Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

[Man_City_Loyal]

Not always.

Like you and everyone else, I've been to plenty of those games and the atmosphere has been flat as f*ck on plenty of occasions, especially when the Rags or the Scousers score first.

We're deluding ourselves if we think the games against United and Liverpool at Maine Road and at the Etihad have always been rocking, because they haven't been.

I know it's not.

Still think our best games for atmosphere this season has been PSG & Leeds, and Leeds we were well under capacity

 

[Harlaching Sky Blue]

Natalie Sawyer just said she was very disappointed by the flat atmosphere at Anfield yesterday. The same weekend some posters on here were saying Anfield's a cauldron every game.

When media admit the atmosphere at Anfield was "a little flat", it should be understood by us as to mean their take on "less than 5 buses got trashed"

 

[Didsbury Dave]

@Psychedelic Casual gets it right about atmosphere: I think it's been better this year but it could be even better for some games. The problem is the location of the two singing ends and their inability to sing together when the away fans are loud. I know people go on about allocating the north stand as a singing area but that's not going to happen because it's a major upheaval.

A good atmosphere is when songs spread around the ground. Crowd psychology means that people around the stadium only join in if a song is loud enough and they don't feel stupid. I tell you now, from the top tier of the Colin Bell, when the SS level 3 sing a song it is loud as fuck and bounces round the stadium because it both bounces of the roof and spreads both ways fast.

A cheap, simple and almost fussless quick fix would be for the 1984 group to relocate up there. A couple of hundred of them would be enough to get songs going up there and the rest of the ground would follow suit. I know I've said this before and been told they want to do those "display" things but they aren't atmosphere and don't really matter.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Anfields great on champions league nights, thats it

 

[trevorriley]

@Psychedelic Casual gets it right about atmosphere: I think it's been better this year but it could be even better for some games. The problem is the location of the two singing ends and their inability to sing together when the away fans are loud. I know people go on about allocating the north stand as a singing area but that's not going to happen because it's a major upheaval.

A good atmosphere is when songs spread around the ground. Crowd psychology means that people around the stadium only join in if a song is loud enough and they don't feel stupid. I tell you now, from the top tier of the Colin Bell, when the SS level 3 sing a song it is loud as fuck and bounces round the stadium because it both bounces of the roof and spreads both ways fast.

A cheap, simple and almost fussless quick fix would be for the 1984 group to relocate up there. A couple of hundred of them would be enough to get songs going up there and the rest of the ground would follow suit. I know I've said this before and been told they want to do those "display" things but they aren't atmosphere and don't really matter.

Interesting to know what you hear from where you sit, you more than anybody can hear how the noise travels. And correct the noise has got better this season.

From 115 areas i can only hear us singing, i dont hear SS level 3 much at all, even though they do sing it doesnt travel. Likewise they cant hear us. Similar with kippax corner, we hear them and can see hands clapping, but it has a second or 2 delay so it is impossible to sing together. What we hear most is the away fans "if" they sing.

We cant move up in to SS3. We have now got safe standing in place also we cant do the displays in SS3 as security wont allow the flexibility of flags up there, also logistically it is difficult.

Because of the way ticketing is ( mainly season cards already sold and spoken for in both SS1 & SS3 ) it is difficult enough trying to migrate ten fans from one tier to another. We have access to what is classed as spare seating at the end of the season, this is for fans that would like to move in to 115 / 116. But very few come forward, fans choose to stay where they are, a lot sit with friends and family and would like to keep it that way.

The 3 main singing areas are SS lower / kippax corner / SS level 3. While we are spread out this way it is going to be difficult, unless things change from stadium expansion the away end will never move and having three singing sections looks like staying that way.

But the atmosphere can be very good, take Leeds at home, was one of best 90 mins in a game for a while, shows the singers are there.

 

[manclad]

@Psychedelic Casual gets it right about atmosphere: I think it's been better this year but it could be even better for some games. The problem is the location of the two singing ends and their inability to sing together when the away fans are loud. I know people go on about allocating the north stand as a singing area but that's not going to happen because it's a major upheaval.

A good atmosphere is when songs spread around the ground. Crowd psychology means that people around the stadium only join in if a song is loud enough and they don't feel stupid. I tell you now, from the top tier of the Colin Bell, when the SS level 3 sing a song it is loud as fuck and bounces round the stadium because it both bounces of the roof and spreads both ways fast.

A cheap, simple and almost fussless quick fix would be for the 1984 group to relocate up there. A couple of hundred of them would be enough to get songs going up there and the rest of the ground would follow suit. I know I've said this before and been told they want to do those "display" things but they aren't atmosphere and don't really matter.

The 1984 group are so 20th century though, don't you agree Dave??

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The 1984 group are so 20th century though, don't you agree Dave??

YEah, they're too scared of Big Brother.

 

[Gingers Dad]

@Psychedelic Casual gets it right about atmosphere: I think it's been better this year but it could be even better for some games. The problem is the location of the two singing ends and their inability to sing together when the away fans are loud. I know people go on about allocating the north stand as a singing area but that's not going to happen because it's a major upheaval.

A good atmosphere is when songs spread around the ground. Crowd psychology means that people around the stadium only join in if a song is loud enough and they don't feel stupid. I tell you now, from the top tier of the Colin Bell, when the SS level 3 sing a song it is loud as fuck and bounces round the stadium because it both bounces of the roof and spreads both ways fast.

A cheap, simple and almost fussless quick fix would be for the 1984 group to relocate up there. A couple of hundred of them would be enough to get songs going up there and the rest of the ground would follow suit. I know I've said this before and been told they want to do those "display" things but they aren't atmosphere and don't really matter.

Problem is not the two singing sections it's the fact that nobody else in the ground joins in.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Problem is not the two singing sections it's the fact that nobody else in the ground joins in.

Yes but they will do if it's the right song and it's loud enough and they hear others picking it up. It's basic crowd psychology. If we had all the singers together more songs would spread. It's as simple as that.

 

[stan bowles]

Anfields great on champions league nights, thats it

So is the Etihad. Put the Chelsea game on at 17.30 under the lights (when it should have been for a 1st v 2nd battle) and it would have been a lot louder. Still, the tv broadcast managed to make it sound like a library but that's not how it was in the ground.