LeRouxIsPHat wrote:You missed the point. It's not a song that's well known to younger generations, at least not those from Munster. So it would be next to impossible for it to catch on.
And yet "Ireland's Call" was introduced from nowhere and we sung the crappy lyrics with embarrassed gusto because it was all we had to unite us! You don't think that fans are capable of adopting a song with real relevance and history if the context and tradition- passed great, etc. Is explained? Don't buy that.
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Two wrongs don't make a right.
In fact perhaps what might be more appropriate would be for Munster to replace the field with the isle as a means of remembering one of their great legends.
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LeRouxIsPHat wrote:You missed the point. It's not a song that's well known to younger generations, at least not those from Munster. So it would be next to impossible for it to catch on.
And yet "Ireland's Call" was introduced from nowhere and we sung the crappy lyrics with embarrassed gusto because it was all we had to unite us! You don't think that fans are capable of adopting a song with real relevance and history if the context and tradition- passed great, etc. Is explained? Don't buy that.
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Two wrongs don't make a right.
In fact perhaps what might be more appropriate would be for Munster to replace the field with the isle as a means of remembering one of their great legends.
There are no wrongs there at all; just an illustration of the fact there's no reason, other than the valid one of taste, to say we couldn't or shouldn't pick the song as a more suitable alternative to Ireland's Call.
But I suspect the multiplicity of 'reasons' is really an unease at a Munster-connected song being adopted. Pity.
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artaneboy wrote:
But I suspect the multiplicity of 'reasons' is really an unease at a Munster-connected song being adopted. Pity.
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No, the unease is because its a very poor idea.
Its not just a Munster song btw, its also the Coolmine club song and I wouldn't be surpised if there were other clubs out there in Ireland and Scotland who use it
artaneboy wrote:
But I suspect the multiplicity of 'reasons' is really an unease at a Munster-connected song being adopted. Pity.
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No, the unease is because its a very poor idea.
Its not just a Munster song btw, its also the Coolmine club song and I wouldn't be surpised if there were other clubs out there in Ireland and Scotland who use it
Really??? Well, if it's that bad an idea you better offer something other than that weak as milky tea Coolmine alibi.
BTW, definitive provenance and all that stuff, didn't stop Munster, then Liverpool robbing Pete St John's "Fields" on its right province/ club. A good song in context is a good song in context.
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Oldschool wrote:
But I suspect the multiplicity of 'reasons' is really an unease at a Munster-connected song being adopted. Pity.
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Read the title of this thread and keep your suspicions to your yourself or for another thread whichever you prefer.
Don't get po-faced or preachy; you're easily the least entitled to do that here. But I think my point is made.
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