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VALLEY FLOYD ROAD: Loud and proud before KO
Neil_Heaney
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The PA is due to play VFR straight after Red Red Robin today and going forward – apparently one of the people in the recording of our version didn't want it played in the Roland era. Make sure you're listening out for it and really give it some. The Rat has gone, this is a new era, we are Charlton and this is The Valley, so let's get our anthem booming around the ground.
You never know, it may even help fulfil a decade-long dream of mine and make us sing it slower during the game too. Forest do a great job with it but our version is better, so let's make this a new tradition to be proud of.
COYR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlO6mJgKHxU
You never know, it may even help fulfil a decade-long dream of mine and make us sing it slower during the game too. Forest do a great job with it but our version is better, so let's make this a new tradition to be proud of.
COYR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlO6mJgKHxU
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Why would Forest fans sing Valley Floyd Road? 😉7
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I’m not really one for ‘manufactured’ singing, but worth giving it a go on this occasion.2
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But it's Valley Floyd Road. An original, un-manufactured anthem of ours. A little prompt from the PA to get all sides of the ground singing as one I don't think is overly-contrived. Certainly doesn't feel that way when you see 'Oh City Ground' at Forest or even Bubbles at West Ham (despite the bubble machine which is an abomination!)stonemuse said:I’m not really one for ‘manufactured’ singing, but worth giving it a go on this occasion.0 -
If we’re taking requests, any chance of Sheikh it up Baby, twist and shout?3
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Why stop there.....
Things can only get better by DREAM
and Jump around by house of pain.
Lets get the place jumping, or ‘bouncing’ as LB would say.1 -
Why does everyone applaud themselves after singing VFR?
Seems weird to me.10 -
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Sweet Caroline at Wembley got the hairs on my neck standing up5
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Personally think we should have this on the pitch and Bowyer should do a 2 footed tackle through the middle of it.
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If it is sung can it be sung as the right pace & not rushed through as if you have a train to catch.5
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We could always get a mist machine to accompany our “mist rolling in”. Or the vapers could do their thing 🙂Neil_Heaney said:
But it's Valley Floyd Road. An original, un-manufactured anthem of ours. A little prompt from the PA to get all sides of the ground singing as one I don't think is overly-contrived. Certainly doesn't feel that way when you see 'Oh City Ground' at Forest or even Bubbles at West Ham (despite the bubble machine which is an abomination!)stonemuse said:I’m not really one for ‘manufactured’ singing, but worth giving it a go on this occasion.6 -
Spotlight picks out Derek Hales in the directors box. He stands up and shoots it.ricky_otto said:Personally think we should have this on the pitch and Bowyer should do a 2 footed tackle through the middle of it.11 -
Playing the song just before kick off like West Hams and 'bubbles' or Millwall and 'let em come' normally gets the fans going. Cant see it as a bad thing.1
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What, Turning Japanese?Davo55 said:
We could always get a mist machine to accompany our “mist rolling in”. Or the vapers could do their thing 🙂Neil_Heaney said:
But it's Valley Floyd Road. An original, un-manufactured anthem of ours. A little prompt from the PA to get all sides of the ground singing as one I don't think is overly-contrived. Certainly doesn't feel that way when you see 'Oh City Ground' at Forest or even Bubbles at West Ham (despite the bubble machine which is an abomination!)stonemuse said:I’m not really one for ‘manufactured’ singing, but worth giving it a go on this occasion.9 -
I really think so!MrWalker said:
What, Turning Japanese?Davo55 said:
We could always get a mist machine to accompany our “mist rolling in”. Or the vapers could do their thing 🙂Neil_Heaney said:
But it's Valley Floyd Road. An original, un-manufactured anthem of ours. A little prompt from the PA to get all sides of the ground singing as one I don't think is overly-contrived. Certainly doesn't feel that way when you see 'Oh City Ground' at Forest or even Bubbles at West Ham (despite the bubble machine which is an abomination!)stonemuse said:I’m not really one for ‘manufactured’ singing, but worth giving it a go on this occasion.8 -
No Vaping at The Valleymuppetman said:
I really think so!MrWalker said:
What, Turning Japanese?Davo55 said:
We could always get a mist machine to accompany our “mist rolling in”. Or the vapers could do their thing 🙂Neil_Heaney said:
But it's Valley Floyd Road. An original, un-manufactured anthem of ours. A little prompt from the PA to get all sides of the ground singing as one I don't think is overly-contrived. Certainly doesn't feel that way when you see 'Oh City Ground' at Forest or even Bubbles at West Ham (despite the bubble machine which is an abomination!)stonemuse said:I’m not really one for ‘manufactured’ singing, but worth giving it a go on this occasion.3 -
MrWalker said:
What, Turning Japanese?Davo55 said:
We could always get a mist machine to accompany our “mist rolling in”. Or the vapers could do their thing 🙂Neil_Heaney said:
But it's Valley Floyd Road. An original, un-manufactured anthem of ours. A little prompt from the PA to get all sides of the ground singing as one I don't think is overly-contrived. Certainly doesn't feel that way when you see 'Oh City Ground' at Forest or even Bubbles at West Ham (despite the bubble machine which is an abomination!)stonemuse said:I’m not really one for ‘manufactured’ singing, but worth giving it a go on this occasion.
