Edinburgh song (again)

[frillage]

A re written version of a proclamers song

Boders no more
Caledonia no more
Carruthers nooooo moooreeee

[Loops]

A re written version of a proclamers song

Boders no more
Caledonia no more
Carruthers nooooo moooreeee

[frillage]

Think the only way to get any Edinburgh song going would be to get it on the big screens so that people could get used to singing along.
Anyone form the supporters club fancy speacking to Nick to see if it is a possibility .? then could run a compitition for the best song

[Loops]

Think the only way to get any Edinburgh song going would be to get it on the big screens so that people could get used to singing along.
Anyone form the supporters club fancy speacking to Nick to see if it is a possibility .? then could run a compitition for the best song

Back in the days of the Carruthers a meeting was held asking people who were keen to find and use a song to come along. It was fairly well advertised and talked about, and 12 people turned up.

Is there any appetite among the support for a song? Or is it just a small group of us who are keen?

[frillage]

Think the only way to get any Edinburgh song going would be to get it on the big screens so that people could get used to singing along.
Anyone form the supporters club fancy speacking to Nick to see if it is a possibility .? then could run a compitition for the best song

Back in the days of the Carruthers a meeting was held asking people who were keen to find and use a song to come along. It was fairly well advertised and talked about, and 12 people turned up.

Is there any appetite among the support for a song? Or is it just a small group of us who are keen?

I'd back anything that helps make more noise and try to get rid of the Murraymorgue/library nickname. Although getting people to show up to a meeting may be a bit too much to break their apapthy.
People could send in entries and take vores over the forum.

[Derrick Lee's #1 Fan]

Is there any appetite among the support for a song? Or is it just a small group of us who are keen?

Well, I can't recall any of the songs that have been proposed on here down the years ever catching on, if that answers your question...

[Legless]

Not too fussed about a song, 2 or 3 good chants would do me. If supporters want to sing a song it needs to be a simple 4 line verse that can be repeated rather than 6 verses long.

[Watty]

if we could get a chant going it would be a start!! I think a song is a little bit "advanced" for the Edinburgh supporters at this moment

[Loops]

if we could get a chant going it would be a start!! I think a song is a little bit "advanced" for the Edinburgh supporters at this moment

I think even the chant might be too advanced! There's a group of stalwart supporters who regularly start shouting "Gunners", and very few people join in. Our group do usually join, and get shushed by folks around us. Maybe most people just like the peace and quiet! Tough luck on them if they sit near me with my football rattle, Howard with his whistle and Paul with his voice!

[Derrick Lee's #1 Fan]

I think even the chant might be too advanced! There's a group of stalwart supporters who regularly start shouting "Gunners", and very few people join in. Our group do usually join, and get shushed by folks around us. Maybe most people just like the peace and quiet!

I'm not into singing and chanting at games myself (though I make up for it with the amount of pelters I give to the ref ), but I've got to ask, who the hell goes to a rugby match - or indeed any other sporting occasion - to sit in silence? Next time someone shushes you at a game you should give them directions to the Usher Hall...it should have re-opened by then.

[Legless]

if we could get a chant going it would be a start!! I think a song is a little bit "advanced" for the Edinburgh supporters at this moment

I think even the chant might be too advanced! There's a group of stalwart supporters who regularly start shouting "Gunners", and very few people join in. Our group do usually join, and get shushed by folks around us. Maybe most people just like the peace and quiet! Tough luck on them if they sit near me with my football rattle, Howard with his whistle and Paul with his voice!

I sit in the same area as yourself and the guys who are doing their best to generate some noise, I even join in from time to time but you do get funny looks from folk who seem to think chanting and cheering is for the kids.

I might just dust down the old airhorn and give that a blast next season, it's been a while since I last used it.

[Watty]

I might just dust down the old airhorn and give that a blast next season, it's been a while since I last used it. Very Happy

I find my voice is effective enough but as you say...do get funny looks from time to time.....god help anyone who tells me to be quiet!!!

[Tarquin]

How about shamelessly purloining the "stand up for the Ulstermen" chant? Might cause the monocles of some supporters eyes to fall as eyebrows are raised in horror, but LawrenceBryce em

[hingwy]

Not too fussed about a song, 2 or 3 good chants would do me. If supporters want to sing a song it needs to be a simple 4 line verse that can be repeated rather than 6 verses long.

Oh well, 2 days on after I started this thread, at least there's been a bit less apathy than I'd originally expected. I've picked out Legless's message to quote here because it reflects exactly what I feel too. Songs will never work with such an introverted and alcohol free audience as we usually have. So it has to be a simple chant, short and simple that can dip in and out without effort. Hence the "One Edinburgh" suggestion. It might be footie'ish and it might be naff, but on those (thankfully less) rare euphoric moments we have with tries and victories, I tend not to get too worried about naffness or chavness. I find it hard to believe that anyone would shush someone chanting or even give strange looks, is this not just your imagination because of the lack of general joining in? If anyone is genuinely being disapproving of an innocent chant, they're the ones that need to take a good hard look at themselves....and get them to a nunnery not a rugby ground, the pri*cks.

Bottom line, the club has to do something to wipe out that pathetic deathly hush, it's simply not an option to keep it like it is if we're hoping to grow the crowds.

[hingwy]

another point, does half the problem of people not chanting enough or giving strange looks not come from the fact that we have totally lost our identity, I mean in terms of whether it's Edinburgh or Gunners? Can something not be done to firmly establish it one way or the other and not leave it hanging in the balance. I would tend to shout "Gunners" simply because it rolls off the tongue so much easier and fits into a Guuuuunners type chant, but half the reason most people hold back from joining in is because they think we don't have the right to call ourselves Gunners any more. Who in the establishment can officially re-establish a sense of tribal identity and togetherness one way or another to get us out of this rut? One of Nick's letters might be a starting point.