marinators call to arms

[marinermick]

it's a football match. not a swimming carnival.

Barmy Army singing "Everywhere We Go". Loudest song all day.

What a shit supporter's group!

 

[nikko]

Barmy Army singing "Everywhere We Go". Loudest song all day.

What a shit supporter's group!

The Barmy Army support a great cricket team!!! <_<

Sorry for being off the topic, but it had to be said

 

[adz]

The Barmy Army support a great cricket team!!! <_<

Sorry for being off the topic, but it had to be said

Still one of my fav's (to the tune My Old Man's a Dustman):

Mark Waugh is an Aussie, he wears a baggy cap.
And when he saw the bookies cash, he said I'm having that.
He shared it out with Warney, they went and had some beers.
And when the ACB found out they covered it up for years....

 

[style_cafe]

I`m not a fan of the chants with swearing (too many kids around for that) but I do love the "Active Supporters".

An old favourite of mine is (to the tune of build a bonfire)
Who`s your father
Who`s your father
Who`s your father referee
You ain`t got one
You`re a bastard
You`re a bastard referee

I know it`s borderline but I like it.

 

[dibo]

You ain't got one
Never had one

Carry on

 

[priorpeter]

Who are the marinators?

 

[kevrenor]

Who are the marinators?

Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm one

 

[Redshirt]

The Bay has definitely made a lot of positive changes this year. Still a long way to go, but it's improving. And well done to the guys and girls who have made that happen. It's unfortunate the Marinators dissolved but it's time to move on and see what the Yellow Army can do methinks

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

As for what happened to the chants....there's been so much bickering on here about the chants, and pretty much every chant had somebody who hated it (and made it clear), that I was getting the impression the only chant that whoever-the-hell-is-our-supporters-group-now is allowed to sing is 'mariners, clap clap clap'

Wait, we all hate that one too...

Can't speak for what's happened late in this season, but after the early games this season the only way is up...

As somebody said, it takes leadership - and that's something that's been lost over the last few seasons.

 

[Redshirt]

Love it or hate it, the Mariners clap gets everyone in the stadium going

 

[kevrenor]

Love it or hate it, the Mariners clap gets everyone in the stadium going

Are there antibiotics for that?

There were hundreds up in Brisvegas who got going with wider chants and songs, so hopefully other things may spread.

 

[Jimmy]

You're right kev. I think the coast chant is starting to spread.

 

[priorpeter]

Definitely

 

[dibo]

the drumbeat is such a dirge though. x.....x.......xx..xx - sounds like a funeral march.

we used to do (and the jets now do) xx....xx......xxxxxx.

that said, it's not just coast that will take off. in brisbane a lot of songs carried down a long way toward the front. there are a lot of people that know waht we sing now, and that's ignoring the time in calypso as well. 'come on you yellow' might start taking off next year, as well as 'come on mariners'.

simple stuff, but better (and more variety) than mariners XXX.

 

[kevrenor]

the drumbeat is such a dirge though. x.....x.......xx..xx - sounds like a funeral march.

Thank goodness for that then ... better than those few that race along so fast that no one in the western stand at least can pick them up, let alone keep up!

Came over very clearly on Fox from Brisbane

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Yeah, I've already posted in here - but screw it, I came across this thread again and I haven't had coffee.

it's a football match. not a swimming carnival.

Attitudes like this are, IMO, part of the reason why we've struggled to get Bay 16 (or wherever the hell you guys are all standing now) to make more noise than a library.

As soon as anybody tries to actually get a song going - or, heaven forbid, it catches on (can't have that!), somebody whinges about it and so it stops being sung.

Who gives a flying f*** if it's a shit song or not - I'd rather a shit, cliched, 'swimming carnival' song than no song at all, if that's what gets people involved.

There aren't many songs that EVERYBODY gets involved in, particularly people outside of the bay, so instead of whinging about whether a song is too high school, or whether somebody else has done it, or whether it sounds lame, or god knows what else we all like to whine about on here, how about we get a little excited about the fact that more than 6 people actually want to sing it?

'Mariners' *clap clap clap* is great as it's just about the only chant that goes all around the stadium. That makes it one of the most powerful chants out there. Don't overestimate the basics.

Reminds me of all the whinging about the 'New-cas-tle!' chant from EAS. Shit chant perhaps, but I would've killed to have out entire stadium get as involved in a chant as they did up there. And that fact alone makes it a bloody good chant. Beats sitting there clapping politely.

'Everywhere we go' - makes more noise than just about any other chant, and any bay can pick it up. Plus, the young kids love it (and yes, I DO think that's important, which is partly why I've always been opposed to swearing in the chants).

Hell, for about 2 seasons I think about the only thing we were allowed to sing was 'yellow army!'

'matty simon, score us a goal'? - sorry, but I don't ever remember hearing this one at a swimming carnival, and who gives a stuff if it was. It's a good chant, been going on for years, links in well to other chants between verses, and when we're really keen we've repeated it to include all the other players. And it's easy to pick up. What more do you want out of a song?

