Very encouraging, where's this from mate?
Very encouraging, where's this from mate?
Very encouraging, where's this from mate?
Agree. Going off how vocal my 'flexi' section of the ground was on Saturday I think there's pent up demand from passionate Blues - who've been locked out of season tickets since Covid - that could work wonders in that stand. The key is not to price people out or go silly with the amount and location of seats given over to hospitality. We will need the energy of new and returning season ticket holders in the new stand as well as existing ones, because inevitably some singers won't want to move if they're happy where they are.It's part of the planning application for the North Stand (from the Design and Access Statement).
The roof design for the South Stand was a similar logic, albeit without the extra walls to help keep noise in. But we ended up with a singing section at the bottom of the stand making no use of it.
For anyone who has been to away games, you know the good grounds and the bad grounds for acoustics. It's basics to get singers grouped under the roof, it's what keeps the noise in the ground and it's what the majority of fans around the ground can hear.
We'd make an absolute racket with the right groups in the new NS. It's whether the club support that idea with attractive pricing and incentives. But the vocal support spending pre-match in City Square, getting the atmosphere building and then going into a huge single tier would be a game changer for the atmosphere in the ground.
That's why I get frustrated when people just deny that acoustics have anything to do with it.For anyone who has been to away games, you know the good grounds and the bad grounds for acoustics. It's basics to get singers grouped under the roof, it's what keeps the noise in the ground and it's what the majority of fans around the ground can hear.
We'd make an absolute racket with the right groups in the new NS. It's whether the club support that idea with attractive pricing and incentives. But the vocal support spending pre-match in City Square, getting the atmosphere building and then going into a huge single tier would be a game changer for the atmosphere in the ground.
That's why I get frustrated when people just deny that acoustics have anything to do with it.
SSL1 drives the atmosphere around the ground which is why we're discussing it.
SSL1 were OK on Sunday.
Nothing wrong with my hearing.
Nobody is saying the atmosphere is always bad.
The fact that it is sometimes very good surely invalidates, or at least weakens, your argument that the stadium configuration is the decisive factor.
I will say I think most away fans struggle being split over 3 tiers, I thought arse were the best we've had in a while.I don’t wholly buy the acoustics argument.
We have a much bigger section of the south stand with the same configuration as that of the away fans yet in many games they are much noisier. The only explanation for that is that more of them are singing.
This can’t be true of level 1 as most of the fans there sing plenty so logic dictates that it’s down to SSL3 to up their game.
I don’t wholly buy the acoustics argument.
We have a much bigger section of the south stand with the same configuration as that of the away fans yet in many games they are much noisier. The only explanation for that is that more of them are singing.
This can’t be true of level 1 as most of the fans there sing plenty so logic dictates that it’s down to SSL3 to up their game.