Footy star Kyle Amor wants ‘childish’ rugby league players to stop celebrating wins with team songs

Rugby league star Kyle Amor is no stranger to winning matches, but he thinks the celebratory team songs performed afterwards are ‘childish’ and should be done away with.

Amor, an Irish four-time Super League Champion and former St Helens and Warrington Wolves prop, has opened up about what he least likes about the game – and the team song is high on his list.

He lifted the lid on what’s always annoyed him about rugby league and should be moved ‘onto the bench’ and out of the sport in an appearance on The Bench podcast. 

‘My “onto the bench” would be the team victory song’, I hate it. Hate it,’ he said.

Podcast host Jon Wilkin, a former St Helens star, agreed with Amor.

Irish international rugby league legend Kyle Amor (pictured right) is no stranger to winning matches, but he thinks the celebratory team songs performed afterwards are ‘childish’

Amor says he’s hated celebrating team songs for years and that grown men carry on like ‘an under 11’s team’ when they perform them (pictured, Penrith NRL stars sing after a win)

Amor continued: ‘You’ve got a bunch of grown men and somebody bangs a metal container and they bang and sing like an under-11s team.

‘I just hate it, I just sit there and tap something on the side as if you’re involved. I’ve hated it for years and not really mentioned so I’m glad we’ve mentioned it.

‘If any of my teammates at Widnes see my not joining in then now they know why.

‘I like winning but I find the song very childish, and then they all go ‘wooo’ at the end of it.’

Amor may hate belting out the team song after a win, but other players and coaches think it’s a crucial part of team identity and bonding.

NRL supercoach Wayne Bennett recently revealed the origin and importance of the Dolphins’ song – which the squad got a chance to sing after their breathtaking win over the Roosters in their inaugural NRL game.

‘We went away on a pre-season camp for three or four days and I said to them, ‘We haven’t got a team song’, Bennet told reporters after the win.

‘And a couple of hours later the senior players led by these guys — (Felise) Kaufusi, him (Jesse) and his brother (Kenneath) — had a great song.

NRL icon Wayne Bennett recently revealed the origin and importance of the Dolphins’ song – which the squad got a chance to sing after their breathtaking win over the Roosters in their inaugural NRL game

‘We’ve sung it 10 or 12 times now at things we’ve done.

‘It’s a tremendous theme song, it’s a real credit to them, it’s theirs and they own it, we had one today and we sung it. It was great.’