Talk:Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi

message: It is obvious that some Australians think this chant is contemporary. 
This is ludicrous to many British persons over the age of 50 who will recognise "Oggie Oggie Oggie Oi Oi Oi" as a common chant at rugby and soccer grounds from the 1950's onwards. 
Max Boyce popularised this during the 1970's.
I'm sure someone singing the song could be found on some 1950's British film somewhere.
Peter Terson's 1960's play "Zigger Zagger" also introduced a song clearly derived from the Oggie song:
Zigger Zagger Zigger Zagger oi!, oi!, oi!, 
Zigger Zagger Zigger Zagger oi!, oi!, oi!
Zigger ! Zagger!,
Zigger ! Zagger!,
Zigger Zagger Zigger Zagger oi!, oi!, oi! 
This song was then adopted by supporters of many soccer clubs and was even recorded by Chelsea F.C. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gloveman (talk • contribs) 21:56, 12 June 2007
:Here is a video (warning: LOUD) of FC Zenit St. Petersburg chanting "Zigger Zagger". --Melburnian 07:33, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Oggie Oggie Oggie / Zigger Zagger

message: While accepting Max Boyce's explanation, (and not coming from Melbourne, but that other place), I had never heard it as Oggie Oggie, and really became aware of the chant only in the build-up to the Sydney Olympics, where it was used very widely. --Amandajm 03:48, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Aussie use of the chant

message: For what it's worth (not much I know) I heard versions of this in use at sporting events held by Melbourne private secondary schools in the late 80s and early 90s.  I know I heard an "Oggie" or possibly "Oogie" version of it chanted at an MLC swimming event around then.  Might have also heard it used by Scotch College and/or Trinity College.  Pretty sure I remember an "Aussie" version wrt cricket around the same time.  --Skud (talk) 07:36, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in Melbourne private secondary schools 

message: Cub scouts in Great Britain frequently used the Oggie chant during meetings in the mid 1980s.  I heard the Aussie version of the chant after emmigrating to Australia during the early 1990s. I initially thought that Australians clearly understood and acknowledged that the chant was an Austrlian adaption of an existing chant?  Perhaps some don't! 203.57.241.67 (talk) 03:42, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oggie Oggie Oggie as used in the UK pre-dates the Aussie version 

message: Below deleted:
It is taken from Britain; the original form of the phrase is Oggy Oggy Oggy and dates back to times when Cornwall was part of Wales. The definition of the phrase in Cornish was a means for pasty sellers to communicate to workers that it was lunch time. More recently, Max Boyce reinvented the phrase it in the 70's, and it also considered a Welsh institution in the UK. As 'Oggy' is slang term for pasty in Cornish, and as the Cornish were major immigrants into Australia due to mining in the 19th century, it is understandable how this phrase became part of Australian culture.
Oggy Oggy Oggy chants have been widespread in the UK through the 1960s to the 1990s, and made their way to Australia in the 1990s. Claims that Ozzie chants had been in Australia since the days of early Cornish miners needs a credible reference (frankly, I doubt it, because the Ozzie chant sprang up, as far as I'm aware, as a new thing in the 1990s.) The history of the Oggie chants belongs on the Oggie page. The Ozzie adaptation is based on the Oggie chant at sporting events; the history of the Oggie chant and pasties does not really figure into the Australian usage of the Ozzie chant. Format (talk) 09:48, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe... except the Australian version does not contain the word "oggie", so history of the term oggie isn't directly relevant here. Main reason to keep it in the oggie page is to avoid the duplication of the same information in two places. Format (talk) 19:08, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cornish miners and [[Oggy Oggy Oggy]]

message: I remember some commercial or video or something in the 80s.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.82.44.253 (talk) 18:26, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  commericial or video in the 80s?