Etihad Atmosphere - 2022/23

[asahartford1]

Allocate the new top tier of the north stand as a singing/atmosphere area.
Clad the roof in a sound reflecting material
Allow banners to hang off it.
Market it heavily as "The New Kippax". Get everyone talking about it in advance.
Make some kind of bar system that caters for lots of pints in a quick time. Maybe even cheap beers before the game.
Offer the 1894 group a block together in the middle towards the back.
Give first refusal on season tickets to those in the existing singing areas AT HALF PRICE.
Have some kind of marketing campaign to attract back the Maine Road blues who've been priced out,
Offer the rest of the tickets as the cheapest in the stadium with a guarantee they will remain the cheapest.

It's all about City being proactive and loud about this. Once it's established, people will come. It's fine that some vocal fans will stay near the away fans. They will join in anyway and make the sound fill the bowl.

If Carling did ends -;)

Good ideas though

 

[Didsbury Dave]

If Carling did ends -;)

Good ideas though

It would have so much easier to do this when they expended the south stand but there is another chance. It's all about the way they market it and the "loss-leader" type pricing will pay for itself , not only with atmosphere, but with the club's ability to attract new young fans. We've sort of lost of club identity a bit following the move and the takeover. That identity was basically "loud, loyal and proud" and has morphed into "the money club with the empty seats". this reverses that. Kids want noise, passion and agression.

Listen to the din that Chelsea will make tonight under that roof. That will show you would can be achieved. Also, listen to how it will sadly drown out the bottom tier where our singers are.

 

[train man]

I’d like to see the club vet fans who want to go in there.

Interviews to include a vocal decibel test... love it!

 

[mancityvstoke]

Eccles at the front with a bell

 

[supercity88]

It would have so much easier to do this when they expended the south stand but there is another chance. It's all about the way they market it and the "loss-leader" type pricing will pay for itself , not only with atmosphere, but with the club's ability to attract new young fans. We've sort of lost of club identity a bit following the move and the takeover. That identity was basically "loud, loyal and proud" and has morphed into "the money club with the empty seats". this reverses that. Kids want noise, passion and agression.

Listen to the din that Chelsea will make tonight under that roof. That will show you would can be achieved. Also, listen to how it will sadly drown out the bottom tier where our singers are.

Spot on with everything you've said mate. With the design of our stadium we need to have singers at the top, under the roof with the noise being sent around the bowl and getting others onboard. It might sound loud at times to those within the current singing sections but you can't hear it in SSL3. It doesn't spread. If the NS is going to be an extended 2nd tier with an additional 8,000 seats (which rumours suggest) then that's going to be one epic area for people to get going. If 2,000 people start a song at the top of it, which will be as loud as an away following, then you'll soon have the other 8-10,000 in that tier joining in and that's going to make an absolute racket and travel around the stadium.

You can have the people still giving shit to the away fans, but they'll hear the din from the NS and join in as well. It's the last chance we have to address the issues, and it has to be taken. I hope the club do take note. They do plenty of research when it comes to the majority of things so you'd expect they know exactly what the fans want and exactly how other clubs have been doing things. We can't do a single tier logistically without closing the stand, but an extended 2nd tier would be epic. The mock-ups look brilliant. Have the family stand beneath it and inspire the new generation to want to keep coming and to join in with the singers in the future. That's what Maine Road used to do.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

It would have so much easier to do this when they expended the south stand but there is another chance. It's all about the way they market it and the "loss-leader" type pricing will pay for itself , not only with atmosphere, but with the club's ability to attract new young fans. We've sort of lost of club identity a bit following the move and the takeover. That identity was basically "loud, loyal and proud" and has morphed into "the money club with the empty seats". this reverses that. Kids want noise, passion and agression.

Listen to the din that Chelsea will make tonight under that roof. That will show you would can be achieved. Also, listen to how it will sadly drown out the bottom tier where our singers are.

Chelsea's home game against Arsenal was one of the worst atmospheres I've ever heard at a big game, though.

 

[asahartford1]

It would have so much easier to do this when they expended the south stand but there is another chance. It's all about the way they market it and the "loss-leader" type pricing will pay for itself , not only with atmosphere, but with the club's ability to attract new young fans. We've sort of lost of club identity a bit following the move and the takeover. That identity was basically "loud, loyal and proud" and has morphed into "the money club with the empty seats". this reverses that. Kids want noise, passion and agression.

