Team Song - time to update?

[rojo]

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[Meg]

There are quite a few videos on YouTube of the University of Notre Dame band playing the Notre Dame Victory March including marching on the field before a match. I posted a link to one of these earlier in this thread.

I can see why this is such a hallowed and emotional tradition for Notre Dame supporters. Wouldn’t it be great if we could manage something similar (on a somewhat reduced scale) on the SCG before a home match. Perhaps some combined high school bands might be interested.

Would sure beat the raucous, unappealing game day ‘experience’ we usually have to endure.

An idea that at least could be considered when we once again threaten to play a home final - which will be sooner rather than later we hope.

[sharp9]

Here we go with the PC again !!!

Just let the girls either have their own song or alter the traditional words to suit them.

We waited 72 years to sing our song....dont mess with history

Here we go with the reactionary old right wing crap again...Heaven forbid people from trying to make things better, or fairer, or non-discriminatory!

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Would sure beat the raucous, unappealing game day ‘experience’ we usually have to endure.

So too would silence.
And "endure" is absolutely the right word for the game day 'experience'.
One of the more cherished parts of my game day experience is sharing the action with other attendees - at the moment this is generally only possible by means of sign language.

[KTigers]

So too would silence.
And "endure" is absolutely the right word for the game day 'experience'.
One of the more cherished parts of my game day experience is sharing the action with other attendees - at the moment this is generally only possible by means of sign language.

There is something particularly woeful about the acoustics at the SCG. It's not like there isn't a lot of "entertainment" at the other stadiums
but you can at least hold a conversation with the person sitting next to you. Whereas you can't at the SCG. It's not just sports at the SCG
that suffer. Anyone go to one of the U2 shows there in late 19?
I fear the game day "experience" is only going to become more pervasive as time goes on, and we'll all just become bit players in a three hour
long commercial.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

I fear the game day "experience" is only going to become more pervasive as time goes on, and we'll all just become bit players in a three hour
long commercial.

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine an adman stamping on a humans mind—for ever." - Scotty from Marketing?

[Mel_C]

I suggested on a Sydney Swans facebook site yesterday....for a change from "while the loyal sons are marching" to "while the loyal swans are marching" for the AFLW Swans Women's teams.

They listened to you MightyBloods. They have changed the line to "While our loyal Swans are marching, onwards to victory". There is an article on the swans app.

[mcs]

Very decent change and sensible - works well for mine.

Comes with the added bonus for the ability for something so trivial to absolutely stir the pot too..

[stevoswan]

They listened to you MightyBloods. They have changed the line to "While our loyal Swans are marching, onwards to victory". There is an article on the swans app.

Here's the club's spin on it. Good change.....sensible.

Our loyal Swans are marching - YouTube

[Sandridge]

Here's the club's spin on it. Good change.....sensible.

Our loyal Swans are marching - YouTube

I agree. After singing "loyal sons" for 60 years, I'm going to find it hard to make the alteration but it's worth the effort. We old South Melbourne Swans have coped with bigger changes than that!

[KSAS]

Agree Sandridge, will be hard to make the change at first for us old South supporters and do feel a tinge of sadness from a traditional perspective (song debuted in the year I was born). But if we did had a women's team back in 1961 i'm sure it would've debuted with this minor alteration, so I can fully understand where the club is coming from and going. Like you said, we've had to cop far bigger changes than this! Looking forward to when we do field a team in the AFLW.

[bloodspirit]

I think we on RWO can take some of, actually a fair bit of, the credit for this change.

Straight after starting this thread I wrote to Tom Harley directly drawing this issue to his attention. He responded promptly and with appreciation saying he had not considered the issue but would raise it with the Board. I don't know for sure what happened next, but I think the club has since read this thread and taken on board our feedback - I see the hand of MightyBloods (post #10) and Meg (post #25) in particular in the latest version of the team song that the club has arrived at. I think the version the club has gone with has taken the best of what we canvassed and blended it into an excellent, an unobtrusively minimalist, change. It makes the song more inclusive and paves the way for the women's and girls' teams to come. Smooth work Swans!

[KSAS]

Just heard Tom Harley on SEN say it be appeared so obvious when the Academy Girls teams had their first win, the wording needed to change from "Sons". It was raised at subsequent Board meeting who threw up various suggestions and landed on the "Swans" which made so much sense to them going forward as a club. They implemented the change quickly and without too much fanfare. No mention of RWO but I'm sure this board played a major part in giving club assurance to make this change promptly.

[barry]

Has this gone viral on Facebook yet. I can just picture the conservatives shaking their fists at the sky in rage.

[royboy42]

I'm all for the change.
But, I have to say that if you're ever on phone hold for the Swans, you'll wish for a different song...ANY song.
Cos the version they play over and over is not suited to a tinny phone speaker.
And I mean over and over!