luckyBatistuta Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 3 hours ago, Shanks said no said: If I fancy a greet I play this Love that, but wouldn’t have it as our NA 45 minutes ago, jack D and coke said: The only time FOS makes me cringe is when those rugby sorts sing it. Everyone of them a wee nawbag standing their giving us all a riddy in their posh Edinburgh accents. GTF. Scotland the Brave always been my preferred choice tbh just more uplifting and takes away the embarrassing lines about being a nation again. The ones that make me cringe the most are the folks who absolutely belt it out looking like they’re gonna burst with pride...yet they voted No. I know a few of them too😤😡 Love StB, especially when the drums kick in to accompany the pipes, but still rather have FoS 28 minutes ago, JudyJudyJudy said: I stopped singing it at matches after the 2014 Indy result as a protest ! See I was a right Indy supporter 👍 Protest over, get singing it again. Yes and proud 🏴👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack D and coke Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 33 minutes ago, JudyJudyJudy said: I stopped singing it at matches after the 2014 Indy result as a protest ! See I was a right Indy supporter 👍 I know you were pal lol I believe you👍🏼 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack D and coke Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, luckyBatistuta said: Love that, but wouldn’t have it as our NA The ones that make me cringe the most are the folks who absolutely belt it out looking like they’re gonna burst with pride...yet they voted No. I know a few of them too😤😡 Love StB, especially when the drums kick in to accompany the pipes, but still rather have FoS Protest over, get singing it again. Yes and proud 🏴👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Oh well you never know ! Been told I’m a good singer actually 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seymour M Hersh Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 No idea for a replacement tbh but I do think it's a bit of a dirge, as did the writer Roy Williamson. GSTQ is another pretty awful dirge that could be done away with. A pity we cannot come up with something like the Welsh, French or Italian anthems all of which I think are great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seymour M Hersh Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 1 hour ago, jack D and coke said: The only time FOS makes me cringe is when those rugby sorts sing it. Everyone of them a wee nawbag standing their giving us all a riddy in their posh Edinburgh accents. GTF. Scotland the Brave always been my preferred choice tbh just more uplifting and takes away the embarrassing lines about being a nation again. It was being sung at Rugby Internationals long before it was ever sung by the Tartan Army. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XB52 Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Love Highland cathedral but no good for singing so stick with FoS till independence, then we can maybe have a competition to see if anyone can come up with a new one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Towering in gallant fame, Scotland my mountain hame, High may your proud standards, Gloriously wave, Land of my high endeavour, Land of the shining rivers, Land of my heart for ever, Scotland the brave. Stirring stuff and aspirational not a dirge and niggly wee go about a 700 year-old fight. Otherwise what about Auld Lang Syne ? Just about everyone in the English-speaking world already knows it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 13 minutes ago, Seymour M Hersh said: No idea for a replacement tbh but I do think it's a bit of a dirge, as did the writer Roy Williamson. GSTQ is another pretty awful dirge that could be done away with. A pity we cannot come up with something like the Welsh, French or Italian anthems all of which I think are great. My dad always switched the telly off when GSTQ came on . I couldn’t believe when a guy I had recently became friends stood up when it came on in a pub one night at an international . I was mortified . I thought he was joking . I should have ended it there and then 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharmaceutical01 Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Donald, where's your troosers?? 😁 Seriously, Caledonia is the greatest song written about someone missing Scotland..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack D and coke Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 22 minutes ago, Seymour M Hersh said: It was being sung at Rugby Internationals long before it was ever sung by the Tartan Army. I’m not really fussed about that bud. I’m not anti rugby btw I enjoy the 6 nations and watching Scotland (if you can call it enjoyable that is sometimes 😬) it just has extra cringe now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pap Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Folk saying they stand there in silence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 11 minutes ago, Pap said: Folk saying they stand there in silence I do just like I do when they play 500 Miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack D and coke Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Pap said: Folk saying they stand there in silence That was the Italy game. Everyone in the stadium that night was pished I reckon. I loved the Saturday evening Scotland games. France at home that group was equally sensational. We used to have buses and was great to go to games with my pals who are mibbe hibby tramps etc. It was in the rain that night too a really Scottish night it’s one of the best games and atmospheres I’ve ever seen experienced in my life. Was it McFadden who missed the open goal from about 6 yards after Ferguson equalised? 🙈😂 Obviously with Scotland the old sting in the tail as per right at the death but an absolutely exhilarating occasion all day. How people can’t enjoy Scotland games is beyond me tbh. Edited August 4, 2022 by jack D and coke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueRiver Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 13 hours ago, Pap said: If you ever went to a Scotland game, you'd sing it and your lying if you say you wouldnt I didn’t say I wouldn’t. I still think it’s a bit pish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueRiver Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 12 hours ago, Roxy Hearts said: Just heard the the English swimming commentator say he likes when Duncan Scott wins so he can hear Flower of Scotland! So many cringe merchants in Scotland, I wish they'd just GTF! Don’t understand how not liking the anthem makes me a cringe merchant? It’s a pish dirge about a battle 700 years ago. You like it, that’s fine. I don’t. Also fine. Wish folk like you would just GTF tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueRiver Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 11 hours ago, Jambos_1874 said: Insane In The Brain Would be an accurate representation of some of the country if some of the melts in this thread are anything to go by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pap Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 1 hour ago, FWJ said: I do just like I do when they play 500 Miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxy Hearts Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 18 minutes ago, BlueRiver said: Don’t understand how not liking the anthem makes me a cringe merchant? It’s a pish dirge about a battle 700 years ago. You like it, that’s fine. I don’t. Also fine. Wish folk like you would just GTF tbh. Have a nice day bud 🏴 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dobmisterdobster Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Flower of Scotland does the job just fine. People know the words to it. Nobody knows the words to some obscure Robert Burns poem that would presumably replace it. If it ain't broke etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueRiver Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 23 minutes ago, Roxy Hearts said: Have a nice day bud 🏴 I’m not sure what your implication is with the flag? anyway off you go pal. Sure there’s a few other threads you and all the tadgers can ruin by turning into Indy debates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack D and coke Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 It’s pretty good there tbf… Think I got something in my eye when that was playing.