City Want Fans In Their Seats By 4:20pm (Please)

[Didsbury Dave]

Obviously the game was shit, but thought the pre-match thing was actually decent. Helped the atmosphere, initially at least. Would be happy to see it done in the future.

If I know City they'll do it again before the 12.30 Everton game and it will fall flat on its arse.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

Could they ask the team to turn up at 4:30?

Or more pertinently not to fuck off on the 85th minute to beat the tram rush.

 

[Manchester33]

If I know City they'll do it again before the 12.30 Everton game and it will fall flat on its arse.

To be honest, Everton fans are pretty shite too. They take good numbers everywhere, but they're very quiet.

If they cut the PA it gives fans the opportunity to start building the atmosphere naturally. I would welcome them doing it before every game.

(although I get the point you're making....)

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

To be honest, Everton fans are pretty shite too. They take good numbers everywhere, but they're very quiet.

If they cut the PA it gives fans the opportunity to start building the atmosphere naturally. I would welcome them doing it before every game.

(although I get the point you're making....)

I think if you do it every game, it makes it less effective.

I remember a few years ago when they did the lights out for the United league cup semi final and it really worked. The club kept doing it though and it didn’t have the same impact. We played Liverpool I think and as soon as the lights went out it was pure silence…

Keep it for biggest games. Ie semi finals, the derby, league deciders.

 

[uwerosler28]

I think if you do it every game, it makes it less effective.

I remember a few years ago when they did the lights out for the United league cup semi final and it really worked. The club kept doing it though and it didn’t have the same impact. We played Liverpool I think and as soon as the lights went out it was pure silence…

Keep it for biggest games. Ie semi finals, the derby, league deciders.

That Liverpool game was live on sky and the lights out thing relatively new, the studio said something along the lines of "let's go to the stadium and hear the noise from the city fans as the lights go out ", que silence from the studio and all you could hear was ",you'll never walk alone", was really embarrassing.

 

[Manchester33]

I think if you do it every game, it makes it less effective.

I remember a few years ago when they did the lights out for the United league cup semi final and it really worked. The club kept doing it though and it didn’t have the same impact. We played Liverpool I think and as soon as the lights went out it was pure silence…

Keep it for biggest games. Ie semi finals, the derby, league deciders.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Going back to Maine Road, there was often no music before games. Fans would congregate on the Kippax 30 mins before KO and start singing.

Yes, if the PA got cut out for the Everton game it would be quiet, but if we did it every game for a year, next Christmas a similar game would be really good prior to KO.

 

[cheddar404]

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Going back to Maine Road, there was often no music before games. Fans would congregate on the Kippax 30 mins before KO and start singing.

Yes, if the PA got cut out for the Everton game it would be quiet, but if we did it every game for a year, next Christmas a similar game would be really good prior to KO.

There's a YouTube clip somewhere of the pre match talk on BBC for the FA cup tie against spurs in 93 and you can hear the crowd noise in the background and it's incredible.