Atmosphere at Eastlands

[citysky]

change the entrance music to this
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2SLE6fqA20[/youtube]
and sing this to that

oooaaaoo ooaaaaooo
oaaaoooo oooaaaaaooo
ooaaoooo oooaaaaoooo
city is the club, city is my club, city is the club, city is my club
city is the club, city is my club, city is the club, city is my clubbbbb
this club i die for, this club i bleed for, we never give up, true warriors of eastlands
my blood is blue, it covers manchester, everbody knows manchester is blue
the city is ours, city is ours, the city is ours, city is ours
the city is ours, city is ours, the city is ours, city is ours
OAAAAOOOOOOO
repeat

oh and while doing the "oaaaooo" and the begginig, the fans stand up and hold their scarfs and move them forward and back, like this
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjNtGy1fg2w" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjNtGy1fg2w</a>

what you guys think? i did it quick, you can change it up a bit, but it just gives u an idea

 

[element_mcfc]

RIC

Massive thing that has an effect on the atmosphere, is the stupid, patronizing announcer! Come on our manchester city! Really just makes people feel stupid. Plus the music played before some games is really bad, like anything that isnt blue moon is bad, like that stupid classical music. Common sense is all thats needed, and it feels like the people behind the announcer and pretty much everything all seem to be pretty inside there own heads.... not good

 

[felixbg]

on another note danny wilson and karen procter are great for the club. always listen and happy to help[.

 

[leithblue]

I think the constant whinging about the Family Stand is getting a bit tiresome to be honest, both about atmosphere and empty seats.

For the cup ties, if the rest of the ground was packed and the North Stand empty then I could see a point, but complaining about families not filling the place when whole tiers of another stand aren't even opened seems confused.

Its been pointed out on other threads that the Ticket Office will happily sell tickets for the North Stand for midweek games, like tonight if you ask them, just nobody is buying them there.

There'll be 30k+ there tonight I imagine, that should be enough to create an atmosphere, blaming the under 8s, GMP, the faceless health and safety beings, Garry Cooke, Thatcher, god knows who else is just looking for excuses.

I've been going since the 70s and agree there have been games at Maine Road with fantastic atmospheres. But often it was the 20-30k crowds that created them, I remember games with huge crowds when it was like a library. Maine Road was not some kind of wall of noise utopia a lot of the time. Atmosphere is created by the fans and bleating about not being able to create one is trying to shift the blame somewhere other than ourselves.

I'll be in the North Stand tonight, it might be full, it might not. But the Family Stand experiment has only been running 6 months, its been created for kids, it could be years before we see how much of a benefit it is (or not). What it obvious from sitting there and seeing other posters' comments is that the kids that do go, a lot of them love what's happening.

 

[knottymcfc]

Would be good if you could have a section where your seat isn't allocated so can sit with your mates, will never happen tho

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[Dubai Blue]

But the Family Stand experiment has only been running 6 months, its been created for kids, it could be years before we see how much of a benefit it is (or not). What it obvious from sitting there and seeing other posters' comments is that the kids that do go, a lot of them love what's happening.

The thing I don't get about the Family Stand is what happens when all these kids turn 16? Apologies if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that you have to be an adult with an U16 to sit there. Then what? Do two long-term supporters just suddenly lose the ability to have a season ticket because there is nowhere else to go? That's the danger of turning over far too big a portion of the ground to such strict criteria.

Does anyone know if the club have done anything to overcome this issue?

 

[leithblue]

But the Family Stand experiment has only been running 6 months, its been created for kids, it could be years before we see how much of a benefit it is (or not). What it obvious from sitting there and seeing other posters' comments is that the kids that do go, a lot of them love what's happening.

The thing I don't get about the Family Stand is what happens when all these kids turn 16? Apologies if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that you have to be an adult with an U16 to sit there. Then what? Do two long-term supporters just suddenly lose the ability to have a season ticket because there is nowhere else to go? That's the danger of turning over far too big a portion of the ground to such strict criteria.

Does anyone know if the club have done anything to overcome this issue?

I think there's a cap on season tickets with a few thousand seats not sold as season tickets, so there will always be somewhere to move to. I guess the assumption is that with kids tickets being cheap in the Family Stand that younger fans from other parts of the ground will migrate there when they have their own kids and the cycle starts again.

It's a large proportion of tickets, but will be less of an issue if (if.......) the capacity is expanded.

I think the club believe that its vital to get kids going, isn't the average age of a match going fan 40something just now?

 

[Vic]

no offence but the club needs to discuss all this with US, the fans, and not piddling representatives who think they speak for the majority.

And exactly who would you speak for? Who do you represent?

 

[TudorRose]

I don't think the football is exciting enough to build and maintain an atmosphere. Like the OP said, English fan culture is spontaneous and if it's a poor game it dampens any atmosphere. Most games in the Prem are boring.

Other cultures can watch a dull game and still be jumping up and down or chanting etc e.g. Aris fans, Poznan fans.

Away support as well- can see Fulham bringing 500 fans on Sunday, situated bang in the middle of our two main singin sections. That in itself will make for a poor atmosphere, along with Fulham defending with ten men. It doesn't get me up for it anyway?

This isn't a dig at our tactics or game and it's nothing that these meetings can do anything about, it's just the way the Prem is these days barr a few 'bigger' matches.

 

[Marvin]

"Foreign fans are organised, and English fans are spontaneous"

At first I thought this was an excuse, but on thinking about it, it is probably true. Not down to "Nature", but down to the way English football fans are heavily policed, and have been for decades. You might get a kick and a smack from the foreign police, but they are not going to have your photo on a CCTV camera.

You can't demonstrate or express any kind of radical views in this country without it being deemed offensive, or advocating terror, and it was all tried out on football fans first.