Etihad Atmosphere - 2022/23

[Citizen of Legoland]

sorry to hear you have hearing issues, which part of the ground do you sit in?

I sit in the Colin Bell and thought it was ok

Perhaps I'm suffering from hyperacusis. I do have tinnitus and the two conditions can appear together.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I’m sorry to hear that.

But nobody is going to stop going because of a drum located in a possible new *singing section* in the NS, if and when it’s expanded.

There are also different kinds of drums that create different drum sounds. Yes there are drums you can bash the hell out of that will reverberate around the ground and annoy people. There are also drums that are much quieter, but can still be heard within the singing section.

Apologies for being a stuck record on this matter, but you don’t have to beat a drum to death to get the best out of it. If it’s used ‘PROPERLY‘, sparingly and in unison with chants, it can be a great asset and it can improve the chants and the atmosphere inside the ground.

There are plenty of comments on forums on the internet AGAINST drums at English football grounds, but it might be easier if you point me to one IN FAVOUR as I seem to be struggling to find one. I just don't think it will happen. Some clubs have tried, it seems, but they tend to die away when people realise how bad it sounds when an amateur gives it a go and they end up getting abused by their own supporters.

As long as the club allow me to bring in some noise cancelling headphones - go for it.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Moonchester is great on a drum

 

[Elliot houghton]

Think the atmosphere will be good tomorrow full south stand and some vocal supporters Coming down from level 3.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Perhaps I'm suffering from hyperacusis. I do have tinnitus and the two conditions can appear together.

Maybe, I sit right next to the south stand and find it all ok.

Yes some clubs just smash the drum throughout without anything to add but I do truly see it being quite key to help improve (as long as people join in)

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

There are plenty of comments on forums on the internet AGAINST drums at English football grounds, but it might be easier if you point me to one IN FAVOUR as I seem to be struggling to find one. I just don't think it will happen. Some clubs have tried, it seems, but they tend to die away when people realise how bad it sounds when an amateur gives it a go and they end up getting abused by their own supporters.

As long as the club allow me to bring in some noise cancelling headphones - go for it.

Got a link?

Not seen anything of a complaint from Palace fans, Stockport County and their hatters 83, even Arsenal do it now.

Works very well with Rangers, and also at Celtic.

In fact its spreading now to other scottish teams and working well

 

[jrb]

There are plenty of comments on forums on the internet AGAINST drums at English football grounds, but it might be easier if you point me to one IN FAVOUR as I seem to be struggling to find one. I just don't think it will happen. Some clubs have tried, it seems, but they tend to die away when people realise how bad it sounds when an amateur gives it a go and they end up getting abused by their own supporters.

As long as the club allow me to bring in some noise cancelling headphones - go for it.

There are plenty of fans who go to matches where a drum is used during the match that don’t mind it and have accepted it.

I doubt very much attendances have dropped because of a drum at other grounds. If attendances have dropped it’s probably due to how bad the team is playing, the cost of match tickets, etc, not because of a drum located in the singing section part of the ground.

I’ve always acknowledged a drum isn’t for everyone. There are a lot of (City) fans against it. English football and English fans are very traditional and set in their ways, especially when it comes to support, which has built up since the start of football in this country. But that doesn’t mean new ideas can’t be trailed, tested, used to create, and to improve the atmosphere at the Etihad in the future.

Until 1894 organised flag and banner displays on SSL1 there was pretty much nothing bar flags hung from SSL2 which the club ended when the new SSL2 digital adevertisng boards were installed. Instead the club came up with electronic flags on the digital advertising boards.(arf!) The flags and displays on SSL1 are one small step in trying to create a better spectacle inside the ground before the match. You’ll see it again, but with the club much more involved as City hopefully progress through the knockout rounds of the CL, and for the big PL games like Liverpool.


If you remember, the SSL1 flag and banner display before the United game was great and received a lot of praise from City fans and other fans. (I’d like to carry on waving the flags during the game like they do in Europe, but that isn’t going to happen. People rightly want to watch the match, not see a flag waving in front of them)

This isn’t about trying to shove a drum next to fans who don’t want it. It’s about trialing a drum in the new NS singing section, seeing how it goes, and to see if it makes a positive impact on the atmosphere inside the Etihad.(without annoying and alienating City fans like yourself)

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

There are plenty of fans who go to matches where a drum is used during the match that don’t mind it and have accepted it.

I doubt very much attendances have dropped because of a drum at other grounds. If attendances have dropped it’s probably due to how bad the team is playing, the cost of match tickets, etc, not because of a drum located in the singing section part of the ground.

I’ve always acknowledged a drum isn’t for everyone. There are a lot of (City) fans against it. English football and English fans are very traditional and set in their ways, especially when it comes to support, which has built up since the start of football in this country. But that doesn’t mean new ideas can’t be trailed, tested, used to create, and to improve the atmosphere at the Etihad in the future.

Until 1894 organised flag and banner displays on SSL1 there was pretty much nothing bar flags hung from SSL2 which the club ended when the new SSL2 digital adevertisng boards were installed. Instead the club came up with electronic flags on the digital advertising boards.(arf!) The flags and displays on SSL1 are one small step in trying to create a better spectacle inside the ground before the match. You’ll see it again, but with the club much more involved as City hopefully progress through the knockout rounds of the CL, and for the big PL games like Liverpool.


If you remember, the SSL1 flag and banner display before the United game was great and received a lot of praise from City fans and other fans. (I’d like to carry on waving the flags during the game like they do in Europe, but that isn’t going to happen. People rightly want to watch the match, not see a flag waving in front of them)

This isn’t about trying to shove a drum next to fans who don’t want it. It’s about trialing a drum in the new NS singing section, seeing how it goes, and to see if it makes a positive impact on the atmosphere inside the Etihad.(without annoying and alienating City fans like yourself)

personlly i feel it needs trialling in the SS to see if it works. Literally have a small block of people who want to be involved doing it and will continue singing and see how it works.

i still remember the loud speaker which went down like a led balloon :-(

 

[Groenendijk's tin of peas]

What I really enjoy about European atmospheres and which I witnessed at first hand when City played away at Copenhagen was the chants between different stands towards each other.

Arsenal and Spurs do something similar to this day.

”We are the North Bank…….



Something similar at City could be.

”We are the South Stand, we are the South Stand, we come from Manchester“(directed at the Kippax Corner/111, 110, 109)

In reply.

”We are the Kippax, we are the Kippax, we come from Manchester”(directed back at the South Stand)

Some of the best atmospheres towards the end of the Maine Road days were when the Kippax and North Stand were having a friendly pop at each other.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Some of the best atmospheres towards the end of the Maine Road days were when the Kippax and North Stand were having a friendly pop at each other.

Used to happen in the old days as well....Platt Lane give us a song,

main Stand give us a song (Booooooo)