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19/11/2013, 12:22 PM
DannyInvincible

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Originally Posted by back of the net

Tricky - if you mean a pretty good job of massacring it ,then i completely agree with you

Saw the rendition last night and I recall struggling to slow to her pace at the Sweden game. I think whoever's been arranging her solo vocal performances without music must be going for the style of a sustained and spine-tingling emotive lament or something, but it really doesn't work in terms of rousing a crowd for a football match, especially when delivered at such a sluggish pace. It's an atmosphere-killer. I suppose we should be happy it was at least ever so slightly quicker than the rendition of the anthem the band played before our opening game against Italy at USA '94...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJzfJHCJ7MQ&t=3m25s
19/11/2013, 12:33 PM
Lionel Ritchie

It sickens me to the pit of my guts it does. That it should happen at all is conceptually wrong IMO -but that's just a bad call, an error of judgement -whether it's Placido Domingo, John McCormack, Monserrat Caballe or whoever.

But the fact that it's a TV3 Expos�/Sunday World celebrity devoid of the slightest hint of meritocracy robbing the supporters and the team of their anthem in the name of a pimping her profile absolutely disgusts me. It's just Ireland in a feckin nutshell.
19/11/2013, 12:50 PM
peadar1987

It would be different if they got the actual Lionel Ritchie to sing it!
19/11/2013, 12:56 PM
Lionel Ritchie

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Originally Posted by peadar1987

It would be different if they got the actual Lionel Ritchie to sing it!

Even with a my trademark mouthful of cotton wool I'd make a better job of it too.
19/11/2013, 2:06 PM
OwlsFan

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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

Was there music after each goal? Please tell me there wasn't.

Try being at a rugby game where the same DJ (PA man) in a break in play broadcasts "Bom, bom, bom bom bom....) and the kids shout "Ireland". Cringe making stuff but perhaps it's just an age thing.
19/11/2013, 2:46 PM
tetsujin1979

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

Try being at a rugby game where the same DJ (PA man) in a break in play broadcasts "Bom, bom, bom bom bom....) and the kids shout "Ireland". Cringe making stuff but perhaps it's just an age thing.

is it the same guy at rugby internationals? Defintiely hasn't been the same guy at the Leinster - Munster games I've been to at the Aviva
19/11/2013, 4:24 PM
jbyrne

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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

is it the same guy at rugby internationals? Defintiely hasn't been the same guy at the Leinster - Munster games I've been to at the Aviva

the same DJ does leinster and Ireland rugby but not the football. I think he is on today fm (bob conway?). declan king who does the football used to also do the Ireland and Leinster gigs but was moved aside. both of them are brutal.

i didnt miss a home rugby international for over 20 years but have no interest in going since they introduced all the atmosphere gimmicks.
19/11/2013, 4:28 PM
Fixer82

Maybe we should all write to the FAI and IRFU and let them know we think it's sh1t
19/11/2013, 4:41 PM
tetsujin1979

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Originally Posted by Fixer82

Maybe we should all write to the FAI and IRFU and let them know we think it's sh1t

there's a facebook group to get the music stopped: https://www.facebook.com/nothearforthesingsong
19/11/2013, 4:44 PM
Fixer82

I'm not sure which I hate more. The music after a goal or such bad spelling as this nothearforthesingsong
19/11/2013, 5:02 PM
paul_oshea

notHearForTheSingSong

Whats wrong with it?
19/11/2013, 5:05 PM
Fixer82

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Originally Posted by paul_oshea

notHearForTheSingSong

Whats wrong with it?

You having a giraffe?
19/11/2013, 5:09 PM
Charlie Darwin

What's a thear and why is this man so adamant singsong shouldn't have one?
19/11/2013, 5:10 PM
paul_oshea

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Originally Posted by Fixer82

You having a giraffe?

Isn't it a play on words? as in not here to hear the sing song? Or am I giving too much credit?
19/11/2013, 5:58 PM
Fixer82

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Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Isn't it a play on words? as in not here to hear the sing song? Or am I giving too much credit?

hmmm maybe this facebook page has outsmarted me. Drats!
19/11/2013, 6:03 PM
SwanVsDalton

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Originally Posted by Fixer82

I'm not sure which I hate more. The music after a goal or such bad spelling as this nothearforthesingsong

It's just because the URL can't have punctuation: No, the arf or the sing song!

http://mlkshk.com/r/BIPD
19/11/2013, 6:11 PM
Fixer82

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19/11/2013, 6:28 PM
DannyInvincible

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Originally Posted by OwlsFan

Try being at a rugby game where the same DJ (PA man) in a break in play broadcasts "Bom, bom, bom bom bom....) and the kids shout "Ireland". Cringe making stuff but perhaps it's just an age thing.

Broadcasting drumbeats over the PA system takes the p*ss.
27/11/2013, 11:00 AM
Stuttgart88

Apparently Yeovil also dominated Latvia.

http://www.westerngazette.co.uk/REPO...ail/story.html

But lost.
29/08/2016, 12:36 PM
DeLorean

Bumping thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_0mrKaiT-8

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