Etihad atmosphere

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

If city are going to stick another tier on the north stand don't! make it one kop style end top to bottom safe standing that would definitely bring the atmosphere back and call it the KIPPAX NORTH STAND

this would solve all of our problems imo. we'd be missing a huge opportunity if we didn't do this.

 

[Pleatfooted]

completley disagree with that. the hamburg game is one of the loudest the etihad has ever been imo. it was fantastic and the whole ground was rocking. there was loads of kids, but there was large groups of lads in the ground and walking up to the ground, something which we rarely see now. our players, manager and opposition fans even said how good it was. we sold something like 17,000 tickets in a few hours i was told. if we got half of that ever week it would be great.

Totally agree with you mate I was in 109 and the whole ground was rocking, never heard bluemoon sang so load, ever!

 

[TheRisingoftheNorth]

I suppose it's not about comparing City to others. Let 'em do want they want.
It's about giving support to City players and the club and at the same time enjoy the great event of singing along with thousands of other Blues.
It's good for your body and soul and gives you a good feeling to be part of a big event.
And that's FOR FREE, as you have paid just for your seat, not for match quality or atmosphere issues.

But nobody has to share, it's a free country.
There always will be different types of supporters, simple. So it would be good to offer different structures to those groups.
And that's why you should offer singing sections within the ground, safe standing areas, family block, posh seats with a seat heating and so on.

And when the loud supporters are organized, it will spread over the ground more or less.
Very entertaining and lifting the solidarity among the crowd is alternate singing/shouting between blocks or even terraces.

I think you should try that, maybe with a commonly known COME ON CITY.

If you don't know what I mean, watch this from Dresden (German 3rd league back then). Just an example.
Fans are starting to alternate and at 1:30 you can see the main stand joining in (btw they are sitting!!)

Are the crowd behind the goal at that Dresden game sitting? No English club can match the Germans for atmosphere - I do think a lot of it is due to having all standing areas over there though. I don't see why we can't bring it back here.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Totally agree with you mate I was in 109 and the whole ground was rocking, never heard bluemoon sang so load, ever!

i was in the north stand second tier and even in there everyone was going for it haha. id call it a proper city crowd.

 

[St.Pauli support]

Are the crowd behind the goal at that Dresden game sitting? No English club can match the Germans for atmosphere - I do think a lot of it is due to having all standing areas over there though. I don't see why we can't bring it back here.

Nope mate, 9.000 standing capacity behind that goal.
Capacity of 32.000 for the whole ground, one of the loudest in Germany tbf.

In modern grounds there is no reason not to stand, in all respect to English history.
German grounds are safe in many ways. Just copy and paste.

 

[Pleatfooted]

i was in the north stand second tier and even in there everyone was going for it haha. id call it a proper city crowd.

Had to sit down for 10 mins second half I felt like I was gonna pass out, think I'd shouted all the air out of body haha

 

[TheRisingoftheNorth]

Nope mate, 9.000 standing capacity behind that goal.
Capacity of 32.000 for the whole ground, one of the loudest in Germany tbf.

In modern grounds there is no reason not to stand, in all respect to English history.
German grounds are safe in many ways. Just copy and paste.

When I was living in Frankfurt, I had a season ticket for Eintracht. the atmosphere was brilliant, singing and chanting the whole game through. The ticket prices were dirt cheap too - especially in the standing areas. If our clubs really wanted to, they could get some standing areas installed - but do they really want that, or would they rather fill the place with tourists?

 

[manchester blue]

Seem to remember zenith and rangers made quite a lot of noise. Also it was rocking for city vs Hamburg. And we have had some good atmospheres in other games vs rags etc since we moved. Its nowt to do with the ground. It's the boring gist that sit in the seats that are the problem.

If the club get together with the a fan group (we could organise it on here) and help move all those who want an atmosphere to the south stand bottom tier. Next to the away fans. The atmosphere will sort itself out. Only needs a few hundred people willing to sing constantly. For it to filter through to the next few and the next few and before you know it - The bell ends standing to attention!

Didn't that happen two seasons ago but people moved to be near the atmosphere and for the "bantz".

 

[Didsbury Dave]

completley disagree with that. the hamburg game is one of the loudest the etihad has ever been imo. it was fantastic and the whole ground was rocking. there was loads of kids, but there was large groups of lads in the ground and walking up to the ground, something which we rarely see now. our players, manager and opposition fans even said how good it was. we sold something like 17,000 tickets in a few hours i was told. if we got half of that ever week it would be great.

That game was the perfect storm. The cheap tickets meant anyone could come. The way they sold out in hours meant that vocal fans were spread right around the ground. It was a big game and we were fighting like tigers to win it. Most of the songs started at the North End of the ground and "caught on" almost immediately, travelling both ways around the stadium.

As it is at the moment we have the opposite, an inperfect storm. 1500 vocal fans are now wasted because they sit on the wrong side of the away fans, in an area where there sound doesn't carry. Another 1500 vocal fans behind the goal try hard, but often too hard, singing long clapalong type songs which will never catch on. And there are another set of vocal fans up on the top tier. None of these three groups can hear each other very well. There are away fans and corporate areas dividing all these groups.

The ground needed one voice to give a lead to the rest of the stadium. It now has three. The biggest chance to improve the situation was lost when the new tier was opened.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Just to add, I think when Pep and the players get frustrated and start gesturing to the crowd, it isn't "Never felt more like singing the blues" that they want. It's for the ground to roar them on and lift them when they are playing badly. That type of support has never been much of a feature at City and has got worse over recent years rather than better. It's like there's this innate frustration which has built up because we just can't quite fulfill our true potential. A sense of doom sets in when things are going tits up. The only thing to help with that is belief and a winning team.