Reply With QuotePassion at the rugby ?
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I wasn't at the game unfortunately but I just saw this video of Dafydd Iwan, incredible atmosphere. So good to see the passion behind a Welsh language song from young and old!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...rginMediaSport
Passion at the rugby ?
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Rugby?Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Sludgey, the clip is from Wales v Austria last week!
I bet you are currently phoning your mates in the metal world to do a thrash version, eh?
I was being sarcastic
At the rugby you get a few Tom Jones songs rattled out by pissed up once a year look at me in my daffodil fancy dress .
I know that , I was taking the piss
Amazing video and you wouldn't get that passion at the rugby , it's just not in the same league
Football fans, always been far far better than rugby counterparts
Very powerful song with the crowd generating a great atmosphere. Pity about the bloke at 2.00 into the clip who is more preoccupied with his phone than the fervour of the occasion.
that depends entirely on your definition of better
To be fair , I’ve followed Wales home and away for years and it’s only really since around 2015 that the atmosphere at Welsh football games has been great.
Welsh rugby on the other hand was always superb until around the redevelopment of the National Stadium (to the Millennium)
Yes that grated a bit but it was great to see so many singing with such passion. It’s not something Dafydd Iwan will ever forget.
Give him the benefit of the doubt, he was probably googling the lyrics.
We really have got to get out of this siege mentality, small country syndrome.
As a born and bred Cardiff boy, i am so proud of all our national sporting teams.
Ok, so your PE teacher may have forced the oval ball game on you, and the media maybe rugby biased, and other countries may stereotype us as a rugby nation, but we really should be moving away from all that claptrap now.We continually punch above our weight in rugby and football, so lets be proud of that.
In Italy, France, England, Ireland and Scotland both sports thrive, with no small minded animosity .
I wonder now if we'll get more than a 30 second clip of it at the CCS before City games before the 10 second clip of that Frank Hennessy noise....
Going to have to disagree with that
If Wales are not doing very well in the rugby most of the fans just get pissed
There is very little singing going on , even when Wales are on top
No real passion at all , unlike that video of the Wales Austria game
It's incredibly emotional but sadly it won't get the coverage that anything rugby related gets
A day after the win against Austria the back page of the Western Mail was covered with a story about the game v France the Saturday before
Its a complete and utter joke . There are football fans out there who in the same way the Welsh rugby fans say as long as we beat the English as long as ccfc , swans win the rugby can piss off and we can call that childish but I can understand it .
Frank Hennesey is a rugby boy and has no interest in CCFC
Which is fine because I have never met anyone who has any interest in him.
It was cringeworthy that he and daffyd Ellis Thomas........who when interviewed said he was a man United fan ffs .....were wheeled out when we got to the cup final v pompey
Stick to your rugby 🏉
You have just given some of the reasons why a lot of South Wales football fans really can't be doing with rugby and then say but never mind......
It's not as simple as that I am afraid
I quite like the Hennessy clip. Yes, it's old school and stereotypical, but he's as much a part of Cardiff - more, arguably - as Dafydd Iwan, and I say that as a proud Welsh speaker who'd love nothing more than to see more people use the language. Yma o Hyd is a tub-thumping anthem that I've shouted (my voice is awful) more times than I care to remember, but the club and city represent Welsh speakers and non-Welsh speakers alike. To be honest, I'm pleasantly surprised the song seems to have been adopted so readily by non-Welsh speakers.
I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm starting to get a bit concerned that Yma o Hyd is becoming too mainstream and far too overplayed. It's an awful comparison, but it feels like our version of Sweet Caroline, which used to be a nice song, but is now played everywhere, from numerous betting adverts to every England game.
The other huge factor being that you always get much better atmosphere at night games.
I would far rather have the full version of Yma o Hyd played before the City games than the Hennessy clip. But I understand where you're coming from.
Not if your small minded it’s not.
Wales seems to have replaced rugby as the main sport of the nation as far as those attending matches of the respective national teams go. Rugby these days, and has been for a long time, is made up of mainly middle class people and those who can afford the outrageous prices the RFU charges for tickets to watch an international game
Why?
Could it be that you feel that there is some sort of bad feeling between non-speakers and speakers of the language.
Could it be that there is some sort of snobbery surrounding the Welsh speaking migrants sweeping through Pontcanna and Canton which fuels this feeling? Shirley not.
The fact that there are people in Wales that do not speak Welsh is no fault of theirs, but the past education system here.
Non-Welsh speaking people have been singing Mae hen wlad fy nhadau for years so why would they not join their Welsh speaking compatriots in such a heart-warming anthem?
Cymru am byth
Well I think you are being disingenuous to the very people you are talking about who feel they have every right to cock their nose up at Rugby as that's exactly what they have been subject to
You have already yourself listed bullying sports teachers not allowing youngsters to play football and the media overkill
Are you saying those points you raised are not valid ?
Or they are but because YOU don't let it bother you then all those people with a disdain for Welsh rugby have to like it or lump it ?
As far as I am concerned if one of city or Swansea supporting mates say I fecking can't stand rugby I don't agree 100 percent but I can see why they give it the elbow .
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