Absolute bullshit, we as fans were incredible in 2011/2012 then it petered off a bit but the last couple of seasons have been great, each season has peaks and troughs like every club but throwing our fans under the bus with your shitty comments is fucking low mate...We need to face it, generally speaking the 50 odd thousand people on any give day at the Etihad simply cannot be arsed singing, or they feel it inappropriate to sing or show any emotion apart from when we score. Expecting them to bother to turn up early to welcome our bus on mass will end in disappointment.
I am a lifelong blue who went to hundreds of games at Maine Road and have held a season ticket from day 1 at this stadium, the difference in the past 10 years or so is astonishing.
I'm not going to suggest the reasoning, as everyone will have their own theories (tourists, prawn sandwich eaters, tickets being too expensive for Joe Bloggs etc) What I can say though is most games at the Etihad, the majority of people in that stadium may as well be at home or down the pub watching as they add absolutely nothing to the proceedings. The insult to injury is the habitual late shows and early leaves (much discussed on here).
The players and manager (and footballers in general) have said many many times that the fans and the atmosphere they create can make all the difference to how the team get through games. Over the years this team and manager have given us everything and more and yet look at us now, probably quieter and less fanatical than we were in division 2.
We may have the best fans in all the land and all the world but sadly most of them aren't in that stadium.
He's talking shit mate...It's been a bad week for atmosphere don't get me wrong, but this past year or so we've seen some fantastic games for atmosphere. Arsenal, Madrid, Bayern, Liverpool(April)...
It really isn't all doom and gloom, and the truth is that those home games back at Maine Road in the 80s were nowhere near as good as people on here like to say they were
So stop fucking moaning then !!!!I actually think Sunday will look after itself and will be a good atmosphere.
I saw the king, including the night he was taken out by buchan, and when he returned/retired in 77/78. We were still singing his song into the new millenium. I don't think it matters what songs we sing, as long as we all do it. I'd be asking people if they ever sang at matches, if they did, why did they stop.Id rather hear them, than signing about Edin Dzeko or songs relating to players long gone
We'll have to agree to disagree. Nobody is being thrown under the bus here. Mostly all I see when I look around, in say a 10m radius from where I sit, are people sat almost emotionless, not joining in with any singing and only making any sort of reaction when we score. I'm not saying everyone is like that, there are lots that aren't, but it's probably like a 70/30 splitAbsolute bullshit, we as fans were incredible in 2011/2012 then it petered off a bit but the last couple of seasons have been great, each season has peaks and troughs like every club but throwing our fans under the bus with your shitty comments is fucking low mate...
After the atmosphere last weekend and midweek, surely this is the perfect time to do it?Bus welcomes should be only done for big important games near the end of the season
We do seem to beat ourselves up about it more than any other fanbase. Nobody’s ground is bouncing every week, despite what the press would have you believe.We're eating each ourselves up once again about the atmosphere at the Etihad.
I don't know how it started this time? ;-)
Aris fans disagree with you.We do seem to beat ourselves up about it more than any other fanbase. Nobody’s ground is bouncing every week, despite what the press would have you believe.