Chant complaints on the radio?
Im not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
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One of my colleagues said that he was listening to the radio this morning (sporting comment at 07:40 on newstalk ZB I think) and heard the commentator complaining about how some of the chants were disgusting and that they wouldn't consider taking their kids to watch the 'nix play any more.
Did anyone hear anything along those lines?
I was racking my brain trying to think of something beyond the use of f*ck every now and again and if a kid is old enough to be at a 19:30 kickoff then he/she is bound to hear worse than that in the school ground.....
Anyway, I'm stumped (which, to be fair, doesn't take much sometimes)
Did anyone hear anything along those lines?
I was racking my brain trying to think of something beyond the use of f*ck every now and again and if a kid is old enough to be at a 19:30 kickoff then he/she is bound to hear worse than that in the school ground.....
Anyway, I'm stumped (which, to be fair, doesn't take much sometimes)
Im not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
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well my brother doesnt come to the fever zone any more but i do
thanks for that Wyners,
ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH
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Gordon Irving on Newstalk apparently.
Thought there was some unnessesary use myself on Saturday, but this is something that blows up around every supporters group once in a while.
Hard News2008-12-15 12:01:13
Thought there was some unnessesary use myself on Saturday, but this is something that blows up around every supporters group once in a while.
Hard News2008-12-15 12:01:13
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What was being chanted? all i coudl make out from the tele was oh wellington..
ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH
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Yeah - it would be nice to know exactly what he was talking about. HN, can you illuminate 'cos I can't think of anything new that hasn't happened at most other games?
And I found it online:
Between 10:24 and 11:15 in this file http://newstalkzb.co.nz/thisweek/hourrecsWN/Mon,%20Dec%2015%2008.00%20TRN-NEWSTALK-ZB-WGN.asf
And I found it online:
Between 10:24 and 11:15 in this file http://newstalkzb.co.nz/thisweek/hourrecsWN/Mon,%20Dec%2015%2008.00%20TRN-NEWSTALK-ZB-WGN.asf
Im not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
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There wasn't anything that hasn't been used before.
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Wasn't there one new chant with f**k in it?
Either way parents are obviously blind if they think children haven't heard language like that before.
Either way parents are obviously blind if they think children haven't heard language like that before.
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Wasn't there one new chant with f**k in it?
Either way parents are obviously blind if they think children haven't heard language like that before.
Either way parents are obviously blind if they think children haven't heard language like that before.
mhmmm kids here seem to know more swear words than proper words.
ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH
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Wasn't there one new chant with f**k in it?
Either way parents are obviously blind if they think children haven't heard language like that before.
Either way parents are obviously blind if they think children haven't heard language like that before.
I'm sure they know their kids have heard that language in general life, it is unavoidable in some situations.
But to take them into an environment when they will hear "adults" chanting it out, well, that is a different scenario. I can imagine some being put off.
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Either way parents are obviously blind if they think children haven't heard language like that before.
Is that now the rationale for chanting (or not chanting) something? It's OK if it's words that kids have heard before?
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Just as an aside - can't individual words in the chants be heard from the family zone? I'm not trying to make a point at this time, just wondering.
Im not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
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I heard Irving and to be fair he was generally positive but there was clearly some particular chant that he took offence to on Saturday.
I spent my first full game out of the Zone and the only chant I could hear that involved regular swearing was "Get into him, f**k him up" which took off for the first time properly.
It really isn't a highlight and, as Irving pointed out, is neither witty nor edgy nor clever.
My vote would be not to use it, but I'm not the boss so it would require like minded individuals amongst us shouting down anyone who tried to start it.
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
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My vote would be not to use it, but I'm not the boss so it would require like minded individuals amongst us shouting down anyone who tried to start it.
Based on my campaign to stop the goal kick rubbish I wouldn't bet on that being a resounding success.
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Yeah but your campaign consisted of you saying "boo this is sh*t" at the game every time everyone did it...
I'm more about getting the word out now - before the game.
Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.
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There wasn't anything that hasn't been used before.
except for those 2 drunk idiots behind me and cosmo shaking up the beer and spraying it round then trying to chant:
"Dadi is gay"
"Dadi i thought yo were with my mummy"
"Dadi's a homo"
HK_Keeper2008-12-15 12:36:27
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Yeah but your campaign consisted of you saying "boo this is sh*t" at the game every time everyone did it...
and sticking his fingers in his ears whilst screwing up his face. pure comedy that i had to watch every time it happened :)
cosmo2008-12-15 12:19:48
Im not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
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On that subject... a 'big ups' to Mr. Lemon for starting an Oh Wellington over the top of it at one stage on Saturday.
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except for those 2 drunk idiots behind me and cosmo shaking up the beer and spraying it round <snip>
yeah, i thought we'd got rid of that. unfortunately by the time i was told it was past the "stop being twats" timeframe and i had to wait for it to happen again...... which it didn't.
Im not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!
