Etihad Atmosphere - 2022/23

blue44 said:
10,000 plus ?
you must be joking
there was at tbe most 10,000 left at the final whistle,3 pm kick off too
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10k? There were at least 25k empty seats by the final whistle and it was clearly visible before everyone stood up and it was hidden.
 
Brian's Kid said:
Lol. Not an unsurprising response from a a certain section of this forum, where the mantra is "if they say something that's hard accept, rather than debate just call them a rag and hopefully everyone else will jump in". Pathetic.

Facts are, having over half the crowd leave before the game ends IS an embarrassment. It does nothing good whatsoever, from the message it sends to the players and manager to the ammunition it gives to the media. The excuses for it are just as embarrassing and the fact you call people rags just because they call it out is the most embarrassing of all.
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In his defence, mate, if you start throwing around “Stockport” and “embarrasing” like some daft giddy internet United kid people might get suspicious.

I’ve never been embarrassed to be a City fan in my life.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
In his defence, mate, if you start throwing around “Stockport” and “embarrasing” like some daft giddy internet United kid people might get suspicious.

I’ve never been embarrassed to be a City fan in my life.
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For the record, I live in Stockport, hence the reason for the example. As far as using "embarrasing", it is embarrasing, so should i use a different word? Calling people rags just because they don't tow the party line is just lazy and tedious. I hate rags and dippers as much as, if not more than most on here and to be labelled as one just because I dare call out fellow blues is just sad, but a sign of the times.
 
Shirley said:
It’s become an habit for many now, won’t change.

You don’t see it on the same scale at old trafford or anfield.
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I reckon the reason for that is at those 2:grounds far more fans have travelled, or are matchday fans than ours. I believe if you did a survey of those leaving early the majority by a long way would be season ticket holders that live fairly close ,that aren’t botnered about missing 5 minutes because they’ll be there next week.
After all if you have a 3 /4 hour journey an extra 45 minutes in traffic isn't too bad. If you are less than an hour away them the traffic can double your time.
It isn’t worth getting worked up over it it won’t change, as has been said it’s a habit for some in games where we are comfortable.
 
At least Haaland stays to the end and claps the whole stadium. Something he and the whole team do at Dortmund to a full stadium at the end of the match. A stadium that holds 82,000 and is in the middle of nowhere.

I’ve noticed fans in SSL1 are now leaving earlier as well. Don’t know if that’s due to the new bar area where you can get a drink at the end of the match?

We don’t like the Scousers, but to a man they stayed until the final whistle and applauded the team off last week. They do that every home match. Apparently walking back to Liverpool city centre/Lime Street from Anfield takes a good 40 minutes, if not longer. Compare that to the Etihad to town.
 
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Psychedelic Casual said:
We potentially have a few of those but I think they’re too interested in being a Twitter video groups who film themselves concourse singing for the chance to get on the ‘@footyawaydays’ feed. Or they want to sing songs they know the rest of the ground don’t want to join in with on purpose to prove some point to themselves.

There’s nothing more fucking pointless than concourse singing. Get fucking singing in the stands.

And sing the songs that the crowd want to sing, sing the City songs and make some more City songs up.

Absolutely no fucker in the stadium outside two blocks is interested in singing ‘Gerrard slipped, Suarez cried’ or ‘Bernardoooooo’ at 0-0 when the opposition have started more brightly than we have.
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One of the 1894 group admitted that they were purposely focusing on songs “with a good beat” in the south stand so it’s no wonder. They’d done about ten stupid clapalongs before they sang the one and only Blue Moon of the day and lo and behold it went right round the stadium.

The first few minutes set the tone and “Empty Seats” at home directly after the whistle followed straight away by “Edin Dzeko” then “Pablo Zabaleta” is just guaranteeing a flat atmosphere.
 
Brian's Kid said:
For the record, I live in Stockport, hence the reason for the example. As far as using "embarrasing", it is embarrasing, so should i use a different word? Calling people rags just because they don't tow the party line is just lazy and tedious. I hate rags and dippers as much as, if not more than most on here and to be labelled as one just because I dare call out fellow blues is just sad, but a sign of the times.
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I have no idea what “a sign of the times” means in your context but it made me smile. What “times”?

For your record, when we were shit and United were good we got plenty of United fans on here pretending to be blues to act as WUMs. Now they are a comedy club it doesnt happen for obvious reasons. I’ve no idea whether you are one or not to be honest because you’ve disabled the feature to search your posts.
 
Shirley said:
It’s become an habit for many now, won’t change.

