Let's Get LOUD aka the match day experience thread (split thread)

[Thunder Shaker]

If the SCG Trust want to improve the home ground advantage, consider that the Swans played the same song after every goal in 1987. Hearing this song 36 times in a game gave Kevin Sheedy nightmares.

[dejavoodoo44]

Anyone who has been to an NBA game in recent years will have seen what a day at the footy will look and sound like in the future.
This "fan engagement" thing is yet another US import and it's not pretty. Watch the membership fees go up every year as we'll be
expected to pay extra for this "enhanced game day experience".

I wonder what percentage of Australian marketing innovations, over the years, have actually been straight lifts of American hype?

[longmile]

I know, it's such a bull@@@@ concept, isn't it. Do they really think that opposition players, will somehow be put off their game, by hearing twenty seconds of Australian Crawl? When actually, if you consider the demographics involved, the reaction is more likely to be, "yeah, whatever, boomer".

Just for context, I'm probably one of the more outspoken on this issue in this thread and I'm in my mid to late 20s. I don't think its anything to do with age, it's more to do with people who go to the game for the sport and the natural atmosphere v people who go to the game for an 'entertainment experience'.

However I'd have to question if anyone found Saturdays 'entertainment' as entertaining. Does anyone think corporate sponsors yelling at you while baby shark is blaring over the speakers is a good time?

[Captain]

I got the same BS response from an Anita in the membership department.

Good to see they don’t give a stuff about members and are happy to turn people away.

[dejavoodoo44]

Just for context, I'm probably one of the more outspoken on this issue in this thread and I'm in my mid to late 20s. I don't think its anything to do with age, it's more to do with people who go to the game for the sport and the natural atmosphere v people who go to the game for an 'entertainment experience'.

However I'd have to question if anyone found Saturdays 'entertainment' as entertaining. Does anyone think corporate sponsors yelling at you while baby shark is blaring over the speakers is a good time?

Yeah, I suppose I'm making the mistake of judging musical taste by generation. But I fit into the boomer category, and I find Australian Crawl pretty lame, so I was assuming that many players, who are under thirty, would find playing their song, Errol, even lamer. I certainly don't think it would give our players "an extra edge".

Unless they think our players are so shallow, that they will try harder, just to hear 20 seconds of their personalised song. I doubt that anyone in the football department actually thinks that. More somebody in the marketing department trying to justify themselves.

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Just for context, I'm probably one of the more outspoken on this issue in this thread and I'm in my mid to late 20s. I don't think its anything to do with age, it's more to do with people who go to the game for the sport and the natural atmosphere v people who go to the game for an 'entertainment experience'.

However I'd have to question if anyone found Saturdays 'entertainment' as entertaining. Does anyone think corporate sponsors yelling at you while baby shark is blaring over the speakers is a good time?

Hopefully, Baby Shark, is not a player selection?

[KTigers]

Just for context, I'm probably one of the more outspoken on this issue in this thread and I'm in my mid to late 20s. I don't think its anything to do with age, it's more to do with people who go to the game for the sport and the natural atmosphere v people who go to the game for an 'entertainment experience'.

However I'd have to question if anyone found Saturdays 'entertainment' as entertaining. Does anyone think corporate sponsors yelling at you while baby shark is blaring over the speakers is a good time?

There is an expression for those people. It's theatre goers. They attend "events". They go to see EPL teams play exhibition games at ANZ,
they went to the Adele concert, they clog up the harbour foreshore on NYE to see the pretty colours of the fireworks, they have tickets for
"Hamilton" and a booking for that new Peruvian-Thai fusion restaurant in Surry Hills. If it's new and bright and shiny, it's for them. They've
heard of "Buddy", but don't know his surname. And they couldn't tell Luke Parker from Clive Palmer. They are the target audience of the Fan
Engagement Dept. At best they'll buy a three game membership and get bored and wander off looking for something else shiny sometime
during the third quarter of game 2. And meanwhile we (and our hearing) have to pay for the clubs quest to "engage" with them.

