Atmosphere 2024/25

[Elliot houghton]

The fans (1894 preferably) should go to the club with the names and supporter numbers of 3k fans who are committed to singing and making a better atmosphere. The club should then make an offer that’s too good to refuse on ticket price to get them to all sit together in a block near the front of NSL2.

Would love this to happen would 100% have an impact even if it was even half of them numbers but the club seem more arsed about the extra money they would get from hospitality in the section than doing anything that would improve the atmosphere

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

have some of the 1894 group/singers from the south stand lower, put them in the 3rd tier and test if that can generate more noise.

then if it works fantastic, if not im lost.

i presume the areas that were advertised as singing areas are now having fans who dont want to get involved in the singing? then the club need to do something.

there was times in the game where the songs seemed to get going but soon drifted away

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I agree but whether it will happen is very debatable. I’m sure discussions around the top table are centred around revenue rather than atmosphere.

I think our atmosphere is affecting our revenue. I hope they realise that. We will attract more corporates with a better atmosphere. Imagine being on one of those coaches full of kids today, probably their first time. It was shit. Atmosphere gets people into the stadium. They can make their revenue once the change has been made.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

have some of the 1894 group/singers from the south stand lower, put them in the 3rd tier and test if that can generate more noise.

then if it works fantastic, if not im lost.

i presume the areas that were advertised as singing areas are now having fans who dont want to get involved in the singing? then the club need to do something.

there was times in the game where the songs seemed to get going but soon drifted away

I mentioned this earlier. Nothing spread. The singing areas were doing their own thing at the same time. The rest of the ground won’t join in when that happens.

 

[WNRH]

I think our atmosphere is affecting our revenue. I hope they realise that. We will attract more corporates with a better atmosphere. Imagine being on one of those coaches full of kids today, probably their first time. It was shit. Atmosphere gets people into the stadium. They can make their revenue once the change has been made.

That would require some long term thinking which is never taken into account as the people making the decisions don’t and never have mingled with us plebs in the stands.

Manchester City to them is employment and another notch on their LinkedIN CV.

We are slide 16 on their PowerPoint presentation to future employers on how they were part of a team that raised revenue by 7.8% in the fiscal quarter.

 

[Axel Freed]

Probably worth emailing the top 6000 points holders with a deal. Even if only 1000 take them up on it, they could all stand together. It would be better than the fragmented mess we have at the moment.

It’d be like seniors day at the bingo, we need youth and energy

Email all fans under 25, give them first option.

 

[pottsy]

Why are you all still talking in a hypothetical world.

The club aren’t arsed they don’t want an atmospheric end.

They also don’t want an intimidating ground they want to make it comfortable for corporate/ one off fans who might spend more.

Please stop wasting your time and energy on these threads making up hypothetical scenarios like give the club names make it half price.

The club are not interested.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Before the game even started you could tell how bad this one was going to be. It couldn’t have been worse really. Everything was wrong. The very occasional times when songs did get going there were 2 going at once so they didn’t spread. It felt disinterested, dispassionate, dissatisfied and the only times there was any emotion at all it was nervy.

Possibly the worst I’ve ever known at the Etihad, all things considered. I didn’t enjoy the game very much at all.

Doing a Joe Corrigan interview didn't help.

Love the guy, he was our keeper when I started going to matches but, a 5 minute segment just before the players came out wasn't a great idea.

Have him out for a wave and chat at HT, Danny & Nat managed to bore us all at the break, probably even worse than those shite quizzes about recycling bottles.

 

[ArdwickBlue_M12]

Unfortunately the atmosphere at big premier clubs will continue to get worse and worse. it's becoming a sport for the middle classes and football tourists. the club have tried their best to make sure the match day experience is as sanitised and cringeworthy as they can. I also wonder what the average age of the matchday fanbase is? in some parts of the ground there's barely any inner city Manchester youth or younger fans at all which is crazy. it might sound like I am being negative but I have accepted nothing will change.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

It’d be like seniors day at the bingo, we need youth and energy

Email all fans under 25, give them first option.

Most younger fans seem to go in a group with older relatives, probably their tickets being subsidised or their seasoncard shared with siblings. Not many will want or be able to move. I just don’t see many large groups of youngsters at the game.

Plus we already have a singing section that seemingly had laryngitis yesterday - from where I sit anyway - so not sure if it would be any different.

Football is sanitised now, everywhere in the PL. You are watched for everything you do and say, if they could monitor your thoughts they would, and this is why people are more restrained. Again yesterday the only rush of energy from the crowd (aside from goal celebrations) came as a result of something City were doing on the pitch, I can’t remember exactly what it was but it was borne out of a bit of frustration in the second half that we weren’t shooting or kept passing it sideways/backwards.