Atmosphere - 2023/24

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Went to the game Sunday as a neutral fan as I’d say my favourite team is Stockport but I enjoy watching the Manchester based teams. The atmosphere was quite poor for a third round draw, the amount of support from the opposition I thought was excellent but they didn’t make much noise although far more than the home support.
Chatting too a few of their fans on way in , a nice bunch they were saying their club as been through a rough time recently and that the footy on show has been atrocious . City fans are giving the Huddersfield fans a hard time on here , yes there may have been some knobs amongst them but the ones I spoke to were spot on and I have a great appreciation of fans of clubs like Huddersfield , I feel they tend to be real football fans and many city older end supporters will appreciate this. The supporters who follow their club when times are hard not just because they are the latest club to be winning everything.
 
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blue b4 the moon said:
Don't forget a smoke machine in your toilet for half-time too.
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A truly immersive experience mate. You'd have to log on half an hour before kickoff to fully appreciate the chaos of the turnstiles. Imbeciles having the phone upside down, wrong way round, unable to retrieve the barcode and scanning the wrong person in etc. And from 30 mins in up until about the 55th minute you'd have to keep getting up and down off the sofa for the half-time pinters.

On a serious note as a non-smoker I despise the toilet situation. Surprised it's never been addressed.
 
Edghill OG said:
A truly immersive experience mate. You'd have to log on half an hour before kickoff to fully appreciate the chaos of the turnstiles. Imbeciles having the phone upside down, wrong way round, unable to retrieve the barcode and scanning the wrong person in etc. And from 30 mins in up until about the 55th minute you'd have to keep getting up and down off the sofa for the half-time pinters.

On a serious note as a non-smoker I despise the toilet situation. Surprised it's never been addressed.
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It was, but the club gave up in the end.There are staff, young lads, in the toilets, but they don’t seem to enforce the no smoking rule. They just stand and talk to each other.
 
jrb said:
It was, but the club gave up in the end.There are staff, young lads, in the toilets, but they don’t seem to enforce the no smoking rule. They just stand and talk to each other.
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The club gave up or the people trying to enforce it did?

I imagine it's worse in some areas of the ground than others. SSL3 is terrible for it. Don't think it was as bad in Colin Bell last time I was in there.
 
Outsider said:
Went to the game Sunday as a neutral fan as I’d say my favourite team is Stockport but I enjoy watching the Manchester based teams. The atmosphere was quite poor for a third round draw, the amount of support from the opposition I thought was excellent but they didn’t make much noise although far more than the home support.
Chatting too a few of their fans on way in , a nice bunch they were saying their club as been through a rough time recently and that the footy on show has been atrocious . City fans are giving the Huddersfield fans a hard time on here , yes there may have been some knobs amongst them but the ones I spoke to were spot on and I have a great appreciation of fans of clubs like Huddersfield , I feel they tend to be real football fans and many city older end supporters will appreciate this. The supporters who follow their club when times are hard not just because they are the latest club to be winning everything.
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RAG
 
Outsider said:
Went to the game Sunday as a neutral fan as I’d say my favourite team is Stockport but I enjoy watching the Manchester based teams. The atmosphere was quite poor for a third round draw, the amount of support from the opposition I thought was excellent but they didn’t make much noise although far more than the home support.
Chatting too a few of their fans on way in , a nice bunch they were saying their club as been through a rough time recently and that the footy on show has been atrocious . City fans are giving the Huddersfield fans a hard time on here , yes there may have been some knobs amongst them but the ones I spoke to were spot on and I have a great appreciation of fans of clubs like Huddersfield , I feel they tend to be real football fans and many city older end supporters will appreciate this. The supporters who follow their club when times are hard not just because they are the latest club to be winning everything.
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I don't think any City fans were downing Huddersfield fans for supporting 'a bit of a shit' side. I have more respect for them than the countless fans who follow the red shirted media darlings but never go anywhere near their respective grounds but post a load of shite on the likes of facebook/Twitter (X) etc..
As you say, the older City fans can relate to being a bit shit at times in the past (and I was thinking when Huddersfield fans started singing that very original WWYWYWS song 'actually I was watching us score 10 against you when we were a bit shit'.)
As is often is the way when Premier League sides are at home to lower division sides the atmosphere isn't always that great.The same can be said when most top sides play a lot of struggling Premier League sides who put 11 men behind the ball. When you watch games on TV from Anield, The Swamp, The Emirates, Stamford Bridge often they are not very loud. Around me on Sunday there were a lot of families which did impact things, but in the long run is good as it is 'potentially the fans of the future.'
Personally I didn't see any real bother with Huddersfield fans on Sunday but I was expecting them to be a bit more vocal during the game considering the numbers they had there (though it must be said were certainly. quite load when booing City players when they got injured!)
 
