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  • iigrover
    Warming the Bench
    • Sep 2005
    • 245

    #46
    Originally posted by royboy42
    ....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.
    !
    Be careful what you wish for. Sweet Caroline is the next song in their playlist. ;-)

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    • aardvark
      Veterans List
      • Mar 2010
      • 5685

      #47
      Originally posted by barry
      Has this gone viral on Facebook yet. I can just picture the conservatives shaking their fists at the sky in rage.
      Could this be the cause of all the rain in Sydney perhaps?

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      • snajik
        Senior Player
        • Jan 2003
        • 1115

        #48
        Now that that's all sorted perhaps we could redirect our attention to the word 'loyal.' Seems to me that loyalty is an outdated notion in a 2021 landscape where list overhauls, leaving for more midfield minute opportunities in a developing side, seeking out a club in a premiership window, and post season phone calls from your agent detail just how non-binding your contract is, have set a new standard.
        Maybe along the lines of, 'While our agile Swans are marching.........
        It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play violin. That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.
        The Scarlatti Tilt - Richard Brautigan

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        • bloodspirit
          Clubman
          • Apr 2015
          • 4448

          #49
          Originally posted by snajik
          Now that that's all sorted perhaps we could redirect our attention to the word 'loyal.' Seems to me that loyalty is an outdated notion in a 2021 landscape where list overhauls, leaving for more midfield minute opportunities in a developing side, seeking out a club in a premiership window, and post season phone calls from your agent detail just how non-binding your contract is, have set a new standard.
          Maybe along the lines of, 'While our agile Swans are marching.........
          All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others. -Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)

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          • barry
            Veterans List
            • Jan 2003
            • 8499

            #50
            Originally posted by aardvark
            Could this be the cause of all the rain in Sydney perhaps?
            YLol. Can a man, a real man, just not eat his coon cheese, while reading green eggs and ham, and listen to the bloody footy on the wireless in peace !

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            • mcs
              Travelling Swannie!!
              • Jul 2007
              • 8174

              #51
              Originally posted by barry
              YLol. Can a man, a real man, just not eat his coon cheese, while reading green eggs and ham, and listen to the bloody footy on the wireless in peace !

              Ah Barry, there isn't often that we agree on many things, but you deserve a proper round of applause for that one!
              "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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              • aardvark
                Veterans List
                • Mar 2010
                • 5685

                #52
                Originally posted by barry
                YLol. Can a man, a real man, just not eat his coon cheese, while reading green eggs and ham, and listen to the bloody footy on the wireless in peace !
                Ah Barry you've done it again. One of the few on RWO these days I can still have a laugh with.

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                • Ruck'n'Roll
                  Ego alta, ergo ictus
                  • Nov 2003
                  • 3990

                  #53
                  Swans Womens football

                  WHAT WOULD GRANDMA SAY? "FOOTY" GIRLS IN ACTION

                  WOMEN TO PLAY FOOTIE
                  Last edited by Ruck'n'Roll; 20 March 2021, 06:39 AM.

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                  • MattW
                    Veterans List
                    • May 2011
                    • 4229

                    #54
                    Originally posted by 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!
                    Bloodspirit!! Nailed it, mate.

                    My first thought when I read about this is that they must have read Meg's lyric suggestion.

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                    • Sandridge
                      Outer wing, Lake Oval
                      • Apr 2010
                      • 2091

                      #55
                      I pay as little attention to the Western Bulldogs as possible so can anyone tell me if they, like us, have changed the words of their theme song so that it's relevant to both their men and women's teams ?

                      The first line of their song is/was "Sons of the West."

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                      • Bloods05
                        Senior Player
                        • Oct 2008
                        • 1641

                        #56
                        Originally posted by Sandridge
                        I pay as little attention to the Western Bulldogs as possible so can anyone tell me if they, like us, have changed the words of their theme song so that it's relevant to both their men and women's teams ?

                        The first line of their song is/was "Sons of the West."
                        Used to be "sons of the 'Scray".

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                        • Markwebbos
                          Veterans List
                          • Jul 2016
                          • 7186

                          #57
                          Originally posted by Sandridge
                          I pay as little attention to the Western Bulldogs as possible so can anyone tell me if they, like us, have changed the words of their theme song so that it's relevant to both their men and women's teams ?

                          The first line of their song is/was "Sons of the West."
                          Sons of Scott West?
                          How about
                          Throwers of the West?

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                          • barry
                            Veterans List
                            • Jan 2003
                            • 8499

                            #58
                            'scum of the west'.

                            Now, from what I've seen of bulldog supporters they are more misogynistic than the right faction of the liberal party.

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                            • aardvark
                              Veterans List
                              • Mar 2010
                              • 5685

                              #59
                              The Bulldog girls sing "Daughters of the west."

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                              • Sandridge
                                Outer wing, Lake Oval
                                • Apr 2010
                                • 2091

                                #60
                                Originally posted by aardvark
                                The Bulldog girls sing "Daughters of the west."
                                Thanks Aardvark!

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