";s:4:"text";s:4186:" It’s not a great way to start, throwing out the traditional club theme songs.”Of course the decision by the league hasn’t sat well with many fans and even has experts questioning the bizarre call.Redoing AFL club songs.
Minor lyric changes were only made following requests from respective football clubs.”FOOTY fans have claimed the AFL has “lost the plot” for their decision to shamelessly overhaul a massive part of almost every club.Most of the traditional Victorian club songs were recorded in 1972 by The Fable Singers and thus have become ingrained in the football landscape.“We’ll stick with the old version for as long as we possibly can … it will be playing (against Hawthorn in Round 1), you better believe it, otherwise you will see me jump out of the stands with a big red face!”“The AFL was approached by a number of clubs to provide minor updates to their songs,” Auld said in a statement to SEN.Travis Auld, AFL general manager of clubs, also said that all clubs were offered the opportunity to alter their songs.
The people in suits in the board room all cheer and raise a glass. Sports > List > AFL > Club Songs > Collingwood. Side by side we stick together, to uphold The Magpies name. We listened to them and the original is the best. Other clubs have continued to rewrite other songs' lyrics to suit their team, with four of the 18 team songs having both original lyrics and music.
The new songs will have slight changes to the lyrics and musical soundtracks.Whether or not the new tunes will prove to be a hit with fans come Thursday is a whole other story, my bet is there’ll be just as much backlash as there was when the decision was announced.Thankfully if you happen to be a Collingwood fan, there’s good news for you as president Eddie McGuire stated they’ll ignore the instruction.“If it’s some sort of ham-fisted attempt to engage the audience, well I’ve given you the tip guys. The first team song was the Collingwood song "Good Old Collingwood Forever", written by player Tom Nelson in 1906 to the tune of "Goodbye, Dolly Gray", an American music hall song. The people in suits in the board room all cheer and raise a glass.Re-recording AFL theme songs is an extremely troubling development and there is not one bit of sarcasm, I promise, in this tweet.
AFL/VFL | Old Theme Songs Ranked From Worst To Best - YouTube Collingwood theme song. Good old Collingwood forever, we know how to play the game.
“In doing so, we offered all the clubs the ability to have a new recording, to offer stronger digital sound quality. AFL logic: fans loves the old school theme songs, they also love daytime GF's, so let's look at changing both. ♂️ Why do it?
The plot has been lost.I just read that they've re-recorded all the club songs for AFL games this year and NO THANK YOU“In the end it is a pretty straight-forward decision for us. A number of the club songs are old recordings of diminishing quality.