General Mt Smart Ground Announcer Thread

[Playdaball]

Nick Brown was getting a bit stale but that new ground announcer at Mt Smart is a shocker.
He needs to know when to keep quiet and I also hate somebody forcing a chant on the crowd.

 

[Inruin]

GnR Welcome to the Jungle.

I prefer Alien Weaponary - more uniquely our thing...

Seems like we are making some poor changes.

Thought Alien Weaponry was great and uniquely ours. Something we could all get behind that was ours. Changing to a generic GnR track, while I love them is a bit tacky.

Changing from Nick Brown is a bit like getting rid of Michael Buffer from the boxing - I say 'lets get ready' you say 'to rumble' (ok maybe not that extreme) you've heard him so much but Nick had a good feel for the game and the crowd.

And if they played the winning song at halftime then they have lost the plot and are trying way too hard. It should be a special, unique thing. Experienced and enjoyed after a win. It becomes meaningless and gimmicky used to often and at the wrong times.

I thought last season everything was pretty well balanced. So far this season it is leaning more to cringe

 

[Bay39er]

I emailed the club last night and voiced
solid disapproval

Others should do the same

My email read
Please pass onto whoever needs to know but your/our ground announcer was cringeworthy and downright embarrassing and needs to go.

It is not just my opinion but you only need to monitor social media to see what fans think of him

Regards
A very disappointed long term season member

 

[Zaggo]

The game day experience all felt very manufactured, whereas last year it felt far more organic in terms of the whole "up the wahs" thing developing.

They've really cranked it up to a cringe level now, complete with the big "UP THE WAHS" sign on the north bank and the announcer pushing it every 5 minutes.

I get that most of us here are grumpy bastards but they'd be doing well to just dial it back a notch or two. Hype has to be built, not bought.