Our supporters.

shakermaker85 said:
I sit on level 1 in CB 121 and I'd love nothing more to stand during the game. We stand when we're on the break or a corner I try to stay standing but the tuts and "sit down please" soon get you back on your arse.

The law dictates that Premiership football is seating only so the fact that you prefer to stand up is irrelevant. Other paying supporters don't so why should they put up with not seeing the crucial parts of the game because you are blocking their view?
 
shakermaker85 said:
I sit on level 1 in CB 121 and I'd love nothing more to stand during the game. We stand when we're on the break or a corner I try to stay standing but the tuts and "sit down please" soon get you back on your arse.
I sit in 122 and its exactly the same stand up for two minutes and youve got people behind you crying telling you to use your seat
 
Ardwick Green Blue said:
shakermaker85 said:
I sit on level 1 in CB 121 and I'd love nothing more to stand during the game. We stand when we're on the break or a corner I try to stay standing but the tuts and "sit down please" soon get you back on your arse.

The law dictates that Premiership football is seating only so the fact that you prefer to stand up is irrelevant. Other paying supporters don't so why should they put up with not seeing the crucial parts of the game because you are blocking their view?
Both points of view would be catered for with safe standing areas.
 
GornikDaze said:
Ardwick Green Blue said:
shakermaker85 said:
I sit on level 1 in CB 121 and I'd love nothing more to stand during the game. We stand when we're on the break or a corner I try to stay standing but the tuts and "sit down please" soon get you back on your arse.

The law dictates that Premiership football is seating only so the fact that you prefer to stand up is irrelevant. Other paying supporters don't so why should they put up with not seeing the crucial parts of the game because you are blocking their view?
Both points of view would be catered for with safe standing areas.

I agree but as things are it is totally ignorant & selfish for individual supporters to ruin the match for others because they want to stand up in areas where the vast majority don't.
 
lewis2013 said:
This is what happens when you have a family stand and higher ticket prices, real fans cant get in and sing, i think having an area of standing would make it better.
Corporate stuff really get money in the club. The price you pay for success?

Hopefully the expansion will see a new arrangement regarding away fans/singing sections. I'd like to think we would be capable of our own Dortmund end type thing.
 
One of the things I cannot understand is why people say things like, 'it's because we can't stand' I am in CB L1 125 and I shout and sing, as the people around me will testify and I don't stand. I go to away matches and try to make sure that I get a place near the front so that I can sit but I sing and shout from there also.

Why this flaming obsession with having to stand to be able to provide an atmosphere?? Do you lose your voice if you sit down??????

Just sing and shout and cheer on our team. For the person who said people talk about Eastenders round him, they must be very sad people!!

Today it was embarrassing, but I bet people were singing on the concourse!! I've said it in another thread and I will say it again here. It's all very well posting videos on Youtube singing 'Ohh Vincent Kompany, City loves you more than you can know' ad infinitum but that was in the concourse not in the stands where they should have been singing it.

Rant over. Sorry but it does drive me mad this "I can't stand so I can't sing" scenario!! Get some courage and try it.
 
Not looked through all previous pages so sorry if already posted but they need to move the away fans and advertise everywhere the south stand as a singing section and when purchasing tickets for that section be clearly made aware that is is a singing stand and people might be stood up, that way nobody there can moan and eveyone there in theory will want to sing. The club should also invest in some big banners like munich had last night to be put in the stand. Something needs to be done anyway coz at the minute its shite!!
 
Ardwick Green Blue said:
GornikDaze said:
Ardwick Green Blue said:
The law dictates that Premiership football is seating only so the fact that you prefer to stand up is irrelevant. Other paying supporters don't so why should they put up with not seeing the crucial parts of the game because you are blocking their view?
Both points of view would be catered for with safe standing areas.

I agree but as things are it is totally ignorant & selfish for individual supporters to ruin the match for others because they want to stand up in areas where the vast majority don't.
I wasn't disagreeing with you. Everyone pays good money for their tickets and has a right to see the game. At away games its okay because the norm is to stand and most seem happy with that. Where we sit there are few even older than me that prefer to sit and I am mindful that whenever I do stand on the odd occasion that the game merits it i sit down as quick as possible. I guess not everyone is as aware of others.
 
One of the key reasons people make the effort of going to a live game is for the atmosphere. It worries me that if our atmosphere continues to be so flat and as most of our games are live on TV, the gates will eventually suffer. On the other hand almost everywhere in the prem the game has become much more of a "spectator" sport. Off the top of my head Anfield is the only ground where the atmosphere is still something like it was in its hey-day. A safe standing area is about the only thing I can think of that might breathe some life into the Etihad
 
cavendishblue said:
One of the key reasons people make the effort of going to a live game is for the atmosphere. It worries me that if our atmosphere continues to be so flat and as most of our games are live on TV, the gates will eventually suffer. On the other hand almost everywhere in the prem the game has become much more of a "spectator" sport. Off the top of my head Anfield is the only ground where the atmosphere is still something like it was in its hey-day. A safe standing area is about the only thing I can think of that might breathe some life into the Etihad


AAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH, sing when you are SITTING DOWN FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!! TRY IT IT IS LIBERATING!! SEE I AM DOING IT JUST SITTING HERE AT MY COMPUTER.
 
GornikDaze said:
Ardwick Green Blue said:
GornikDaze said:
Both points of view would be catered for with safe standing areas.

I agree but as things are it is totally ignorant & selfish for individual supporters to ruin the match for others because they want to stand up in areas where the vast majority don't.
I wasn't disagreeing with you. Everyone pays good money for their tickets and has a right to see the game. At away games its okay because the norm is to stand and most seem happy with that. Where we sit there are few even older than me that prefer to sit and I am mindful that whenever I do stand on the odd occasion that the game merits it i sit down as quick as possible. I guess not everyone is as aware of others.

My post was aimed at the guy who was slating others who interfere with him standing up whenever he feels like. I have no problem with designated standing areas.
 
ManCitizens. said:
On the plus side, our numbers are great; we always turn up when needed and always fill the away allocation.

Unfortunately, in my opinion we don’t earn the team any points. The stadium isn’t a fortress, it isn’t intimidating and we're very quiet unless things go our way. People might not like it but at home, our fans are shocking, simple as that. Today was like an Arsenal game, silence - expecting a goal. If not lets moan, groan and have a tantrum.

The team needs backing, 1,000 fans singing in the corner is not enough.

I agree. But what do you think is the reason?
Could it be cos of our success recently? I havent been to Stamford Bridge or the Emirates ever, - or to that other ground for a long time - but I'd guess they would have a pretty flat atmosphere for a home game vs Hull Tigers (unless it was something exceptional, like a title winning game). Don't see the need for the soul-searching tbh.
 
The one song that's got everyone going and made the whole ground sing was the Mancini song. That game when Real Madrid played and the whole ground started with "fuck of mourinhio" and moved seamlessly into the Mancini song was unbelievable.

Unfortunately pelle doesn't seem to have any great support yet from the fans and I think it's affecting the atmosphere. Hopefully that will soon change!
 

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