Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

[Stevieatlasblue]

I just think how shit it must be for the players and pep. Leeds under 23 game at elland road last night had a better atmosphere than ours today. Keep reading our ground is no different to any other ground absoulte bollocks no other ground has a team top of the league but we do it should be rocking. What i dont get is fans on here defending it. Do you enjoy sitting in siIence with a miserable face. I said earlier in the year something on here about the atmosphere being shit and got called suspect. I am on here moaning about it because its boring going to watch City these days not because of the football but the atmosphere. Of course the atmosphere makes it 100 times better experience.

Good post mate

 

[sharky.mcfc.]

I just think how shit it must be for the players and pep. Leeds under 23 game at elland road last night had a better atmosphere than ours today. Keep reading our ground is no different to any other ground absoulte bollocks no other ground has a team top of the league but we do it should be rocking. What i dont get is fans on here defending it. Do you enjoy sitting in siIence with a miserable face. I said earlier in the year something on here about the atmosphere being shit and got called suspect. I am on here moaning about it because its boring going to watch City these days not because of the football but the atmosphere. Of course the atmosphere makes it 100 times better experience.

Agreed…couldn’t of said that any better!!

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

Sat right behind Pep today and it was a good insight. Basically it was quiet and shit and it sounds much worse at pitch level than it does in level 3. I’ve given up making excuses, blaming acoustics and song choices and all that stuff. Unless the club grasp the mettle and make some serious changes we have a shit product to sell at the moment. I think that the poor atmosphere is now part of the club culture and is one of the reasons that glory hunting kids are choosing Liverpool and not us.

Unless someone gets hold of this and makes some radical choices then we have a problem in the club DNA. I’d love to advise them on solutions because it is still solvable, but it’s drifting away.

Not long ago we were the club with a shit team but great support. Now we are the opposite. We either bite the bullet or that’s what we are for the future.

Well said Dave,keep posting about it please. The club definitely needs to do something about it because it really is that bad now. The club needs to work something out with the fans to help solve the problem and also speak to the council about public transport problems. Mass exodus every week and if that’s down to public transport then surely there is a solution. I often go in the car with my group and it’s not too bad getting away. Yes we have to sit in traffic but so what.

 

[Manchester33]

Sat right behind Pep today and it was a good insight. Basically it was quiet and shit and it sounds much worse at pitch level than it does in level 3. I’ve given up making excuses, blaming acoustics and song choices and all that stuff. Unless the club grasp the mettle and make some serious changes we have a shit product to sell at the moment. I think that the poor atmosphere is now part of the club culture and is one of the reasons that glory hunting kids are choosing Liverpool and not us.

Unless someone gets hold of this and makes some radical choices then we have a problem in the club DNA. I’d love to advise them on solutions because it is still solvable, but it’s drifting away.

Not long ago we were the club with a shit team but great support. Now we are the opposite. We either bite the bullet or that’s what we are for the future.

Talking about the atmosphere feels like Groundhog Day for me.

It’s not acoustics.
It’s not position of singers.
It’s not the type of song.
It’s not the style of play.
It’s not the KO time.
It’s not the opposition.
It’s not nerves.
It’s not overconfidence.

These are all variables that affect every stadium whether it’s La Bombanera or Craven Cottage.

The difference between our atmosphere being brilliant and awful is down to the monetisation of us fans by the club.

We have had a decade of price rises.
Our match day tickets are extortionate.
We have vast, vast amounts of rarely occupied corporate seats. We have LED advertising boards. Adverts blaring at 150 decibels. The club don’t give a shit about the atmosphere as long as the money keeps flooding in and it shows. Fuck getting a bunch of 17/18/19 year old lads in when you can charge a family £200 + whatever they spend in the club shop and on food/drink.

The issue we have is that the club have rid our stands of the type of person who’s likely to create an atmosphere and replaced them with families/tourists/corporates. In a 55k stadium, we have around 5k fan(atic)s who will sing. The rest are purely spectators.

It’s so short sighted and as you said, it will cost us fans (and subsequently money) in the long run.

Simply put, we can organise singing sections and all sorts of incentives, but there will always be a limit on what we achieve when we’re treated as cash cows rather than supporters.

