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It was quite bad wasn't it. I am all for us rubbing their noses in that result until the end of time but releasing an actual record is a step too far.
 
Did anyone on here actually like it?

Just awful and embarrassing.

On a similar vein, I understand that Mrs Brown's Boys was the most popular program on Christmas Day. I haven't ever met anyone who likes that fetid faecal dribble - can anyone explain why they would watch it?
 
Two recent away days where there was decent half time entertainment that got the crowd's attention : At Millwall, a relay race along the touchline round the pitch Millwall kids v United kids. At Villa a contest on the pitch where they had to unwrap a Christmas present, get the football out, dribble round some cones and put the ball in the net as fast as possible.
I enjoyed it anyway!
 
Deadly_D'Jaffo said:
Gary Sinclair doing his best David Brent impression by playing that awful Bouncing Day song and describing it as 'Genius' as he, and he alone, is the only one in the ground who finds it humorous.

Cringin'ell fire.

Please make it stop.
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I'm afraid my thoughts on Gauche Gaz are generally pretty unpopular on here, so I'll refrain this time around, other than to say that these days I increasingly arrive quite late in my seat, and often feel driven up to the concourse at HT, solely to get away from him bellowing inanities in my ear or blasting out his rubbish music at conversation-killing volume.

Agree wholeheartedly with Deadly_D'Jaffo. I can't work out what the presumed audience for that song actually is. Is it aimed at music fans who don't really like music, or football fans who don't really like football ? Or both ? It may be a few bob to a good cause, but I'll humbly suggest that an old school sponsored walk or a boot sale would be less damaging to the cultural fabric.
 
in gary defence it sounded like a paid plug for the song at half time so he was doing his best. but a soon as he said what he was going to do. i was cringing before it had started
 
Rubbish for a big Boxing Day crowd.

I remember the days when they used to parade cars round the pitch from Towngate Motors (tip-toe, down to Towngate....) at half time.

Now THAT was entertainment - watching cars drive very slowly indeed.....
Even that though was better than that flaming song they played twice (twice?!?!) yesterday.

We can do better than that. How about we share some more ideas on here.....
- Musical pitch watering fountains?
- A huge ‘pin the tail on the pig’?
- Sing-a-long-a-Def-Leppard?
- Bingo?
 
Tyler Durden said:
Got a lot of time for Gary Sinclair. A refreshing change from the complete dullards at pretty much every other ground.

I don't give a toss about half time entertainment anyway.
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After ;listening to the "away" announcers over the years, I can confirm that Gary Sinclair is miles better than the vast majority of them. I think the only decent one was at Old Trafford, in the cup game.
 
Tyler Durden said:
Got a lot of time for Gary Sinclair. A refreshing change from the complete dullards at pretty much every other ground.

I don't give a toss about half time entertainment anyway.
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He's better than most like you say. 1000% better than that stand in we have when he's away. But he's just cringey, like a Peter Kay character "the louder you scream, the faster the ride"...

It's like when he refuses to say "Wednesday". Some people may not have known who Forest were playing yesterday and would've liked to have known that It was 2 nil also. However he just goes "Forest are losing".
 
mattbianco1 said:
It's like when he refuses to say "Wednesday". Some people may not have known who Forest were playing yesterday and would've liked to have known that It was 2 nil also. However he just goes "Forest are losing".
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Possibly only the Sunderland fans and most of them have phones anyway so would know the score.
 



Gary might be a top bloke and a top blade but now and again he gets something in his head which only himself and a select few think is good like Tom fucking Hark and such shit. Can't say I have heard the latest shite offering that has got inside his head but I'm pretty sure Gary will go into overkill mode and play it at every opportunity like he did with Tom Hark and like he does now with the John Denver intro.
Please if you are a mate of his have a word in his ear or if you have a white van kidnap the twat and abandon him on Saddleworth Moor.
 
I was so much enjoying the conversation with my fellow supporters at halftime that this apparent abomination completely passed me by.

My favourite halftime entertainments have been:

Millwall away, the Paddy and Muscat game. There was a penalty shootout between Millwall kids and United kids. One Junior Blade in particular warmed our hearts as every time he netted he was going up to the Millwall fans and giving it the cupped ear. We were enjoying it so much nobody noticed halftime had gone on for nearly 25 minutes whilst the ref dished red cards out below deck.

