Etihad atmosphere

The atmosphere isn't helped when there is a tannoy announcement stating City have a zero tolerance for persistant standing, and offenders will be ejected and banned from the ground.

I'm of an age now were I have to sit to watch the game but we need a safe standing area, in fact all of football need safe standing areas if they want atmosphere to return.

I was fecking freezing tonight and I suppose my chattering teeth might have added to it in some way. What a shite game of footie it was.
 
The Family Stand is the worst move the club has made since the takeover. It angered and alienated a huge amount of fans when they fucked them off from their seats, some never returned to the club; it's never been full and in games like last night it looked terrible and there's never any noise from there.

Give us that end as a proper City standing end!
 
Sounded very poor apart from last 15-20 mins. The disturbing lack of quality on the pitch from both teams didn't exactly help encourage the atmosphere. Bad night all round.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
when we expand the north stand we could though, above it into a third tier or second tier. its half empty most games and i think it would be a complete waste if we dont have our own home end. From what I've heard on here and twitter the north stand is the ideal area for safe standing so potentially it will happen.
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So you want people to cart their young children into the upper tiers? Believe me, that will not happen. The family stand may get moved to a different part of the ground but it will always be level one.
 
93Aguero20 said:
Must be horrible for the players attacking the family stand which had about three thousand people in it. Until it's made a singing section the atmosphere will continue to be dross.
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but surely that would mean the south stand would then become empty. There were plenty of spare seats all over the ground last night
 
typicalcity... said:
So you want people to cart their young children into the upper tiers? Believe me, that will not happen. The family stand may get moved to a different part of the ground but it will always be level one.
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the horror ! having to walk up some stairs to a second tier..... thosuands of other families around the ground manage to do it somehow. of course you could have a family area on another tier.
 
The players could have done more to get it going last night, but in fairness we do try in 115. There is literally nothing, in terms of noise, from any other stand.
 
Never going to get an atmosphere with a performance like that. The best atmospheres are always when the team start well like Spurs game.

For some reason we rarely do at home. This season at home results wise has been as poor as I can remember for a long time. Must go back to Hughes days for results as bad.

Other than Bournemouth and perhaps West Ham and even that was late before it was settled, I can't recall one game that we have won comfortably.

We seem to be a different team at home and still struggle to break down well organised sides which Stoke were.

Shawcross was excellent for them last night I thought.
 
Atmosphere was appalling last night but the amount of empty seats is a huge concern. We have been on a great run of form but last night we had thousands of empty seats. Personally, I think the club need to do something and reward fans who attend games by perhaps giving them credits/discounts against tickets/season tickets.
 
guy debord said:
The number of empty seats towards the end of the game was embarrassing and we're getting panned for it again (rightly)

https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/manchester-city-mocked-again-for-empty-seats-at-the-etihad-116424
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i agree it was embarrassing. I'm not usually bothered by it, but the sheer number was ridiculous, especially in the family stand. i know it was short notice and some people have genuine reasons, but if we were playing united or some other big team it would have been full.
 
Be interesting to see the numbers at full time whether it's us or Sunderland crowned as the worst and most miserable fans.
 
Last night was always going to be a bit flat, relatively late fixture change, people having to change work commitments, shite opposition not interested in playing football and so on. I had to change my working hours myself.
Re the family stand, I just think it's too big and maybe on night games some people don't bring the younger kids because of the late bedtime on a school night.

I was getting texts for most of the second half from reds and scousers taking the piss about empty seats, but really if that's their main ammunition I can still sleep fairly soundly.
 
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PistonBlue said:
Last night was always going to be a bit flat, relatively late fixture change, people having to change work commitments, shite opposition not interested in playing football and so on. I had to change my working hours myself.
Re the family stand, I just think it's too big and maybe on night games some people don't bring the younger kids because of the late bedtime on a school night.

I was getting texts for most of the second half from reds and scousers taking the piss about empty seats, but really if that's their main ammunition I can still sleep fairly soundly.
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Not so much Liverpool but United fans need to look at their own club - last season they played a rearranged midweek league game against Palace at relatively short notice (but not as short notice as we were given for our game last night) and there were empties all over the place. One bloke on Red Cafe said he had 12 tickets and couldn't get rid of any of them. Also, Arsenal played a rearranged midweek league game against West Brom last season and it was even worse than that United game and ours last night - reports suggested that up to 20,000 Arsenal season ticket holders sacked it off.

Then again, as I pointed out on Red Cafe this morning, most of those fans that take the piss out of empty seats don't even attend matches themselves which is somewhat ironic.
 
I'm working g in darlington this week.
So had to miss the game.
I watched the game and have to say the atmosphere was embarrassing.
And the amount of empty seats was equally embarrassing it's no wonder people take the piss out if us.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
i agree it was embarrassing. I'm not usually bothered by it, but the sheer number was ridiculous, especially in the family stand. i know it was short notice and some people have genuine reasons, but if we were playing united or some other big team it would have been full.
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That Joe article actually offers up some mitigation by saying it happens at other clubs too but I'm not sure they can compare the Barca game to ours for numbers leaving. It's like comparing apples and oranges and I wouldn't mind betting that if that was us in Barca's position knocking on the door and 3-1 up in the 2nd leg of a CL game the vast majority would've stayed. If it was Barca versus a mid-table La Liga side and it was 0-0 with them putting in an underwhelming performance as we were last night, then I reckon a fair few of their fans would've left early. Then again, the early leavers get on my wick more than the empty seats in the North Stand so I can understand some of the criticism from other sources.
 
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goatersnipple said:
I'm working g in darlington this week.
So had to miss the game.
I watched the game and have to say the atmosphere was embarrassing.
And the amount of empty seats was equally embarrassing it's no wonder people take the piss out if us.
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The atmosphere was actually half decent in the South Stand - it just didn't spread to other areas of the ground. And I'm not knocking you because you can't help it if you have to work and can't get there but one of those "embarrassing" empty seats was yours! Unless someone else had your ticket of course ;)
 
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