Etihad atmosphere

[paulchapo]

The way these dicks look at you, talk to you, actually move you around physically and wave their fake magic wand over you is going to end in tears

Mate I had a classic with one on Saturday I have mentioned it on here and not once did I see the dick use that wand, he just wound people up, a waste of space and a condescending prick, 35 if he was a day, maybe younger.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I am not far away myself to be honest. The whole match day experience is too much hassle for the benefits. I enjoy watching fantastic football but slogging across the other side of Manchester and back stood in traffic or waiting for trams is a frustrating experience. A Flat atmosphere doesn't make it worth it.

I live near alty and I may start wandering down there and watching them now and then and watching the lovely pep revolution in the local pub with a pint and a natter with my pals. Sometimes the atmosphere in the pub is better than the ground!!!!!

If you end up at Alty you could go on Taylor watch for the club ;)

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

If you end up at Alty you could go on Taylor watch for the club ;)

He will be at united mate.

 

[trevorriley]

There are many reasons why the match day experience pisses us all off, me as much as anybody. But a lot of the atmosphere issue is down to the new style fan with high expectations. I dont mean new fans, i mean fans that have gone for years but now they change their approach to the game. Its doesnt help with press / sky / MOTD negativity that rubs off on us and we are probably un aware of this. But the fans have changed in themselves

The fans just arent singing anymore, if Sergio scores a goal you say 2,000 fists behind the goal pointing forward and a loud "sergio sergio". So for the rest of the games do these same fans disappear in to the footings of the stands and up pops a tourist or elderly person not wanting to sing ? No its the same fans stood there but lost interest by the time a minute has past after the goal. Same if the referee is being a twat, its the loudest song of the day if "clantenberg" referee's. So why dont the same fans sing throughout the game.

Even though away fans at the etihad only have one block, they often sing more or are louder than us. But they have the same alcohol restrictions, the same or if not more stewards and police, same acoustics, you name it they have the same as us.

The atmosphere is better, certainly is in the 115 area, we just need fans to get back supporting the team as they did.

I was at WBA away, great singing andcame home with a sore throat. I went to Burnley away same fans around, but found myself singing alone.

 

[anyoldblu]

I'm in the family stand and enter at A or Z and never have any issues with security. Could it be that the attitude goes both ways?

 

[BlueMojito]

The Singing Section was more audible when it was in the corner of the East Stand in 110+111 as songs did spread down to 109-107. The South Stand is not singing in anywhere near as many numbers as that. Just like moving fans from the North Stand to create the Family Stand, moving the Singing Section has been a stupid decision.

Now the Singing Section is trapped in a small space between the away fans (who are always louder, especially up in SSL3 who always outnoise our SSL1), the overhang and the Colin Bell. You'd think that might give it an away stand feel and bring an away day sort of atmosphere because of it's isolation but it just doesn't.

And the rest of the ground has become a majority of middle class families, old people, tourists, half'n'half scarf twats, selfie stick sad acts, well behaved theme park day out bunch of fans. They are dull as fuck and sit there for 90minutes bringing absolutely nothing to the atmosphere other than tutting and taking pictures or videos of themselves. Some people sit in total silence for 90minutes every week.

But this is all the club's fault. They're the ones who've provided this pitiful Singing Section. How many does our bit of SSL1 hold? 2000? 2500? Let me put that into perspective - and these are just a few of dozens upon dozens of examples I could use - Plymouth Argyle's Mayfield Stand holds 5000 people, Tranmere Rover's Kop holds 5000 people, Stockport County's Cheadle End holds 5000 people...all are those club's vocal stands for home fans only with no away fans there to dilute or outsing the home fans in those stands. (This is not even touching on places like Sheffield United who have a Stand that houses 15000 for vocal home fans!)

Plus it's the club's fault with the new demographic of fans. That's what you get when you turf out thousands of fans from their seats with friends and family to make a Family Stand that's never been full once in it's existence and has made the amosphere terrible at that end. Some fans never returned to the club after being split from mates in that move. And that's what you get when you up SC prices by £400 in the space of six years. You price people out or scare people into worrying about the price of it as the rise in prices has been far too sharp, way above the rate of inflation.

