Bring the Noise

[@BluePhil8]

Yeah but I’d rather it be dead than have a drum or megaphone.

Cool, you'll probably get your wish to be honest.

 

[mancityvstoke]

So's the atmosphere in 95% of our games.

Without the megaphone and drum and the kids in level 3 South stand I would have fallen asleep

 

[CityMan3]

Italian fans don’t have drums and have atmospheres as good as the other European fans.

Everyone has got very confused and think it’s actually the drum when it bloody well isn’t, it’s the fans! THE FANS, NOT THE DRUMS!

Drums are fucking shit, proper fucking shit!

Ive just said in another thread; The guy banging it couldn’t even bang it twice in time to the claps for the Guardiola chant.

I never EVER want to hear that shit ever again. We are MANCHESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB not some bollocks no mark drum banger club from Lancashire from last decade like Bolton/Blackburn/Wigan etc.

That was fucking dreadful to hear at a City game!

Do we have ultras ? Or the number of people who are willing to sing? The drum helps. It provides a different sound to the usual, keeps rhythm and overall adds something different to the usual Pl atmosphere. And let's be honest, the team deserves some kind of effort in supporting them. Your only hurting the people trying to improve the atmosphere.

 

[Ban-jani]

Cool, you'll probably get your wish to be honest.

I’d rather it be better but silence is better than the above.

 

[deano ou812]

Yeah but I’d rather it be dead than have a drum or megaphone.

The drum is useless on its own,need about five or six of them on the go..

 

[Ban-jani]

The drum is useless on its own,need about five or six of them on the go..

Now we’re talking. I’ll bring a guitar and you get a trumpet.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

The drum is useless on its own,need about five or six of them on the go..

 

[@BluePhil8]

Now we’re talking. I’ll bring a guitar and you get a trumpet.

I'm an accomplished triangle player

 

[jrb]

You’ve got bollocks I’ll give you that. That’s about all the praise I’ll give you for using a megaphone and a drum at Manchester City.

Fair play for trying but we’re not Bolton Wanderers.

I used a megaphone when I was in block 111 years ago. Only for about 5 games. Even there I didn’t get any abuse or negativity.

People will always be for and against a megaphone.

I think it’s how you use it. Occasionally, at the right times during a game, and with the right chants.

A European Capo would never work in England.

There are too many fans who want to start chants off themselves in England.

And I for one don’t think 1 person on a megaphone has the right to dictate chants to 100’s of fans throughout the match.

 

[deano ou812]

Now we’re talking. I’ll bring a guitar and you get a trumpet.

That’s it large fuck off marshall amps as well..

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Or we aren’t and the drum is fucking shit, proper fucking shit!

Don’t agree. I think the links to teams like Bolton are a bit lame as well. Considering the amount of sides across Europe that use them to great effect.

The truth is most if not all of our songs aren’t sung in time. And for me it’s no different from the people at the back of the south stand banging the metal.

Something like this has to be done as it’s getting worse.theres too many people stood there in silence thinking they are too Cool to join in with anything. I’e the poznan, flags, scarves, singing

A traditional English terrace culture, combined with the odd drum beat and a group starting the song sounds good to me

 

[Holcombe bloo]

Drop the drum jrb but love the megaphone, needs to be louder though or perhaps 2 megaphones ?

Well done anyway for the effort

 

[deano ou812]

I'm an accomplished triangle player

Your in ..

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I used a megaphone when I was in lock 111 years ago. Only for about 5 games. Even there I didn’t get any abuse or negativity.

People will always be for and against megaphone.

I think it’s how you use it. Occasionally, at the right times during a game, and with the right chants.

A European Capo would never work in England.

There are too many fans who want to start chants off themselves.

And I for one don’t think 1 person on a megaphone has the right to dictate chants to 100’s of fans throughout the match.

I

I don’t mind a megaphone really.

Just please, PLEASE, no drums!

I think we will have failed as a fanbase, shut the door, lock it, never get it back; if we have a drum.

 

[CityMan3]

I’ll let you all into a secret, I was on the megaphone. ;-)

I know, fire away. :-(

I appreciate people’s views and respect them.

There has been a lot of discussion with the club about the megaphone. It’s been on going for months.

It’s not a decision that has been made over night.

Both the club and 1894 have compromised on issues about using the megaphone, it’s location on the terraces, etc, until an agreement was finally reached.

Tonight was a trial of the megaphone. (and the drum)

Both 1894 and the club felt a CL match was the right match to trial both, as the atmosphere is usually pretty dire, if we’re being honest. As it was tonight.

A PL game was discussed, but the general consensus was PL games, especially the big PL games, tend to take care of themselves, as regards the atmosphere.

So tonight.

It was agreed the megaphone would be used sporadically, at certain times, and during certain chants. There where occasions when it did get over used. I’ll admit that.There were occasions when it didn’t have any effect. There were occasions when it did have an effect. It was a mixed bag tonight.

TBH, I was expecting some abuse, but the vast majority of people seemed ok with it, and apart from some light hearted banter, the megaphone seemed to go down ok? Maybe I’m wrong?

What feedback we did get, was that people at the back couldn’t really hear the megaphone. But when they did, they tended to join in. The Guardiola chant in the 2nd half being the best example.

Obviously 1894 and the club would like some honest and constructive feedback on the megaphone and the drum, regardless if it’s positive or negative.

Please don’t be abusive.

As I’ve already stated, it was a trial tonight.


Thanks.

Great job on getting the club to accept, the drums and megaphone will definitely improve the atmosphere.

 

[Ban-jani]

I used a megaphone when I was in block 111 years ago. Only for about 5 games. Even there I didn’t get any abuse or negativity.

People will always be for and against a megaphone.

I think it’s how you use it. Occasionally, at the right times during a game, and with the right chants.

A European Capo would never work in England.

There are too many fans who want to start chants off themselves in England.

And I for one don’t think 1 person on a megaphone has the right to dictate chants to 100’s of fans throughout the match.

I

As I say, there’s no way I’d have the balls to even if I wanted it, so fair play to you.

I just don’t think it’s us.

Now, without sounding a nonce, get those kids in again in SS3, they were buzzing.

 

[cyberblue]

I don’t mind a megaphone really.

Just please, PLEASE, no drums!

I think we will have failed as a fanbase, shut the door, lock it, never get it back; if we have a drum.

Nothing wrong with a drum if it just used now and again

 

[jrb]

The megaphone that was used tonight wasn’t that powerful.

There are much more powerful megaphones on the market.

 

[paulchapo]

I don’t mind a megaphone really.

Just please, PLEASE, no drums!

I think we will have failed as a fanbase, shut the door, lock it, never get it back; if we have a drum.

Megaphones and drums.....I am already become more and more disillusioned with modern football, if this picks up my season card is being hung up for good.

 

[deano ou812]

Look only one way to solve this,get a recording of one of those wonderful European nights at anfield and play it over the speaker system minus the ynwa at the start of course ...