2 things, firstly, the absoltely diabolical song by some mixed raced chick, who is lovely to look at, and is "representative" of the UK, but her hair is so **** it looks like a Lion's mane, she might have a decent voice, but wheh she sings she twitches her head like she's the latest X-****** winner. Why, oh why, do the RFU fail so badly on this? I remember before, we had Russel Watson, lovely guy, great operatic voice, but ****, not something people want to join in and sing, just like this time. My brother is clasically trained a chorister/singer, but he and my family would admit that to sing "Swing Low" you'd want to have a bluesy voice, not some classically trained vibrato. AWFUL, just awful, why do the RFU get this continually wrong? 57 old farts? There are some pricks who are in the RFU who were there in the 90s, occupying roles that should be given to people who have played the professional game.
You want to inspire a nation? forget x-********, get yourself down to any of a number of South London choirs, of whom many are black and would sing "Swing Low" with passion and plenty of harmony. Make it sung with passion. How could you have chosen such a baseless version of the song? Sing it with soul. You'd have 80k people at Twickenham trying to sound as sexy and as gorgeous as a soul choir singing that song. A Black choir is also perfectly English, and British. We have 10th generational "black Brits" here, they are more British than I am, lets celebrate them and everyone else who wants to be a Brit and sing loud and sure.
Finally, we need a good clear out of the RFU, every few years we need to almost have a group that reviews and gets rid of people who aren't actilvely for the game as it is. The RFU is crap, it has been down again, already to be out of touch and crap. Let's have some new blood, a new feel and play rugby the way it was supposed to be played.
You want to inspire a nation? forget x-********, get yourself down to any of a number of South London choirs, of whom many are black and would sing "Swing Low" with passion and plenty of harmony. Make it sung with passion. How could you have chosen such a baseless version of the song? Sing it with soul. You'd have 80k people at Twickenham trying to sound as sexy and as gorgeous as a soul choir singing that song. A Black choir is also perfectly English, and British. We have 10th generational "black Brits" here, they are more British than I am, lets celebrate them and everyone else who wants to be a Brit and sing loud and sure.
Finally, we need a good clear out of the RFU, every few years we need to almost have a group that reviews and gets rid of people who aren't actilvely for the game as it is. The RFU is crap, it has been down again, already to be out of touch and crap. Let's have some new blood, a new feel and play rugby the way it was supposed to be played.
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