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please don't sing this for 3 reasons;

1. it's too early for that
2. it makes us sound so fucking arrogant, i bet it merely adds more incentive to beat us
3. and my main point, it's possibly the lamest super-gay chant ever

as is the we are invincible and 1-0 to the champions...

Agreed. Stick to the facts!

We are top of the league and the like.

And preferably only when we are doing well, its so easy to take the piss out of a team high up who have been bigging themselves up and then go behind in a game

Does this mean the long used song at all clubs "By far the greatest team.." is now redundant apart from use at Camp Nou?

No...but people don't take that seriously so it is fine. We're going up as fucking champions is blind optimism and making yourself seem a bit up your own backside unless it is actually true

I seem to remember it being sung from about October in 95/96, and we did.

So what if other fans think we are arrogant during a game.  As a bunch of fans we are fairly realistic away from the ground with many people suggesting we were not playing superbly so far, or even expecting us to run away with things.

Inside the gorund, we can be as annoying as we like.

The only chant I would ever like to see people decapitated for signing is EASY, which has no place in football.  Dry wit (either comning across as arrogant when winning, or suicidal laughing when doing badly!) has it's place.

it doesnt help that the L&P lot :wink:  cant even hold a tune....and sing everything too fast...and every chant dies after about 30 seconds.

Our away support was much better pre-L&P all their fault!!!!

Finally someone agrees with me.

i ll tell you a chant that is shit

"ince is the guv-vun-nor
 ince is the guv-vun-nor
 ince is.............

says a L&P Lovely 8)

What a load of bollocks, arrogant chants are part of football. The joy of chants like that is that they can also be ironic. Maybe we won't go up as champions but that's not the point. We should still sing it. Not sure I've got my point across to well here.

Football chants don't have to be literal. Infact if all football chants were literal it would be a pretty bad.

"We're top and winning another game but we'd be happy with a playoff finish!" sounds shit. Mainly because it is.

I've always been half-inclined to think that more realistic songs might have a certain amusement value:

"By far the greatest team that Wiltshire's ever seen .... although Chippenham have their moments, Salisbury had that good run in the cup a few seasons back, Devizes are capable of surprises .... " etc

Or, for the town's increasingly large "non-indigenous but will turn out to support local team because I like watching football" population:

"I'm Swindon till I move, Swindon till I move....."

Come on, dmr, if you wanted all chants to be realistic, everyone outside the top flight would be singing "We're shit and we know we are". A bit of winding up the opposition and doing the "cock of the walk" bit is what makes football fun - because Christ alone knows at this level, the football rarely does  :D

worst chant ever is that 'loyal supporters' rubbish.  Its completely self-aggrandising, its like standing up and singing I'm great over and over again.

Especially when its sung by the 2000 fans who've crawled out of the woodwork now we're top....

Football songs, regardless of quality lyrics, are sung way too fast at Town games. It's not a race...

makes me laugh we all moan we dont get enough fans and then when they do come we moan at them for not coming enough or not creating enough atmosphere or we moan because they sing songs like loyal supporters

you can only sing loyal supporters if you attend 90% of the
games :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:
and if you do you will get a firm telling off

so i wont be singing it im only about at the 75% mark :oops:

It's just the "loyal supporters" chant - 1. its crap, 2. it's sung by the part timers.

Well said Mr Ian. Stop moaning you lot,they are just songs,who cares if they aren't true[lets face it we obviously aren't the Greatest team the world has ever seen] or there're sung too fast?At least some fans are trying to create a bit of atmosphere.Its easy to sit there moaning,you all sound like a bunch of snobs :P

I actually meant that we should sing about our team rather than ourselves.  Its so easy to make enemies on here!  Not sure how I sounded like a snob though, unless it was the use of a word with more than two syllables.

i agree but only with the songs with clapping in

its so funny when some of the naitionwide start and they get faster and faster until they cant go no more
 thats why some of it hasnt got such a good atmo
they all wear themselves out :D

I wasn't just having a go at you Doore,don't be so sensitive,i was having a go at Dave B too :wink:

Not a wise decision, Miss Larwood... :x

agreed. please consider those of us with reduced lung capacity due to being both fat and a smoker.

 :soapy tit wank: I've noticed that the young lads in the corner of the Nationwide make the chants go very fast,maybe its because they are all in the first flush of youth and just want everything to speed up and go very very fast.The youth of today eh :old:

I love a good chant as much as the next person...but blimey how hard is it to clap at a constant speed?!

Why speed up?! WHY?!

End of rant

Everything?!!
They'll learn. :wink:

"Sing your hearts out for the lads" is particularly gay in my humble opinion.

 :soapy tit wank:

Personally I'm a fan of the 'Dick Van Dykes a Swindon fan' chant....

Shame only about 5 of us know the words  :(

I like singing self-confident songs! We're top and we should celebrate that! Last time we were top of any league after a few games was when I was a tax-dodging student, when we won at Portsmouth in October 1997. Given the barren years that we have suffered, let's keep singing our hearts out!

 Not having a go or owt, but there is an irony when your user name is Arkell's Chris and you talk about singing.....or maybe you just like the beer  :shrug:

Is there anyway of singing that Champions song without fuckin' in it.
I'm getting a bit old man ish and anti swearing in songs. :old:

There was that game years ago when there were pieces of paper handed out saying we'd be ejected if the stewards noticed any swearing.

I remember chants of "You're rubbish and you know you are", which was actually pretty funny at the time