The Adelaide Crows pre-game "stance" - what would you do?

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Having a national anthem makes no sense when both teams are Australian based. It works in an Olympic "country vs country" sense, but its time to scrap it from the AFL.

Feel bad for the international players having to sit through it.
 

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Having a national anthem makes no sense when both teams are Australian based. It works in an Olympic "country vs country" sense, but its time to scrap it from the AFL.

Feel bad for the international players having to sit through it.
Geez what do you think of American sport? Haha wow!

Like GWS I was just confused when it happened and it didn't affect them but maybe it'll play with the cats players minds on what will the crows do this time rather than be completely focused?

I back us to be more professional but I'm personally curious to see what Adelaide do. Hopefully takes up none of the cats players thinking.
 

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Why are cats fans acting like not linking arms is something to aspire to.
You've got your fan groups confused.

Geelong have been doing it for 10 years (and rightly, nobody gave a ****)
Adelaide did it and everybody keeps crapping on about it.

Here's a fresh take* The way the players stand during the National Anthem will have no bearing on the game.

*not actually a fresh take.
 

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You've got your fan groups confused.

Geelong have been doing it for 10 years (and rightly, nobody gave a ****)
Adelaide did it and everybody keeps crapping on about it.

Here's a fresh take* The way the players stand during the National Anthem will have no bearing on the game.

*not actually a fresh take.
I think the difference was Adelaide's line up every player adopted a wide stance with arms by the sides. Geelong had some players with their heads down, some had their hands behind their backs etc.
 

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Dont care how they stand and Im sure the opposition doesnt either, if it gets the crows into a good frame of mind then keep doing it, if it fires them up thats all that matters
 

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I can think of several:
Kicking a goal
Kicking the winning goal after the siren
Taking a "speccy" mark
Winning a grand final
Laying the perfect tackle
Coast to coast goal.......

The more you think about it, the more there are. I'd go so far as to say the linked arms/ anthem image is one of the least interesting things that happens on the football field- even the coin toss is more stirring.
 

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More to the point- what's your approach to the anthem as a fan in the stands?

At the Giants v eagles match I was the only one not standing- absolutely psyched out my opponents.
 

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Doubt what one team does has any impact on the opposition but it can have impact on themselves.

The days of the Haka intimidating rival teams are surely over, especially once you've seen it a few times. But surely it gets the All Blacks fired up and frees them of the nervous energy at the start of a game.

I thought the Crows were focused and ready to play. They weren't out there letting the moment get to them. The big question is now that they've done it once and the media picked up on it whether they'll become self conscious.
 

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In the Geelong v Richmond game, the Geelong players stood similar to the Adelaide players but didn't try to stare our players down. Our players had their arms around each other in about as passionate a way as you would see during a national anthem. I would apply this same approach against Adelaides attempted death stare because it shows unity against individuality.
 

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Ok. Football media making something out of nothing again I see.
FMD, I thought the Crows must have advanced on GWS until they were nose to nose, or something, like some rugby teams have done in response to the Haka. Not even a throat slitting gesture or a flared nostril to be seen. I'm befuddled.

Geelong did the 'we don't link arms' thing throughout their premiership era and as far as I was aware, they are still doing it now. I'm not saying 'we're awesome because we did it first', I just thought that some teams have always linked arms and some teams haven't.
 

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Reminded of Chappy's thoughts during the anthem for the 2007 GF.
Was checking out Natalie Bassingthwaighte rather than worrying about anything else
How terrible is the camera work? Just dont get why every national anthem we need some bloke half crouched over walking in front of the line of players, and then have a different bloke do the same thing to the other team. It also surprises me how late they leave it into the national anthem before they start scrolling past the other team. In the video above its like 5 words left before the next cameraman rushes past the team.
 

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Just saw it now. What a ******* joke. Back in junior footy it was the norm anyway. Clearly these campaigners doing it to try to make a statement.

To be honest I didn't know every team joined arms. That's also try hard really. Do what you want to do.

From a GWS perspective I would have just thought what a bunch of weird campaigners.

The best was the English Rugby team once. All blacks doing their shit walking towards the English, they just stood there and pissed themselves.

One opposing player, maybe an Aussie shat himself when it happened to them. Wow, so scary, a guy coming towards you doing the haka. Not as if they're going to start throwing straight rights at you.
 
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