R13 vs Western Sydney Wed 9.00pm SS4

If you can drum up enough support I can't see it being a bad thing.

The Poznan. In contrast, the Ponzi scheme is probably how some overseas clubs get their funding!

This sounds like an "all or nothing" argument. I wasn't there, but I suspect the above drumming was random, and not pre-planned.

With anything of that size/sound, you would need a well-organised group with a leader. The drums are played for a specific period of time, like every 15-20 min, and at specific times (just prior to kickoff, etc). The chant starts when the drums stop. Nobody in their right mind would expect drumming to go on for the whole game. I attended several games in Montevideo during my misspent youth and their drumming (candombe) was highly organised and structured (in contrast to what went on the pitch in some games, but that's another story) .

Why buy a season ticket only to turn your back on your team when they probably need you? Wtf, some seriously fucked up logic there. I concur with others when the rbb are all about themselves. One of their chants sounds so close to seig hail it's not funny. Considering tbe area they are in, I wouldn't be surprised.  Perhaps those who went could clarify this for me. I may well be wrong....again.

I was at the beach in the far north and had no internet. To watch this I drove to a telecom hotspot by a prepay phone with 2 laptops and watched half the game on one and the other half on the other. All this in the middle of the night screaming with excitement on the side of a deserted country road. I even put $3 on the Nix to win to round out my tab account, I didn't expect to get $24 back. I havn't missed a nix game this year and I don't intent on starting now. 

if Battucada get involved with drumming for the YF - I'm never coming to a game - their mindliss bashing is annoying, having a few chants that are lead or balanced with drums sure but why do we need to copy everyone else - next we'll be planning our chants for the game, having a megaphone to lead us - why change what is already working?

I still cant figure out why the aussies need a bull horn and a special stand to have themselves heard. Never seen that before and it's friggen shithouse stuff. For god sake, grow a deep voice and shout to kick off your chants.

Drums aren't allowed into the Stadium as they are a musical instrument. We haven't needed drums to create an atmosphere in the past so why would we need them now? 

NO DRUMS PLEASE K THANKS. 

A drum in the Yellow Fever Zone isn't going to improve crowd sizes. People who are likely to come to games simply because of the Fever and the atmosphere are already attending matches. Crowd sizes can improve for other reasons, but putting a drum in the Fever Zone is going to get a negligible amount of extra people coming to games.

Besides, we tend to go for the English style of supporting, where one starts a chant and it either catches on or they get giggled at for singing on their own. As opposed to the Eastern European style with drums and flares, like the RBB do. Drums just aren't our style.

Drums are very good when done properly - to support the songs/chants. When they're not synchronised with the other stuff, then they're just mindless noise. But they do make a lot of noise, so when done properly, they clearly make a significant contribution to the atmosphere.

PS. Stadium are farken commienazis for not letting musical instruments in, I always thought a bit of brass music in the zone would be pretty awesome too.

We would would probably he told off by Burgess for spending YF money on a drum. And then lose it anyway.

What Patrick said. Drums are only useful if you are wailing for minutes on end like the RBB. My kazoo did the trick nicely the other night .

The rules around drums and shit are stupid and are half the reason for the crowds, whether or not YF have used them before or not is irrelevant. People should be able to just bring stuff in. The trumpets and drums around other stadia in aussie sound good, its a real shame we have nothing of the sort over here.

Maybe you guys should just push for something anyway? Not necessarily in the fever zone but somewhere else down the other end, so we have sound at both ends. You guys are hardly heard on TV these days anyway, i watched our last two home games on the tele and what i could actually hear sounded about as basic and bland as what id imagine Fred de Jong with down syndrome would sound like attempting to recite the alphabet.

If we want to be like the other club/s we need bigger detonators - then no need for drums just have Patrick program a computer to set them off in time to the chants. 

May need to allow for interruptions to the game for bomb squad visits and engineers to check stadium for structural damage before fans let back in.  

Oh that's right a mount out side for a permanent SPOON. 

I would hate for all our chants to be coordinated through a muppet capo. 

I've actually grown to love our style. It comes up with some pretty funny on the spot chants. And anyone can be involved. 

This!

It's a far more entertaining experience when you can chant something witty and spontaneous. 

Although, in saying that maybe it's time to revisit the idea of a YF Song Book...

*ducks for cover*

A drum for what ???? Yeah because all the biggest clubs in the top leagues have a fuckin band playing in the stands...... Why stop there ? What about a rhythm guitar ? Bass ? Hell get a violin and piano. Stupid. I say do not do this.

Might actually need all of the above for "Stand Up for the Phoenix".

Personally I like the idea of a song book. Get the old chants codified and proliferate new ones. Would help for the family types further down as it can be difficult to make them out at times. Get more people involved
That said I love the spontaneity of many of the chants and that anyone can start one. And can't see why we can't have both. A song book for the uninitiated while still starting random chants relevant to the action like "you're so shit your fans don't even watch"
Don't like the idea of a capo.
Keep it decentralised and egalitarian I say.

Hmmm ....cant beat that ...

I wanted to use the phrase "Nancy Timpano" somehow.  No success so far.

It'd be a great gag for the feverzone to wear them when WSW next come to town.