Player Movements

[Bert]

Waverley oval??

How are the renovations going down at Bondi - been a few years now

Well the grandstand has been flattened, I would imagine it will take a while to build the new one. Dissapointing it was a beautiful old stand. But I guess old is the appropriate word.

[Seagull]

So it wasn't just us then, Pekay? When UTS bailed us up for singing in '09, I thought "What's the problem? We're a merged club, we've got two bloody songs, one for the field and one for the changerooms." I don't have a problem with it. I can tell you I heard enough victory songs by rival sides last year, that's football. It's a contact sport...get over it!

[Pekay]

So it wasn't just us then, Pekay? When UTS bailed us up for singing in '09, I thought "What's the problem? We're a merged club, we've got two bloody songs, one for the field and one for the changerooms." I don't have a problem with it. I can tell you I heard enough victory songs by rival sides last year, that's football. It's a contact sport...get over it!

Seems a case of size 12 feet and size 9 boots perhaps Gull? If that disguised analogy makes any sense. They'll hear their fair share of opposition songs now though, the more traditional clubs won't mind singing it out, especially the Dogs on their old turf, should they get up.

I reckon, you fight it out on the field, you get up, you sing when ya winnin, on the ground is fine.

[Teflon Coated]

Steady on......

Premier - Sydney Uni
Div 1 - Mac Uni**
Div 2 - Moorebank
Div 3 - Mac Uni**
Div 4 - Saints fc
Div 5 - Sutherland
Prem Cup - North Shore
Challenge Cup - Mac Uni**

** Subject to whether their new coach is the knob he seems on their website

Do tell mung puter?

[Mug Punter]

Do tell mung puter?

Wish I could reproduce his pre-season cliche-ridden "pep talk" it was hilarious but they have wisely deleted the "Message from Lindsay".

He certainly seems to come with a bit of baggage from Town and Manly but time will tell. The Kookas are a good club so good luck to 'em.....

[Teflon Coated]

Fair enough then, which club are you from?

[tellitlikeitis]

Seems a case of size 12 feet and size 9 boots perhaps Gull? If that disguised analogy makes any sense. They'll hear their fair share of opposition songs now though, the more traditional clubs won't mind singing it out, especially the Dogs on their old turf, should they get up.

I reckon, you fight it out on the field, you get up, you sing when ya winnin, on the ground is fine.

Singing the team song on the ground is hell lame hey. Should only be reserved for grand final wins.
Sure you might wanna rub the oppositions face in it but at the end of the day you got the four points which hurts more anyway. Shows a distinct lack of respect.

Only thing more lame than singing the song on the ground is arrogance in not singing the song at all until the grand final like Essendon in 2000. That was hell lame, lucky they won it though.

[tara]

Singing the team song on the ground is hell lame hey. Should only be reserved for grand final wins.
Sure you might wanna rub the oppositions face in it but at the end of the day you got the four points which hurts more anyway. Shows a distinct lack of respect.

Only thing more lame than singing the song on the ground is arrogance in not singing the song at all until the grand final like Essendon in 2000. That was hell lame, lucky they won it though.

Mate alot of clubs in Sydney sing the song on the ground mine included and its not meant to disrepect other teams.

[tellitlikeitis]

Mate alot of clubs in Sydney sing the song on the ground mine included and its not meant to disrepect other teams.

Understandable mate, but surely people can see how it could be percieved as disrespectful.

[tara]

Understandable mate, but surely people can see how it could be percieved as disrespectful.

I can but in 20 years of being involved up here last year was the first time I ever encountered anyone who had problem with it and to be honest Ive seen and heard a lot more things said an done by opposition that I find far more disrepectful.

[Mug Punter]

I can but in 20 years of being involved up here last year was the first time I ever encountered anyone who had problem with it and to be honest Ive seen and heard a lot more things said an done by opposition that I find far more disrepectful.

Excuse my ignorance but is there a club in Sydney that has a problem with the opposition sides singing their song on the ground after the game if they win? Which one?

The most precious ridiculous thing I have ever heard if someone has a problem with it.....

[Norris Lurker]

It's not something that's done very often. Some clubs do it if they've won all three grades away - an increasingly rare event in the divisional structure, where clubs are more often than not having their away games at different grounds.
Other than that, it's usually if another club is in their rooms after the final siren. For example at a game at Olds Park I did a report at last year, Holroyd-Parramatta sang their song on the ground after beating St George's reserves; but that was because North Shore's seniors were still in the away rooms well after the final siren in the Second Division game.
If it's your own club that's playing in the next game you'd stand at the gate and form a guard of honour for the next grade and then when they've run out you'd go into the rooms and sing the song. But if your club's not playing in the next game and your room isn't yet available, I don't see that there's a problem with singing the song on the ground.

[Pekay]

Excuse my ignorance but is there a club in Sydney that has a problem with the opposition sides singing their song on the ground after the game if they win? Which one?

The most precious ridiculous thing I have ever heard if someone has a problem with it.....

We sang it loud n proud at Trumper at the tail end of 09, granted it was our 1s v their 3s, but you can only play the cattle in front of you. Thainy, in all his worldly wisdom, pulled me aside and said 'you can't do that, it's disrespectful' to which I told him this isn't Adelaide, go forth and multiply. Seems Gull has had a similar problem.

Norris, you make a good point, but we've probably evened up our win/loss ratio in recent years, but even at my 1st senior game @ Baulko, I can remember Shore singing theirs on Chas Mac in the wet, maybe coz the rooms has the Seniors in it at the time. There is no hard n fast rule, it ain't 'hella lame' as our new friend thinks, its footy, deal with it.

[Hard Times]

No, it's lame.

[beameup]

It is basically poor form. Save it for the grandfinal then let it rip. If you don't make the grandfinal then go back to the sheds where it should be sung