GCB singalong

[LoughboroBlade]

Here's something that's been bugging me since Saturday - the use of the scoreboard at the start of each half to stick up the words of the GCB song, Disney singalong style. It is bad enough that we need a couple of bars of Annie's Song at the start of each half (we seem to manage surprisingly ok at away games, and at other points of home games). It feels like we are Americanising the Bramall Lane experience - I felt precisely the same in the playoffs last year when we introduced those god-awful clappers.

The background to the song words incidentally during the GCB rendition(sweeping still crowd shots behind the words), gives the whole thing a shitty Youtube feel to it...

 

[Bladesman]

If it stops people saying maggots rather than magnet then Im all for it being written up on screen.

 

[TonyAgana]

If it stops people saying maggots rather than magnet then Im all for it being written up on screen.

Why? Who says what are and aren't the right words?

I thought it was pretty pathetic until I saw that it was an advert for Abbey Friar. Then I thought it was horrendously pathetic. SUFC have effectively sold the song for advertising and I think it stinks.

 

[Guesty]

Whilst I agree with Bladesman's first point, I can't stand putting the words to songs up.

We used to deride the pigs for that, and rightly so.

 

[SwissBlade]

With you all the way on this one.

But hopefully i've done my bit for speaking up for the opinion of us lot.

I stayed a bit later than normal in the Lion after the match on Saturday and one of the fellas from the commercial department that I know came in with Tony Agana and the Match ball sponsors.

After a quick chat with Tony, I spoke with the fella from the commercial department and he asked what we thought about the lyrics being put on the screen. So I gave him the straight answer. If anyone needs to read the lyrics from the screen then theyre not a Blade. Anyone that I've ever taken to the game has had to learn the lyrics before the game.

He asked if it was patronising I said "Yes" and asked that they don't do it ever again.

Hopefully he'll listen (they tend to take this stuff on board) and we'll never see it again.

The argument for it was for the kids, but I pointed out that you can't see the screen from the Family stand anyway so its a waste of time.

I also said the Captain Blade Goal Graphic was shite too.

 

[TonyAgana]

Give him my details if they want some better graphics doing, SB

 

[Foxy]

Give him my details if they want some better graphics doing, SB

Don't forget to include the roadsign on the snide

 

[TonyAgana]

Don't forget to include the roadsign on the snide

Already planned!

 

[Linz]

The argument for it was for the kids, but I pointed out that you can't see the screen from the Family stand anyway so its a waste of time.

Should kids really know they're singing about eight pints of beer, fags and snorting baccy?

 

[Blade]

i too thought it was pathetic and it actually angered me that they have effectively sold of a fans chant as something that can be sponsored.

Maybe Pinchy could sponsor the words to the song about monty being a rapist.

 

[TonyAgana]

i too thought it was pathetic and it actually angered me that they have effectively sold of a fans chant as something that can be sponsored.

Maybe Pinchy could sponsor the words to the song about monty being a rapist.

I did wonder who could sponsor "My old man". Plusnet?

 

[SwissBlade]

Should kids really know they're singing about eight pints of beer, fags and snorting baccy?

No but they should know about eight pints of Maggots, fags and snorting baccy?

 

[SwissBlade]

i too thought it was pathetic and it actually angered me that they have effectively sold of a fans chant as something that can be sponsored.

Maybe Pinchy could sponsor the words to the song about monty being a rapist.

Its easily sorted, just boycott abbey friar

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Apart from what’s offered on the pitch I think that the playing of music after we score and the shitty couple of bars to GCB at the start of each half are a big influence on killing the atmosphere at The Lane. The stupid hand shakes at the start don’t help either.

 

[Linz]

The stupid hand shakes at the start don’t help either.

I dunno... Chris Morgan is the only player I've ever seen foul another before the game has kicked off.

The grimaces of the opposition players make the handshakes worth it for me

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

I dunno... Chris Morgan is the only player I've ever seen foul another before the game has kicked off.

