Whatever happen to... Here we go here we go here we go. (nice and simple)

Glad you came to sample a good atmosphere

I remember a few years ago, about 8 or 9 when a Warrington 'band' came to a Chorley Lynx v Hull KR game, they were quality, trumpets, drums, the lot and they knew a lot of the 'classic' tunes. KR fans really took to them for the whole 80mins, Whatever happened to them?

They Grew Up...

AG
AGR
AGRO AGRO

and

Getintoem getintoem

Quality songs from the terraces in the 70s and 80s

Give me a W, don't seem to hear that much.

The thing is I did have a big drum but 85% of the songs started with us and we did have a few very decent ditties over the years.

I have moved to the middle of the south stand now, if I try and start singing I get looked at like I have 3 heads!

The young lads are Trying, in time they will come good hopefully by then they will realise that using songs specific to any of the local prem sides will not work as too many people have too many clubs they follow.

What is the penut song I have heard it mentioned a few times now?

You can come up with dead simple stuff off the bat that takes off. Most will remember lesley is a girls name and he's got a pineapple on his head that just spread like wildfire, always look out for Leon carrying glass. All dated now but dead simple that people took too.

There is a song before oh solomona but it hasn't took off

He signed for the wire and he sets up the try's
He is six foot tall and ten foot wide solomona oh oh solomona.

Raymond is spot on I remember when a male voice choir did pre match entertainment for one game at the HJ and were soundly booed when they sang you'll never walk alone.

to my mind in the 80's we were the only rugby fans to sing that.....

We roared it out at the final whistle at Wembley in 1990 so much so Alex Murphy in the commentary said Listen to the wigan fans cheering their victorious team....!! it was sung on numerous occasions throughout the 86 Premiership final......

happy days.....
the last good song we had was the Langer song ....

What needs to happen is the people who like singing need to stand together, then what happens is it filters through the rest of the crowd who are too shy to start singing. Look at Wigan UltraBrigs flags, they are like a roman standard and the boisterous fans flock round the flags and start to sing.
The only thing i can see being the advantage of those flags they have.

We need a 'prepared to START singing' focal point/area.

Brilliant

Where i was used to be the focal point but I got ed off with all the little teenagers wanting to get ed and generally cause a nuisance of themselves.

Could always get the PA system to start the chant/singing like they did at the Bulls

They do that alot in overseas football. Can't say it works tbh.

I agree, but it's quite difficult in rugby imo. United are very good at original songs and player based songs, but they have the stretford end to kick them off then the rest of the fans learn them. it would be difficult to recreate that, when we look at the teams that do sing alot, Hull, Wigan, Leeds, Hull are the only team out of those 3 that have relatively original songs, wigan's are just football songs, as are Leeds.

That was probably because the scousers in our crowd were more bothered about what was going on at Liverpool v QPR than us getting pasted by the Pies at Wembley.

Mind you its a good job they made the most of it.

Widnes fans still sing that and I heard it from the Crusaders fans a couple of weeks ago. Classic eh??

Northwest Primrose and Blue

Woah oh oh oh

Widnes fans still sing "Your Gonna Get Your Fecking Heads Kicked In.."!!

What a pity you havn't.

How are those grapes????

It was a bizzarre post from you though 'ditch', why would a group playing as a band constituate being 'childish' or 'not grown up'?!

Do you dislike drumming/songs being sung at games and consider it not grown up?

Whatever floats ya boat is all im am saying!!
I spent season after season listening to Geordie trying to get some kind of Atmosphere going both at the HJ and at Wilderspool,many times people were eating out of his hand..
Some days those Drums became a Dull Thud so much so your teeth would hurt just listening to them!!
I have been on coaches,Buses,and trains to the sound of!!!!Dum Dum Dum DUM dum Dum Dum Dum Nar Na NAR,Nar na Nar WIRES!!!!!!!!!!

It does get to you after a while,besides since Geordie hung up is sticks the other guys have no Rhythem if you know what i mean!

Quote ="the flying biscuit"Raymond is spot on I remember when a male voice choir did pre match entertainment for one game at the HJ and were soundly booed when they sang you'll never walk alone. to my mind in the 80's we were the only rugby fans to sing that..... We roared it out at the final whistle at Wembley in 1990 so much so Alex Murphy in the commentary said Listen to the wigan fans cheering their victorious team....!! it was sung on numerous occasions throughout the 86 Premiership final...... happy days..... the last good song we had was the Langer song ....'" widnes sung this in the 70s early 80s even at wembley starts around 1min 45 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3yFdIx- ... re=related

Quote ="the flying biscuit"Raymond is spot on I remember when a male voice choir did pre match entertainment for one game at the HJ and were soundly booed when they sang you'll never walk alone. to my mind in the 80's we were the only rugby fans to sing that..... We roared it out at the final whistle at Wembley in 1990 so much so Alex Murphy in the commentary said Listen to the wigan fans cheering their victorious team....!! it was sung on numerous occasions throughout the 86 Premiership final...... happy days..... the last good song we had was the Langer song ....'" widnes sung this in the 70s early 80s even at wembley starts around 1min 45 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3yFdIx- ... re=related

Rose tinted specs I think from the OP. In the late 70's early 80's there was a lot of alchohol fuelled anger on the terraces, and back then you could still change ends at half time. Other chants came from the lovely Warbo and often contained references to Gary Conolly and a bag of sweets.

AG AGR etc, It's a long way to Central Station, Everywhere we go-oh etc. Plus there was no originality either.

I've probably said this before but I always imagined the "barmy Army" of the day sat round in a pub discussing this subject.

"I've heard this song in the charts right by Chickory Tip called "Son of the Father". It's a poingiant insight into the discussion that despite cultural environments, technological advences, your basic characteristics and behavioural patterns are genetically set and passed down - moulded, folded and freeze farm dried if you will. we could use that in the Fletcher end".

"Marvellous my man, have you come up with some suitable witty lyric to portray this masterpiece?"

"Well yes as it happens -Oh warry warry .......warry warry ....warry ..... warry ... Warring...ton".

"Fantastic, who's round is it?".