Operation One End

[Blue Blood CTID]

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

The East/South corner should be joined by the South Stand City fans. This should be done by swapping the South Stand away section with the South Stand City section. So, City's vocal areas would be 109-115. The away fans would then be in 116-118. I've even looked at the police barriers on leaving the stadium and all the police would need to do is put them at a slight angle so the away fans can get to their coach park easily:
Like this \\ instead of like this || with the barriers. It's simple as...

The City vocal area would still be near to the away fans for all the banter they like to have, so no problem there. We'd have a joined forces vocal section that would be twice as loud as either of them are currently, so a big positive there too. And the away fans would be tucked away where you can't see them on tele, so another good thing as you'd just see a larger mass of colourful, stood-up, noise making City fans insetad - a huge plus! Oh and those from Level 3 wont have to move when they really don't want to.

Completely agree. We have to try this - much much better than sticking away fans in L3. If this doesn't improve the atmosphere then we may have to admit that we are pretty shit :D

 

[Deleted member 14625]

I've said it before and I'll say it again:
The East/South corner should be joined by the South Stand City fans. This should be done by swapping the South Stand away section with the South Stand City section. So, City's vocal areas would be 109-115. The away fans would then be in 116-118. I've even looked at the police barriers on leaving the stadium and all the police would need to do is put them at a slight angle so the away fans can get to their coach park easily:
Like this \\ instead of like this || with the barriers. It's simple as...

The City vocal area would still be near to the away fans for all the banter they like to have, so no problem there. We'd have a joined forces vocal section that would be twice as loud as either of them are currently, so a big positive there too. And the away fans would be tucked away where you can't see them on tele, so another good thing as you'd just see a larger mass of colourful, stood-up, noise making City fans insetad - a huge plus! Oh and those from Level 3 wont have to move when they really don't want to.

To visualise it better, what you're advocating would be something like this?

Don't forget we have to give them the second tier as well. I can see how that could work, the issue would be the police agreeing to that long cordon stretching pretty much most of the south stand.

Wow, thanks. That picture is exactly what was in my mind all this time, spot on!

 

[ell]

Am I just being stupid here but why move the away fans when 110/111 could move to 119/120 and have the same effect?

Can someone explain it for me, cheers

 

[Deleted member 14625]

Am I just being stupid here but why move the away fans when 110/111 could move to 119/120 and have the same effect?

Can someone explain it for me, cheers

Because I think it's negative propaganda to have the away fans right in pride of place for the cameras. It looks like there's absolutely thousands and thousands of them. City fans should be there and away fans shouldn't be seen. Also when the away section has masses of empty seats (Wigan Fulham Blackburn...) it looks shit on the cameras, to many who don't know it just looks like our empty seats. Again more negative propaganda.

I'm not the only person who has this mentality as Martin O'Neil said exactly the same thing - and moved the away fans - while he was at Villa.

 

[Halfpenny]

I've said it before and I'll say it again:
The East/South corner should be joined by the South Stand City fans. This should be done by swapping the South Stand away section with the South Stand City section. So, City's vocal areas would be 109-115. The away fans would then be in 116-118. I've even looked at the police barriers on leaving the stadium and all the police would need to do is put them at a slight angle so the away fans can get to their coach park easily:
Like this \\ instead of like this || with the barriers. It's simple as...

The City vocal area would still be near to the away fans for all the banter they like to have, so no problem there. We'd have a joined forces vocal section that would be twice as loud as either of them are currently, so a big positive there too. And the away fans would be tucked away where you can't see them on tele, so another good thing as you'd just see a larger mass of colourful, stood-up, noise making City fans insetad - a huge plus! Oh and those from Level 3 wont have to move when they really don't want to.

To visualise it better, what you're advocating would be something like this?

Don't forget we have to give them the second tier as well. I can see how that could work, the issue would be the police agreeing to that long cordon stretching pretty much most of the south stand.

Wow, thanks. That picture is exactly what was in my mind all this time, spot on!

No problem haha. I think the only issue would be the length of the cordon on the East Stand side, and whether the police would agree to one that long. Otherwise doesn't seem like a problem.

 

[Bluebird1]

From our view in 201 the South Stand appeared to be singing as two separate sections. So even though the away fans had been moved it didn't seem to create the joint singing that people reckoned would happen.

Oh and for those that said the family stand were quiet I'm afraid you were wrong because they could be heard loud and clear.

 

[Freestyler]

Wasn't brilliant tuesday, but the news that Napoli had scored damped the last 20 minutes.

The advantage of this operation is putting the away fans in the gods, rather than us making more noise.

And fuck all the City fans that appreciate the view from the third tier (IMHO EASILY the best view in the ground), or is it just because the away fans can be seen on TV that annoys you?

THERE IS NO ADVANTAGE IN GIVING THE AWAY FANS THE BEST SEATS IN THE GROUND.

I can't work out if your having ago, disagreeing or agreeing with me in this post.

 

[sweep]

Wasn't brilliant tuesday, but the news that Napoli had scored damped the last 20 minutes.

The advantage of this operation is putting the away fans in the gods, rather than us making more noise.

And fuck all the City fans that appreciate the view from the third tier (IMHO EASILY the best view in the ground), or is it just because the away fans can be seen on TV that annoys you?

THERE IS NO ADVANTAGE IN GIVING THE AWAY FANS THE BEST SEATS IN THE GROUND.

I can't work out if your having ago, disagreeing or agreeing with me in this post.

Seems fairly obvious he disagrees with your perception of some advantage to putting the away fans up in the gods. I tend to agree with him, I couldn't give a fuck what it looks like on TV.

 

[salfordblues]

And fuck all the City fans that appreciate the view from the third tier (IMHO EASILY the best view in the ground), or is it just because the away fans can be seen on TV that annoys you?

THERE IS NO ADVANTAGE IN GIVING THE AWAY FANS THE BEST SEATS IN THE GROUND.

I can't work out if your having ago, disagreeing or agreeing with me in this post.

Seems fairly obvious he disagrees with your perception of some advantage to putting the away fans up in the gods. I tend to agree with him, I couldn't give a fuck what it looks like on TV.

A potential advantage of putting the away fans up in the gods is that they may have less impact on the game itself.

If you've got a load of rags or scousers behind the goal winding up our players or spurring their team on then moving these upstairs could have a positive impact on our results.

It's not a proven theory but it's a logical reason to move the away fans.

 

[Freestyler]

And fuck all the City fans that appreciate the view from the third tier (IMHO EASILY the best view in the ground), or is it just because the away fans can be seen on TV that annoys you?

THERE IS NO ADVANTAGE IN GIVING THE AWAY FANS THE BEST SEATS IN THE GROUND.

I can't work out if your having ago, disagreeing or agreeing with me in this post.

Seems fairly obvious he disagrees with your perception of some advantage to putting the away fans up in the gods. I tend to agree with him, I couldn't give a fuck what it looks like on TV.

I never said anything about what it looks like on TV.

I didn't say either that the away fans should be moved up there.

I highlighted the fact the only real advantage what has come from all this, is the fact the away fans are in the gods.

3-4,000 away fans on the 3rd tier, makes a difference than having them behind the goal the team is attacking.

just to clarify i haven't said the away fans should be moved.