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo_jim2001 Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, pharmaceutical01 said: 😁 Seriously, Caledonia is the greatest song written about someone missing Scotland..... Gets my vote😎😎😎 Edited August 4, 2022 by Jambo_jim2001 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 16 hours ago, Roxy Hearts said: Just heard the the English swimming commentator say he likes when Duncan Scott wins so he can hear Flower of Scotland! So many cringe merchants in Scotland, I wish they'd just GTF! I'm with this guy. GTF haters! "Oh flower of Scotlaaaaaannnnn" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 20 hours ago, Jeffros Furios said: Male Stripper .. Man 2 Man Our high school bus driver had this playing on repeat for weeks. See now I think about that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchy frog Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 I'm not a massive fan of FOS but when they do the bit at Murrayfield of stopping the music for the last verse it makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxy Hearts Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 7 hours ago, BlueRiver said: I’m not sure what your implication is with the flag? anyway off you go pal. Sure there’s a few other threads you and all the tadgers can ruin by turning into Indy debates. It's our flag bud. Just sharing we're on the same side i.e. Scottish but not about the anthems. You OK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Fredrickson Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaliveits105 Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 The Murrells have an oven ready anthem for an Indy Scotland Where are you all coming from? From Scotland where we belong Are you talking just like us? No, we Smurf, it's much less fuss Do you do things that we don't dare? We are real Smurfs so we don't care This is the song with the nice refrain Yes, we will sing it once again The Flute Smurf begins: {Instrumental Interlude} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueRiver Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 2 hours ago, Roxy Hearts said: It's our flag bud. Just sharing we're on the same side i.e. Scottish but not about the anthems. You OK? Stressful day at work. Shouldn’t have been posting with an empty head. I apologise. 🏴 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott herbertson Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 It would be this for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watt-Zeefuik Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Not my call but to me Caledonia and Is There For Honest Poverty would be improvements. Scotland the Brave is undefeated globally in its instrumental form. FWIW the biggest problem with the Star Spangled Banner is everyone feels the need to turn it into a dirge. It was based on a jaunty 18th century song about drunken hookups at an amateur musician's society, and I wish we'd sing it like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That thing you do Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 On 03/08/2022 at 16:10, Bonnie Prince Charlie said: Great win for Mcolgan (sp?) but how crap and uninspiring is that crap anthem? I heard the NI anthem shortly before that and that was bloody good, same when England play their games song rather than god save the queen crap. Surely we have enough brains in this country to come up with a decent anthem? Highland Cathedral. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxy Hearts Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 8 hours ago, BlueRiver said: Stressful day at work. Shouldn’t have been posting with an empty head. I apologise. 🏴 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Flower of Scotland has had its day. Great for the 1990 grand slam, but a dirge now. If independence ever came around, "Scotland will Flourish" is a forward looking and inclusive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenbank2 Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 I'm deadly serious. This. As a nationed renowned for not taking ourselves too seriously, the guitar and drum intro would have any occasion jumping! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooperstar Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 Nothing wrong with Flower of Scotland. The vast majority of other nations anthems are worse than it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unknown user Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 31 minutes ago, Sooperstar said: Nothing wrong with Flower of Scotland. The vast majority of other nations anthems are worse than it. Yeah, I like it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 I've revised my opinion. Instead of Flower of Scotland, a song to unite the nation is Beautiful Sunday by Daniel Boone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jb102 Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Verse 6 of the current national anthem- "Lord grant that Marshal Wade, May by thy mighty aid, Victory bring. May he sedition hush, And like a torrent rush, Rebellious Scots to crush, God Save the King." Not sung very often these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pap Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 On 04/08/2022 at 11:06, FWJ said: I do just like I do when they play 500 Miles. Meant to ask. Did you celebrate when Leigh Griffiths scored the two into England? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pap Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 1 hour ago, jb102 said: Verse 6 of the current national anthem- "Lord grant that Marshal Wade, May by thy mighty aid, Victory bring. May he sedition hush, And like a torrent rush, Rebellious Scots to crush, God Save the King." Not sung very often these days. Nobody outside Scotland or England even cares about the lyrics to our anthems. Not even the Scots and English when they play each other, care. I like both songs. Good rousing songs that are great at the football. Its just a wee mob with petted lips that want it dropped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 (edited) I can sing Flower of Scotland with pride, unlike some. I like Scotland the brave, Caledonia and Scots what hae. I like say it with pride anaw(Who remembers that song?) Edited August 18, 2022 by ri Alban Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FWJ Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Pap said: Meant to ask. Did you celebrate when Leigh Griffiths scored the two into England? Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Gin Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 On 04/08/2022 at 10:01, I P Knightley said: Scotland the Brave was the anthem played at the first international match I went to (Murrayfield, not Hampden). I've never understood why FoS was adopted over it, other than the fact that it's anti-English whilst StB simply makes do with celebrating Scotland. Nobody seemed to know the words to Scotland the Brave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Cockade Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 Something more upbeat you say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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frankblack Posted September 11, 2022 Share Posted September 11, 2022 2 hours ago, ri Alban said: Apologies if already posted... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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