What needs to happen is the people who like singing need to stand together, then what happens is it filters through the rest of the crowd who are too shy to start singing. Look at Wigan UltraBrigs flags, they are like a roman standard and the boisterous fans flock round the flags and start to sing.
The only thing i can see being the advantage of those flags they have.

We need a 'prepared to START singing' focal point/area.

Brilliant

Where i was used to be the focal point but I got ed off with all the little teenagers wanting to get ed and generally cause a nuisance of themselves.

Could always get the PA system to start the chant/singing like they did at the Bulls

I agree, but it's quite difficult in rugby imo. United are very good at original songs and player based songs, but they have the stretford end to kick them off then the rest of the fans learn them. it would be difficult to recreate that, when we look at the teams that do sing alot, Hull, Wigan, Leeds, Hull are the only team out of those 3 that have relatively original songs, wigan's are just football songs, as are Leeds.

That was probably because the scousers in our crowd were more bothered about what was going on at Liverpool v QPR than us getting pasted by the Pies at Wembley.

Mind you its a good job they made the most of it.

Northwest Primrose and Blue

Woah oh oh oh

Widnes fans still sing "Your Gonna Get Your Fecking Heads Kicked In.."!!

How are those grapes????

It was a bizzarre post from you though 'ditch', why would a group playing as a band constituate being 'childish' or 'not grown up'?!

Do you dislike drumming/songs being sung at games and consider it not grown up?

Whatever floats ya boat is all im am saying!!
I spent season after season listening to Geordie trying to get some kind of Atmosphere going both at the HJ and at Wilderspool,many times people were eating out of his hand..
Some days those Drums became a Dull Thud so much so your teeth would hurt just listening to them!!
I have been on coaches,Buses,and trains to the sound of!!!!Dum Dum Dum DUM dum Dum Dum Dum Nar Na NAR,Nar na Nar WIRES!!!!!!!!!!

It does get to you after a while,besides since Geordie hung up is sticks the other guys have no Rhythem if you know what i mean!

Quote: the flying biscuit "Raymond is spot on I remember when a male voice choir did pre match entertainment for one game at the HJ and were soundly booed when they sang you'll never walk alone. to my mind in the 80's we were the only rugby fans to sing that..... We roared it out at the final whistle at Wembley in 1990 so much so Alex Murphy in the commentary said Listen to the wigan fans cheering their victorious team....!! it was sung on numerous occasions throughout the 86 Premiership final...... happy days..... the last good song we had was the Langer song ....'" widnes sung this in the 70s early 80s even at wembley starts around 1min 45 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3yFdIx- ... re=related

Quote: the flying biscuit "Raymond is spot on I remember when a male voice choir did pre match entertainment for one game at the HJ and were soundly booed when they sang you'll never walk alone. to my mind in the 80's we were the only rugby fans to sing that..... We roared it out at the final whistle at Wembley in 1990 so much so Alex Murphy in the commentary said Listen to the wigan fans cheering their victorious team....!! it was sung on numerous occasions throughout the 86 Premiership final...... happy days..... the last good song we had was the Langer song ....'" widnes sung this in the 70s early 80s even at wembley starts around 1min 45 www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3yFdIx- ... re=related