Re: Campaign to use English national anthem. : Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:41 pm  

GSTQ all the way. It's the English national anthem, end of.

If there is any campaign, it should be to change that horrific bagde on the England RL shirt. I still can't believe anyone actually voted for that

Re: Campaign to use English national anthem. : Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:14 pm  

god save the queen is the BRITISH anthem not the English anthem.

Re: Campaign to use English national anthem. : Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:25 pm  

IT has to be land of hope and glory when the team comes out

Re: Campaign to use English national anthem. : Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:32 pm  

If i had to choose it would be Jerusalem for me.

Re: Campaign to use English national anthem. : Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:36 pm  

Gangnam Style, Without a doubt.

Re: Campaign to use English national anthem. : Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:46 pm  

land of hope and glory. Im probably not the only other person in England that has a problem with singing an anthem to a living unelected monarch .

Re: Campaign to use English national anthem. : Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:25 pm  

meast wrote:

god save the queen is the BRITISH anthem not the English anthem.

True but the national anthem sung by English sporting teams is GSTQ. Football, yawnion, cricket, whatever. RL should stay the same.

Re: Campaign to use English national anthem. : Tue Jul 16, 2013 8:39 pm  

Enough of this Nationalist/Devoltionalism Ballix. I'm British, not English.

Re: Campaign to use English national anthem. : Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:29 pm  

wigan_rlfc wrote:

Enough of this Nationalist/Devoltionalism Ballix. I'm British, not English.

Nonsense, I'm English, then British. Andy Murray is Scottish when he loses and British when he wins.

Re: Campaign to use English national anthem. : Tue Jul 16, 2013 11:14 pm  

ANYTHING is better than God Save The Queen. It's bad enough that our head of state runs a family of chinless wonders whose only talent is for Tax Dodging without people singing a song saying how gracious and noble she is - give me a 32 million quid a year for walking round chatting to people and I'll be as gracious as you like!

Anyway, God save the queen is too short, Kiwis got the right idea, 5 minutes long - then they sing it in another language and then they do a Haka whilst pulling funny faces - great stuff.

By comparison God Save the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (ooops, sorry, I mean Queen, we are all good friends now etc) just gets mumbled by the players for a few awkward seconds and comes across as flat, usually sounds like it should be played at a low budget funeral - awful.

Land of hope and glory please.