Welcome friends!
I've created this thread, if only temporarily, to discuss something that I feel indicates a deep seated cultural problem at the West Coast Eagles at the present time. I'm fortunate enough to be able to record games on Foxtel and go back and re-watch post-game coverage when offered including the team song, 'expert' analysis, etc.
The purpose of this thread is to get a general consensus from the BigFooty West Coast Community about how the boys go about singing the team song. Not since 2007 at least have I seen the club sing the song after a win with the same conviction as any of the other clubs.
A number of reasons have been put forward to explain this such as:
- It's a bad song ergo people don't sing it with passion
- The boys are tired.....
- Something happened in the game to put a damper on the win
- Any others?
Jesus christ... I was getting Noodlebox and the post-game of the Tigers/North game was on the tv and even those sad-sack w***ers who have nothing in the world the cheer about sing their team song with the unbridled fury and passion of a drunken pub anthem.
In the months after the 2015 GF and extending all the way to this year I have felt like the team feel like the team song is some sort of media obligation with many seeming to go through the motions when singing. That is in no way what singing the club song is about... The club song is the embodiment of what you stand for as a football club, the pride and exultation of triumph with your footy brothers and to sing it after a win is a privileged opportunity to show love and pride in your club rather than it being some sort of unwanted responsibility.
Now we've all had plenty of shots at the team in recent weeks, none more so than our diabolical loss to the Suns yesterday. To borrow a phrase from the commentary of a much loathed Eagle's hater in Dermott Brereton "Am I being harsh Kingy?"
I personally am starting to feel like something has truly gone rotten at our beloved West Coast Eagles, so much so that there is now only a handful of players that truly bleed blue and gold for the club (Shuey, Sheppard, JK, and Nelson are the only ones that come to mind and even these players don't have half the passion that of players bygone like Waters, Cousins, Cox, Matera, Kemp, Worsfold, Mainwaring, and so on).
The rest of the playing group seem to have no love for one another which I feel is best typified by the fact that I can't honestly remember the last time someone put on a solid sheppard for his teammate. I do feel like valid points have been made regarding the Board, Club CEO, and coach but I honestly feel at some point these players have fallen out with each other to the point where we have 22 individual players every week and not a unified band of brothers like that of the Bulldogs, Geelong, or even GWS now.
Now this thread will probably last as long as Kurt Mutimer's run in the seniors but I felt the need to put it out there to see if I'm the only one losing my damn mind over my beloved Eagles...
I've created this thread, if only temporarily, to discuss something that I feel indicates a deep seated cultural problem at the West Coast Eagles at the present time. I'm fortunate enough to be able to record games on Foxtel and go back and re-watch post-game coverage when offered including the team song, 'expert' analysis, etc.
The purpose of this thread is to get a general consensus from the BigFooty West Coast Community about how the boys go about singing the team song. Not since 2007 at least have I seen the club sing the song after a win with the same conviction as any of the other clubs.
A number of reasons have been put forward to explain this such as:
- It's a bad song ergo people don't sing it with passion
- The boys are tired.....
- Something happened in the game to put a damper on the win
- Any others?
Jesus christ... I was getting Noodlebox and the post-game of the Tigers/North game was on the tv and even those sad-sack w***ers who have nothing in the world the cheer about sing their team song with the unbridled fury and passion of a drunken pub anthem.
In the months after the 2015 GF and extending all the way to this year I have felt like the team feel like the team song is some sort of media obligation with many seeming to go through the motions when singing. That is in no way what singing the club song is about... The club song is the embodiment of what you stand for as a football club, the pride and exultation of triumph with your footy brothers and to sing it after a win is a privileged opportunity to show love and pride in your club rather than it being some sort of unwanted responsibility.
Now we've all had plenty of shots at the team in recent weeks, none more so than our diabolical loss to the Suns yesterday. To borrow a phrase from the commentary of a much loathed Eagle's hater in Dermott Brereton "Am I being harsh Kingy?"
I personally am starting to feel like something has truly gone rotten at our beloved West Coast Eagles, so much so that there is now only a handful of players that truly bleed blue and gold for the club (Shuey, Sheppard, JK, and Nelson are the only ones that come to mind and even these players don't have half the passion that of players bygone like Waters, Cousins, Cox, Matera, Kemp, Worsfold, Mainwaring, and so on).
The rest of the playing group seem to have no love for one another which I feel is best typified by the fact that I can't honestly remember the last time someone put on a solid sheppard for his teammate. I do feel like valid points have been made regarding the Board, Club CEO, and coach but I honestly feel at some point these players have fallen out with each other to the point where we have 22 individual players every week and not a unified band of brothers like that of the Bulldogs, Geelong, or even GWS now.
Now this thread will probably last as long as Kurt Mutimer's run in the seniors but I felt the need to put it out there to see if I'm the only one losing my damn mind over my beloved Eagles...
