Dave McNamara wrote:hungry for a premiership wrote: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
What a horrible idea!!!!!!
"While the song is not compulsory, clubs have been encouraged to find a suitable anthem that can inspire players and fans before teams hit the field this season."
What the hell are the club theme songs supposed to be????
They've played rock/pop hits at etihad right up until the first bounce before, some Jet songs, they even did play kashmir once, I think, and its absolutely s*** in regards to killing off the natural pre-game atmosphere of an AFL footy match, which is an entity all of its own. Every true football fan knows that feeling before a big match, with that gnawing at the gut and that restlessness to get into the contest, its an amazing thing unique to our amazing game. God damn the AFL to hell for bastardizing our game with this rubbish.Thank Gawd for HFAP and Sainternist for some sanity on this thread!!!Sainternist wrote:FFS, why isn't the traditional club song good enough? All the fans can identify with it and sing along and clap to it. This idea of piping some irrelevant tune is so CORNY and contrived. Typical of the AFL wanting to introduce more Mickey Mouse stuff to our game.
How clichéd can you get with 'welcome to jungle' or any rock anthem or pop song for that matter. This idea belongs (and should stay) with professional wrestling.
BS-free Australian Rules Football would be refreshing. But that's a little too much to ask for with the contemporary game being more and more saturated in crass commericalism.
Just my 2cents worth...
Both your posts are worth infinitely more than '2 cents worth'!![]()
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Why, why, why are we so intent on embracing the most cringe-worthy elements of American society???
Absolutely, totally agree.
I don't mind change -- I just don't want destruction of things that are unique and valuable.
Like the atmosphere before the bounce.
This is what I think we want:
1: players run on to club song. This unites ALL supports of the club, regardless of wide diversity in musical taste.
2: time to digest who's on, who's missing, who's wearing black armbands, who's got a new hair style.
3: We DON'T want some turkey, at volume 11, trying to whip the crowd up for an artifical cheer for the St Kilda Saints.
4: the lull. time for a quiet prayer
5: the sound of anticipation mounting
6: the bounce. and start the yelling!
Hungry for a P has it dead right -- the atmosphere of that moment is quite unique to us, and has to be sacrosanct.
The AFL apparently just sees it as a gap to be filled.