The grimaces of the opposition players make the handshakes worth it for me

If a player went down gripping his hand in agony what would the ref do?
Red or yellow?

 

[WhiteHawk]

I was embarrassed when I saw this on Saturday

I also said the Captain Blade Goal Graphic was shite too.

And then I was even more embarrassed when they showed this on The Football League Show

 

[Jon Bon]

It feels like we are Americanising the Bramall Lane experience - I felt precisely the same in the playoffs last year when we introduced those god-awful clappers.

I didn't realise they'd had Dunc Disorderly and his cronies on the pitch before hand....

 

[Bladesman]

With you all the way on this one.

But hopefully i've done my bit for speaking up for the opinion of us lot.

I stayed a bit later than normal in the Lion after the match on Saturday and one of the fellas from the commercial department that I know came in with Tony Agana and the Match ball sponsors.

After a quick chat with Tony, I spoke with the fella from the commercial department and he asked what we thought about the lyrics being put on the screen. So I gave him the straight answer. If anyone needs to read the lyrics from the screen then theyre not a Blade. Anyone that I've ever taken to the game has had to learn the lyrics before the game.

He asked if it was patronising I said "Yes" and asked that they don't do it ever again.

Hopefully he'll listen (they tend to take this stuff on board) and we'll never see it again.

The argument for it was for the kids, but I pointed out that you can't see the screen from the Family stand anyway so its a waste of time.

I also said the Captain Blade Goal Graphic was shite too.

Im furthest away from the screen in the family stand and I can see that big crappy 2nd hand tv easy enough.

 

[DuncDisorderly]

I didn't realise they'd had Dunc Disorderly and his cronies on the pitch before hand....

Very nice of you to think about me JBB, but I'm afraid I won't be showing my cronies on the pitch, or anywhere else for that matter. The last little embarrassing visit to the magistrates was quite a sobering experience...

 

[shorehamview]

If anyone needs to read the lyrics from the screen then theyre not a Blade. Anyone that I've ever taken to the game has had to learn the lyrics before the game.

Couldn't have put it better. I can understand them having song cards at Old Trafford for all the visitors, but to have it on show at the Lane is totally needless. My daughter is word-perfect for this and most other United songs, because she has been correctly brain washed by me.

She even told her Mum off t'other day for daring to sing along to Annie's Song. "Everyone knows this is the Greasy Chip Butty Song Mummy!"

 

[mattbianco1]

Here's something that's been bugging me since Saturday - the use of the scoreboard at the start of each half to stick up the words of the GCB song, Disney singalong style. It is bad enough that we need a couple of bars of Annie's Song at the start of each half (we seem to manage surprisingly ok at away games, and at other points of home games).

Is there anyway that we could start a petition to stop the annie's song bars at the start of the game?

It's so annoying. Everybody knows the song (whether they sing magnet or maggots) and it's embarrassing. Especially when the pigs come. Why do we need a song to get us to start singing??

If anybody knows how to get this going we'll try and get loads signed up and put a stop to it!

Oh yeah, we need to change the goal music too as every single club in the league seems to use the Tom Hark tune now!

 

[DazBlade88]

Oh yeah, we need to change the goal music too as every single club in the league seems to use the Tom Hark tune now!

I think we need to get rid of goal music alltogether.

 

[mattbianco1]

I think we need to get rid of goal music alltogether.

Maybe so.

My gaffer is a Manure fan. season ticket holder. and he went to a Blades match a few weeks back with his mate and said he'd never heard such a "Dead atmosphere" after your team scores.

He said usual teams score, celebrate for ages and are singing songs when the game kicks off again.

At the blades we bang on this stupid music and then when that goes off everybody is silent cos they don't know what to do. If we got rid of it all together then we'd generate our own noise like we do at away matches and sing and dance and shout like lunatics. BUT because we're being promted to sing to a certain tune takes it all away.

PETITION NEEDED NOW!!!!!!

 

[Bladesway]

If it stops people saying maggots rather than magnet then Im all for it being written up on screen.

Its Maggots.

 

[raul]

Its magners.