Atmosphere

[Blue Pete]

Part of the problem in SS1 is that we can have small groups of fans trying to.get different songs started, none of them seem to stop and join in someone else's. As someone who does sing (but not start songs) it's noticeable that the non singers around me are more likely to sing if there is a single simple song and others are singing it.

Also I'm not young; complicated songs, with tunes I don't know I'm going to struggle with.

And stop speeding up, a song starts and because some speed up it falls out of sync which in effect kills the song.

And it shouldn't be a song, it's a chant (again keep it simple).

And I hate the Scouse allez rubbish.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Crystal Palace match. Away tickets £30. Home tickets, in the block next door to the away fans, £48.50 plus a £1.50 booking fee PER ticket, 3 days before Christmas.
Cheapest ticket left, including the booking fee, is £48, the most expensive is £61 and the Everton match is exactly the same. For young herberts who like singing and shouting, it’s probably quite a big chunk of their cash and go some way to explaining why the atmosphere is a bit flat at times.

 

[foggy1974]

I was sitting at home watching on tele, I wish those lazy people at the match could make more noise, i can't get into the matchday experience with my surround sound TV if fans can't build atmosphere and them empty seats, what's going on there. Can they not drag some employees to fill up the spaces and give them a drum or some object that makes noise. The whole match time experience is so off putting. I literally had TV turned up to 10 and all i could hear was that gundog is shit. :-)

Should of turned it upto 11
Hahahahaha

 

[gocity]

fuck me half time cringe , what have we become blue Peter

It was awful nothing to do with football, the piano was so loud it partially drowned out the singer, so that you could not hear all of the words. Hmm maybe that was a bonus.

 

[paulchapo]

To be honest its been discussed a million times and probably as many reasons given as to why it is mainly bad.

The whole demographic of fan's and stadiums has altered beyond belief from 30-40 years ago and the flat atmosphere at most grounds is a result of those changes. More families and tourist fan's, all seated stadiums and high ticket prices, suffocating stewarding and Disney style choreographed entertainment. I would add for our club an ageing fan base too.

As a result of cleaning up the game from the dark days of the hooligan's, not a bad thing, the edge and atmosphere has almost been cleansed out of it too. It is what it is.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

That in itself is a myth too. The people in the 114 side of the away fans can't even sing in unison amongst two blocks, you'll either have silence, 3 different songs going at the same time or the same song being sung at 4 different stages as people race to reach the end of a song first. Both side coming together would just result in even more fractured singing. The divide actually helps as by time a song has got loud enough for one end to hear the other the majority of the block is together.

There's nothing hampering our atmosphere other than our fans. We can make all the excuses we want but it's down to the fans and nobody else. We can make a racket in big games or important games so there's nothing stopping us from being that loud all the time,

i dont 100% agree with that. its been proven in countless away games over many blocks we can sing as one. even last week in the derby the entire ss3 sung together. the divide doesnt help at all. we have a tiny singing section split up by away fans... would you rather not have a large home end where all our singing fans are together as one. the corner section and 115 are singing songs at completley different times.

also pretty much every club in the country has a home end or a larger singing section then we do. are you saying other fans can sing in one end, but we can't ?. yes its up to the fans, but having a tiny section of singing fans doesnt help at all. do you not think having a stand of say 10,000 ( home end) together all stood up would help - it would be a huge improvement on what we have now in my opinion.

 

[whp.blue]

I sit in 114 flatest it's been all season.
At least 12 empty seats near me today all Season ticket holders.

 

[whp.blue]

To be honest its been discussed a million times and probably as many reasons given as to why it is mainly bad.

The whole demographic of fan's and stadiums has altered beyond belief from 30-40 years ago and the flat atmosphere at most grounds is a result of those changes. More families and tourist fan's, all seated stadiums and high ticket prices, suffocating stewarding and Disney style choreographed entertainment. I would add for our club an ageing fan base too.

As a result of cleaning up the game from the dark days of the hooligan's, not a bad thing, the edge and atmosphere has almost been cleansed out of it too. It is what it is.

Been saying exactly this for about 5 years.

 

[lancs blue]

I don’t know what some fans want. The atmosphere was fine imo. Was louder at the derby three weeks ago but that’s to be expected. Why talk up a problem that really isn’t there.

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.

 

[bluestevei]

sorry LOL