I reckon I know more than twenty City fans (some of which had gone to home games religiously since the 70s, some if which had gone home+away for years, some of which you'd ever expect to give up their SCs) who've given their SCs up because they were kicked out of their seats in the North Stand or because prices rose too high too quickly. Some of them did return when cheaper tickets were offered in the SSL3 but some didn't and had they not been taken for granted in the first place would still have been there.

Premier League football clubs are swimming in money. They're fucking boat loaded. But they don't appreciate their fans and just milk them for all they can. City are just the same as any of them.

Uli Hoeness once said


And they don't just offer a few hundred cheap tickets on the first row of L1 or the back row of L3, they offer 12000 tickets at low prices in Germany.

And the answer will not to give SSL1 over to Safe Standing as it will still be nowhere near big enough.

Plus it's the club's fault for making everything like a kids theme park. Everywhere is over policed, over stewarded, far too strict. Sit down, stop swearing, don't shout, "get your half'n'half scarfs, look a right **** for only a fiver", selfie, selfie smiling, selfie pouting, "here I am filming myself at the Etihad Stadium today with my selfie stick looking like a right twat", robots doing press ups, bar staff who don't know what they're doing, over indulgence in the fucking Moon, a real lack of Manchesterness and Mancunianism coming from the club. I'm sure they'd change our name to FC Moon City if they could. They seem obsessed with the Moon and being a generic football club from no place for fans who aren't Mancunian. "Live in London? Then why not get this special train we're organising and come up to City", "welcome to our visitors from the Philippines" on the big screen.

It's all a load of bollocks that needs fucking off!


And all those fans who left early yesterday - and, in fact, all those people that do every single game - should hang your heads in shame!

Class post that mate

 

[flb]

The bubble is bursting, it will be like the Italian league was in the 90's in a few years time and who saw that coming back then-it was THE league where all the top names went.There are empty seats at nearly every ground this season-people are getting pissed off with the product, sat like fucking cardboard cut outs not engaging.

The new TV deal has surely reached its limit now and when it has the only way is down for clubs revenue, SKY dictating when games are played-Friday nights for fucks sake, Mid day kick off on a Saturday and Sunday, canned laughter, shit atmosphere, stewards, half an hour queues for a pint at half time.

Its becoming a chore, I used to buzz all week when we had a home game coming up-now its mildy get interested the morning of the game, £40-£50 to watch 90 minutes of football, average fucking players earning millions.

Sky have ruined the game as we once knew it-pandering to the clubs with the biggest armchair followers, BT and the BBC ditto, its all about fucking hashtags and facebook followers,

The game in this country is becoming a fucking farce very quickly.

 

[paulchapo]

I'm in the family stand and enter at A or Z and never have any issues with security. Could it be that the attitude goes both ways?

Possibly sometimes. Trust me on an individual basis I tended to avoid and have as little to do with them as possible and had few issues myself, but even that didn't stop my altercation on Saturday. So I wouldn't pat yourself on the back just yet.

 

[mancityvstoke]

I'm in the family stand and enter at A or Z and never have any issues with security. Could it be that the attitude goes both ways?

Not sure simply standing whilst being searched and then being spoken to like a piece of shit or manhandled around to be searched with a fake metal detector can be classed as having a bad attitude.

 

[trotsky]

Football does need to have a look at itself before it's too late. At a time when we are playing some of the best football in our history, why are so many (myself included) thinking of packing in the match day 'experience'?
I was at Wembley Arena on Saturday night watching the Missus's favourite band. £50 in, standing with a pint, friendly stewards. There wasn't even a wall to stop you walking around the concourse to meet with friends!
I had tickets for tonight but have decided the 130 mile each way trip and hotel isn't worth it. Never thought this day would come. I'm hoping it's because it's a dead rubber, but Guinness in a warm pub followed by a game of poker has won out.
I hope the club are monitoring these posts, because there's a lot of people at tipping point and it is small matters that are influencing folks to choose to stay away.