Colchester away several years ago. All the local mascots had a race around the pitch. The skittle from the bowling alley could barely move and was still negotiating his first bend when the players came out for the second half.

The halftime entertainment at Peterborough last season with that fucking skip is still going on in some parallel universe.
 
Bring the Bladettes back!

Oh, wait...no.
 
Don't have any issues as such with GS apart from him occasionally appearing to act above his station.

Did wonder yesterday though why he built up his announcement of the crowd figure in light of our opponents.

Yeah it was a good crowd for us but considering their crowd figures of recent times it was always going to get ironic cheers from the away end.

Maybe it's just me but I'd have read it out quite blase.
 
It’s cringeworthy and embarrassing. We should do something more entertaining at half time. I also don’t think we need the Intro to Annie’s song playing to get us going.. we manage it away from home and it always sounds amazing.
 
GodricBlade said:
Rubbish for a big Boxing Day crowd.

I remember the days when they used to parade cars round the pitch from Towngate Motors (tip-toe, down to Towngate....) at half time.

Now THAT was entertainment - watching cars drive very slowly indeed.....
Even that though was better than that flaming song they played twice (twice?!?!) yesterday.

We can do better than that. How about we share some more ideas on here.....
- Musical pitch watering fountains?
- A huge ‘pin the tail on the pig’?
- Sing-a-long-a-Def-Leppard?
- Bingo?
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Or how about they just shut the fuck up and let people chat to others they only see on match days?
 
Deadly_D'Jaffo said:
Gary Sinclair doing his best David Brent impression by playing that awful Bouncing Day song and describing it as 'Genius' as he, and he alone, is the only one in the ground who finds it humorous.

Cringin'ell fire.

Please make it stop.
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Gary Sinclair is a complete tosser IMO. He's like a referee who thinks everyone's turned up to watch (listen) to him. He calls the players nicknames like he's their best mate and uses his advantageous position to promote his outdated bar Maggie Mays (no doubt for free). That bouncing day song was fucking awful and I'm struggling to understand why the club are trying to emphasize it so much ahead of a game where our fortunes could easily be diminished and stuff like that just adds to the embarrassment.
 
The 3 things I hope for from the 12th January.

1) We do the double over the fuckers.

2) Gary doesn't play that fucking pig song in the build up to kick off.

3) Gary doesn't play that fucking bouncing song.

I think only number 1 is likely to happen.
 
Oh and Sinclair is a bit of a cock end at times but he's better than some. Though he had a reyt cold yesterday - I'd have kept him off the pitch away from the players!

FWIW:

The worst announcer - that Lancastrian prick at Burnley who does the window 'you buy one you get one free' advert.

The best announcer - always liked the one at Anfield who sounds a bit like Ringo Starr narrating Thomas the Tank Engine.
 
Greenwich Blade said:
I was so much enjoying the conversation with my fellow supporters at halftime that this apparent abomination completely passed me by.

My favourite halftime entertainments have been:

Millwall away, the Paddy and Muscat game. There was a penalty shootout between Millwall kids and United kids. One Junior Blade in particular warmed our hearts as every time he netted he was going up to the Millwall fans and giving it the cupped ear. We were enjoying it so much nobody noticed halftime had gone on for nearly 25 minutes whilst the ref dished red cards out below deck.

Colchester away several years ago. All the local mascots had a race around the pitch. The skittle from the bowling alley could barely move and was still negotiating his first bend when the players came out for the second half.

The halftime entertainment at Peterborough last season with that fucking skip is still going on in some parallel universe.
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Quick mention for Burnley away, where kids took turns chipping balls into a hole cut out of the middle of a massive pie.

grafikhaus said:
Or how about they just shut the fuck up and let people chat to others they only see on match days?
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This ^^^^^^^

He may be "better" than other announcers, but then again Chris Porter was better than many other strikers.

Most of what he announces is completely unnecessary, and a fair amount of it already makes me cringe, without the bloody Wilder Bunch or whatever they are called. Why do we need announcers ?? Never used to.
 



Anyone who was at Peterborough away last season, their announcer was third rate, and they couldn't get their act together with the "entertainment". They couldn't find the miniature goal for letting little kids have a penalty shoot out, so instead, two adults had a go at chipping a football into a wheelbarrow, or something like that. When they finally found the goal, and were carrying it onto the pitch, the players started coming back onto the field, so they had to take the little goal straight back off.

It was so bad, it was good!
 
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