Singing in Unison (Post Clogs Angst)
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Yesterdays match chanting was dismal - I was in the yellow fever zone and we were all over the place.
One side singing something and the other singing a different song
Also - feedback from friends who are in the yellow fever zone who arent regulars on this message board is that half the time they dont know what words are being sung.
Variety is all good and really fun but as far as i can tell there are just about 4 or 5 main songs that are popular and easy to pick up.
The aim of the game is to get the whole crowd going is it not?
So how can we work it out so we are all singing the same song?
And why is there a stigma about having a song sheet? History please?
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I think the core of the fever zone shifting around a bit further round to the south may have changed the dynamic a bit- further away from the yellow fury and therefore more likely for competing chants to get started.
Anyway - since when has it been the role of the YF to ensure the rest of the stadium know the songs and get in synch.
If people really want to know the songs they would come on here and look at the song lyrics, which are all listed here
http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1962
They would also get along to the bankbencher pre-match for some choir practice.
They would thirdly get tickets for the Fever Zone and sing their hearts out.
Anyway - since when has it been the role of the YF to ensure the rest of the stadium know the songs and get in synch.
If people really want to know the songs they would come on here and look at the song lyrics, which are all listed here
http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1962
They would also get along to the bankbencher pre-match for some choir practice.
They would thirdly get tickets for the Fever Zone and sing their hearts out.
When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!
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There needs to be more chants - It gets a tad repetitive IMO. We have a chant for Moss, but not for any other players that are widely used
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we chant for moss cos we luv him, we do!!!! and he deserves it!
Queenslander 3x a year.
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Can we not have "mossy gives us a wave" while the balls in play. It seems kinda dumb. Also who was the guy that murdered the "Disco" chant by forgetting the "what does it spell?" bit.
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Can we not have "mossy gives us a wave" while the balls in play. It seems kinda dumb. Also who was the guy that murdered the "Disco" chant by forgetting the "what does it spell?" bit.
NOT ME!
I say tackle him in the face.
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The aim of the game is to get the whole crowd going is it not?
Not sure about anyone else but I am there to sing for the guys on the pitch to let them know I am their supporting them, providing them the 13th man as it were.
For me the point of chanting is for your team and not for the benefit of everyone else in the crowd (someone correct me if I am wrong).
And if people were that interested in learning the words they would:
a) Not leave me out to dry when I start a chant not widely known even after the third time round - If you cant work out what I am saying as a result of my accent then feel to ask - I am more than happy to share and
b) Make half as much of an effort to join in with said chants as they do signing "seagull, seagull, seagull" which quite frankly makes me cringe - although I guess all chants annoy at least one person
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Seagull was mildly entertaining the first time, I feel we may have taken it too far though.
When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!
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I thought we were doing well until the 2nd half where someone decided it'd be a good idea to re-introduce the goalkick 'chant', and then people did it for every one after 
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I thought we were doing well until the 2nd half where someone decided it'd be a good idea to re-introduce the goalkick 'chant', and then people did it for every one after
Yeah I think once we scored the crowd got real pumped and decided to resort to that again. The chanting when it was about to start earlier in the game seemed to be the way to stop the stupid goal kick chant.
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I thought we were doing well until the 2nd half where someone decided it'd be a good idea to re-introduce the goalkick 'chant', and then people did it for every one after
First 45 was the best 45 in ages, purely for that reason.
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True HN,it was better that everyone was quiet.
At least the goalkick chant makes a bit of noise,and is something most of the crowd can have fun doing...
Allegedly
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I agree with a couple of posts here. Chanting is about playing your part in supporting the team not about entertaining the rest of the crowd. It's not the Fever's job to get the rest of the stadium singing - if others want to join in then they need to get off their butts and learn the chants (by any of the means suggested by Ginger previously). Don't wait for others to lead all the time, take some initiative yourself. Otherwise you'll end up waiting for something that doesn't happen.
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If the rest of the stadium dont know the main chants by now, either
A: They are deaf.
or
B: They have no interested in the chants at all.
We were seated in a sh*te area, ticketek f**k up again, and the chanting was distinctly average. There wasnt any unison between those on the right (as your looking towards the pitch) and those towards the left of aisle 21. I assume the main band of fever was towards the left?
A lot of us down further were confused, as we picked up on the first chant we heard, and when it died down there was another 1 going from somewhere else.
On a side note, good to see some Nix fans at the airports apart from us.
Wolfben2008-08-18 22:48:58
A: They are deaf.
or
B: They have no interested in the chants at all.
We were seated in a sh*te area, ticketek f**k up again, and the chanting was distinctly average. There wasnt any unison between those on the right (as your looking towards the pitch) and those towards the left of aisle 21. I assume the main band of fever was towards the left?
A lot of us down further were confused, as we picked up on the first chant we heard, and when it died down there was another 1 going from somewhere else.
On a side note, good to see some Nix fans at the airports apart from us.
Wolfben2008-08-18 22:48:58
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The aim of the game is to get the whole crowd going is it not?
If i can just re phrase myself here - i meant that the more singing there is the more our team knows we are supporting them
I guess I just want the singing to spread as far as we can get it so we all cheer the boys on loudly and proudly.
