Atmosphere 2024/25

[jma]

Would a Brazilian style band boost the atmosphere surely it couldn't be any worse than it is now.
Any better ideas

Which poor sod is going to have to sit next to these pricks

 

[Gaz76]

Are they bollocks is was shit since we moved to the Etihad and thise guys were nowhere to be seen under Pearce ect.

It's not just the move mate, I don't doubt that if bluemoon was a thing when the kippax was knocked down and became a daft stand, then we would have all been moaning about the atmosphere then as well, it's all a bit Mandela effect for me, I stood on the kippax loads of times and the atmosphere was shit and it was freezing, when that stand was alive and the crowd was buzzing it could have been minus 12 and you wouldnt have noticed.
It's the same with the ground nowadays, when it's buzzing its great, when it's not it's not,

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Which poor sod is going to have to sit next to these pricks

I went to the England Greece game when beckham scored that goal. Behind me was the Sheffield Wednesday drummers. I wanted to kill them, bring them back to life and then kill them again.

It has no place in the English game.

 

[East Level 2]

Hes not wrong.

There's early leavers every week and it isn't just the tourists. And it's happened frequently in the Guardiola era against the teams outside of the race for European spots.

It's rarely tourists leaving early at CL games.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

City fans are to blame for the lack of atmosphere NOT tourists. WE need to own this problem not pass on blame ffs

Oh do fuck off. You’re so easily convinced that our atmosphere is significantly better or worse than anywhere else. Most of our season ticket holders have been supporting City since the days of Frank fucking Clark. We’re all 30 years older and don’t chant and jump around for 90 minutes like before. Sorry about that. All the football I watch doesn’t appear to have these features either. I tend see a bunch of people similar age to me behaving, er similarly.

How about we all step aside for these young people with cash to spare and desperate to get to a game intent on creating an “atmosphere” that might satisfy Michael Owen? Oh wait, if they do exist it’ll be a half and half scarf and staring at their phones.

You are the equivalent of the social media influenced teenage girl desperate to apply every filter to the selfie because one half wit jealous troll said you had a big nose.

The paradise that Michael Owen is jibing about doesn’t exist in England. Every club can get up for the big game. Do you reckon the atmosphere for Arsenal v Ipswich Town was amazing tonight? Put us to shame did it?

 

[M18CTID]

If that's the Angel pub Gorton lane /Wellington street no way is that only 30 minutes walk to the stadium lol.

It is when I walk it ;)

 

[.db.]

If we’ve lost our gallows humour we’ve totally lost who we are

It’s not funny or even remotely topical. We’re the sixth top scorers in the league and have scored in 10 of the 13 games in this poor run of form.

If we were on a goalscoring drought, it would be decent hallows humour.

 

[BungleBear]

It’s not funny or even remotely topical. We’re the sixth top scorers in the league and have scored in 10 of the 13 games in this poor run of form.

If we were on a goalscoring drought, it would be decent hallows humour.

2.5 GPG has been the recent benchmark, so a run of just above 1 is a relative drought.

First 9 - 19, last 9 - 11.

Clean sheets are now the rare commodity though...

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

Hes not wrong.

There's early leavers every week and it isn't just the tourists. And it's happened frequently in the Guardiola era against the teams outside of the race for European spots.

This is laughable. Who knows who is leaving early, how many are leaving early, where they live and their travel arrangements?

People leave games early. They left early before. They’ll leave early again. No amount of hot air will change that. Whether that’s City or any other club.

In fact the only thing I am prepared to predict is that it will get worse due to The Co-op venue.

 

[Axel Freed]

It’s not funny or even remotely topical. We’re the sixth top scorers in the league and have scored in 10 of the 13 games in this poor run of form.

If we were on a goalscoring drought, it would be decent hallows humour.

It's not meant to be a critique of our current scoring statistics. It's a self deprecating nod back to a darker era when we actually were rubbish.

 

[.db.]

There’s no atmosphere culture within our fanbase, stadium or club. We manage fine for atmosphere when everyone’s up for it and create a great atmosphere for the biggest games (although that’s disappeared since the run-in of the 2022-23 season). But generally, we have nothing like other sets of fans, stadiums or clubs have in terms of set up.

We don’t have an atmosphere stand at the Etihad (a small number of blocks within a huge stand that dwarfs it, is not a stand).
Even where there are a few dedicated blocks, none of them are areas where vocal fans populate early doors before kick off and build songs and atmosphere in the stands from there.
Our away ticket allocations to proper fans are getting smaller as well which reduces the amount of people who get to go to away games where most songs originate.