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Those chants are not in the Frankie Mac Song Book - so thry could not have originated from inside the zone.
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except for those 2 drunk idiots behind me and cosmo shaking up the beer and spraying it round <snip>
yeah, i thought we'd got rid of that. unfortunately by the time i was told it was past the "stop being twats" timeframe and i had to wait for it to happen again...... which it didn't.
Everyone blankly stared at them with their lips reading "w**kers!"
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I said "f#ck" every time we gave the ball away or our attack broke down on Saturday night .....
The number of times I said it could have sounded like a chant.....
Will tone it down a bit on Friday night when everything clicks and we spank CCM.....
The number of times I said it could have sounded like a chant.....
Will tone it down a bit on Friday night when everything clicks and we spank CCM.....
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I said "f#ck" every time we gave the ball away or our attack broke down on Saturday night .....
The number of times I said it could have sounded like a chant.....
Will tone it down a bit on Friday night when everything clicks and we spank CCM.....
The number of times I said it could have sounded like a chant.....
Will tone it down a bit on Friday night when everything clicks and we spank CCM.....
Me too. I admit I swore really loudly when Smeltz missed his "open" goal.
Off topic: Did anyone else see the guys with the "Stag Fever" shirts on? They were sitting infront of us i thought it was quite a cool idea myself
Torne2008-12-15 13:29:13
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My stag last year was the Roar game on Dec 14 and I got Stag Do 07 retro rickis printed for it. We looked very fetching.(Thanks Greeny).
Around midnight, somewhat the worse for wear, I left a bag full of them somewhere in Wellington, so someone got a windfall there.
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My vote would be not to use it, but I'm not the boss so it would require like minded individuals amongst us shouting down anyone who tried to start it.
Based on my campaign to stop the goal kick rubbish I wouldn't bet on that being a resounding success.
Is that the ever-so-irksome "oooohhhh ahhhhh" thing that they all do in Aussie as well?
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When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it was about the obscene amount of times the 'Oh Wellington' chant gets done during the game. Really starting to get me down.
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Is that the ever-so-irksome "oooohhhh ahhhhh" thing that they all do in Aussie as well?
yes.
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when thay do that, what is actually said?
i can never quite catch it
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The Zone needs more "Wellington Delight" or "Escape (The Fever Colada Song)"
"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009
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Yellow Fever soap - to wash any potty mouths out
Feverish2008-12-15 18:06:03
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Yellow Fever soap - to wash any potty mouths out
You are first then..?
ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH
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Yellow Fever soap - to wash any potty mouths out
Is there a Yellowfever Breathaliser?
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i reckon there are times when "f**k em up!, get intae em!" makes clear to anyone that we want a bit more aggression/commitment and on saturday that seems to have been a reasonable view
or perhaps it's just an expression of frustration and more aggresion would have just led to cards and free kicks against us
to me the effect of our chants/noise on the players is more important than what some others in the crowd think - o.k. having said that i realsie that the players don't want to play infront of 'x' hundred fewer people if our chants put them off
so, at the risk of venting a little less of my frustration - i am prepared to experiment with the more 'culturally apporpriate"
smack 'em bro, get intae 'em !
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Me & my son flew up and went to the perth game on saturday night, we were in the yf zone so yes you do expect to here the occasional swear word. We went to a game last year as well and I have to admit the language thi year was worse.
I know that it is no worse tahn what you here at the oval bal game but they dont chant as such, if you want to get more people to the games (which I'm sure you do) then by chnating f off melbourne etc will not help - families wont go, fathers wont take there son's cos the missus wont let them when little Jonny comes back from a game swearing etc. I dont think it's necessary - we are more clever than that.
There were some kds behind us (18 years or so) and every 2nd word they said begun with f or c, grow up kids - especialy if you see children around.
I know that it's nothing that wouldnt be said in the school yard but thats kids talking to each other, when kids see it coming from adults they will think it's acceptable.
An interesting debate.
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smack 'em bro, get intae 'em !
Chop 'em up... but it's still mindless rubbish.
Not sure what went on on Saturday, but even I thought the zone was rubbish, and the number of times we had chants using the F word made me cringe.
It's pointless, it's needless, and bollocks. We should try funny and clever.
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smack 'em bro, get intae 'em !
Chop 'em up... but it's still mindless rubbish.
Not sure what went on on Saturday, but even I thought the zone was rubbish, and the number of times we had chants using the F word made me cringe.
It's pointless, it's needless, and bollocks. We should try funny and clever.
exactly right - yf have proven that you can do funny & clever,
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I just wonder what the crowd would've been saying if they had to watch Colonel Granville earlier tonight...
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the "f**k off melbourne" chant was well justified in my view - celebrating in front of us was provocative , if they'd trotted back to their half, then they wouldn't have got the 'reception' they got (and deserved)
a team can't expect no response if they celebrate right in front of the opposition fans
it's not a chant we've ever used before and it was a spontaneous expression of our frustration and a legitimate response to them 'taking the piss'
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