[bodgie]

KTigers:'If the SCG Trust want to improve the home ground advantage, consider that the Swans played the same song after every goal in 1987. Hearing this song 36 times in a game gave Kevin Sheedy nightmares.'

That ridiculous racket in 1987 stopped me going to the football back then too! Three goals in a row was a nightmare of 'Yay Sydney, Yay Sydney' from an old school wall of speakers, and the dancing girls.

[Mel]

Did anybody get the email survey about the game from the AFL? I kept getting kicked out of it so I was hoping that there were 10 000 other Swans fans complaining about the stupid new 'entertainment'

There is an expression for those people. It's theatre goers. They attend "events". They go to see EPL teams play exhibition games at ANZ,
they went to the Adele concert, they clog up the harbour foreshore on NYE to see the pretty colours of the fireworks, they have tickets for
"Hamilton". If it's new and bright and shiny, it's for them. They've heard of "Buddy", but don't know his surname. And they couldn't tell Luke
Parker from Clive Palmer. They are the target audience of the Fan Engagement Dept. And we (and our hearing) have to pay for the clubs
quest to "engage" with them.

As a footy-loving Swans fan who is counting down the days until I can see Hamilton as I sit here listening to the soundtrack yet again, I take offense to your statement!!!!

[Mauzza]

Did anybody get the email survey about the game from the AFL? I kept getting kicked out of it so I was hoping that there were 10 000 other Swans fans complaining about the stupid new 'entertainment'



As a footy-loving Swans fan who is counting down the days until I can see Hamilton as I sit here listening to the soundtrack yet again, I take offense to your statement!!!!

No I didn't get a survey - though in my reply to the Swans I asked if they had surveyed the members on playing music between goals.

[TheBloods]

Surprise surprise i dont agree with you lot about the music. It annoyed me but if you think we have it tough having to put up with 30 seconds of blaring music while going to footy games you should spare a thought for those in the Northern hemisphere who havent been to a sporting event in over a year !

One thing i agree with is the individualised songs for each player. Wtf? Doesnt make any sense and i didnt even notice that is what the SCG was going for with the exception of Errol Gulden. What song is gonna play if Kennedy kicks a goal ? The US national anthem ?? Stupid.

[Ludwig]

First there's the 'fan engagement'.
After the engagement comes the marriage
After the marriage comes the consummation of marriage
I think we all know what that means.
We're gonna get ........................

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Yeah, I suppose I'm making the mistake of judging musical taste by generation. But I fit into the boomer category, and I find Australian Crawl pretty lame, so I was assuming that many players, who are under thirty, would find playing their song, Errol, even lamer. I certainly don't think it would give our players "an extra edge".

Unless they think our players are so shallow, that they will try harder, just to hear 20 seconds of their personalised song. I doubt that anyone in the football department actually thinks that. More somebody in the marketing department trying to justify themselves.

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Hopefully, Baby Shark, is not a player selection?

Baby Swans do do do do do do!


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[barry]

What song is gonna play if Kennedy kicks a goal ? The US national anthem ??

Songs not to play after someone kicks a goal:
Kennedy: "Glad I'm not a Kennedy" by Shona Lang

[Thunder Shaker]

KTigers:'If the SCG Trust want to improve the home ground advantage, consider that the Swans played the same song after every goal in 1987. Hearing this song 36 times in a game gave Kevin Sheedy nightmares.'

That ridiculous racket in 1987 stopped me going to the football back then too! Three goals in a row was a nightmare of 'Yay Sydney, Yay Sydney' from an old school wall of speakers, and the dancing girls.

It was a great way of inducing PTSD in a particular opposition coach.

Personally, I don't think we really need any of that. A replay of the goal on the big scoreboard is good enough.

[dejavoodoo44]

Surprise surprise i dont agree with you lot about the music. It annoyed me but if you think we have it tough having to put up with 30 seconds of blaring music while going to footy games you should spare a thought for those in the Northern hemisphere who havent been to a sporting event in over a year !
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By that logic: if somebody kicked you in the nuts, you should just be thankful that you weren't being shot at?