This is a video from around 42 mins on Friday. The game is still on. This is how busy the bar area is.
I don’t get why people pay hundreds (if not thousands) of £s per year on football tickets when they could watch it in the pub?
Not thought about it but you're right.We’ve been in our current seats about 7 seasons now and although we see the same faces every game it’s difficult to build any sort kinship with these fellow blues as the pre-match / half time cheese makes it such hard work to even talk. (It’s like being at a party where you want to catch up with people but the music is too loud)! Everyone sits or stands there twiddling their thumbs. This has a knock on effect then, that no one can then be bothered to sing once the match starts. Turn off the music 10 mins before kick off; may take a few games but it can only help the atmosphere surely!
I'm not going to defend what's going on in that video. Indeed, you'd expect the fans to at least be watching the game while necking their pints (plus the service in that new bar area of the South Stand is so good that it's now possible to get served at half-time without leaving your seat early).Worse than I thought. Barely anybody even watching the screen and showing any interest in the game.
Don't know how the atmosphere can substantially improve on where we currently are when there's large numbers that aren't even in the stands and are that passive about what's going on on the pitch.
Maybe as they don't physically hand the cash over when they enter the stadium they aren't thinking 'I've just paid £50 to have this pint'? Odd.
Good to get a perspective from a fan who has been moved from SS3 to SS1. There's often a bit of friction on here between those in SS3 and SS1 and who is the noisiest when I think the truth is simply that both sections try to get things going in their own right but acoustics mean that it doesn't always travel. Despite being in SS1, I honestly think that SS3 is the best place in the ground to get an atmosphere going as it travels across the stadium easier. We've got loads of singers in SS1 but many of the songs start off from the back and because those fans are under the low overhang, it struggles to even travel across our block at times so you can often have 2 different songs going off at once if fans closer to the front have started a song off at the same time. Handing over the whole of SS3 (and SS2) to the away fans for cup games is criminal in that regard. It's a free hit for visiting fans to boss the atmosphere and 7800 Arsenal fans were always going to make themselves heard on Friday, given that they're currently top of the league and giddy as fuck.Not read all the pages added since Friday night because im meant to be working but I was moved from SS3 to SS1 against Arsenal (same against Chelsea but i couldnt go so young Gaz did instead)
SS1 was loud all night but whilst you're in it you've no clue if anyone else is joining in, Arsenal fans sounded muffled aswell but were obviously loud so I can see why when were loud in SS3 it doesnt travel well to level 1 singers, not making an excuse but obviously stadium acoustics arent helping us get a good atmosphere. The only solution ive got is for other parts of the ground to join in more than they do already but thats going to take a huge effort and a decent amount of time, it certainly wont happen anytime soon with people willing to create an atmosphere (completely generalising here) priced out of the Colin Bell and East Stand.
The club have got a massive chance to sort things out when expanding the North Stand but it remains to be seen whether they're in the least nit arsed
This is a video from around 42 mins on Friday. The game is still on. This is how busy the bar area is.
I don’t get why people pay hundreds (if not thousands) of £s per year on football tickets when they could watch it in the pub?
As a SS3er who has been in SS1 due to cup games this season I'm not sold that our vocal support apart from the 1984 lot will move in any great numbers to the NS.Good to get a perspective from a fan who has been moved from SS3 to SS1. There's often a bit of friction on here between those in SS3 and SS1 and who is the noisiest when I think the truth is simply that both sections try to get things going in their own right but acoustics mean that it doesn't always travel. Despite being in SS1, I honestly think that SS3 is the best place in the ground to get an atmosphere going as it travels across the stadium easier. We've got loads of singers in SS1 but many of the songs start off from the back and because those fans are under the low overhang, it struggles to even travel across our block at times so you can often have 2 different songs going off at once if fans closer to the front have started a song off at the same time. Handing over the whole of SS3 (and SS2) to the away fans for cup games is criminal in that regard. It's a free hit for visiting fans to boss the atmosphere and 7800 Arsenal fans were always going to make themselves heard on Friday, given that they're currently top of the league and giddy as fuck.
The North Stand expansion can't come quick enough for me. If, as rumoured, it's going to comprise a huge second tier then that should give us similar acoustics to what SS3 creates. An ideal scenario would be one where we actually have 2 main singing ends - SS3 and NS2. At least then for cup games, one whole singing end remains intact rather than have it decimated by the away allocation.
The problem with other parts of the ground joining in is that some parts of the stadium can't clearly hear SS1. There was a time on Friday where Arsenal had a song going and SS1 were seemingly just stood not reacting, but of course they can't hear what we can hear. Sadly, because the rest of the stadium is full of quieter fans, tourists, non-regulars and even away supporters (to be fair that's normal for most grounds), it's a lot more difficult for a song to get going.Not read all the pages added since Friday night because im meant to be working but I was moved from SS3 to SS1 against Arsenal (same against Chelsea but i couldnt go so young Gaz did instead)
SS1 was loud all night but whilst you're in it you've no clue if anyone else is joining in, Arsenal fans sounded muffled aswell but were obviously loud so I can see why when were loud in SS3 it doesnt travel well to level 1 singers, not making an excuse but obviously stadium acoustics arent helping us get a good atmosphere. The only solution ive got is for other parts of the ground to join in more than they do already but thats going to take a huge effort and a decent amount of time, it certainly wont happen anytime soon with people willing to create an atmosphere (completely generalising here) priced out of the Colin Bell and East Stand.
The club have got a massive chance to sort things out when expanding the North Stand but it remains to be seen whether they're in the least nit arsed