Chant

[Schneidergirl]

Just want to let you all know that we (being my family and I) were sitting half way between the cheersquad (you guys were great last night) and the players entry.

My sister and I were clapping, as usual, until our hands are blood red and shaking uncontrollable. We were the last ones chanting and singing in our area. We ALWAYS get funny looks, because of the way we carry on.

But as I once said to a very prim and proper woman sitting a row infront of us at the SCG once (who said to my father "Settle down!"- because he was barracking) "What do you expect? You're at a football game, not in a library"

I don't think you could have asked for a better crowd atmosphere last night.

[Bear]

Re: Chant

Originally posted by Craig
What's the story with that ridiculous chant of SYDNEY then about 10 claps then another SYDNEY and so on??

It is the most boring chant I have ever heard and is better suited to a game of lawn bowls. Made no difference to the atmosphere and never came close to firing the crowd up.

Disagree. I thought it was good and is worth persisting with.

Good on them for having a go!

[motorace_182]

Any noise is better than no noise, but hopefully the 'newcomers' can learn the SSSYYYYYYDDDDNNNNNEEEEEYYYYYY Chant at the SCG

[jude_boltons_babe]

i was screaming my lungs out

my throat is really sore because i was screaming so loud in the cheersquad

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Re: Chant

Originally posted by Craig
What's the story with that ridiculous chant of SYDNEY then about 10 claps then another SYDNEY and so on??

It is the most boring chant I have ever heard and is better suited to a game of lawn bowls. Made no difference to the atmosphere and never came close to firing the crowd up.

Hey mam, I take offence to that. Like what is wrong with getting the drum to get everyone going?! At one stage even the main stand was doing it after I had started it up. The accoustics are excellent now behind the goals because of the new upstairs area.

I'd love to get some more elaborate songs and chants going. But when you have people whining about "!! !!! !!!! SYDNEY!", what hope have we got of getting anything original and distinctive going around the ground. (To me it is indicative as to how little concept the average Australian has about creative and imaginative singing and chanting.)

I reckon the atmosphere was totally epic on Saturday- chants being started up all over the ground, a loud and highly visible Cheer Squad, and deafening roars when the goals started flowing in the 3rd term.

I'm now a fully-fledged fan on Stadium Australia.

JF

[Mel_C]

I was sitting in that stand behind the goals that was behind the cheer squad. I was second row and the noise was amazing. All the people in the stand were cheering and chanting. It was my first time at Telstra Stadium because I am from Melb. From posts I had read on here I thought that the crowd would be quiet but everyone seemed to join in from where I was.

I have never been to a game with such an atmosphere. I had goosebumps when the players ran out. I have never been so feral either!!

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by Bron
I mean some of the "old timers" paying out on people who don't know the song or the chants .... we all got started somewhere. Let's be inclusive for our new members, we need them and the more we have, the better for the Club.

I'm not paying out on that. I'm paying on on people that go to a match dressed in a Swans scarf and guernsey and look at us as we try and get the chants going as if we were some kind of freak disturbing their peace and quiet.

Hey, you don't have to be a knowledge supporter to chant "Sydney!!! Sydney!!!".

As seen in the Singing/chanting thread, there is a core of people keen on improving things. In Melbourne we are pretty much there already, and have opened several people's eyes to different ways of doing things.

In Sydney there are several who bust their guts. But as has been said, 10 people out of 71000 does not a cauldron make.

Seriously though, as Diego mentioned in the other post, the problems lies in the fact unlike other clubs we have no "grog squad". At Richmond/Essendon/Collingwood/Port Adelaide matches the Cheer Squads are down the front. But then behind then stand the older Grog Squads, who tend to be more mature and bawdy.

Our crowds are very white-collar and family oriented. Whether we want drunks yelling obscenities standing behind the Cheer Squad is another thing entirely. We are there to make NOISE for our team first and foremost.

JF

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by swansrock4eva
On the whole the crowd was its usual self - great when there was something to chant about, pathetic when the chips were down.

Gotta love life in Australia's answer to Los Angeles.

This week apart from Goodesy's Brownlow, it is as if AFL didn't exist in Sydney all of a sudden. There were people talking about the NRL on the train home from Homebush. I growled at them.

Admittedly I'm not my usual self this year about the GF. Cheering for Brisbane will be through gritted teeth, and mainly out of my hatred for Collingwood.

I have to kick myself to think that this time last week I was all worried about Grand Final tickets etc etc.

It seems as if that was merely a dream. And that I have woken up, with life going back to reality this week.

JF

[peterh_oz]

Originally posted by Swansinger
I know how Pete must feel - I shouted my chords dry last night,supplementing it with maniacal fist pumping , with little support.

The "demographic" of the section is an issue :a few young kids , old ladies and FWF's will not mke much noise.
But if any of the "regulars" were quiet - especially when we were shaky - shame on them.

Biggest problem was that the people near me didn't know who i was. And I don't say that in a "I love myself" way. I just mean, they probably sat there as "who's this bloody idiot yelling to the crowd all the time". Maybe first-timers, maybe "members stand" - many seemed from other areas of the scg.

To be honest, where I sit @ Telstra is BLOODY AWFUL for chants. I need to get around to centre wing. Hoping for a seat-swap over sumer but ONLY for TS and unfortunately there's 12 of us to move BAH!

[peterh_oz]

Re: Re: Chant

Originally posted by Craig
What's the story with that ridiculous chant of SYDNEY then about 10 claps then another SYDNEY and so on??

It is the most boring chant I have ever heard and is better suited to a game of lawn bowls. Made no difference to the atmosphere and never came close to firing the crowd up.

No I disagree. It is simple, which it needs to be to circumnavigate a ground. And it gets everyone involved. The Eastern stand started it themselves acoupla times.

Tip for JUlian on drum tho - the bigger the ground, the longer for the sound to carry from one end to another. Hence you need to:

1. Slow the pace down slightly so even with sound-lag we stay in time
2. Not stop so quickly on the drum - it seems to stop just as the other end get involved. Go longer with it - like the other 2-3 chants we all do, it CAN be done during many (tho not all) acts of play.

However - ANY singing with verses & a chorus will NOT work in footy - there's too few long "dead"patches (unlike soccer where the ball can float around for 10mins without anything really happening).