(and yes i agree seagull is lame)
The fact is that not everyone is going to come on here and look up the words, some people just aren't that motivated -
No one has yet explained about song sheets - is there a tradition against having them? Please explain
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Its very corny, something Americans would do, and it comes across as rehearsed, not spontaneous and witty
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We could add some of those 'netball bangers' to go with them
She wore a yellow ribbon
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im getting slammed!
All I want to do is get as much of the crowd singing along as possible
When your not sitting in the fever zone its hard to understand whats being sung
This post was simply a means to get people thinking about how we can better sing in unison
The two parts of aisle 21 singing at different times was a bit of a shambles
whats it like at premiership games? Do they have it together or is it the same everywhere?
All I want to do is get as much of the crowd singing along as possible
When your not sitting in the fever zone its hard to understand whats being sung
This post was simply a means to get people thinking about how we can better sing in unison
The two parts of aisle 21 singing at different times was a bit of a shambles
whats it like at premiership games? Do they have it together or is it the same everywhere?
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im getting slammed!
All I want to do is get as much of the crowd singing along as possible
When your not sitting in the fever zone its hard to understand whats being sung
This post was simply a means to get people thinking about how we can better sing in unison
The two parts of aisle 21 singing at different times was a bit of a shambles
whats it like at premiership games? Do they have it together or is it the same everywhere?
All I want to do is get as much of the crowd singing along as possible
When your not sitting in the fever zone its hard to understand whats being sung
This post was simply a means to get people thinking about how we can better sing in unison
The two parts of aisle 21 singing at different times was a bit of a shambles
whats it like at premiership games? Do they have it together or is it the same everywhere?
at premiership games they have song-sheets that are handed out before every game.
PS Do you like getting slammed? Know what I mean, say no more.
All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight
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Seagull was mildly entertaining the first time, I feel we may have taken it too far though.
Our only 100% original chant?!?!? You wash your mouth out!
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I really hope that all the chanting critics try to get chants started themselves, otherwise you don't really have a leg to stand on.
From what I can see there are only about 5 groups that really start the chants. All it takes is 3-5 lads/ladies with lungs to kick them off. If noone picks them up, just keep singing until they do.
e.g. Hard News did at least 5 solos of his version of "The Entertainer" on Sunday, which has a degree of difficulty of about 13.0. I tried joining in a couple if times but I'd had too many beers to be "in the zone" for such an advanced manouvre.
That kind of commitment brings a tear to the eye.
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To be fair that is fraction of the times I called Ben Williams a C... so I'm not hugely proud of my work.
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to Lochy - You'll never play for Boro
ARF
Founder
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Seagull was mildly entertaining the first time, I feel we may have taken it too far though.
Our only 100% original chant?!?!? You wash your mouth out!
I'm sure Melbourne did it first.
When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!
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Kiwi Pie will be along to remind us shortly.
Hard News2008-08-19 14:16:28
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I think the Barmy Armies Chant where the 3 different sections stand up and say something i don't know what it is though. i think that would be affective if you were able to do that
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Last week we struggled to get co-ordination on the most basic of chants. How about we manage a chant before we start coming up with choreography.
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how are we going to fix this tho???
sunday was proberly the worst display of chanting we have ever had at the ROF
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Ship the rubbish off to the States.
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I think a bugler or something similar would be great for starting chants. Play the first bar of the tune and everyone can hear it and then get the song going. That was what made the Barmy Army so great when they were here (that and i guess a day of drinking in the sun)
i know expect people to ridicule this idea completely
i know expect people to ridicule this idea completely
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i know expect people to ridicule this idea completely
Ignoring the idea ridicule... know... now ... ARF !
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great chant is our old favourite = D-i-s-c-?
but in stoppage time with the score 1-1, I wonder if there might be other things that might be worth a chant
such as, perhaps.... the football, or ... possibly...those fellas called the Phoenix....oh yeah and ... erm ..winning the game
edit - fair enough to shift it 'angstwards' News (?) but without the old topic title it's a bit hard to follow so i'll whack a clue in up top
tigers2008-08-19 20:27:14
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Never saw any song sheets at St James Park, Toon Army wouldn't be seen dead using them..........Sunderland might though 
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whats all this angst about? Just dont listen to News and all will be right
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When I'm the voice of reason you know it's out of hand.
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I think the Barmy Armies Chant where the 3 different sections stand up and say something i don't know what it is though. i think that would be affective if you were able to do that
"On the left side, on the left side, on the left side over here"
I say tackle him in the face.
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great chant is our old favourite = D-i-s-c-?
"old favourite..." brings tear to my eye. but in stoppage time with the score 1-1, I wonder if there might be other things that might be worth a chant
such as, perhaps.... the football, or ... possibly...those fellas called the Phoenix....oh yeah and ... erm ..winning the game
edit - fair enough to shift it 'angstwards' News (?) but without the old topic title it's a bit hard to follow so i'll whack a clue in up top
I say tackle him in the face.
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I remember at Peterborough games standing at the London road end and signing:
From the left side of stand-
On the left side, on the left side ,on the left side of London Road
From the middle of stand
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle of London Road
And from the right side of stand
One the right side, on the right side, on the right side of London Road
We could give this ago. Sounds great when it works and shows unity. Ii'm keen to start if i can get three groups of about 8 - 10 on the left, middle and right side of Fever Zone to support.
From the left side supporters-
On the left side, on the left side ,on the left side of Fever Zone
From the middle stand supporters
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle of Fever Zone
And from the right hand side
One the right side, on the right side, on the right side of Fever Zone
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