Cat got your tongue? Is there anything beyond "Geelong clap clap clap"?

[FredLeDeux]

You can take out Chelsea Roffey instead.

Is Chelsea Roffey a soccer club?

 

[CharacterFirst]

We definitely don't have the best song. Ours is middling at best. It's hard to go past the Tigers I think.

But I reckon the hoops jumper is close to the best, esp. under lights when the white in the strip lights up!

 

[Hot Tin Roof]

...Do you think that Cats fans would accept or embrace any new chants/songs?...

A David Guetta remix of the unofficial Geelong chant...
'Fat Kids Munching On Meat Pies to the Clickety-Clack of Nana's Knitting Needles'.

 

[Scuderia]

And was smashed to shit by OUR chant in the 2011 GF
I still can picture that dude in the light blue jumper.
Gold.

that guy was awesome! where is he now?!

 

[Boxhead_31]

At first thought, this seems plausible, but I think this is actually a myth.

In theory, there are plenty of breaks in play in an AFL match.
After a goal is kicked. Before the bounce down. At quarter/half/three quarter time. While a player is "in the hands of the trainers", and of course, during the endless rolling scrums. Chants can work really well in a 20 second gap - we are not talking about singing Stairway to Heaven here

In practice, Collingwood have shown that there are opportunities to make it work. Their slow chant certainly hasn't gone unnoticed.
FWIW, I have a pet theory that a lot of non-Collingwood supporters hate that chant because they deep-down envy it. I do!



Well, it is melodically very basic, but that is a strength, IMO.

• It is very simple to join in with.
• It creates a hypnotic, eerie atmosphere which, according to D.Jolly, inspires the players.
• It drowns out the opposition fans' cheers.

What's not to like... other than the club that imported* it?


BTW, I am not advocating just copying this, and it is never going to be a hit single - but I do think it is a success.

* I say imported, as I believe it is a straight copy of a British soccer club chant. Probably Arsenal, but I am still looking for confirmation of this.

Think you will find Sydney and Fremantle were doing the chant well before Collingwood decided to start doing it

 

[GloblFotbalCrsis]

Think you will find Sydney and Fremantle were doing the chant well before Collingwood decided to start doing it

You will also find commentators are practically all Victorian and no $#!7 all about footy and they are the ones who labelled the chant.

 

[BotsMaster]

Is Chelsea Roffey a soccer club?

The fact that she has 'Chelsea' as her first name means John Terry has first dibs.

 

[Beth]

A David Guetta remix of the unofficial Geelong chant...
'Fat Kids Munching On Meat Pies to the Clickety-Clack of Nana's Knitting Needles'.

Hey now, a lot of nice booties get knitted over the journey...

 

[Moggy]

And was smashed to shit by OUR chant in the 2011 GF
I still can picture that dude in the light blue jumper.
Gold.

What did he do? I missed that story

 

[Moggy]

To the OP, I have been to plenty of English, Italian, Spanish and South American football grounds and I will say that chanting is vastly overrated as a means of creating atmosphere. Particularly in England, where nearly all the songs are repetitive and generic.

The best atmosphere is created through raw, unscripted emotion. Games where the crowd noise almost sucks the ball into the net, there does not tend to be some show tune ringing around the ground at these times. Just people yelling guttural primal nonsense.

I completely agree that the best atmosphere is "raw, unscripted emotion".

However, I have always felt that there must be a better way to gee-up the team than "Gee-long clap clap clap".

 

[Senatorguesty]

What did he do? I missed that story

Watch the game.
Go on.
have I twisted your arm enough yet?
Watch it with MMM commentary (I like to watch theirs when I know the game back to front, I find it more entertaining).

 

[Moggy]

Watch the game.
Go on.
have I twisted your arm enough yet?
Watch it with MMM commentary (I like to watch theirs when I know the game back to front, I find it more entertaining).

Right. Just emailed the boss that something urgent has come up and I need a few hours

 

[CatAttack84]

Geelong has an "unofficial Cheersquad" who are actually pretty good and funny, I've sat near them a few times.

The official CS are a bunch of bores, who are completely annoying- always try and avoid sitting near them, they will never try anything new.

And I dont think we have the best song by a long shot in the AFL. I love it in the way cause "its our song", but I acutally think other teams have better songs than us.

I have to agree with most of this. I don't agree that other teams have a better song than us, I just think ours is equally one of the better ones along with a few others.

The unofficial one you speak of, are these the bloke that, especially at the MCG games, are on the bottom level in the standing area with very soccer-like chants?

 

[CatAttack84]

I like the guys in the outer who have songs like "Paul Chapman you can shag my wife".

They're the ones!

 

[CatAttack84]

As it happens, I was reliving past glories recently by listening to the K-Rock commentary of that match. That is sort of what got me thinking about the whole thing.

It was a massive moment and I loved it, but it felt very much like a response to Collingwood - rather than our own chant.

^ Correct 100%

We at the game did it as a direct stab back to them alright. For me personally it was retribution for a year earlier in the finals. I'll never forget that night in 2010 when they smashed us.
Nothing felt better than to pay it back to the, but in this case they were suffering a Grand Final loss, not a finals elimination.

 

[SJ]

^ Correct 100%

We at the game did it as a direct stab back to them alright. For me personally it was retribution for a year earlier in the finals. I'll never forget that night in 2010 when they smashed us.
Nothing felt better than to pay it back to the, but in this case they were suffering a Grand Final loss, not a finals elimination.

It does happen in Grand Finals though, a huge GEE-LONG chant went up late in the 2007 win.

There wasn't enough time to think about it in 2009.

 

[SJ]

Watch the game.
Go on.
have I twisted your arm enough yet?
Watch it with MMM commentary (I like to watch theirs when I know the game back to front, I find it more entertaining).

The 3AW call of the chant is the best I feel.

 

[GloblFotbalCrsis]

What did he do? I missed that story

he's in this video of the chant (the guy conducting the crowd at around 0:20)

 

[Moggy]

he's in this video of the chant (the guy conducting the crowd at around 0:20)

Thanks.

I see also that "Catman" was conducting the cheers squad at about double the tempo of the chant.
While we are talking about culture, I am not sure I am happy with "Catman" being such an obvious symbol of the GFC.
His getup strikes me as more about "look at me" than anything else.

For all I know, one of you guys is Catman!

 

[GloblFotbalCrsis]

Thanks.

I see also that "Catman" was conducting the cheers squad at about double the tempo of the chant.
While we are talking about culture, I am not sure I am happy with "Catman" being such an obvious symbol of the GFC.
His getup strikes me as more about "look at me" than anything else.

For all I know, one of you guys is Catman!

I don't think he was that bad and he only wears his get up half the time these days. I probably was not that much better when I wore a cape/flag and face paint to all the games when I was younger

 

[muttweed]

Nothing's wrong with Catman.

He loves the club. Get over it.

 

[proboy]

Nothing's wrong with Catman.

He loves the club. Get over it.

sock it to u

 

[muttweed]

sock it to u

Cannot process.

Too much slang.

 

[GeneticCat]

he's in this video of the chant (the guy conducting the crowd at around 0:20)

Just reminded me how bloody magnificent Otto was!

 

[FredLeDeux]

Thanks.

I see also that "Catman" was conducting the cheers squad at about double the tempo of the chant.
While we are talking about culture, I am not sure I am happy with "Catman" being such an obvious symbol of the GFC.
His getup strikes me as more about "look at me" than anything else.

For all I know, one of you guys is Catman!

Didn't I hear Harley say one day that he's Roy West's son?