Etihad Atmosphere - 2022/23

[PPT]

‘Safety

Every week there is another excuse why the atmosphere is shit.

Last week it was the lazer show. This weeks it’s Pep’s style of play. Funnily enough despite our ‘safety first’ approach I keep on reading today City are comfortably the highest scorers in the Premier league.

We’ve had a poor run of games since the World Cup and everybody’s arses have gone. It’s embarrassing.

If we rely on exciting style of play to generate an atmosphere then god help 75% of the rest of the 92 league clubs that watch complete shite every week.

Each to his own. But the stuff I have been watching from my seat at the Etihad in recent weeks is boring. Well it is for me at least. Backwards, sideways, sideways, backwards. It's a yawn fest. When we let rip at teams like we did against United at home and the second half against Spurs at home - that's exciting and the crowd respond accordingly. The current system isn't working. The players don't like it and the fans don't like it. The only people who do seem to like it are the opposition teams we are playing.

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

Concourse singing is something I’ll never understand. It’s a very strange and useless trend, the team cannot hear you on concourses.

A total waste of fucking time.

That's the point I was making. I pointing out the contrast between how loud it was on the concourse to how quiet is was in the stand. My other main point is that people tire themselves out on the concourse and have no energy left when the game starts

 

[Stevieatlasblue]

Each to his own. But the stuff I have been watching from my seat at the Etihad in recent weeks is boring. Well it is for me at least. Backwards, sideways, sideways, backwards. It's a yawn fest. When we let rip at teams like we did against United at home and the second half against Spurs at home - that's exciting and the crowd respond accordingly. The current system isn't working. The players don't like it and the fans don't like it. The only people who do seem to like it are the opposition teams we are playing.

Boring like some of the fans

 

[There is a Light]

Concourse singing is something I’ll never understand. It’s a very strange and useless trend, the team cannot hear you on concourses.

A total waste of fucking time.

Imagine concourse singing in the lower leagues, could be like Barnsley away all over again

 

[jrb]

‘Safety

Every week there is another excuse why the atmosphere is shit.

Last week it was the lazer show. This weeks it’s Pep’s style of play. Funnily enough despite our ‘safety first’ approach I keep on reading today City are comfortably the highest scorers in the Premier league.

We’ve had a poor run of games since the World Cup and everybody’s arses have gone. It’s embarrassing.

If we rely on exciting style of play to generate an atmosphere then god help 75% of the rest of the 92 league clubs that watch complete shite every week.

Of course there‘s a link to the way City play and the effect it has on the atmosphere.(inside the Etihad) What are you on about?!

That goes for every team. When Liverpool were battering everyone you couldn’t shut the Scouse c*nts up. Now you can hear a pin drop at Anfield and with their away following because Liverpool are getting beat every match.

If City come out all guns blazing against Villa on Sunday, get an early goal, then the atmosphere will be better.

That aside, the PL may have just done us a favour on the terraces. There’s nothing like a a corrupt organisation like UEFA and the PL to get the fans backs up and to get them supporting the team.

We’ll find out on Sunday.

No doubt Villa will be chanting cheats or something similar.

 

[There is a Light]

Bring it on

 

[richards30]

Sunday could be fun now!

 

[trevorriley]

agree, will make sunday interesting for once

 

[trevorriley]

‘Safety

Every week there is another excuse why the atmosphere is shit.

Last week it was the lazer show. This weeks it’s Pep’s style of play. Funnily enough despite our ‘safety first’ approach I keep on reading today City are comfortably the highest scorers in the Premier league.

We’ve had a poor run of games since the World Cup and everybody’s arses have gone. It’s embarrassing.

If we rely on exciting style of play to generate an atmosphere then god help 75% of the rest of the 92 league clubs that watch complete shite every week.

haha this is true

the question is we all say atmosphere was better in the 90's, then the football was at another level of bad.

 

[trevorriley]

I suppose it’s about expectations and experience.

I remember when scoring one goal would see the crowd going mental. In the last few years it can be met with a bit of a cheer and applause because we’ve seen hundreds and hundreds.