 

[Stonesisagreatdancer]

I've said it once, I'll say it again. The atmosphere at the Etihad is a total disgrace. In no point in English football history has the top team in the land had the quietest ground in the league. We can harp on about United and Liverpool having shit atmospheres vs Watford etc, but have you heard the noise in theor stadiums in big CL games or title run in games? It's incredible. Unfortunately, it's the culture of the club, and partly the culture of many Mancs. I'm from Birmingham, I support City but the amount of times I've heard Mancs at Etihad say they "enjoyed it more when we were shit"?? Like whyyyy? I think its because Manchester was the place to be in the 90s. Nostalgia merchants. This might be a weird theory, but having gone to games more often from 2017-now, I feel at least a quarter of the fans in that stadium would rather have Oasis get back together than us winning the CL. The lack of passion sometimes is sad to see.

 

[Mike N]

Talking about the atmosphere feels like Groundhog Day for me.

It’s not acoustics.
It’s not position of singers.
It’s not the type of song.
It’s not the style of play.
It’s not the KO time.
It’s not the opposition.
It’s not nerves.
It’s not overconfidence.

These are all variables that affect every stadium whether it’s La Bombanera or Craven Cottage.

The difference between our atmosphere being brilliant and awful is down to the monetisation of us fans by the club.

We have had a decade of price rises.
Our match day tickets are extortionate.
We have vast, vast amounts of rarely occupied corporate seats. We have LED advertising boards. Adverts blaring at 150 decibels. The club don’t give a shit about the atmosphere as long as the money keeps flooding in and it shows. Fuck getting a bunch of 17/18/19 year old lads in when you can charge a family £200 + whatever they spend in the club shop and on food/drink.

The issue we have is that the club have rid our stands of the type of person who’s likely to create an atmosphere and replaced them with families/tourists/corporates. In a 55k stadium, we have around 5k fan(atic)s who will sing. The rest are purely spectators.

It’s so short sighted and as you said, it will cost us fans (and subsequently money) in the long run.

Simply put, we can organise singing sections and all sorts of incentives, but there will always be a limit on what we achieve when we’re treated as cash cows rather than supporters.

This doesn’t explain why the guy next to me in 315 doesn’t ever make a noise apart from saying ‘hi’. He looks like he’s been going to City for 30 years.

I don’t know why he doesn’t feel he needs to vocally encourage our team. It can’t be because of money, in SS3, our tickets cost less than £18 per game.

 

[blueju]

I don’t see the point in going to a match if you aren’t coming home having lost your voice. Even when I left the season under Pearce there were people in the stadium giving you dirty looks for chanting next to them.

 

[There is a Light]

Talking about the atmosphere feels like Groundhog Day for me.

It’s not acoustics.
It’s not position of singers.
It’s not the type of song.
It’s not the style of play.
It’s not the KO time.
It’s not the opposition.
It’s not nerves.
It’s not overconfidence.

These are all variables that affect every stadium whether it’s La Bombanera or Craven Cottage.

The difference between our atmosphere being brilliant and awful is down to the monetisation of us fans by the club.

We have had a decade of price rises.
Our match day tickets are extortionate.
We have vast, vast amounts of rarely occupied corporate seats. We have LED advertising boards. Adverts blaring at 150 decibels. The club don’t give a shit about the atmosphere as long as the money keeps flooding in and it shows. Fuck getting a bunch of 17/18/19 year old lads in when you can charge a family £200 + whatever they spend in the club shop and on food/drink.

The issue we have is that the club have rid our stands of the type of person who’s likely to create an atmosphere and replaced them with families/tourists/corporates. In a 55k stadium, we have around 5k fan(atic)s who will sing. The rest are purely spectators.

It’s so short sighted and as you said, it will cost us fans (and subsequently money) in the long run.

Simply put, we can organise singing sections and all sorts of incentives, but there will always be a limit on what we achieve when we’re treated as cash cows rather than supporters.

It is organisation though (or lack of it).

Stick like minded people together in an area where noise will travel and the atmosphere will be better.

Try to get a few singers in areas other than South Stand level one and you might have a better spread of noise.

1894 would never leave SS1 but maybe singers elsewhere might be better for overall atmosphere?

 

[citymad]

If they are choosing Liverpool over us due to a shit atmosphere then what explains the shit atmosphere for Watford’s visit to Anfield two weeks ago?

Yes but the difference is they don’t disappear on mass like we do. We have a very unique fan base. All this success and lovely football yet half of the crowd can’t wait to leave the ground and get back home.

 

[Corky]

New fans and glory fans from overseas criticising the atmosphere again. Flag wavers aren't helping copying other clubs and funeral corteges have even been suggested on here. If you don't go to the match to create an atmosphere, before we were good recently, don't expect people to now. Nothing has changed much since the 90s.