DO TIGERS FANS NEED A SONG?

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DO TIGERS FANS NEED A SONG?

Post by tigerssteve »

The boring and less than inspiring chant of "tigers, tigers" has been ringing around Welford Road for donkey's years. I can't be the only one who finds it so, surely? Visiting Clermont and hearing their fans sing réal songs made me wonder.

I have stolen the Irish RFU anthem which fits perfectly.

Tigers, tigers
Together standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder
In every ruck and maul.

Imagine that ringing around the ground. Any takers?
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Post by sapajo »

Well anything is better than that " take me home" durge that many folks like.
Each to their own really but if any new chant or song is to succeed it needs a majority buy in.
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Nope, nothing really against it but any attempt to shoehorn in something like this just seems a bit forced and a bit fake. If something evolves naturally on the terraces then, fine but trying to develop and shoehorn in a club song would be just a big cringeworthy and a but embarrasing to me. My opinion only though.
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This cri de coeur crops up regularly and rarely succeeds in attracting takers. If you want to sing go ahead; I'll pass, thanks.
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GB72 wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2023 11:44 am Nope, nothing really against it but any attempt to shoehorn in something like this just seems a bit forced and a bit fake. If something evolves naturally on the terraces then, fine but trying to develop and shoehorn in a club song would be just a big cringeworthy and a but embarrasing to me. My opinion only though.
In fairness, I'm not sure any song 'evolves naturally' in a sports stadium.

We only have Smoke on the Water because Johnno decided, much like tigerssteve is proposing now, that we were missing a song.

We only heard Shiny Happy People after each home victory because the DJ chose it.

Songs are obviously far more common in football and next to none of them are organic. Liverpool fans sing Si Senõr every game, a song plagiarised from River Plate, with lyrics made up by folk on forums much like this one.
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I don;t really think we need a song, but if we were going to have one I would go for Lulu's " I'm a Tiger "
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I think we should have songs about the players,Liverpools
"He's big he's red ,his feet stick out the bed.
Peter Crouch ,Peter Crouch"
is the kind of stuff I wanna hear :smt005
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Scott1 wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2023 4:46 pm I think we should have songs about the players,Liverpools
"He's big he's red ,his feet stick out the bed.
Peter Crouch ,Peter Crouch"
is the kind of stuff I wanna hear :smt005
Does Lewis Chessum fit in? :smt017 :smt044
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fentiger wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2023 4:53 pm
Scott1 wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2023 4:46 pm I think we should have songs about the players,Liverpools
"He's big he's red ,his feet stick out the bed.
Peter Crouch ,Peter Crouch"
is the kind of stuff I wanna hear :smt005
Does Lewis Chessum fit in? :smt017 :smt044
Careful,you will be accused of being a gingerist :smt003
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Post by Tykger »

You gave the world Kasabian and Showaddywaddy so there must be a good tune in there to sing a long to.
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Post by ads »

Don't forget Mark Morrison and Englebert Humperdinck!
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A song? Please, no! I would prefer to hear more fans shouting "Tigers"!
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Post by thebearisstilldeano »

Given the RFUs recent attitude to robbing us of our coaching staff, how about a version of Bad fingers " If you want it come and get it"

Or
Ah's "Take on me"

Or
Olivia Newton John and John Travolta "You're the one that I want"

Or
ACDC "Dirty deeds done cheap"
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Post by WirralExile »

After the departure of Borthwick and Sir Kev, now followed at the end of the season by Wigglesworth and Walters, maybe "Always look on the bright side of life...." would be fitting!
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Post by thebearisstilldeano »

On further consideration I'm settling on the theme tune for Shaft.
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