We’ve barely got any pubs around the ground anymore so there’s nowhere near enough social hubs for City fans pre/post-games to get songs going, we have no meet-up areas in Town where Blues gather pre/post-games to get songs going, we have nothing like a ‘Boss Nights’ like Liverpool fans have.

There are no proper videos of our home singing sections or away games that are filmed and posted regularly on social media.
We don’t have a TV channel that could have song shows on (MUTV has a United songs show, over the years on that show there’s been some of the most cringeworthy television ever made, however it works because songs are learnt and do take off).

All of this means the amount of our fanbase who are regularly exposed to our songs are a very small percentage of the overall fanbase.

Anyone slightly interested in creating an atmosphere needs to commandeer the new NSL2 and make that our vocal stand.
Fans should aim to get to the seats in that new NSL2 half an hour before games kick off and start building the atmosphere from the stands there.
We need to demand that the club stop dishing out our away allocations to utter nobodies and get more proper City fans attending with better priced tickets for home games.
We should have meet ups in Town at places like Shambles Square and Cutting Room Square before big games.
For big games we should organise with the club for a professional camera (not a hand held phone) to video our singing sections and away sections and put footage on a fan lead channel, and where the atmosphere is good and consistent, have videos with the words to songs at the bottom so the songs get out to the masses… and no pointless concourse shite.

We need to do more to get more of our fans exposed to more of our songs.

 

[Shaggy]

10 years ago it was exactly the same as it is now. 20 years ago. 30.

The only club who has any kind of fan base that tries to replicate our European counterparts is Crystal Palace, and even that is only about 10% successful.

Our culture is different. It’s as simple as that and it has never changed and never will.

Portsmouth are as noisy as fuck and don't have that Ultra bollocks, they do have that scruffy smelly clown John Westwood with the bugle and bell though and two drummers either side of him. They have always been noisy, home and away, lack of songs but very fucking loud.

 

[oldhamblue]

An atmosphere requires an amount of jeopardy. Until recently most games we swat teams aside so it is flat and sterile.

The best atmospheres recently were Madrid in CL semi final, Arsenal in the league last season when we knew they would bottle it, and the murderers when they were running us down

 

[Platt Lane 59]

Only saw a bit of the Arsenal v Ipswich game tonight, as it was boring as hell.
But, it reminded me of a typical City match this season.
A very slow, methodical build up, with little risk or jeopardy with the passing.
But, the atmosphere, for an evening game at Christmas, was very disappointing.
Just don't think any of the Top 6 teams have a loud, boisterous atmosphere any more...

 

[eyalluvitt]

It wasn’t that bad. This was also just after we had almost conceded and probably should have done given it was 4 on 2 and then De Bruyne spraying the ball straight into touch with the last kick of the game.

Brighton got booed off v Brentford today, it’s what frustrated fans do after a disappointing performance

 

[xgorton]

It is when I walk it ;)

You walk fast mate ,going back to the Angel pub I lived just round the corner from 50s till the mid 70s.Is it your local ?

 

[colinthewindowcleaner]

It's rarely tourists leaving early at CL games.

No, but they always seem to be late

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

Just before half time is their empty seat wet dream as thousands of piss heads head to the bar, no mention when Wolves fans do exactly the same

Or Arsenal tonight

Plenty of empty seats

 

[Prophet of Doom]

This is laughable. Who knows who is leaving early, how many are leaving early, where they live and their travel arrangements?

People leave games early. They left early before. They’ll leave early again. No amount of hot air will change that. Whether that’s City or any other club.

In fact the only thing I am prepared to predict is that it will get worse due to The Co-op venue.

Said it many times on here that it’s contagious leaving early.

Gets a little worse every week. Lots have a valid excuse but thousands don’t.

Many on here tell others it’s none of their business why they leave early, buts the realty is its yet another stick for supporters of other clubs to beat us with about our shit support.

Even if they fixed the dreadful travel and parking I don’t think it would change now. Too many are set in their ways to make a move on 80 - 85 mins.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Said it many times on here that it’s contagious leaving early.

Gets a little worse every week. Lots have a valid excuse but thousands don’t.

Many on here tell others it’s none of their business why they leave early, buts the realty is its yet another stick for supporters of other clubs to beat us with about our shit support.

Even if they fixed the dreadful travel and parking I don’t think it would change now. Too many are set in their ways to make a move on 80 - 85 mins.

It's always been the same at every club. Only obvious now because of all-seat stadia.

In the early 60s, the exit gates opened 15-20 minutes from the end at Maine Road, and people were already waiting to get out.
When we were nippers, that was when we (about 30 or 40 kids on average) used to bunk in for free.