Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

[jrb]

People also forgetting it was a huge game and tightly poised throughout. I was a bag of nerves as I imagine most people were.

Exactly.

You can't relax and enjoy games that close, that could go either way.

The same will happen again if we draw Chelsea in the FA Cup and/or the CL.

 

[Bluesince88]

People also forgetting it was a huge game and tightly poised throughout. I was a bag of nerves as I imagine most people were.

So many excuses it’s embarrassing. Then when we are winning too comfortably it’s “we are relaxed we are winning” absolute bollocks. I was at old Trafford watching one of the most one sided derbies I’d been to and we was average at best. Constant moaning around me about the atmosphere and how quite a few not interested in singing. We can make excuses all day about it or we can just accept the reality.

 

[Octavian]

So many excuses it’s embarrassing. Then when we are winning too comfortably it’s “we are relaxed we are winning” absolute bollocks. I was at old Trafford watching one of the most one sided derbies I’d been to and we was average at best. Constant moaning around me about the atmosphere and how quite a few not interested in singing. We can make excuses all day about it or we can just accept the reality.

Our away support has been immense this year, so much so that we’re getting a reputation as being one of the best. I keep seeing comments saying City fans are poor at home but great away, that’s from fans of likes of spurs, West Ham, Leicester, Brighton etc. in fact a few days ago a Brighton fan said he was shocked how many we brought for a 17:30 KO in a pandemic and didn’t stop singing at their place.

So I think your accusations against our away support is wrong. Regarding home support, it’s the same for every other **** as well. I thought we were loud for some periods against Chelsea but it was too flat in others, which is what English football is. If you want constant singing that doesn’t follow the game, go and watch a German club, personally their atmospheres are shite for me as they’re not interested in the match. Our crowd made noise if we had a bit of good play, won the ball back off the press or had a decent chance on Saturday. The times it was flat was just before and after half time when the team was a bit flat.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

At least people are being honest enough to say they are too nervous to get behind the lads. It’s a welcome change from blaming everyone from the Cmub to their budgie having Covid:

 

[bluwes]

Grow tf up. He’s a blue with an opinion that you don’t agree with, get over it. calling him a Scousers is a weak as piss.

If that what you want to believe then that’s fine. Look at some of his other posts.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

bag of nerves?

Yet games against United, liverpool in previous seasons proper nerve racking games have been noisy around the ground.

 

[jrb]

bag of nerves?

Yet games against United, liverpool in previous seasons proper nerve racking games have been noisy around the ground.

Not always.

Like you and everyone else, I've been to plenty of those games and the atmosphere has been flat as f*ck on plenty of occasions, especially when the Rags or the Scousers score first.

We're deluding ourselves if we think the games against United and Liverpool at Maine Road and at the Etihad have always been rocking, because they haven't been.

 

[Blue Smarties]

Natalie Sawyer just said she was very disappointed by the flat atmosphere at Anfield yesterday. The same weekend some posters on here were saying Anfield's a cauldron every game.

 

[christened at st marks]

I watch from Perth WA, it feels like the Media turn the Etihad atmosphere down on the audio and the Emptyhad comment proves beyond doubt the media bias, I'd love to see the away support moved to the lower tier of the of the North stand from the ground staff entry tunnel around to what ever number required, if the police complain about away fans parking move the f-ckin car park FFS and give us a complete end like Stretford and Scouse, until the north stand is redeveloped

 

[GaudinoMotors]

For years the Anfield atmosphere truly was a myth! But there was a bit of a storm amongst their own fans about it early in Klopp’s reign after some comments Klopp made (“I felt like I was on my own at the end” after loads of early leavers, and “it was very quiet today, we need the fans to get behind us more” after a draw they struggled in and the fans were shit), and there was that Liverpool fan on RedmenTV who was slating their fanbase… and they proper sorted themselves out.

I reckon that in the three years before Covid started, Anfield was the best in the country for regular good atmospheres (I’ve not really watched them much this season to say if thats carried on).

Even Pep mentioned how loud the atmosphere is at Anfield in a Catalan TV interview about 18 months ago.

I think it’s all too easy to say how much of a myth their atmosphere is just because that was the case for a few decades. But they were proactive in doing something about it. They get new songs on their fan channels, they have Saturday night events aimed at young adults in a live music club sort of venue where bands play Liverpool songs, and they have the advantage of a 12,500 Kop… their fans quickly pick up the lyrics to new songs.

We have nothing like that. You could tap someone on the shoulder in the East Stand, Colin Bell or Family Stand and ask him what the words are to “Empty Seats at home” or “Ruben Dias…” and I bet bloody loads wouldn’t be able to tell you.

To be fair PC, Mancunians have careers, lives and responsibilities. Whilst the football is important, normal people have different priorities. I don't gauge my life by how noisy I am watching a game of football.

At best, the difference between us and the Klan is only a couple of decibels either way.
The YNWA Hakka, that they have ridiculously been allowed to add to the TV programming schedule, is not reflective of the noise levels for the rest of the game - surprising really, as their whole, sorry, little feral lives revolve around their pitiful, cheating, lying, hypocritical club (sorry- way of life and capital of their parochial make-believe country).

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Not always.

Like you and everyone else, I've been to plenty of those games and the atmosphere has been flat as f*ck on plenty of occasions, especially when the Rags or the Scousers score first.

We're deluding ourselves if we think the games against United and Liverpool at Maine Road and at the Etihad have always been rocking, because they haven't been.

I know it's not.

Still think our best games for atmosphere this season has been PSG & Leeds, and Leeds we were well under capacity

 

[Harlaching Sky Blue]

Natalie Sawyer just said she was very disappointed by the flat atmosphere at Anfield yesterday. The same weekend some posters on here were saying Anfield's a cauldron every game.