Let's face it - we don't exactly have the core numbers we used to, so I think we need to remember how useful the basic chants are - and the ones that have been around for long enough for everybody to know - at getting the non-core supporters involved.

And really, isn't that a big part of what the core supporters groups are all about?

Are there antibiotics for that?

There were hundreds up in Brisvegas who got going with wider chants and songs, so hopefully other things may spread.

Hopefully - but you need to start with SOMETHING first. That's what's good about the most basic chants which spread around the stadium, starts to get people in the habit of making noise which then makes it easier for the other songs to catch on. Gets their blood going first.

that said, it's not just coast that will take off. in brisbane a lot of songs carried down a long way toward the front.

One of the difficulties that you guys face is the location of the supporters bay - you're all singing into the wind, which makes it very difficult for any sound to carry around the stadium. That's why the away teams find it easier to make a bit of noise, because it's all wind assisted!

so you propose the more complicated chants that no one sings and therefore there is no atmosphere? that method has really worked the last couple of years hasn't it?

the bay is improving because it is getting simpler, more inclusive and certain individuals are standing up and providing real leadership

Glad to hear that's been happening. It's not going to be an easy, or fast, path to former glory but we can get there - and perhaps because it's something that'll be built over a period of time (rather than an explosion of interest at the start of the league) the support will, in the end, be far stronger for it.

I remember - a long time ago - when the bay was actually funny! Anybody could make up a chant, if it was great it'd catch on (even if only once), if not they'd suffer the dreaded 'dickhead!' chant. The bay was never the same 2 matches in a row.

I believe a lot of supporter groups have struggled badly over the last few seasons - just look at what's happened to the Cove and BWB, their numbers are just a fraction of what they were.

 

[ballantyne]

I've been there from the start. The Marinators were noisy but unattractive. During bigger finals games the Bay would be swelled by floaters and blow-ins throwing beers, harassing girls and frightening the children.
Then came the lean years, the well-intentioned but unsuccessful moves, and then last season it picked up again. Jimmy is absolutely brilliant on the drum - the Marinators could never keep up a song for long because they couldn't control the natural tendency to speed up and go out of time. Jimmy not only keeps it together, but can actually slow them down. However, at the GF, the crowd was so big he couldn't be heard and we couldn't keep it together.
At the GF a bloke behind us was trying to get people in front of him to sit down. Like I'm gonna sit down at the Grand Final! He tried to lead us, but we didn't follow.
Peter and others have delivered good leadership, and I really feel we're on the way to something big, noisy and inclusive without the hint of drunken danger, but the GF showed that if we grow, we need more drums. In 1996 I went to the Stadio Olimpico in Rome for Roma v AC Milan. There were 60 drums at our end alone.

 

[priorpeter]

I've been there from the start. The Marinators were noisy but unattractive. During bigger finals games the Bay would be swelled by floaters and blow-ins throwing beers, harassing girls and frightening the children.
Then came the lean years, the well-intentioned but unsuccessful moves, and then last season it picked up again. Jimmy is absolutely brilliant on the drum - the Marinators could never keep up a song for long because they couldn't control the natural tendency to speed up and go out of time. Jimmy not only keeps it together, but can actually slow them down. However, at the GF, the crowd was so big he couldn't be heard and we couldn't keep it together.
At the GF a bloke behind us was trying to get people in front of him to sit down. Like I'm gonna sit down at the Grand Final! He tried to lead us, but we didn't follow.
Peter and others have delivered good leadership, and I really feel we're on the way to something big, noisy and inclusive without the hint of drunken danger, but the GF showed that if we grow, we need more drums. In 1996 I went to the Stadio Olimpico in Rome for Roma v AC Milan. There were 60 drums at our end alone.

Cheers pal. I really hope we're on the road to something big. I've got a good feeling about this... This season is going to be f**king huge. Pumped already.
Yeah, Jimmy puts in everything he's got to smash that drum for 90 minutes. It's great to see. Keeps everyone involved, too.
Big props and massive thanks to every single person who came to bay 16 this year and gave it a go. Let's get it bigger and better this year.

 

[Redshirt]

Green Street Hooligans style:

"Take my hand
Take my whole life too
I can't help
Falling in love with you

Mariners! xxx
Mariners! xxx"

Ahhh would be fun

 

[midfielder]

Just my two cents worth... a simple call when a opposition player makes a mistake is the donkey call...

EOR repeated a few depending on how big the mistake followed by if a big name "" What a waste of Money""" I have seen the EOR call get under some players skin...

The other one is a support the team song... to the tune of You Can't Stop the music by the village people...

You can't stop the Mariners
Nobody can stop the Mariners
Its the way we play
Its the way we score
You can't stop the Mariners...

Youtube if your under 35 of the song... listen from 43 seconds ... [the sound on this clip is a little low so needs to turned up a bit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzL13jkQvqs&feature=related