The Collingwood gamers do not begin singing their staff track after a win till Steele Sidebottom says they do.
It emerged after Collingwood’s 14-point win over Richmond on Friday evening that Sidebottom acts because the instigator of his membership’s well-known track, ‘Good Previous Collingwood Without end’.
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As does each staff throughout the nation, Magpies gamers lock arms in a circle contained in the altering rooms after a win, however in contrast to some other staff, the Collingwood gamers hush one another down to close silence when they’re all able to burst out into refrain.
And so they keep that manner – till Sidebottom says so.
It is a position harking back to the Australian males’s Check cricket staff’s well-known, decades-old ‘track chief’, presently held by champion spinner, Nathan Lyon.
After Check victories, Lyon rouses his teammates and training employees with an uplifting spiel earlier than giving the inexperienced mild for everybody to interrupt out into ‘Below the Southern Cross I Stand’ to have a good time the win.
The late nice Rod Marsh is credited with beginning the custom, earlier than it was handed on to among the greats of Australian males’s cricket like Allan Border, Ricky Ponting, Justin Langer and Mike Hussey earlier than it reached Lyon.
Sidebottom would not give an inspirational spiel to his teammates earlier than the track, however he does press the button on it.
“Alright BT, I need you to unravel that silence initially of the track,” Channel 7 commentator James Brayshaw stated to Brian Taylor after the Magpies completed singing their track on Friday evening.
“Who breaks it?” he added.
By likelihood, Taylor then bought maintain of the very protagonist in query, Sidebottom.
“What’s (the silence) all about?” Taylor requested Sidebottom.
“It in all probability occurred early final 12 months. It is on me; so, after I’m prepared to start out the track, we begin the track,” Sidebottom defined.
“I do not know – it is working in the meanwhile, we’re singing it fairly frequently, so we’ll maintain doing it.”
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It is the primary time Collingwood has began a season 3-Zero since 2011, after they went on to play off within the grand remaining in opposition to eventual premiers, Geelong.
“Nice begin, (we have to) maintain the ball rolling now,” Sidebottom stated.
