Chants

I feel wrong that I cringe when I hear it. It's the country I love and yet the anthem does nothing to stir my national pride

I hope someone slaps you very hard.

Deleted so they don't

It's all about passion, nothing a few pints and fire in the belly can't fix.

It's different when ur at an event. But when ur at home watching on tv it doesn't really pull my heart strings

In the tradition of Football just picking a random song - I'm thinking of West Ham and "I'm forever blowing bubbles"

[video=youtube;DNeoaoITnoE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNeoaoITnoE[/video]

doesn't help when some bimbo wannabe is hired to butcher the song. do it like the socceroos do for WC qualifiers where there is only the background music and people will actually sing it.

Dunno about you guys but I think we should adopt some stuff from the schoolboy level. They've been proven time and time again to work in an atmosphere that's loud and hard to start stuff up in (i.e. gps swimming at chandler) and not cringeworthy (these are teenage boys who tend to cringe at anything). Anyway I've got a few favourites from all the schools in QLD:


Churchie's all you see is blue and grey

Everyone links arms (see this video )
Movement left and right - All you see is Blue and Grey (change it to all you see is Green and Gold)
and replace churchie with Aussie

I personally think it looks fantastic and I don't go there so that's quite an endorsement

Then there is 'Here we are'
BBC normally does this one however a couple of other schools have stolen it - again because it's good.

A leader says these and the crowd yells it after each line

Here we are!
We're at it again!
We're moving up!
We're moving in!
We are the best!
The very Best!
The mighty ______ (im think aussies)
We'll move the rest!
( you can cut it at this point or at the end)
A
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AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE!

Some stuff like this would be great. There are numerous simple ones too, like

Green White Gold White Green White Gold (repeat).
Generally the simpler the better except if it is we are red in which case stfu

oh and here is some more and the general atmosphere at chandler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=RVEH17T956Y

i see your schoolboy chant and raise you a huddle