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Old 07-09-2006, 06:43 PM   #1
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Lightbulb AFL - Supporting your team in finals

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Seeing as the AFL finals have started and each team is urging its supporters to get to the game and cheer them on more than usual and in different ways, I thought I would throw up a video I found on Youtube of Celtic fans cheering on their team before kick off against Barcelona.

If anyone tells me that something like that wouldn't lift you to another level as a player then I dunno what to say! Now that has got me thinking how come there is nowhere near the level of carry on from supporters at AFL matches!? I have been to a few matches this year of both AFL and A-League and I have to say, the atmosphere at the AFL matches aint got nothing on the soccer supporters! Maybe because it is a different style of game?

But surely with all the history the old VFL clubs there would be some chants or 'anthems' supporters could sing at huge games like finals instead of the standard boring team chants such as ADEL-AIDE or COLLING - WOOD!

Now don't get me wrong I love my AFL and will go to an AFL match before an A-League match, but wouldn't it be way better if you had this level of support for you team at home matches? The atmosphere in that stadium that night must have been amazing!

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Also found this West Ham clip.

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Old 07-09-2006, 07:09 PM   #2
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Far out, thats awesome! It'd be hard to organise 'cause aussie sports fans are the laziest bastards ever! Went to a Union match earlier this year and its even worse than aussie rules. Between myself and 4 mates we started all of the warcries for the whole match.
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Old 07-09-2006, 07:14 PM   #3
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It's because soccer fans are so bored and theres nothing else to do. : No only joking I'd love to go and watch a Man U or Wolves game, or Inter Milan, Champions of the Seria A, strangely, by playing by the rules. :monkes:
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Old 08-09-2006, 04:05 PM   #4
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I went to the Victory-Sydney match at TD last Sat.

The match was great in the first 20 minutes...3 goals scored.

The crowd is into it.

But the chants occur because there's little else happening.
The only team that roars like hell in AFL is Richmond, with their plethora of chants.

But I don't need a chant to feel good about my team (Geelong -and believe me, feeling good about that team is NOT easy!)...I get revved up and couldn't give a stuff if everybody else around me sitting down doing nothing.

I did it in 2004 at the Geelong V Essendon game. I hate Essendon, so I went nuts while ppl around me just sat there like stoned mullets.
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