Listen to the din that Chelsea will make tonight under that roof. That will show you would can be achieved. Also, listen to how it will sadly drown out the bottom tier where our singers are.

I remember a game v Bayern in the early Champ league .They had East Stand level 3. Still a great noise from them. One of the reasons I believe it must be a large number of like minded people getting together with one aim. Regardless of any critiscm of the stadium.
I don't know if 1894 have serious communication with the club , but whoever does the negotiation, needs to do it now.
Perhaps a quorum of people on Bluemoon could get together to put sensible, coherent proposals in place.
And any proposals MUST take into account what is possible and beneficial to the owners and the club.

 

[asahartford1]

Eccles at the front with a bell

He would have his "John boy can I have your shirt , placard too"

 

[jrb]

Allocate the new top tier of the north stand as a singing/atmosphere area.
Clad the roof in a sound reflecting material
Allow banners to hang off it.
Market it heavily as "The New Kippax". Get everyone talking about it in advance.
Make some kind of bar system that caters for lots of pints in a quick time. Maybe even cheap beers before the game.
Offer the 1894 group a block together in the middle towards the back.
Give first refusal on season tickets to those in the existing singing areas AT HALF PRICE.
Have some kind of marketing campaign to attract back the Maine Road blues who've been priced out,
Offer the rest of the tickets as the cheapest in the stadium with a guarantee they will remain the cheapest.

It's all about City being proactive and loud about this. Once it's established, people will come. It's fine that some vocal fans will stay near the away fans. They will join in anyway and make the sound fill the bowl.

Agree with most of your ideas Dave. Like given.

A few ideas I’m not sure about.

City won’t do cheaper beer before the game in the new singing section. It would piss other City fans off in other parts of the ground.

Giving first refusal to City fans in the current singing section and season tickets at half price, which the club won’t do, would only encourage non-singers to move to the new singing section from the current singing section.

Offering cheaper tickets. Again, that would just attract City fans who want cheaper tickets, not because they want to move to a new singing section and sing.

Making the back of the top tier a singing section is double, but only if the club make that happen. I’m more inclined to think the club will make a new singing section in the 2 NSL1 blocks behind the goal. Which isn’t ideal tbh.

The roof idea will be down to the stand design, so until we see the proposals, that certainly is a possibility.

Banners hanging from NSL3. Great idea.

Market the new NS singing section heavily. Great idea.

Offering 1894 and other fan groups a block. A great idea. Something I have always pushed for. Not because I’m in 1894.

Yes, City have years to get this final chance at creating a proper singing section right. They also have a blank seating plan, meaning they can create a singing section in any block they won’t depending on how they configure the current and new seating, and where they relocate current season ticket holders from NSL1. That wasn’t possible to do in SSL1 as it’s already full of season ticket holders. The club wouldn’t move season ticket holders to create a proper singing section in SSL1 and rightly so. (I stand corrected, but I think United moved fans out of their new singing section, offered them other seats that were being vacated by United fans moving into the new singing section or gave them the opportunity to stay inthere, even though it was going to be made a new singing section)

I know it’s the Rags. Spit! But they’ve now got a successful singing section. Originally it held 1400 Rags, now it’s been expanded to hold ‘2000’ Rags. Note. At the back of the stand and under the flat, leaking roof ;-), banners hung at the front of the block, flags, 2 sticks, Cockneys, etc, You’ve got to give United credit for listening to and working with their fans to create a proper singing section that works and has improved the atmosphere at Old Trafford.

Last night saw United come away with a 1-0 win against a potentially tricky Real Sociedad side. It also saw the trial of the Manchester United singing section, where 1,400 Reds were encouraged to make noise to build the Old Trafford Atmosphere – an idea that certainly worked from my point of view.



The fans were encouraged to enter the ground early, and various marches to the ground were also planned, both ideas proved to help the general atmosphere around the stadium. Flags and banners were also welcomed, and it certainly made a huge difference to the atmosphere.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Chelsea's home game against Arsenal was one of the worst atmospheres I've ever heard at a big game, though.

Maybe it was but you watch tonight. 3-4000 away fans under a low, angled roof and they'll be banging the songs out. It would be the same with any club. We were doing it at Leicester the other week. And our areas won'[t be able to compete.