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I have a second request, but I've no doubts it won't be heeded. PLEASE can we not sing anything over the Red Red Robin other than the Red Red Robin. It always saddens me that as fans we never respect our original song.15
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Millwall actually have it right. Let em come into hey jude....ChiAddick said:Playing the song just before kick off like West Hams and 'bubbles' or Millwall and 'let em come' normally gets the fans going. Cant see it as a bad thing.
ive never really enjoyed red robin. Preference to scrap it but i am a younger (now 30) fan.Glad to see we will be playing valley floyd road.Do they still play skids into the valley i cant remember hearing it? Love that song0 -
Love that boy, slightly right of centre, with his hands on his hips:
You know what? I think this might just work...
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I appreciate that Red Red Robin is very old fashioned and more than a bit twee. For some of us though it is a point in proceedings that brings back happy memories of times (and Addicks) past. For me I always think of my dad when I hear it. I also think of my eldest son, who as a kid once got quite upset when we were late and proclaimed, "If we don't hurry up, we'll miss the Red Red Robin". So, in my mind at least, that song is something that unites three generations of our family going to Charlton.
I'm not so naive as to ask people to sing it, but I genuinely don't believe that asking people to respect it by not singing over it is too much to ask.27 -
You cannot go on about fans being at the heart of the club, tradition, all in it together and all that mularky and not respect the Red, Red Robin. It makes no sense.8
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I'm just a kid again, doing what I did again, singing this song.
Get's me every time, because it's so true.
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👍🏽👍🏽 Fair play.Stig said:I appreciate that Red Red Robin is very old fashioned and more than a bit twee. For some of us though it is a point in proceedings that brings back happy memories of times (and Addicks) past. For me I always think of my dad when I hear it. I also think of my eldest son, who as a kid once got quite upset when we were late and proclaimed, "If we don't hurry up, we'll miss the Red Red Robin". So, in my mind at least, that song is something that unites three generations of our family going to Charlton.
I'm not so naive as to ask people to sing it, but I genuinely don't believe that asking people to respect it by not singing over it is too much to ask.1 -
Yep 500 mile an hour, rather than 1000 miles an hour please cupboard end.Neil_Heaney said:1 -
RRR untouchable for me for all the reasons @Stig says, it comes up as a thread from time to time but its as a part of our fabric as the badge, our red shirts & being called the Addicks.
Katrien wasn't a fan which is good enough reason alone to keep it!
Live, love, laugh and be happy15 -
Any chance at the end of we can bring a sofa onto the pitch, have a pitch invasion and smash it up, bet no ones thought of doing that before!Could signal the changing of the guard, and be quite therapeutic!0
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One of the things I looked forward to singing during the Cardiff game and was totally drowned out by the Allez chant, guttedStig said:I have a second request, but I've no doubts it won't be heeded. PLEASE can we not sing anything over the Red Red Robin other than the Red Red Robin. It always saddens me that as fans we never respect our original song.1 -
If it means it gets sung at the appropriate speed then I’m all for it.0
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Well how did it go?0
