Active Support

[Ironbark]

I don't sit in the bay but appreciate all the work you guys do. We have the best active in the league.
I do participate as as best I can and my kids are into it now too.

No constructive criticisms to add, but love the idea of a few new chants to work with.

The one thing I've always felt we've missed is that one anthem that is ours. Many teams have them, and I completely understand how hard it is to find the right one that every one agrees on and then get everyone on board with. Bloody hard.

 

[Allreet?]

We are sailing...
We are sailing...

etc.

Always thought that was an obvious one.

 

[Ironbark]

When I first read that I thought you were going for some enya orinoco flow haha

 

[Allreet?]

 

[nl.ryan]

I don't sit in the bay but appreciate all the work you guys do. We have the best active in the league.
I do participate as as best I can and my kids are into it now too.

No constructive criticisms to add, but love the idea of a few new chants to work with.

The one thing I've always felt we've missed is that one anthem that is ours. Many teams have them, and I completely understand how hard it is to find the right one that every one agrees on and then get everyone on board with. Bloody hard.

You don’t like Wont Back Down? I think it epitomises our never say die attitude.

 

[Wombat]

When I first read that I thought you were going for some enya orinoco flow haha

Sail away. sail away, sail away.

 

[Ironbark]

You don’t like Wont Back Down? I think it epitomises our never say die attitude.

It's fine, but uninspiring. Also don't feel it has supporter consensus as an option.
Closest proxy we have for now

 

[FFC Mariner]

It's fine, but uninspiring. Also don't feel it has supporter consensus as an option.
Closest proxy we have for now

Beyond loathe it.
White soft rock for mid west fm radio.
(I bloody love Tom Petty but this was his worst album)

 

[Ironbark]

Maybe someone needs to do a faster, rocked up cover of it. The message is right but the tone is not

 

[Paolo]

Ignore almost all advice in this thread and do whatever those aged 16-24 enjoy the most.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Ignore almost all advice in this thread and do whatever those aged 16-24 enjoy the most.

This. Active must be organic and by kids.

 

[LFCMariners]

Cool. Can't wait to be singing along to re-appropriated Harry Styles/ Olivia Rodrigo songs...

 

[Corsair]

This. Active must be organic and by kids.

Maybe for our club, not typically. Sorry but SFC and VUC both had much more organised and coordinated active. Not that they had more passion but they are much more organised.

 

[Jimmy]

Maybe for our club, not typically. Sorry but SFC and VUC both had much more organised and coordinated active. Not that they had more passion but they are much more organised.

This is very true. A consequence of having a much smaller fan base. We simply do not have the numbers to be better organised.

 

[Big Al]

Our chants are great and easy to follow. Fans outside the bay are all starting to sing a long a bit and way more in the finals or the Adelaide game when there is something on the line and only those who really care are excited

A yellow army yellow army got up late and was a good change to Mariners Clap all the time. It has its place of course.

I was surprised at Victory. They really gave nothing catchy or good at all apart from 7 nation army but that relies on them scoring which doesn’t happen much with Poppa

SFC and Wanderers have better stuff than Victory but maybe because they travel more and we know them as local rivals we hear it more.

I saw a clip of the March and there was Melbourne clap clap. Every one gives us shit for it and the supposedly biggest club is doing it.

Really makes you appreciate how good ours are. While the rest of the league piles on because of their inferiority complex’s we do have great songs and support 👏🏻

 

[Big Al]

One thing i don’t like is F off Newcastle and F off SFC.

Not because i don’t like telling them off but i feel you need to sing there chant which to their players might spur them on. Especially the SFC one because you have to sing most of the chant before adding the F off. That to me is a win to them because there chant is in our heads.

Maybe late or after a goal of ours but otherwise don’t think we should sing there stuff

Newcastle one obviously is limited because of their vocabulary so not as bad but still prefer not mentioning there chants at all

 

[Big Al]

I would also love us to have something for after we score just after the restart after everyone has gone wild and the cannon etc. every one including the players is hyped.

Whether it’s Mariners Clap or Yellow Army but something easy done after every goal would be good

 

[Stuartmcateer]

Ignore almost all advice in this thread and do whatever those aged 16-24 enjoy the most.

To a point.

As long as they are there to be active and not try and turn into wannabe ultras. We don't want to become squadron creche 2.0.

 

[Gojira_fan]

I do hope we can bring out the "Gossy good times banner" every now and then.

 

[priorpeter]

To a point.

As long as they are there to be active and not try and turn into wannabe ultras. We don't want to become squadron creche 2.0.

This was a problem at times earlier this season, culminating in Max’s tyres getting slashed at the GF (as well as a number of other issues).
Unfortunately there’s invariably a small number of idiots who’ve watched Green Street Hooligans a few too many times and think they’re well ‘ard and end up causing problems for everyone other than themselves.