One of my mates had a work colleague & his mates over from Germany on a 'football tourist weekend' (I know ffs). They were at City-Villa, then Burnley-Chelsea & finally Scousers-Tottenham on Sunday. To a man, they remarked how little atmosphere there was at the Etihad compared to the other grounds.
I hate to say it but I think we are one of the worst in the premier league (perhaps Arsenal just beat us).
Maine Road was brilliant for bringing in new young vocal fans.....
Start in the Kippax, get older move to North Stand, Kids in the Platt Lane
FOC's = Main Stand
New young lads stood on the kippax................that's all gone and needs replacing. Fast.
Bring back terracing and The Kippax.
Maine Road was brilliant for bringing in new young vocal fans.....
Start in the Kippax, get older move to North Stand, Kids in the Platt Lane
FOC's = Main Stand
New young lads stood on the kippax................that's all gone and needs replacing. Fast.
Bring back terracing and The Kippax.
This is nonsense. They're comparing apples and oranges. Our game kicked off at 12:30 which is quiet at every ground in the UK. Added that it was pissing it down and everyone halfway down in level 1 (myself included) were getting drenched. Our opponent were a newly promoted side.
Liverpool played a team they faced in last years champions league final. It was also a 4:30 kick-off which mean more drinking time for supporters. If those same fans visited our ground against any of the top 6 clubs, they'd be saying it was great.
As someone who's been to hundreds of away games in recent years, I can guarantee you that our atmosphere is no worse than the majority. In fact, I think we're better than most.
Italian clubs have great atmospheres and loads do not have a drum.I also sit/stand at the back of 115 and can confirm this....what makes me laugh is that the best atmosphere’s around europe have a drum (palace/celtic/england away to name a few) to help with the singing but wo and behold anyone who brings the idea to the table to bring a drum to city....the knives are out and it is dismissed.
The next minute we have lads to the left of me banging the seats up and down to recreate a drum noise to get the songs going (this gets stopped within minutes by the stewards) maybe a drum isn’t the worst idea ever? I’m 50/50 over the idea but something needs to be done.
Also you would think they would have more bars in the south stand....the most vocal part of the stadium and you can get a hotdog within 4mins but takes 15-20mins to get a beer.
So far this season I think we’ve had, hands down, the worst atmosphere in the country.This is nonsense. They're comparing apples and oranges. Our game kicked off at 12:30 which is quiet at every ground in the UK. Added that it was pissing it down and everyone halfway down in level 1 (myself included) were getting drenched. Our opponent were a newly promoted side.
Liverpool played a team they faced in last years champions league final. It was also a 4:30 kick-off which mean more drinking time for supporters. If those same fans visited our ground against any of the top 6 clubs, they'd be saying it was great.
As someone who's been to hundreds of away games in recent years, I can guarantee you that our atmosphere is no worse than the majority. In fact, I think we're better than most.
I agree mate totally I love seeing young blues coming through and agree we need more but we don't need blues giving other blues grief for being an old cnut stay happy boys & girls &grandads & grandma's.We most definitely need younger fans coming through but it's a simplistic view for anyone to claim that all the younger fans sing and all the older ones don't. From personal experience, that's utter bollocks. Some young fans sing, and some don't. Some older fans sing, and some don't.
So after watching city for over 50 years 35of them absolute shit YOU want all us oldies to fuck off or fuck off and die,the are the guys & girls who were renowned for being the best supporters around 20years so it's you young fuckers that need to search deep and find for yourselves what we had then.
Main stand, main stand...give us a song ......main stand, give us a songI'd be in the North Stand then these days,eyeing up my position for the Main Stand in 4 or 5 years time...…...
Have you actually read my post ?
It was responding to a comment another poster wrote about a new stand being built with 10,000 extra seats for younger fans. My maths ain’t great but surely if they are NEW seats then oldies ( which includes me ) don’t need to go anywhere ???
We may have been renowned for great support in the past but now we are laughed at for being the worst in the country.
We have loads of fans that have been there since we were shit. The majority don’t make a sound at games and fuck off home at 80 mins but that don’t seem to matter.
Younger fans aren’t interested cause the ground is like a fucking morgue every week despite us winning the league 2 seasons on the bounce.
Sad state of affairs
I agree with you mate and if the northstand is expanded and standing it would be nice for under thirties to be given first choice on allocation also singers above that age Of which I know a few I myself only sing occasionally which is a standing joke with the fans who sit round me coz derby day I'm a different animal along with another 100 or so in our block so we can do it when we want here's hoping.Have you actually read my post ?
It was responding to a comment another poster wrote about a new stand being built with 10,000 extra seats for younger fans. My maths ain’t great but surely if they are NEW seats then oldies ( which includes me ) don’t need to go anywhere ???
We may have been renowned for great support in the past but now we are laughed at for being the worst in the country.
We have loads of fans that have been there since we were shit. The majority don’t make a sound at games and fuck off home at 80 mins but that don’t seem to matter.
Younger fans aren’t interested cause the ground is like a fucking morgue every week despite us winning the league 2 seasons on the bounce.
Sad state of affairs
Main stand, main stand...give us a song ......main stand, give us a song
Boooooooooooooooooooooo (ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ)
I totally agree. I've mentioned it before on here about how long and complicated our songs are. It's like we're hoping to get a mercury prize for best lyrics or something. No-one cares how well written or witty our lyrics are we just need to create the noise/atmosphere. It's like the Pep and Artetta song or the bernardo one, they're too long and complicated and they never catch on at home. Even "City till i die" for example. When it was sang slowly would create more of an atmosphere. Yeah it's not original or witty but it's simple and it works.All good atmospheres have a good base of songs, ours took a big hit when Yaya and Zabaleta left imo. We need some good core CITY songs that can be sang at a slower tempo and continually. Just look at any European team on a champions league night.
Never mind a drum we had a full band the other day! That was the most cringyest thing I have ever seen at a football match (after the Letsby avenue speech maybe). If they did that before a Premiership game we'll never here the end of it. Reeked of desperation!The day we get a drum is the day I would call it a day.
The day we get a drum is the day I would call it a day.