You don’t see it on the same scale at old trafford or anfield.
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Not disagreeing with you but that's not an entirely fair comparison. Both of those grounds are tourist traps. If you have paid a small fortune to attend a match, play or concert in a foreign city, you're probably more likely to hang around to the end of the thing and get the full experience/ your money's worth.
I'm not suggesting that it's the sole reason for the difference but it is possibly a contributory factor.
 
I had to laugh yesterday when a young lad sat behind us with his dad refused to leave after constantly being asked by his dad if they could go with ten minutes left.I am pleased to say the young lad won and stayed to clap Haaland off.I must say the club are doing well around us moving tickets on that were often left empty by season ticket holders in previous seasons, but the ground emptying yesterday like it did was dissapointing.
 
Shirley said:
It’s become an habit for many now, won’t change.

You don’t see it on the same scale at old trafford or anfield.
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The only time I've seen the swamp empty as quickly as our regular fire drill was during the sick swan. We've played them off the park several times since then but a few more have remained.
The only real early mass exodus I can recall from away games (75-80 minutes) was at Sid James Park under Sven, on a cold night. Gelsen Fernandes (I think) put u two up and the place just emptied.
I'm convinced the shite transport links are partially to blame and the ludicrous parking restrictions. This could get worse as the council want to expand the no parking zones when the arena opens even though there won't be additional vehicles as events won't be staged at the same time.
 
Shirley said:
It’s become an habit for many now, won’t change.

You don’t see it on the same scale at old trafford or anfield.
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I agree, it definitely does appear to be a habit, occurs whatever time the kick off and on whatever day.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I have no idea what “a sign of the times” means in your context but it made me smile. What “times”?

For your record, when we were shit and United were good we got plenty of United fans on here pretending to be blues to act as WUMs. Now they are a comedy club it doesnt happen for obvious reasons. I’ve no idea whether you are one or not to be honest because you’ve disabled the feature to search your posts.
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What is wrong with you? We are debating fans leaving early not whether I am a rag or not just because I disagree with someone. The fact that you are trying to search my old posts for evidence is laughable, I have no clue what this feature is you think I've disabled but if you tell me how to enable it you can happily trawl through my past if it makes you feel any better. Let me guess though, you are one of those who leave early and I've touched a nerve right?
 
East Level 2 said:
The only time I've seen the swamp empty as quickly as our regular fire drill was during the sick swan. We've played them off the park several times since then but a few more have remained.
The only real early mass exodus I can recall from away games (75-80 minutes) was at Sid James Park under Sven, on a cold night. Gelsen Fernandes (I think) put u two up and the place just emptied.
I'm convinced the shite transport links are partially to blame and the ludicrous parking restrictions. This could get worse as the council want to expand the no parking zones when the arena opens even though there won't be additional vehicles as events won't be staged at the same time.
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Tbf the 4th goal by Dzeko was in the 89th minute, that’s when the fire drill kicked in.
 
Over the last few months I’ve started watching Ultra videos on Instagram. Not fighting videos, singing videos. The Ultra videos I watch are from all over Europe, so the term ‘Ultra support’ can’t be ‘pigeonholed’. It’s different everywhere in Europe.

I recently came across this gem. The Ultras - Curva South - Catania.(Scillies 2nd biggest city)

A few things to note. In no particular order.

The young boy wearing a green top at the front stood behind the wall, joining in and loving the chant. (at the start of the video)

The drummer, not bashing the hell out of the drum, not taking over the chant, but ‘drumming properly‘ along with the chant and aiding it.

The Capo, stood on the wall, no top, Khaki shorts, directing the fans, then letting the fans takeover the chant, whilst he puts the megaphone to his side.

The Catania fans, just like the young boy, loving the chant, you can see it, joining in because they want to join in, not because they are forced to join in by the Capo. Some fans aren’t singing and are happy to just stand and listen. It a really good and catchy chant. Shame I don’t understand Italian.

The video is on Instagram. enzo.cardaci

I would link the video to my post but it goes to my Instagram account.

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I think the club needs to start trying to do something about the early leavers

perhaps players and manager commenting on it would be a start , shame people into giving the lads a clap off the pitch and showing appreciation of the fantastic team they are
 
jrb said:
We don’t like the Scousers, but to a man they stayed until the final whistle and applauded the team off last week. They do that every home match. Apparently walking back to Liverpool city centre/Lime Street from Anfield takes a good 40 minutes, if not longer. Compare that to the Etihad to town.
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To be fair, that is something Klopp has rebuilt, including standing and staring down early leavers, calling them out in pressers, forcing the team to stay on till the end to clap the fans, and his little routine he does with the Kop at the end of the game. They used to be terrible, and he's deliberately created a culture around it.

Pep has got a bollocking from everyone on here for daring to ask for people to turn up and make a noise.
 
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