I read a report a while ago into what motivated match going fans at the core.

It concluded that, in a word, it was jeopardy.

There has to a reasonable chance of defeat and the result has to be important.

Success like we have seen reduces the chances of a defeat a lot. In fact in 2023 we didn’t lose one match at home.
 
Outsider said:
Went to the game Sunday as a neutral fan as I’d say my favourite team is Stockport but I enjoy watching the Manchester based teams. The atmosphere was quite poor for a third round draw, the amount of support from the opposition I thought was excellent but they didn’t make much noise although far more than the home support.
Chatting too a few of their fans on way in , a nice bunch they were saying their club as been through a rough time recently and that the footy on show has been atrocious . City fans are giving the Huddersfield fans a hard time on here , yes there may have been some knobs amongst them but the ones I spoke to were spot on and I have a great appreciation of fans of clubs like Huddersfield , I feel they tend to be real football fans and many city older end supporters will appreciate this. The supporters who follow their club when times are hard not just because they are the latest club to be winning everything.
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We were playing Huddersfield Town at home in the FA Cup 3rd round. Were you expecting the Bombonera?

I can't imagine Edgeley Park is as lively as it was when your already relegated team scored two late goals to beat us 2-1 and the ground (well 2 sides of it because we had the other 2) erupted like you'd won the European Cup.
 
I foolishly gave up my Seasoncard in 2018 when I moved to London. I couldn’t face the weekend ruining journeys anymore (they began to wipe me out) so I thought I’d buy again when moving back to the North West.

No new Seasoncards has seen me fall out of the habit of going and I’m not organised enough to start buying individually. I’m also a little too proud to pay £61 for Burnley despite probably being able to find the money. I’ve also zero chance of away matches.

Think long and hard before you cancel.
 
Outsider said:
Went to the game Sunday as a neutral fan as I’d say my favourite team is Stockport but I enjoy watching the Manchester based teams. The atmosphere was quite poor for a third round draw, the amount of support from the opposition I thought was excellent but they didn’t make much noise although far more than the home support.
Chatting too a few of their fans on way in , a nice bunch they were saying their club as been through a rough time recently and that the footy on show has been atrocious . City fans are giving the Huddersfield fans a hard time on here , yes there may have been some knobs amongst them but the ones I spoke to were spot on and I have a great appreciation of fans of clubs like Huddersfield , I feel they tend to be real football fans and many city older end supporters will appreciate this. The supporters who follow their club when times are hard not just because they are the latest club to be winning everything.
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Don’t get too wrapped up in sentiment. Their attendance figures don’t really add up to the most loyal of fan bases. I know for a fact there were Huddersfield fans in the top tier who hadn’t been to a home game for years. They took the opportunity to see the best team in the world for less than a ticket at the John Smith’s stadium.
 
I think there’s 2 parts of an atmosphere (1) the singing, which we are ok at (2) the general crowd noise. It’s that second point we are let down at - half the crowd don’t even shout, so places like wolves and forest everyone shouts for a pen or a free kick, at the Etihad if we all shouted more we’d get more
 
BringBackSwales said:
I think there’s 2 parts of an atmosphere (1) the singing, which we are ok at (2) the general crowd noise. It’s that second point we are let down at - half the crowd don’t even shout, so places like wolves and forest everyone shouts for a pen or a free kick, at the Etihad if we all shouted more we’d get more
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We could have the shoutiest shouters in shout land, with tannoys at full blast, with a brass band thrown in and we'd still get fuck all mate.
 
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