Drums, goal music, call and response, half time BIRD SHOW.
The debate ends with the above 4 facts. Plastic, soulless, MLS club.
I've had a THINK, and here is my suggestion:
As the team runs out FIRST half: PA plays the intro, then fades. Words up on the screens.
SECOND half: PA plays intro, then fades. No words on screens.
When we reach the point where the second half version (without the words up) is sung as well as the first, then we'll know that everybody who wants to learn them has done so, and we can stop putting them up at all.
Sorted.
Next.
How hard is it to sing "I wanna be *clap* *clap* glad all over" or YNWA come to that - if people are worried it will give the away fans a giggle then put it on the South screen and not the north then the away fans might not notice. Have you ever listened to how many sing SBTS Ner Ner Ner Ner andweregoinguptowinthecupforsusbytsea
Something needs to happen
But not everybody DOES know the words, except to the chorus. I'd rather the words were up and 15,000 voices joined in, then they were not, and 7,000 mumble along, going der der der der der.
Other clubs DO put them up, as well. Derby did for the play off game, and sounded brilliant. Are they the laughing stock of British football because they do so?
I've had a THINK, and here is my suggestion:
As the team runs out FIRST half: PA plays the intro, then fades. Words up on the screens.
SECOND half: PA plays intro, then fades. No words on screens.
When we reach the point where the second half version (without the words up) is sung as well as the first, then we'll know that everybody who wants to learn them has done so, and we can stop putting them up at all.
Sorted.
Next.
Quite I think that game has been tainted with the way a certain manager approached the game I personally thought the buzz before that game was superb and the opera singer was brilliant - our humiliation that day was NOTHING to do with the fans or the clackers
Derby havent got previous for rather awful ideas.....Nicking ideas from other clubs is pretty tinpot too, especially this.
We need a better way to go about it. Cutting the music out is one of them, though our fanbase do have the ability to speed any song up to 200mph....
Totally agree, how do we vote against if you are an old git that does not know how to use Twitter. I don't care what Palace fans think, although not a lot skill involved to remember the words to 'Glad all over' but it is a truly awful idea, we are a football team playing in a football stadium not a bloody Karaoke bar. Sometimes think the PR of our club needs some attention. We will be asking next if we want goal music and a lone seagull display swooping over the ground before the game.[/QUOTE]
That would be brilliant. We could disguise a US drone maybe?
In this case we better tear down the training ground and head back to Withers seeing as that is the result of cherry-picking the best ideas from around the country...bloody tinpot, unoriginal Brighton.
In fairness, it was Barcelona's idea first under Johan Cruyff. The whole training ground the same as the 1st team pitch and getting the 2nd team to play the same way as the 1st.
How Tinpot copying them.
I think he learned that from Ajax.
This is the way to go. And if anyone thinks it's 'tinpot' maybe they can explain how going der, der, de der because you don't know the words is less 'tinpot' ?
It hasn't been done before.
Except to put "Seagulls, Seagulls" up, which was plain stupid.
Fading the music down after the intro seems the way to go, so people take over and sing. Putting the words up to assist younger fans who don't know them seems sensible. If they offend anyone, don't look at them.
If anyone is worried that the away fans might think it 'cringeworthy', get over it. I suspect they'll actually be impressed with the noise we'll make.
If its some Palace fans on twitter, posting a few lol smilies, about it that is bothering you, maybe you need to get a life.
Far too many precious people, get embarrassed about far too many pointless things, IMO, like.
Absolutely.
I'd personally be more embarrassed if I spent my time scouring Twitter for news related to a club I don't support. Ditto with going on to their forums. It is beyond pathetic.