The worse you are the more amazing an attack and a goal is.

and then when the fourth goes in all you see is fans arses as they get up and leave the stadium

 

[There is a Light]

I’ll support City through almost anything, but should we get relegated and anyone sings that “up the football league” shite that Newcastle sing, then that’s me done

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Better make the most of it for the rest of the season before we end up with the sort of crowd we had for the COVID Everton game every week....seems too many 'blues' are ready to throw the towel in on a current popular thread.

 

[JWCH-99]

Better make the most of it for the rest of the season before we end up with the sort of crowd we had for the COVID Everton game every week....seems too many 'blues' are ready to throw the towel in on a current popular thread.

I actually think it could have an appositive affect and galvanise. Of course we wouldn’t be able to fill the stadium, but would that Make the atmosphere that much worse- it’s the same fans that sing every week anyway and they aren’t in the majority

 

[There is a Light]

I actually think it could have an appositive affect and galvanise. Of course we wouldn’t be able to fill the stadium, but would that Make the atmosphere that much worse- it’s the same fans that sing every week anyway and they aren’t in the majority

I don’t agree, I think we’d sell out plenty of matches tbh.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I actually think it could have an appositive affect and galvanise. Of course we wouldn’t be able to fill the stadium, but would that Make the atmosphere that much worse- it’s the same fans that sing every week anyway and they aren’t in the majority

Stop being serious ;)

I was happy waving my banana back in the day.

 

[geoff hammond]

Better make the most of it for the rest of the season before we end up with the sort of crowd we had for the COVID Everton game every week....seems too many 'blues' are ready to throw the towel in on a current popular thread.

Not a problem with that. If people are thinking of jumping shit then they are probably the sort who sit behind me talking shite most weeks.
I'm up for a bit of York away

 

[Tim of the Oak]

All ifs and buts, I know now.

It was a big deal. If City had beaten Spurs, City would be 2 points behind Arsenal going into the Villa game. Arsenal play Brentford on Saturday. Not an easy game for Arsenal. By the time we play Villa, Arsenal could be 8 or 6 points in front of City again or still 5 points in-front of City.

We can’t win the League every year. Surely the kangaroo court Prem charges should give an edge to the atmosphere at the weekend.

The lads gave their all and we were an inch away from getting a point. We are not at our fluent best so the lads need our support more than ever.

 

[JWCH-99]

I don’t agree, I think we’d sell out plenty of matches tbh.

You may well be right. The lowering of prices that would have to happen if we drop league coupled with the fact that the fan base has obviously grew with more young fans blooded in in the Last 10 years. I guess my point is it wouldn’t hurt the atmosphere anyway Imo

 

[PistonBlue]

We're always at our loudest when we're angry, todays development should go some way to sorting the atmosphere.

 

[M18CTID]

Of course there‘s a link to the way City play and the effect it has on the atmosphere.(inside the Etihad) What are you on about?!

That goes for every team. When Liverpool were battering everyone you couldn’t shut the Scouse c*nts up. Now you can hear a pin drop at Anfield and with their away following because Liverpool are getting beat every match.

If City come out all guns blazing against Villa on Sunday, get an early goal, then the atmosphere will be better.

That aside, the PL may have just done us a favour on the terraces. There’s nothing like a a corrupt organisation like UEFA and the PL to get the fans backs up and to get them supporting the team.

We’ll find out on Sunday.

No doubt Villa will be chanting cheats or something similar.

Whether we like it or not, the vast majority of English club atmospheres are governed by how well a team is playing on a given day. People ask why aren't our away fans as loud at Spurs as we are at other London grounds but we've lost all 5 games at their new gaff without even scoring a goal. If we'd won all those games, I'm quite sure our fans would've been heard a lot more and the Spurs fans wouldn't have been as loud. I watched most of the Forest v Leeds game yesterday. Leeds fans are generally considered to be one of the noisier sets of away fans in the league but apart from early on in the game, I don't recall hearing them at all. Granted, the Forest fans were loud as fuck and I'm sure some Leeds fans would've been singing at various points but it didn't strike me as being one of their better games on the road for atmosphere.