Atmosphere

[Blue Maverick]

Make the new safe standing £100 adults £75 kids, anyone who sings usually stands it will be rammed, I would guess most of 108-110 114-118 would relocate plus others and hopefully this will help, other than that I don’t know what else could be done.

 

[Bluesince1979]

At the moment .... i dont think theres a lot we can do. Through years of being shite we lost a good generation of support , in my opinion. So we have an aging support core. Older fans - less likely to sing.

But .... im now seeing more city kits than united at my kids schools. I know of blokes who arent ‘into’ football being asked by there kids to be taken to City, not united like in years gone by. Kids are choosing us over the scum ... role reversal.

So ... look after this fan base, nurture it, make it affordable and in a couple of years we’ll have that young core again who want to sing and make the noise.

So it starts now with the safe standing/cheap tickets.

Only my opinion of course

 

[Thomas Hearns]

City fans seem to enjoy self flagellating regarding the atmosphere but in reality the atmosphere is shit everywhere. One of the great myths of modern football is the amazing anfield atmosphere - today they’re home in a derby, hot on the heels of the leaders chasing their first title in 30 years and the atmosphere was shite. Those deluded cvnts won’t be flooding their message boards with posts bemoaning the lack of noise so why do we ?

 

[cyberblue]

City fans seem to enjoy self flagellating regarding the atmosphere but in reality the atmosphere is shit everywhere. One of the great myths of modern football is the amazing anfield atmosphere - today they’re home in a derby, hot on the heels of the leaders chasing their first title in 30 years and the atmosphere was shite. Those deluded cvnts won’t be flooding their message boards with posts bemoaning the lack of noise so why do we ?

Watched THE Liverpool Derby today the atmosphere was flat for large parts of the game

 

[cyberblue]

Agreed, from EL3 I thought it sounded better yesterday than at most home games this season because we didn't have it all our own way for 90 mins. No idea what the moaning is about tbh.

The atmosphere wasn't always great at Maine Road either difference is back then we didn't have Bluemoon to come on and moan about it

 

[waspish]

City fans seem to enjoy self flagellating regarding the atmosphere but in reality the atmosphere is shit everywhere. One of the great myths of modern football is the amazing anfield atmosphere - today they’re home in a derby, hot on the heels of the leaders chasing their first title in 30 years and the atmosphere was shite. Those deluded cvnts won’t be flooding their message boards with posts bemoaning the lack of noise so why do we ?

For me this forum a full of none city fans coming out with “I saw empty seats” when the facts are we sell out also the atmosphere shite as well plus the let’s give 18 year olds starts when Pep knows what he is doing it’s all snide comments to have a go at our club!

 

[Thomas Hearns]

For me this forum a full of none city fans coming out with “I saw empty seats” when the facts are we sell out also the atmosphere shite as well plus the let’s give 18 year olds starts when Pep knows what he is doing it’s all snide comments to have a go at our club!

It’s an odd forum in the sense that a very small percentage of members who are astonishingly prolific posters try to set the agenda and then discourage debate by shouting down opposing views.

 

[waspish]

It’s an odd forum in the sense that a very small percentage of members who are astonishingly prolific posters try to set the agenda and then discourage debate by shouting down opposing views.

yeah I know but my view is the right view... ;))

 

[yerwot?]

Stand where you like, turn up and pay a pittance at the gate...Until that happens stop comparing today with yesterday. Germany seem to do a lot right for the fans, maybe having fan representation at board level, prices that mean no-one is excluded (youngsters and pensioners in particular). Charging "market prices" is classic short-termism ( think privatised monopolies ). The Kippax legend lives on, getting louder and bouncier with every telling, but but but in truth for every epic there were several duds, where individual voices could clearly be heard. Often the loudest roar was for the team emerging from the tunnel, and sometimes it drained at three-quarter time when the gates opened, especially if we were playing shite and getting rinsed...the relegation season to the old 3rd division probably the worst of all, the promotion ones the best, the "banana" era pretty amazing. King Kong arguing like fcuk with the Eiffel tower is a sight not easily forgotten... Maybe, when all those who stood on the Kippax are brown bread, those who missed it will accept the atmosphere at the Etihad for what it is, a modern stadium with a middle-class crowd, with corporate and tourists in numbers. Today's football, in fact

 

[whp.blue]

Stand where you like, turn up and pay a pittance at the gate...Until that happens stop comparing today with yesterday. Germany seem to do a lot right for the fans, maybe having fan representation at board level, prices that mean no-one is excluded (youngsters and pensioners in particular). Charging "market prices" is classic short-termism ( think privatised monopolies ). The Kippax legend lives on, getting louder and bouncier with every telling, but but but in truth for every epic there were several duds, where individual voices could clearly be heard. Often the loudest roar was for the team emerging from the tunnel, and sometimes it drained at three-quarter time when the gates opened, especially if we were playing shite and getting rinsed...the relegation season to the old 3rd division probably the worst of all, the promotion ones the best, the "banana" era pretty amazing. King Kong arguing like fcuk with the Eiffel tower is a sight not easily forgotten... Maybe, when all those who stood on the Kippax are brown bread, those who missed it will accept the atmosphere at the Etihad for what it is, a modern stadium with a middle-class crowd, with corporate and tourists in numbers. Today's football, in fact

Sadly spot on.
I am old enough to have spent one season in the scoreboard end at Maine road and the best days of the Kippax were during the worst years of the football violence. Tribalism made football.
Them days are never coming back.