Bring the Noise

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

The megaphone I think works and makes more people join in. Keep taking that to games.

Change the culture in the stands. As it’s non existent right now. The traditional English culture doesn’t exist anymore other then the odd game

 

[Ban-jani]

TBH, l think I need to buy Just For Men Hair Dye. Lol!

Interesting fan/age demographics from that picture.

There's not many people joining in above us.

Maybe shout “join in you ****s” next week.

Where’s the picture from by the way?

 

[trevorriley]

Some of the problems we have is that the repertoire of songs we have is so small these days. Fed up of hearing the same three of four every game. The other issue of course is that once a song has been sung once then everyone just gives up. In Europe the same song is sung ad nauseam for about 5/10 minutes and the place is bouncing. We may not like all the choreography that goes with it but a lot of European teams are literally singing for 90 minutes regardless of how well or badly the team is doing. Go to an away game and the concourse is bouncing, go into the seats and it's quiet. The other issue is that if you have 200 people in one large group all willing to sing nonstop then others will join in. However at City those 200 are split up by day trippers and tourists who just want to post instagram pictures and shine a torch - WTF was that about last night. Watch the game and get behind the lads, not video the game, text your mates and take pictures, it's that simple

Totally agree, songs are to short when we sing them, seems to be an English PL habit the three different song in 90 seconds rather than one song lasting two minutes. A song then pics up momentum and gives fans a chance to learn the words and join in.

Perfect example of how we can do that is the concourse, a song will go on for minutes, then once in the terraces its hands in pockets or on phones. If we could dictate the songs more at 1894 we would sing differently, but try as we do you can not dictate what and how we sing on match day. We carry on a song and after 20 seconds it ends up three of us singing only.

Im all for a long song ( non of the uh ah uh ah, actual singing and hands clapped ) carried on for two minutes,then a break for a minute or two, then another long song. At moment we are still 90 songs in 90 minutes and keep repeating songs until fans are fed up of it. It doesn't work.

 

[paulchapo]

Palace is a myth


Everytime I’ve been you can’t hear any of them and it’s only a handful or so

It isn't a lot but everytime I see them on tv they come across loud and persistent.

 

[jrb]

Maybe shout “join in you ****s” next week.

Where’s the picture from by the way?

Last night.

Bottom of block 116, SSL1.

 

[gouldybob]

The megaphone I think works and makes more people join in. Keep taking that to games.

Change the culture in the stands. As it’s non existent right now. The traditional English culture doesn’t exist anymore other then the odd game

More noise and enthusiasm came from the group of schoolkids at the back of SS3. I'd invite them back and bin the megaphone

 

[trevorriley]

Drum and megaphone is not for me at all.

English football atmosphere is what it is - playing a team from Ukraine for the third season in a row where the players under performed in a game that ultimately does not matter was never going to be good. I'm sure next Saturday it will be absolutely rocking. I've been involved with something similar to 1894 in the past so I applaud your efforts but changing fan culture is a very difficult thing to achieve.

Said this plenty of times but the stadium itself isn't great for atmosphere.

My suggestion would be invest your time into thinking up some unique songs taking inspiration from Manchester's musical heritage and get it sent around social media. Any recent song sung en masse has gone this route, but limit singing about our rivals/stealing songs our rivals already sing by just changing the words. Be original!

If only it was so simple, highlighted a few times it is impossible to dictate the songs unless you have a megaphone / capo like Palace or Huddersfield do. This type of control does not work at city as we can see from this thread. Be original, this is the perfect way, but as we are in the block ( not a fault of 1894 ) it wont happen.

You can see how we are going round and round in circles

"try a drum" - feedback is stick the drum up your arse
"use a megaphone" - feedback is why do we have to use that.
"sing different songs" - fans wont

Could go on and on, we are very divided as to how we think we should improve the atmosphere. Top of the list for me and obvious is safestand, group together and sing for godsake.

 

[jrb]

It isn't a lot but everytime I see them on tv they come across loud and persistent.

The Homesdale Ultras moved from the corner of the stand, near the corner flag, to the middle of the stand, behind the goal. Palace fans in there were relocated. Apparently some weren’t happy about being relocated. But the club decided to side with https://www.holmesdale.net/page.php?id=101&cat=2 after they boycotted the home games, and the atmosphere pretty much collapsed at Palace home games. They’ve now got a prime position in the middle of the lower tier to get chants going, and to get the lower tier joining in, as well as the rest of the stadium, which does happen.

Apparently they’ve got a few 100 singers who congregate together. Something similar for us would be a block, which holds about 500 fans. A safe standing block would probably hold about 750 fans, depending on the seat configuration.

 

[paulchapo]

The one song that used to keep going was the never felt more than singing the Blue's one. The one that does my head in is the empty seats at home song. A group sang it non stop for what seemed like hours one home game it was like fucking torture.

 

[paulchapo]

The Homesdale Ultras moved from the corner of the stand, near the corner flag, to the middle of the stand, behind the goal. Palace fans in there were relocated. Apparently some weren’t happy about being relocated. But the club decided to side with https://www.holmesdale.net/page.php?id=101&cat=2 after they boycotted the home games, and the atmosphere pretty much collapsed at Palace home games. They’ve now got a prime position in the middle of the lower tier to get chants going, and to get the lower tier joining in, as well as the rest of the stadium, which does happen.

Apparently they’ve got a few 100 singers who congregate together. Something similar for us would be a block, which holds about 500 fans. A safe standing block would probably hold about 750 fans, depending on the seat configuration.

I thought they were more noticeable and louder by the corner. I remember them having a fall out with the club.

We can still do it when we want, Southampton at home in the second half was a perfect example. It isn't just us though, as others have said other grounds suffer as well.