Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

jrb said:
The atmosphere was good after City scored. It died a death after United scored. It went quieter after the incident in SSL1. All in all I thought the atmosphere in the 1st half wasn't great considering it was a derby. City weren't playing well. United were holding their own. And the crowd was nervous and agitated.

In comparison the atmosphere in the 2nd half was superb. Once the 3rd goal went in, BOOM! The atmosphere for 30 minutes was definitley up there with some of the best atmospheres ever heard at the Etihad. Every part of the ground joined in. The Etihad was rocking. The Poznan around the stadium looked superb. We all love the Poznan. Blue smokies in SSL1 and the FSL1 (Lol!) Different groups of fans in the same stands starting different songs. The constant, and constant goading of United fans in SSL1 and the other away levels. The DJ at the end belting out the tunes. The Yaya/Kolo chant around the ground was immense.

I've always said this like others have today. You'd be hard pressed to hear a better atmosphere, amount of different chants, and general sh*t housery banter towards the away fans in any other English football stadium.

The poor Rags, especially in SL1, wouldn't admit it, but they won't hear a better atmosphere and see a better spectacle than City's support this season. Bar after United scored, United's vocal support was shite. They do have a good vocal away support, but for some reason it never turns up at the Etihad.
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They give a huge % of their allocation to corps for the game at our place
 
jrb said:
The atmosphere was good after City scored. It died a death after United scored. It went quieter after the incident in SSL1. All in all I thought the atmosphere in the 1st half wasn't great considering it was a derby. City weren't playing well. United were holding their own. And the crowd was nervous and agitated.

In comparison the atmosphere in the 2nd half was superb. Once the 3rd goal went in, BOOM! The atmosphere for 30 minutes was definitley up there with some of the best atmospheres ever heard at the Etihad. Every part of the ground joined in. The Etihad was rocking. The Poznan around the stadium looked superb. We all love the Poznan. Blue smokies in SSL1 and the FSL1 (Lol!) Different groups of fans in the same stands starting different songs. The constant, and constant goading of United fans in SSL1 and the other away levels. The DJ at the end belting out the tunes. The Yaya/Kolo chant around the ground was immense.

I've always said this like others have today. You'd be hard pressed to hear a better atmosphere, amount of different chants, and general sh*t housery banter towards the away fans in any other English football stadium.

The poor Rags, especially in SL1, wouldn't admit it, but they won't hear a better atmosphere and see a better spectacle than City's support this season. Bar after United scored, United's vocal support was shite. They do have a good vocal away support, but for some reason it never turns up at the Etihad.
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I always die a bit whenever the Rags score, even when they aren't playing us!
 
There was a time in the 2nd half when it seemed like the whole of SS3 was belting out Bluemoon and it was echoing around the roof.
 
trevorriley said:
it must have been a shit game for the rags fans in lower SS, a total shit day well deserved too. I would say no quite as good as Leeds as for that game we where good singing for 90 mins.

yeh the poznan, how much must it p**s away fans off when they see that... A good yaya kolo to, very loud.
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Agreed Trev. The NIMLT banner looks superb. Well done mate.
 
trevorriley said:
hope the image will open up NOT IN MY LIFETIME.

Glad you brought it up about the empty seats, its by biggest bug bear and prevents us from doing better displays. Think i have mentioned before there are many reasons we can not move displays, they always have to be n 115 lower area. Fans stay a little to long on concourse and above in tier two its the corporate soft seats.

We tried a different way of displaying the long banner at the front, we had sleeves sewn in to the back of the banner so it held up better, similar idea to the gold ship. Also because we used 2 of the club guys to help, it enabled us to be in front of the new neon light boards. Fans are strictly not allowed in that area unless accompanied by a member of staff. The guys that help us are great and mad city fans to.
I think it was a success but first i apologise to any fans on the front row if it spoiled the view, last thing we want is to spoil the start for fans, most of the fans stood on seats so that they could see above the banner. We intend to try this again as the view of the banner was 100% better, we wont hold it for to long so not to spoil the view for front row fans, i hope you dont mind if you do stand there.

I looked over at the rags fans as i was waving the telescopics and thought "do you lot see this at the swamp" ! No they dont, made me smile as some of their fans shouted "what the f***** is that". I just laughed and thought its called supporting the blues !

First half there was 3 songs going on at once, fans eager to get going, fair play to them. Second half was excellent. The poznan for me made the night.

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So glad Taggart was there to see it. Thought it might be jelly and ice cream time
 
freshie said:
So glad Taggart was there to see it. Thought it might be jelly and ice cream time
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our intention was to display the banner in the east stand so that taggart sat right across in west stand would see it. But the club asked us to use it in 115 as they had the big banner covering east stand. I still think it would have looked good there, smack bang right in front of red nose... Maybe we send him the banner in the post !
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
It’s one thing sneaking in the home end if that’s the only way you can get a ticket. Providing you don’t celebrate or cause trouble, it happens all the time.

But what breed of moron goes to a derby with a ticket in the opposition end actually wearing colours?
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Met up with my brother at half time, and he said there was 2 blokes in front of him at the turnstiles to get up to 304 level 3 wearing Rag shirts, they were from Egypt and the stewards let them in WTF?
 
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