Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

[uwerosler28]

The biggest issue here is that atmosphere means different things to the club and the majority on here , to the club it is creating an atmosphere of a family friendly environment which makes people want to return and spend money , to us it is what can recreate what we had at the Hamburg game . The clubs view will never be the same as ours. Ours was a ground full of old school mancs who paid a fiver to get in a game nobody else wanted to go to !

 

[jrb]

The continuous Laporte chant was good.

The no mans land in-between the new advertising boards, in-front of ESL, looks shite.

 

[christopp]

It was as shite as ever lol people seem to think a rail seat will improve atmosphere. They stood all the time anyway. Overpriced. Tourists. Lazy.

 

[talkativesprout]

I go to watch the football, the football is so good these days that i forget it makes me a better fan if i can sing loudly and spend half the game flicking the V's to some awful people in the corner of the ground that look like they got dressed by the 80s band Kajagoogoo. :)

 

[Blue68-69]

Watched Match of the Day last night and the sound of the City fans was good. When they introduced the Liverpool game they added it was at a packed noisy Anfield...it was like a morgue considering there was apparently 53000 people there. However you could hear the Burnley support from time to time. In the second half you could even hear the players and benches shouting at each other lol.

 

[Gray]

Because the Etihad isn’t on its own branch line. They’d block trams going to Ashton.

They have a third track between the Etihad and the Velo stop, easily get two double units on there. Then into the Ashton platform at Picadilly (like yesterday) then back up to the Stadium between normal Ashton trams. Keep shuttling say three double units for 40 minutes at about the 80min time on the game clock. Only stumbling block is Merrell Street which they could close to traffic coming out of town. Something similar for fans going to Ashton as they have a third rail the stadium side of Picadilly station so they could run more trams back through the stadium to Ashton.

They could easily reposition the extra trams after clearing all the fans.

They could add another track down Merrell Street and close that street on matchdays when the game was coming to an end. Bloody bad planning by TFGM that they didn't do that in the first place.

 

[frothy]

I don’t know how long it takes to couple/decouple double header trams, or whether it takes an external engineer. So the following all depends on whether the process can happen.

But if it is done via the driver, why not have quadruple headers from Ashton , (passengers can only get on 1st 2 carriages).
When it arrives at stadium, passengers fill up 1st 2 carriages, (whilst decoupling), 1st 2 carriages pull away, and the 2nd 2 carriages move forward.
The delay between 2 double header trams ‘arriving’ at the station is almost halved.

Noticed on the way back to the Vic pub a tram with 4 carriages half empty going towards Town, and then one going towards Ashton from the ground with 3 carriages absolutely rammed?

 

[jimharri]

I go to watch the football, the football is so good these days that i forget it makes me a better fan if i can sing loudly and spend half the game flicking the V's to some awful people in the corner of the ground that look like they got dressed by the 80s band Kajagoogoo. :)

Fair point. It's a never ending story though, innit?

 

[radcliffe1309]

The biggest issue here is that atmosphere means different things to the club and the majority on here , to the club it is creating an atmosphere of a family friendly environment which makes people want to return and spend money , to us it is what can recreate what we had at the Hamburg game . The clubs view will never be the same as ours. Ours was a ground full of old school mancs who paid a fiver to get in a game nobody else wanted to go to !

Surely the club should be looking at ways to accommodate and achieve all types of fan , wouldn't you agree ?

 

[Zapcity]

Away fans dont seem to struggle creating an atmosphere in the existing south stand when it's been handed over for previous cup games. We have the wrong type of match going fans to create and atmosphere not the wrong type of stadium

To be fair it often is the away fans that do make most noise at most grounds. There are normally a couple of thousand in a fairly small area, and your fan who is going to make the effort to travel all over the country to support their team maybe makes more of an effort??
These days I rarely go to away games (Preston away in lge cup most recent, which was a really good atmosphere in the City end to be fair) Even In the 80s/90s when I went to a lot of away games the City fans generally sang a lot more than they did at Maine Road.
The atmosphere doesn't seem that great at most grounds tbh(even at Anfield..shock..horror!!!) The fans of promoted clubs are often pretty noisy until the 'novelty' has gone!
The prices DO have an impact.m, premier look football is very expensive for your fan who isn't loaded (financially!!)It is an ageing fan base, a lot of City fans are my age (mid 50s) who went in the 80s/90s in their teens/20s/30s etc..There used to be a lot of 'fuck you, I don't care how shit we are I'm still going' mentality which created a real bond amongst fans (which still does exist to a lesser degree I feel)
Maybe we created a better atmosphere when we needed to? Maybe we just do sit back and contently admire the quality, which is very good.(though i'm sure a couple in front of me were actual mannequins at a lge cup game at home to Soton a while ago!)