Your complete ANZAC Day guide

[The Magnificent Seven]

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/newsfeatures/news/newsarticle/tabid/5586/newsid/92817/default.aspx

This year’s pre-match will feature
• The Australian Army Band.
• Australian singer and entertainer, David Campbell.
• Australian country music legend, Troy Cassar-Daley.
• Motorcade of ANZAC Veterans.
• Observance Ceremony
o Catafalque Guard slow march, flags are lowered to half-mast
o Major General David McLachlan recites “The Ode”
o One minutes Silence
o Last Post
o Reveille
o National Anthem

Public Gates open at 12.30pm. Main entertainment begins from 1.20pm and the match will begin at 2.40pm.

Players to shake hands pre-game
In 2010, for the first time, players from Collingwood and Essendon will shake hands prior to running through the banner on ANZAC Day.

Cheer Squad Banner
The ANZAC Day match is unique in that the players from each team join together to run through a single cheer squad banner created by the cheer squads of both clubs - in recognition of the ANZAC spirit and the way Australians came together as one in times of war.

Handled with a good deal of dignity - keeps getting better each year. Well done CFC, EFC and AFL.

 

[Swanny36]

Yup, sounds good, no snideness just an honest respect by both teams.

Should be an amazing game cannot wait.

 

[Optimax]

Awesome stuff

 

[Blur]

I'm really regretting not getting a ticket for this. It's been years since I've been to the ANZAC day game, and I really miss it. This is going to be a really special day.

I love how the players are going to shake hands and run through the same banner. A good portrayal of Australian unity.

 

[Histrionics]

I'm really regretting not getting a ticket for this. It's been years since I've been to the ANZAC day game, and I really miss it. This is going to be a really special day.

I love how the players are going to shake hands and run through the same banner. A good portrayal of Australian unity.

As the game starts to get closer I am regretting not getting one as well.

 

[mattys123]

Seems like this day each year just gets better and better.

Still not a huge fan of the teams running through the same banner, but I get the sentiment behind it.

1.20pm is when we have to be there by for the start of the entertainment, sweet.

 

[The Big League]

The banner thing is a little cringe.

 

[Snag Breac]

Sounds like a good day out. I wish they'd chosen an Australian poem, though. This is the Ode they'll be reading out. It goes on a bit, so they might cut out the boring bits,
​

FOR THE FALLEN

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children
England mourns for her dead across the sea,
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

​

Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And glory that shines upon our tears.


They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow,
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.


They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again,
They sit no more at familiar tables of home,
They have no lot in our labour of the daytime,
They sleep beyond England’s foam.


But where our desires and hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the night.


As the stars shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are stary in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.​

 

[mattys123]

WTF is that, that's and English war poem, seriously WTF.

You could have got a US war poem and had more relevance, as after WW1 the poems didn't exactly help us much, and we fought more side by side with the Yanks, Canadaians and Kiws then the Poms.

There are so many Aussie war poems, and they choose that, seriously.

 

[Snag Breac]

WTF is that, that's and English war poem, seriously WTF.

You could have got a US war poem and had more relevance, as after WW1 the poems didn't exactly help us much, and we fought more side by side with the Yanks, Canadaians and Kiws then the Poms.

There are so many Aussie war poems, and they choose that, seriously.

Exactly, and some ones, as opposed to that piece of jingoism. Unless there's another "The Ode", but I suspect not.

 

[Optimax]

WTF is that, that's and English war poem, seriously WTF.

You could have got a US war poem and had more relevance, as after WW1 the poems didn't exactly help us much, and we fought more side by side with the Yanks, Canadaians and Kiws then the Poms.

There are so many Aussie war poems, and they choose that, seriously.

Matty i believe that gets read out every ANZAC day, Gallipoli was also WW1 and its where the ANZAC "legend" started, so it makes perfect sense

I might also add we are an english colony, of course we connect more with english war stories

 

[The Big League]

Quick google search shows the Australian RSL have been using that poem since 1914.
I'd say it's pretty relevant.

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

WTF is that, that's and English war poem, seriously WTF.

You could have got a US war poem and had more relevance, as after WW1 the poems didn't exactly help us much, and we fought more side by side with the Yanks, Canadaians and Kiws then the Poms.

There are so many Aussie war poems, and they choose that, seriously.

No mate, back then Orstralia was just a part of the Empire - in its own slightly patronising way they were still claiming us as their own.

It's tradition in the same way we have a Governor-General and HRH's head on the back of our money. I don't have a problem with it as we're referencing it back to a time when it still had resonance.

It will still also mean a lot to the soldiers from back then - let's not impose our own judgement/values onto the folk who this is commemorated to.

FWIW I think we could have some more contemporary words to sit before or after it, but that's my own insignificant take on it.

 

[Optimax]

No mate, back then Orstralia was just a part of the Empire - in its own slightly patronising way they were still claiming us as their own.

It's tradition in the same way we have a Governor-General and HRH's head on the back of our money. I don't have a problem with it as we're referencing it back to a time when it still had resonance.

It will still also mean a lot to the soldiers from back then - let's not impose our own judgement/values onto the folk who this is commemorated to.

FWIW I think we could have some more contemporary words to sit before or after it, but that's my own insignificant take on it.

Bingo

 

[Snag Breac]

It was part of the cringe. Australians write poetry too.

 

[mattys123]

Matty i believe that gets read out every ANZAC day, Gallipoli was also WW1 and its where the ANZAC "legend" started, so it makes perfect sense

I might also add we are an english colony, of course we connect more with english war stories

Well I am and always have been a staunch supporter of Australia becoming a republic, and simply believe on a day that is there to honour NZ and Australian troops, we should be using one of the 1000's of great Australian poems written about any war we have fought in.

I understand the sentiment behind the ODE, but this ANZAC day, not remembrance day, so we should be celebrating the day in a truly ANZAC manner.

Not that big of a deal though, 1 poem I can put up with.

 

[Snag Breac]

My only objection is that it's a bad poem.

 

[The Magnificent Seven]

My only objection is that it's a bad poem.

Not as bad as the trite little song about being 'girt by sea'

 

[Quicky]

You cant judge past history based on the beliefs of today. It's perfectly relevant to the ex-servicemen and women of the day and it is them, after all, who we are remembering. I have no issue with it.

 

[Primetime Pricey]

Well I am and always have been a staunch supporter of Australia becoming a republic, and simply believe on a day that is there to honour NZ and Australian troops, we should be using one of the 1000's of great Australian poems written about any war we have fought in.

If this country becomes a republic im moving to the mother country.

In regards to the pre-match festivities it looks great. Only 1 hour drinking time at the Cricketers Arms though. Stupid 12pm opening rule!

 

[The Big League]

Matty, you do realise that Australia's involvement in the wars is directly attributed to the fact that we are a Commonwealth? We were there to serve the Queen, hence the historical significance of that poem.

 

[Optimax]

If this country becomes a republic im moving to the mother country.

In regards to the pre-match festivities it looks great. Only 1 hour drinking time at the Cricketers Arms though. Stupid 12pm opening rule!

Pricey aren't you like half italian?

 

[Primetime Pricey]

Pricey aren't you like half italian?

Dad's English and Mum's Sicilian. I choose Shepard's Pie over Spog

 

[The Big League]

I for one hope we don't become a republic. I love our ties with Britain.
I'm an Aboriginal Italian living in a British subsidiary, no wonder i'm so confused.

 

[Optimax]

Dad's English and Mum's Sicilian. I choose Shepard's Pie over Spog

Bah

we have better food
better women
better soccer players
better soccer coaches (hint)
better soccer teams
better history
better everything

You chose wrong pricey lol