When media admit the atmosphere at Anfield was "a little flat", it should be understood by us as to mean their take on "less than 5 buses got trashed"

 

[Didsbury Dave]

@Psychedelic Casual gets it right about atmosphere: I think it's been better this year but it could be even better for some games. The problem is the location of the two singing ends and their inability to sing together when the away fans are loud. I know people go on about allocating the north stand as a singing area but that's not going to happen because it's a major upheaval.

A good atmosphere is when songs spread around the ground. Crowd psychology means that people around the stadium only join in if a song is loud enough and they don't feel stupid. I tell you now, from the top tier of the Colin Bell, when the SS level 3 sing a song it is loud as fuck and bounces round the stadium because it both bounces of the roof and spreads both ways fast.

A cheap, simple and almost fussless quick fix would be for the 1984 group to relocate up there. A couple of hundred of them would be enough to get songs going up there and the rest of the ground would follow suit. I know I've said this before and been told they want to do those "display" things but they aren't atmosphere and don't really matter.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Anfields great on champions league nights, thats it

 

[trevorriley]

@Psychedelic Casual gets it right about atmosphere: I think it's been better this year but it could be even better for some games. The problem is the location of the two singing ends and their inability to sing together when the away fans are loud. I know people go on about allocating the north stand as a singing area but that's not going to happen because it's a major upheaval.

A good atmosphere is when songs spread around the ground. Crowd psychology means that people around the stadium only join in if a song is loud enough and they don't feel stupid. I tell you now, from the top tier of the Colin Bell, when the SS level 3 sing a song it is loud as fuck and bounces round the stadium because it both bounces of the roof and spreads both ways fast.

A cheap, simple and almost fussless quick fix would be for the 1984 group to relocate up there. A couple of hundred of them would be enough to get songs going up there and the rest of the ground would follow suit. I know I've said this before and been told they want to do those "display" things but they aren't atmosphere and don't really matter.

Interesting to know what you hear from where you sit, you more than anybody can hear how the noise travels. And correct the noise has got better this season.

From 115 areas i can only hear us singing, i dont hear SS level 3 much at all, even though they do sing it doesnt travel. Likewise they cant hear us. Similar with kippax corner, we hear them and can see hands clapping, but it has a second or 2 delay so it is impossible to sing together. What we hear most is the away fans "if" they sing.

We cant move up in to SS3. We have now got safe standing in place also we cant do the displays in SS3 as security wont allow the flexibility of flags up there, also logistically it is difficult.

Because of the way ticketing is ( mainly season cards already sold and spoken for in both SS1 & SS3 ) it is difficult enough trying to migrate ten fans from one tier to another. We have access to what is classed as spare seating at the end of the season, this is for fans that would like to move in to 115 / 116. But very few come forward, fans choose to stay where they are, a lot sit with friends and family and would like to keep it that way.

The 3 main singing areas are SS lower / kippax corner / SS level 3. While we are spread out this way it is going to be difficult, unless things change from stadium expansion the away end will never move and having three singing sections looks like staying that way.

But the atmosphere can be very good, take Leeds at home, was one of best 90 mins in a game for a while, shows the singers are there.

 

[manclad]

@Psychedelic Casual gets it right about atmosphere: I think it's been better this year but it could be even better for some games. The problem is the location of the two singing ends and their inability to sing together when the away fans are loud. I know people go on about allocating the north stand as a singing area but that's not going to happen because it's a major upheaval.

A good atmosphere is when songs spread around the ground. Crowd psychology means that people around the stadium only join in if a song is loud enough and they don't feel stupid. I tell you now, from the top tier of the Colin Bell, when the SS level 3 sing a song it is loud as fuck and bounces round the stadium because it both bounces of the roof and spreads both ways fast.

A cheap, simple and almost fussless quick fix would be for the 1984 group to relocate up there. A couple of hundred of them would be enough to get songs going up there and the rest of the ground would follow suit. I know I've said this before and been told they want to do those "display" things but they aren't atmosphere and don't really matter.

The 1984 group are so 20th century though, don't you agree Dave??

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The 1984 group are so 20th century though, don't you agree Dave??

YEah, they're too scared of Big Brother.

 

[Gingers Dad]

@Psychedelic Casual gets it right about atmosphere: I think it's been better this year but it could be even better for some games. The problem is the location of the two singing ends and their inability to sing together when the away fans are loud. I know people go on about allocating the north stand as a singing area but that's not going to happen because it's a major upheaval.

A good atmosphere is when songs spread around the ground. Crowd psychology means that people around the stadium only join in if a song is loud enough and they don't feel stupid. I tell you now, from the top tier of the Colin Bell, when the SS level 3 sing a song it is loud as fuck and bounces round the stadium because it both bounces of the roof and spreads both ways fast.

A cheap, simple and almost fussless quick fix would be for the 1984 group to relocate up there. A couple of hundred of them would be enough to get songs going up there and the rest of the ground would follow suit. I know I've said this before and been told they want to do those "display" things but they aren't atmosphere and don't really matter.

Problem is not the two singing sections it's the fact that nobody else in the ground joins in.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Problem is not the two singing sections it's the fact that nobody else in the ground joins in.

Yes but they will do if it's the right song and it's loud enough and they hear others picking it up. It's basic crowd psychology. If we had all the singers together more songs would spread. It's as simple as that.

 

[stan bowles]

Anfields great on champions league nights, thats it

So is the Etihad. Put the Chelsea game on at 17.30 under the lights (when it should have been for a 1st v 2nd battle) and it would have been a lot louder. Still, the tv broadcast managed to make it sound like a library but that's not how it was in the ground.