Sing like nobody's listening.

Rd 16 v Fremantle

 

There’s one thing worse than leading a game for three quarters before conceding seven goals to zip in the last and finishing up 34 point losers. That thing is Fremantle’s club song.

Following a spirited display for most of the game I know I felt pretty flat when the final siren sounded. I sat there thinking, “well, that was rubbish,” and then the Freo club song started, rubbish had new meaning.

Their biggest mistake in my opinion was to change the song late last year. Essentially they just updated it. Instead of being treated after every win to the original epic that (in it’s entirety) lasted a massive 3 minutes 14 seconds, we’ve been left with a shallower, trimmed version. A version trying to be good but sounding terrible. The original however, was so terrible it sounded great. Many a joyous occasion has called for a rendition of the infamous Freo heave ho! Freo heave ho!

While I’m on this, if anyone can explain to me what being a roller and a rocker means within an AFL context, please do. 

My favourite verse:
We're gonna roll 'em and we'll rock 'em
We're gonna send 'em to the bottom
And if they get up, we'll do it again
The Dockers stop at nothing – nothing

Nothing, apart from quality lyrical choices apparently.

Anyone partially attentive will recognise these youtube clips becoming a regular on this blog. Let me explain; not being a master of the technological world, this streaming of youtube on a blog is basically the height of amazing for me. It’s kind of like when a kid realises they’re pretty good at one thing in particular and begins doing it incessantly without care of how tiresome it may have become. Mine was drawing whale fins in water.

This week I learnt that Melbourne genuinely can’t play at Docklands having lost their past 13 games there. I also learnt that my friends will shower me with ski jokes over the coming days considering only 13,284 stopped by to watch the game. That’s the third lowest crowd for an AFL game in Docklands’ history. This week we’re heading up to TIO Stadium for a game against Port Adelaide. The average crowd for that stadium is 10,999. Sounds about right I guess.

It just so happens I was watching some footage of Mark ‘Jacko’ Jackson as a Demons player earlier today and it struck me that we could use a character like that on the park. Jacko was an absolute clown in his playing days but the kind of clown that would invigorate his teammates. Maybe we could get Jeremy Howe in a heavy coat of face paint and watch him do tricks 3 meters in the air over someone’s head? Not sure how that would go invigorating players so much as angry Darwin carnies.

In finishing and having spoken to some extent about theme songs this week, I feel it a duty of mine to offer the Eagles a fresh approach. Currently their song has a baffling obsession with the words flying high. So to make it a little more engaging I’d like to introduce my new hero, Dennis Parker, who’s done all the work for them already. Don’t thank me West Coast, thank Dennis.

Go Dees.

 

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJOywTZboI4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yd5mq2vLnI