in Melbourne many, many years ago and we had a jukebox with all the club songs on - so i got huuugely familiar with the big Melbourne clubs, and used to annoy the locals by putting on the (dreadful) Freo tune Its a different crowd experience without a doubt, i tried to bring over a bit of terrace wit but it just got me stared at, on the whole. I went to a carlton/collingwood game with my Carlton supporting mate and tried to start a chant of 'you can stick your f***ing magpies up your arse' and sadly it didnt really take off . . .Trust me...if you're not a Richmond fan you're not moved by it.! It would be difficult to be moved by any Aussie Rules footy song - they all suck. The worst one ever was the Crows original theme song way back in the 90's which went...."here we go, here we go, here we go:......" without stopping.
That's one of the things I love about football, and in particular the Premier League....the chants and the wit. Don't really get it at Aussie Rules matches and you definitely don't get it at Rugby League matches.
I used to work in a city centre pub in Melbourne many, many years ago and we had a jukebox with all the club songs on - so i got huuugely familiar with the big Melbourne clubs, and used to annoy the locals by putting on the (dreadful) Freo tune Its a different crowd experience without a doubt, i tried to bring over a bit of terrace wit but it just got me stared at, on the whole. I went to a carlton/collingwood game with my Carlton supporting mate and tried to start a chant of 'you can stick your f***ing magpies up your arse' and sadly it didnt really take off . . .
are you at any of the games this round in Adelaide? Norwood oval looks nice! i love a suburban ground, and a mighty Freo win as well
Port Adelaide are the AFL equivalent of a Millwall or a Leeds. If you're talking biblical, they deserve to be flooded out and hit by a locust plague.Watched some of the game on Saturday morning (Port Adelaide) The rain was absolutely biblical....and louder than the commentary at times.
Good game though - really enjoying watching it again after a few years without.
St KIlda is an early start Sunday. But thankfully I can record it.
Yeah, nah, no one is happy about that!(apart from the pies supports of course).Cracking game between Collingwood and Essendon just finished. Collingwood looked dead and buried, trailing by 28 points going into the final quarter. Stormed back to win 90-77. Carna Pies!
Did mean I got 9 from 9 in my tripping comp this week though, so not all bad.Yeah, nah, no one is happy about that!(apart from the pies supports of course).
Nice, I got eight. For some reason I tipped Freo.Did mean I got 9 from 9 in my tripping comp this week though, so not all bad.
Nice, I got eight. For some reason I tipped Freo.