Atmosphere Thread | 2025/26

[pride in battle]

Villas support has notoriously been shite yet they think it’s the best in the world. That “The 12th man” tosh in the Holte end always makes me chuckle.

Probably the most fickle fans in the country !

 

[Elliot houghton]

Apparently there is a Reijnders one to like a prayer as well

 

[LEXSTARproject]

It’s bizarre that the club haven’t done this. They can reach every season ticket holder and member whereas 1894 can’t.

When you have you meeting, can this be one of the questions

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

It’s bizarre that the club haven’t done this. They can reach every season ticket holder and member whereas 1894 can’t.

Similar to the post above, but surely it’s worth pushing the club on this. If possible

 

[FootballSense]

Technically they aren’t, but to lots of people they are. Call it corporate, corporate lite, posh - whatever you want to call it.

From what I’ve seen prices in ss2 are about £1350 for season tickets. So completely unaffordable and out of reach for large sections of our fanbase.

Of course the people who sit there are sound and are all city fans, but for people on lower incomes or younger people - in general they aren’t sitting in those seats. There is a clear difference from ss3 to ss2, whether that’s atmosphere or the types of fans sitting in those areas. Even for fan displays, it’s often that second tier not joining in or half empty

If we want an atmospheric home end or area like that behind the goal, I personally don’t want it to be like ss2 and there shouldn’t be any GA+ seating

There will be 7,000 EXTRA seats which includes a minimum of 3,000 safe standing and 4,000 general admission seats.

Amongst these extras will probably be the cheapest seats in the stadium.

On top of the 7,000 there are the current level 1 (is this approx. 2,500 existing seats ?).

Therefore there will be 9,500 general admission / safe standing seats on one level. On this level 300 will be allocated to GA+ which will have no impact on the other 9,200 approx. fans.

The decision has been made by the club about GA+ so lets move on and address the here, now and future.

The current SS Level 0 is small by comparison. The designated singing blocks even smaller.

*Do we want part of a so called home end shared with away fans for league games and dominated by away fans for cup games? The South Stand.

or

* Do we want a big end entirely full of CITY fans? The NORTH STAND.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

City have also gained a far higher proportion of "school playground support" than in previous years/decades.
However, in many cases these young supporters are probably more interested in following City than their parents

Does that make them "proper fans" or should it even matter, especially as they weren't even born when City were hosting Macclesfield and Wycombe?

There are two teachers in my family and they say that City are massively supported by the kids. They are based in Greater Manchester but have worked in four different schools in the last two years, one in Salford, one in East Manchester, and two in South Manchester. They also say that most of the staff are also City fans. The future is certainly Blue.