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Bag Pipers or Opera singer for saturday ?

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  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 4,420
    How can he be called a regular in SE7 when he a) hasn't been here since 2007, and b) was only there about 5 or 6 times then.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,413
    Looking forward to the "Go Compare" song.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,952
    Glad to hear it. I hope all the miserable bastards who dismissed this post when i started it a few weeks back put in their complaint letters to the club first thing...
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,288
    Quality! Back to the glory days... lets get the win now!
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,275
    Great stuff!
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,300
    edited February 2011
    [cite]Posted By: Bedsaddick[/cite]Glad to hear it. I hope all the miserable bastards who dismissed this post when i started it a few weeks back put in their complaint letters to the club first thing...

    Hear, hear Beds. I for one am looking forward to hearing him again and all the other pre-match build up events. I think there's far too many people who are caught up on their self image and what other people think of us. Balls. We are and always have been a family club and whether you like it or not that's what our recent success was built on. If the opera singer and the rest puts us all back in the mindset we had when we were doing well in the Prem' then fantastic, as we had a great atmosphere back then and other teams didn't like playing us at home.

    Chris' we've not had much to put a smile on our face at the The Valley in the last few years have we but still people moan.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,856
    [cite]Posted By: Bedsaddick[/cite]Glad to hear it. I hope all the miserable bastards who dismissed this post when i started it a few weeks back put in their complaint letters to the club first thing...

    I won't complain I'll just cringe. To me this sort of thing is artificial and plastic and dilutes "real" passion generated at football. As much as I may appreciate it as an art form outside of football I don't relate it to supporting Charlton. Opera singers/ abba tributes at a 3rd Division football match in South East London seems a bit gimmicky and pretensious to me personally. Whilst I commend the club for making efforts like this I find all this sort of razz matazz very Americanised and very Palace. Im there for Charlton not an engineered, unanuthentic football "experience".

    But if others enjoy it then fair enough and I'm probably in a minority in thinking like this and a miserable one at that.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    Will stay in the pub til 2.55 now.

    Cannot stand that bloody opera singer.

    Find it cringey.
  • CAFCdamo
    CAFCdamo Posts: 1,692
    Agree with the last two posts
    I am bringing a few mates to this and it will be cringey sitting there listening
    I would prefer to just sit there with the usual build up music
    but if you like this sort of thing then fair enough, I just dont think that opera and football go together
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    By all means bring him out when we've won something.....

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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,119
    Its a bit of fun, lighten up you old miseries.

    Majority of those who get embarrassed by this sort of things will still be in the pub
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,856
    I dont get embarrassed mate and couldnt care less what any one other than Charlton fans thinks of my club but I just find it cringeworthy and pretentious. Very fitting in Italia 90 but a bit Phony in SE7 2011 ;-)

    Still live and let live and as I said earlier if others enjoy it then good for them. But please not ABBA tributes next for crying out loud!
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Boooooooooo
    I wanted Bagpipers
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    [quote][cite]Posted By: AFKABartram[/cite]Its a bit of fun, lighten up you old miseries.

    Majority of those who get embarrassed by this sort of things will still be in the pub[/quote]

    I don't go to Charlton for FUN.

    Got your foam hand ready?
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,448
    Whats 'cringeworthy' is me and Dave Storry singing along to Nessun Dorma! we murdered 'Welcome Home' : (
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Id rather have Billy Piper !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!oooooo sorry wrong thread!
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,510
    Real ale again
  • Bexley Dan
    Bexley Dan Posts: 3,658
    Has the real ale thing finished then? Haven't heard anything about it recently and personally often don't bother having a drink before the game so hadn't noticed.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,945
    a little bit longer in the pub I think....
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,178
    i want my fiver back

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  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    Look, I paid for Ronnie Moore you know.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,108
    Don't think his voice is good enough. Ronnie Moore that is.
  • Bexley Dan
    Bexley Dan Posts: 3,658
    a couple of weeks ago they played a sort of charlton anthems mega mix - will that get another airing at some point and what's the story behind that - who 'created' it?
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    [quote][cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]Don't think his voice is good enough. Ronnie Moore that is.[/quote]

    *flicks foam hand at WSS*

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  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    [quote][cite]Posted By: Bexley Dan[/cite]Has the real ale thing finished then? Haven't heard anything about it recently and personally often don't bother having a drink before the game so hadn't noticed.[/quote]

    Had a nice pint of Courage last game still going
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,822
    If you don't like it you can read the programme. I think it is important that having got 20.000 + fans in there that the club tries to generate an atmosphere that might encourage a few of them to come again. It is generally quite entertaining to hear an opera singer - wouldn't want to sit through the whole opera but some of the tunes can be quite stirring and can help give the atmosphere a bit of a kick start.
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Pub 2.55
  • PeteF
    PeteF Posts: 1,698
    The CAFC megamix was by Bob Lawrence, and got slaughtered by some, doubt if it will re-appear
  • Bexley Dan
    Bexley Dan Posts: 3,658
    The megamix was a bit of a shocker but for pure nonsense value i found it quite amusing - would like to hear it again but probably not for the reasons it was intended. I enjoyed it in the same way that i've started to enjoy Mcoxo's performances.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,822
    Would have been much better with a crowd sample 'CAFC' chant rather than the vocal that was totally out of place. Maybe Mr Lawrence could consider it a work in progress and improve.

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