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How about ......we are Doncaster Rovers and proud of it. Let's forget the 'pubteam', 'likes of' etc that's what the Leeds fans do when they try and enhance their image by shouting out 'we are scum' .I don't think our club likes the idea of us seemingly demeaning everything we have achieved over the last 10 years...........even in jest. Of course I may be wrong .
All our songs are crap. No originality. Some years ago we were at Burnley am told. Usual hammering every week. We'd lost to em quite recently. Some wag took a cake or summat and the chant was "And so this is Burnley and what have we done......we've lost here already would you like a cream bun!!!! How true it was not sure but I like to tell the tale
Quote from: hoolahoop on January 10, 2013, 05:22:48 pmHow about ......we are Doncaster Rovers and proud of it. Let's forget the 'pubteam', 'likes of' etc that's what the Leeds fans do when they try and enhance their image by shouting out 'we are scum' .I don't think our club likes the idea of us seemingly demeaning everything we have achieved over the last 10 years...........even in jest. Of course I may be wrong .When you say our club, who's club do you mean?Technically, the three musketeers own the club (or the vast majority of it) but doesn't the club belong to the fans?I know John Ryan tried to kill the pub team thing but does that mean the fans have give up on that idea?In my opinion, JR got the pub team entirely wrong. The fans were having a lot of fun with that tag and it was liked among other supporters. It didn't demean our past, it celebrated it. We are a small club, then and instead of getting all hoity-toity about it, JR should have celebrated our size. We're not Man Utd, the heavyweight champions, we're Donny Rovers, the best pound-for-pound fighters in the league! The pub team thing could have and should have been used on official merchandise, then they would have made a few bob on it too.Leeds were christened "scum" by opposing fans due to their fans bad behaviour. The behaviour has improved. I can vouch for that personally because my wife is a Leeds fan and I have been to Leeds matches home and away with here. However, they still get the Leeds scum chant, often during matches where they aren't even playing (I've never understood that). So, they've embraced it in mockery of opposing fans who still insist on referring to them as scum. Personally, I don't think it works. I think it encourages opposition fans into continuing to goad them in this unpleasant way.Pub team, or the likes of is nothing like this. The tag ridicules the so called big clubs who struggle against us. It's fun and irreverent.You'll be saying the Crazy Gang tag demeaned Wimbledon next!