Dave Dobbyn to play for All Whites

Those 10 things are facts around here.

every good DJ needs (female) muscle to carry his heavy DJ record boxes through customs 

God help them.

Get off your high horse

And the comedy continues.

You're a newcomer but youre laying it down for all us full timers?
AJ132010-06-19 03:46:57

Hint: Don't take that post too seriously.

Sweet, you're in. Just waiting for Frank Van Hattum to get back to me. He's cutting it a bit fine though, we really should leave today. Typical disorganised NZF...


terminator_x2010-06-19 07:30:45

George demonstrating about the same sense of humour found in your average Norwegian black metal band there...

and the hits keep coming.

I just heard some Celine Dion. Honestly, if the team listened to Celine Dion and I could effect a cheeky Italian Job if I was forced to listen to Celine 24/7 for the rest of my life, I would take that.

That's the way it is.

I can't believe what I'm reading.

Some of you want to mess with the All Whites heads cos their tastes in music are different to yours?

If Dave Dobbyn or "Dead Tenor's Farting Flute: Second Wind" does it for the AW's ....Leave it well alone.

I guess so: better the Devil You Know.

This has nothing to do with the AWs taste in music. I dont know where or which rock youve been hiding under, but Dave Dobbyn has been a freckle faced ginge well before any of the AWs admitted to liking his 'material'.

I for one simply dont like Dave Dobbyns music. Its soppy and sh*t. Wuss anthems do nothing for me. Thus i reserve my right to take shots at Dave Dobbyn.

And that somehow has exactly what to do with the All Whites? I would have 11 freckled faced Dave Dobbyn ginge clones play as the All Whites if that meant they advanced to the next round.

No problem with that, as long as they don't sing.

(Actually I generally find Dobbyn's music innoffensive.  I wouldn't listen to him, but in the main I wouldn't biff the radio out the window if he came on).

Still I don't get it. Who cares if the All Whites listen to <<insert your musical equivalent of hell here>> before/after/during the game?

When they start playing like England, THEN come back and start blaming the music.

No problem with Dobbyn per se, but perhaps someone can tell me why the music played during breaks in sporting fixtures over there in NZ is fully 25 years out of date. Watching the All Blacks v Wales test tonight it seems there have been no musical advances in NZ since the Netherworld Dancing Toys, the Dance Exponents and Southside of Bombay.

It was in Dunedin?

NOT hiding under any rocks, Sunshine. I stand by what I just said.
Some people on here want to mess with the AWs taste in music. I too can think of a few other Kiwi musicians who I would prefer but who gives a toss.
Whatever spins their wheels,I say.
And whats wrong with  freckle faced ginges, as you put it, anyway?? They've a right to airspace too

You've obviously never been off your tits on E dancing to Shapeshifter at 4 in the morning in a field near Takaka, have you Ahmad?

Music is powerful force for altering the body's psychological and physiological state my friend, with or without the chemical enhancement.

Why is it that everything else about the All whites pre-match preparation and post-match recovery is so carefully monitored and controlled but the music they listen to is not? Would you make the same statement above about their diet or their training?

Listening to Dave Dobbyn after the game is also just the tip of the iceberg because we actually have no idea what they are listening to on their headphones at other times. Personally I am not comfortable with the thought that uneducated players are trying to get themselves amped up for a big game by listening to Crowded House, for example. Now Crowded House are OK of course, but it's not exactly bite-yer-legs kind of music, is it?

It's the World Cup ffs, and we should be looking for every single little edge that we can get. Just look at the top teams in the World - do you see them listening to Dave Dobbyn? No? Well there you go then.

If you have, then all i can say is i am very jealous.

lol I've spent way too much time in fields out of takaka at 4am or later in the morning

That pretty much puts your opinion of music on the same level as glue sniffers and P addicts.

If the music was so good, you wouldn't need drugs at all to enjoy yourself, right?

Less trolling please, I can't hear Dave Dobbyn.

I don't actually dance on E myself cause it makes me distracted and its a social drug but I'll defend the honor of dance pills lol simply cause from personal experience I know that even just 2hours of going hard at a drum & bass gig is like doing 4-5 back to back aerobic classes as far as cardio fitness and sometimes one needs  a little oompph along the way to keep one going. also they are simply an enhancer to a night out the same way alcohol is to many

Let's not get hung up on a throwaway drug reference please. I could just have easily said "you've obviously never stage dived into the moshpit at a Slayer concert" and the point would be the same - music can be a powerful tool in the enhancement of athletic performance if used in the right way and I think there should be more attention paid to this in the All Whites camp.

This has either been 6 pages of excellent trolling or you may need to get the f**k over yourself.

Enjoying the Wavin' Flag tune I've been hearing often, tbf.

Right first time.

Maybe some of the goalkeepers have  been off their tits on E - may explain some of the blunders, and here we are blaming the ball.

Interesting thread tho'. Often wondered how/why particular styles of music, even single chords (or , in my case, a tap on a symbol - see RadioHead Exit Music for a film) can trigger emotional responses. And there has to be tie-in, as Terminator-Ex has pointed out with althelctic performance and music. Why else would they have included the Question "Favourite Music" in those good old player profiles in the Goal/Shoot magazines of yore.

But surely it would be totally subjective , different players will react to different styles of music , er differently, depending on their psychological make-up and so there would be a chance of getting it horribly wrong.

I think Frank Van Hattum would be wise to wait for the next WC campaign before getting Terminator_X on board, after more study has been done on this subject. I'd start preparing a business case for Musical Psychologist for the Brazil finals (now that would be awesome)

ok guys I confess i partook in the mass singing of slice of heavan at the kings jst now and i wasn't struck down by lighting and it kind of hit the happy mood

Just think what they could have done against Italy if it had been Napalm Death instead of Dobbyn on in the dressing room...

You dont take drugs to enjoy music, just to enhance it.

You know what... an ecy or two and Dave Dobbyn might almost be cool!

Dave Dobbyn and Shapeshifter be damned, I like Emerson Lake and Palmer and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. I'm a goalkeeper, and I'll fight you all.

Yes Sigue Sique Sputnik..... Love Missile f1-11

Shoot it up

Sigue Sigue Sputnik were the worst moment of Tony James' otherwise sterling career.