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Is the Dome becoming a Fortress again?

You'll recieve a one man standing ovation from behind you, Row G, seat 34 my friend.

Just once, I'd like to see an oppossing team Rick Roll'd during their introduction.

skip, that would be a great thing to see.

I would really like to see the same coloured shirts worn by the fans as previously suggested here as well.

Kev, I tried to not slag off at anyone on our team, many others have done enough of that this week.

Skip - I personally like the stomp and clap to "We Will Rock You", especially with 5,000+ when we're on D.

Maybe crank that at the start of a quarter when it's not our arrow until the opposition scores? Little generic I'll grant you, but I like the ol' skool routines.

DB5: I thought Mal recruited Ryan Kersten for that same reason?

Personally, I'd like to see Murray minding his own business, interacting with fans... when a team of ninjas wearing opposing club headbands rappel from the ceiling, forcing the Dome's favourite bird to launch into an epic beat down, Jet Li style.

Bodies flying everywhere, Skip cranking the ol' school bad lip-sync martial arts movie dialogue and sound effects "Wanna fight?! Fight ME! Ki-ya!"




Yeah, I drank a bit last night.

Only do food things when we play the Blaze. Pero would vacuum up the crumbs before you ask!

We need to get Grizz and his dreads into a Predator mask for his introduction to the crowd.

The only thing Murray is good for is pelting those balls thrown at the end of the game into unsuspecting spectators.

My understanding is that's it's not viable from a lighting point of view (as the stadium lights take a while to heat up) but the lights out Chicago Bulls-esque introductions as done in Perth for many years is a great pre-match hype up. Goosebumps everytime.

I remeber the tramploine guys from the early 90's. I think they were called the Gym Wits. To get them for some half time entertainment would be fine but I feel we over did it a tad last time.

I also liked Murray's acrobatic antics of the past but we have to realise it is not the same person and those acrobatic antics must have been very difficult ( I would fall flat even with out the suit LOL).

Yes I think the crowd involvment is increasing but it also seems that we have a reason too. Certainly the long term season ticket holders near me and myself included are getting more involved. The team seems to play with more passion, more willing to stand up for themselves and each other.

Music is fine, it is good that it has toned down a bit. It adds more to the atmosphere instead of dominating it.

Half time entertainment for me is alchohol and a chance to stand up so not really bothered. Only see the last few minutes any way.

Distribute 6,000 blue and yellow air horns.

Murray's fine, skip - was a tongue in cheek cheap shot at the recently departed.

He's usually sat in the crowd somewhere / walking around etc. We should come up with some more controversial on court antics for him...like UFC style bouts with opposing mascots at half time.

Although, next time Brett is shooting his 100 free throws, Mr. Magpie better be at the other end with the slingshot :p

Amen re: disco *shudders*

Crowd numbers and noise are up. Can't wait for that play off intensity to come into full effect.


Offtopic - We should replace the guy in the Magpie suit with someone that spends the whole game interacting with the crowd / waving their arms around and such. *ponders*

It's definitely feeling that way. There's been a few comments in the league lately at how Adelaide has the best atmosphere, even Al Westover said that it was a harsh place for opposition teams to play.

Whoever decided to cut back the 'disco' atmosphere a little (after some scathing criticism from Ken Cole in the paper) really did well. 2 years ago the crowd got drowned out by top 40 songs, now every defensive possession seems to get a great 'defense' chant going.

I think also, we have a lot of players this year that the crowd can really get behind; Maher obviously, but also Ballinger, Schensch, Davidson, Brad Hill is starting to have that effect also.