It was a night the Adelaide Crows will never forget and so big they needed help remembering the words of the team song.

Having just caused a major upset by beating reigning premier Hawthorn by 86 points in their first ever AFL game, players filed into the rooms at Football Park and gathered around a sign on the wall with the words to ‘Here We Go Camry Crows’.

“We practiced it a couple of times but first season, first game you are always bumbling your way through it,” Rodney Maynard said.

“I learnt the Norwood one pretty well because I used to sing that a few times but the Adelaide one we had to learn it all from scratch and they changed it eventually.

“It was a game of highs, we were playing on adrenaline and everything we did just fell into place. I don’t think I’ve ever played in a game where the bounce of the ball just fell into your arms and it was the same for every player.”

Reflecting on the photo, inaugural coach Graham Cornes says it was an iconic moment in the history of the Club.

“First game - Rodney Maynard, Robbie Thompson, Darel Hart number three, Jamo, Tom Warhurst he was a great guy. He did his knee against Carlton the next week and I remember going to his house later that year and telling him it was over, his knee was done unfortunately and he never got back.

“The guys were pretty keen to sing the song, all I ever learnt was ‘here we go, here we go’, no one remembered ‘we’d be there in the square, nose to nose’.

“The ritual of singing the club song after a game wasn’t anywhere like it is today. Then it was those moments where you were so excited after a game you would burst into a song.

“Now the whole world seems to stop for the club song, we never formed a circle, guys would just burst into song.

“Or you might sing it in the shower, down the Bay ‘The Tiger for Me’ you just burst into song it was never ‘get organised, is everyone ready?’

“But after singing the song we would have gone upstairs to a little area roped off in the members’ area, we didn’t have presentations like in the SANFL but there would have been some food for the guys and they were able to celebrate the moment.”