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@Mccarry said:
Love this thread!

I can't comment on the song choice beyond if we choose one or two songs that other major international teams then people could learn it from you tube. Someone would just need to reword it.

I would put $500 bucks on a bar tab at a central spot if we could get enough people into one spot in pre season to have a few beers and then get singing. I reckon the pub would match it.

Suggest inner west on one of the nights of the Auckland 9s.
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So my offer
1\. Someone musically minded short list a few options with you tube links. A couple starting points above
2\. Surely some one on here knows a word smith. That mate that just has a way with words. Some one in the jingle business.
3\. Someone find a Tiges friendly pub and see if they will match my $500.
4\. We get AJ on board, and figure out some x players to come along to lead it
5\. 200 of us meet up have a free beer or two, then a few more to help loosen up our vocals

We would need 200 members I reckon to make a start.
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Thats a great idea :slight_smile: thanks for the input and i wish i could have a few drinks with other passionate tigers fan but im only 16
 
Not YNWA. Firstly, it is so synonymous with Liverpool, and secondly, Gerry and the Pacemakers were from Liverpool.
Chants, universal songs yes, but not YNWA…
 
I love this idea. It's never been a huge part of aussie sporting culture, songs and chants but I'd love that to change.
Would be great for the team, club and supporters alike.
 
Who are we?

We're western sydney!

Where are we?

Here when you need me!

What are we?

The mighty wests tigers!

Etc etc.
 
To the tune of "Land Down Under"

We are the mighty Wests Tigers,
We've got western sydney behind us,
Can you hear can you hear the thunder,
You better run, you better take cover!

I'm trying here! Lol.
 
Maybe when a player hits the ball up we all scream their nickname in unison

Dunno if Watto is old enough to remember this , but Norths in Brisbane had a bloke by the name of Campbell Dews

His nickname was Zulu and he was a hard running prop

Every time he touched the ball the Norths supporters screamed ZULU

Pretty bloody effective , got the crowd involved and pumped Zulu up as well
 
@happy tiger said:
Maybe when a player hits the ball up we all scream their nickname in unison

Dunno if Watto is old enough to remember this , but Norths in Brisbane had a bloke by the name of Campbell Dews

His nickname was Zulu and he was a hard running prop

Every time he touched the ball the Norths supporters screamed ZULU

Pretty bloody effective , got the crowd involved and pumped Zulu up as well
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Yeah i'm way to young to remember that but it's also good idead it's a simple chant everyone can do,imagine how big keith or woodsy would feel after hearing the crowd cheering for them
 
@turnstyle said:
Not YNWA. Firstly, it is so synonymous with Liverpool, and secondly, Gerry and the Pacemakers were from Liverpool.
Chants, universal songs yes, but not YNWA…
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Im an LFC fan aswell so i love the song but you're right when i hear YNWA all i think of is LFC, i don't think it would the tigers or the nrl
 
Barnesy is a Tigers fan, surely a Cold Chisel song or one of his solo songs would be more apt?

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remember the songs don't need to be about the team if one player scores a try, makes a good tackle, line break or just having a great game then we can sing songs that are just about that player or if the refs are wankers we'll let them know

Also these songs can also just be beats and claps like the wanderers do not all of them need to have lyrics :slight_smile:
 
I'm not a fan of it at all. It's a part of English sporting culture not Australian. I don't know that it would ever take off over here, nor suit the atmosphere of a rugby league game. We'd be stealing chants off soccer teams that have no real meaning or connection to the Wests Tigers.
Finally the crowds at Rugby League games are not big enough to create the desired effect, Having a group of say 30 chanting stolen soccer songs that have been terribly adapted to match the names of our players, sounds a bit rubbish to me mate.
 
@Fraze23 said:
I'm not a fan of it at all. It's a part of English sporting culture not Australian. I don't know that it would ever take off over here, nor suit the atmosphere of a rugby league game. We'd be stealing chants off soccer teams that have no real meaning or connection to the Wests Tigers.
Finally the crowds at Rugby League games are not big enough to create the desired effect, Having a group of say 30 chanting stolen soccer songs that have been terribly adapted to match the names of our players, sounds a bit rubbish to me mate.
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You're right there. Australian sporting culture usually involves yelling obscenities from 50 paces at your team, the opposition and any match official in sight.

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@Fraze23 said:
I'm not a fan of it at all. It's a part of English sporting culture not Australian. I don't know that it would ever take off over here, nor suit the atmosphere of a rugby league game. We'd be stealing chants off soccer teams that have no real meaning or connection to the Wests Tigers.
Finally the crowds at Rugby League games are not big enough to create the desired effect, Having a group of say 30 chanting stolen soccer songs that have been terribly adapted to match the names of our players, sounds a bit rubbish to me mate.
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Yes singing for our sports club is foreign to Australia but thats why i feel we need to introduce because it creates an atmosphere like no other,it gets the team motivated to do there best and win so they can please there loyal passionate fans

Also singing in Rugby league games is not at all a new idea, it's been going on for decades in the super league and even with a crowd of only 10,000 the atmosphere at most of the games is great. In the NRL other clubs are starting there own active bay such as "the burrow", the "chook pen" and the "bulldogs army" and not all of their chants are stolen they can create there own songs too, i just feel if we are to get this idea started we would have to customise some other well known sporting songs as for the low numbers of people singing ofcourse in the first couple of years it would be small but when people hear other people singing or chanting and they really want the team spirits to lift they'll join in to
 
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…...do you rememeber - nothing stopped us on the field, in our daaaaaaaaaaay.....

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The thing with a lot of the English stadiums, which makes this work, is that a lot of them are small, rectangular stadiums with ROOFS covering most of the stadium. It rains a lot, so yes they have roofs.

Stadiums in Australia typically don't have the same amount of roofs, and depending on the size/age of the ground it will often only be the grandstand which is covered.

The roof makes it so much easier as it improves the acoustics and the sound can echo across the stadium, rather the disappear into thin air. For a brief chant it doesn't matter, but for any sustained period of singing especially if it's not sung by a huge group of people it really becomes a very uphill slog. I know from experience…
 
@Balmain Boy said:
The thing with a lot of the English stadiums, which makes this work, is that a lot of them are small, rectangular stadiums with ROOFS covering most of the stadium. It rains a lot, so yes they have roofs.

Stadiums in Australia typically don't have the same amount of roofs, and depending on the size/age of the ground it will often only be the grandstand which is covered.

The roof makes it so much easier as it improves the acoustics and the sound can echo across the stadium, rather the disappear into thin air. For a brief chant it doesn't matter, but for any sustained period of singing especially if it's not sung by a huge group of people it really becomes a very uphill slog. I know from experience…
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Langtree park and DW stadium home to st helens and wigan don't have roofs covering most of the stadium and even with there smaller fan bases they are pretty loud and even still look at the aleague then pirtek stadium wanderers fan can be heard all around the stadium, adelaide fans at hindmarsh oval can be heard all across the stadium same goes for newcastle jets
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As for the numbers i've said it before if our fans in the jungle truly want to call themselves an active bay and express there passion for the club then i feel this is the best way to do it and if they show that they are brave enough to do it aswell as make some catchy chants and songs then more people will join
 
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