Singing section/Atmosphere

[Deleted member 77198]

We need some songs about some of our newer players. Who out of the last 2 seasons worth of new players, actually has a song about them, other than their name being repeated e.g. Leroy, Leroy ?

We need some new songs about City!

Not all these songs that stay with us for just a few years because players and managers move on and the songs get lost, not songs about United... actual mainstay songs about our club who will always be here.

The songs that everyone joins in with.

At home games and cup finals fans around the ground aren’t going to join in with the Edin Džeko song but they do join in with “the best team in the land and all the world” and “we love you City we do”. Look at Anfield; Liverpool fans never sing their cooler lesser known songs or about other clubs at home, they sing their mainstays about Liverpool over and over. Then at away games their lesser known better stuff comes out.

We need a big list of mainstay songs about City. Old favourites and new ones. It’s been two decades since we came up with a new mainstay about City. Since then everything has been about players or United.

We also need to move the Singing Section to somewhere well away from the away fans. It’s simply not worked where it is, it’s got worse and worse.

We also need to concentrate on getting a proper English atmosphere. There’s a reason why the fans of the big clubs don’t have this monotonous orchestrated drum lead annoying bollocks that doesn’t represent any emotion that’s going on on the pitch; because it’s a load of shit! In this country it’s clubs in the Conference and clubs like Palace and Watford and Huddersfield think it’s great, not City United Liverpool Everton Newcastle Sunderland Chelsea Arsenal Spurs Leeds West Ham... our atmospheres all have a lot to be desired but give me any of these sets of fans top atmospheres ten times a season over 95 minutes x 50 games of Euro pop garbage with barely any actual words in sight and that hugely irritating never ending bang bang bang bang bang.

Having a Singing Section called the Singing Section full stop is a bit laughable. It’s proper “put-on”. Forced. A bit lame to be honest. When you create a Singing Section it ensures that everyone in the ground waits for this front man to get the ground going rather than the whole thing be spontaneous from anywhere and everywhere. And when they don’t get it going (like the often don’t) the whole ground is quiet.

Also an atmosphere doesn’t have to be singing. It just needs to be a vocal or audible involvement in the game. Applause, “come on”s, “yyyeesssss!”s, “fucking have him!”s, “well in!”s, “well played!”s, “go on lad, go on”s, “fuck off you ****”s, “do one you fucking twat!”s..... there’s a distinct lack of that all over the ground. Everyone just needs to get more involved full stop.

 

[lazerblue]

just shift the away fans into the corner and make the whole of the south stand lower the singing section, job done.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I think you’re missing his point to be honest and that is that despite us playing the best football we’ve ever witnessed from a City team, the atmosphere has been getting progressively worse and no amount of creative City songs appear to be alleviating the problem. I absolutely love the Balotelli song but I bet if it was invented today rather than in 2011, there’s no way it would take off as much. Take the Gold (2 Silvas) song. It’s fucking class and should be getting belted out to the rafters every game but it hasn’t spread half as much as it should. Everyone loves the Poznan but when we did it the other night, no-one outside of 114-115 could be arsed joining in. We’ve become a lazy fanbase for some weird reason - sure, the game has become increasingly sanitised and it’s not just our club that is encountering this problem but the atmosphere really should be better at home games despite that. You say fans should react to what’s going on on the pitch so why the fuck, given the season we’re having, isn’t the roof coming off the place every other week?

Spot on mate

 

[tommyKun]

1894 need to inquire about moving the singing section to south stand 3. The expansion doesn’t look like it’s happening so this is the only option.
Away fans in ss1 can create an atmosphere as they’re in a single block but most songs in our end do not reach past 115-116 and if they can’t spread through a few blocks then they’re never gonna spread to other parts of the ground. South stand 3 are always audible when they sing.
The acoustics problem is not a myth People don’t join in when they should. But they need to be able to hear a song to join in
SS3 is the way forward

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

We need some new songs about City!

Not all these songs that stay with us for just a few years because players and managers move on and the songs get lost, not songs about United... actual mainstay songs about our club who will always be here.

The songs that everyone joins in with.

At home games and cup finals fans around the ground aren’t going to join in with the Edin Džeko song but they do join in with “the best team in the land and all the world” and “we love you City we do”. Look at Anfield; Liverpool fans never sing their cooler lesser known songs or about other clubs at home, they sing their mainstays about Liverpool over and over. Then at away games their lesser known better stuff comes out.

We need a big list of mainstay songs about City. Old favourites and new ones. It’s been two decades since we came up with a new mainstay about City. Since then everything has been about players or United.

We also need to move the Singing Section to somewhere well away from the away fans. It’s simply not worked where it is, it’s got worse and worse.

We also need to concentrate on getting a proper English atmosphere. There’s a reason why the fans of the big clubs don’t have this monotonous orchestrated drum lead annoying bollocks that doesn’t represent any emotion that’s going on on the pitch; because it’s a load of shit! In this country it’s clubs in the Conference and clubs like Palace and Watford and Huddersfield think it’s great, not City United Liverpool Everton Newcastle Sunderland Chelsea Arsenal Spurs Leeds West Ham... our atmospheres all have a lot to be desired but give me any of these sets of fans top atmospheres ten times a season over 95 minutes x 50 games of Euro pop garbage with barely any actual words in sight and that hugely irritating never ending bang bang bang bang bang.

Having a Singing Section called the Singing Section full stop is a bit laughable. It’s proper “put-on”. Forced. A bit lame to be honest. When you create a Singing Section it ensures that everyone in the ground waits for this front man to get the ground going rather than the whole thing be spontaneous from anywhere and everywhere. And when they don’t get it going (like the often don’t) the whole ground is quiet.

Also an atmosphere doesn’t have to be singing. It just needs to be a vocal or audible involvement in the game. Applause, “come on”s, “yyyeesssss!”s, “fucking have him!”s, “well in!”s, “well played!”s, “go on lad, go on”s, “fuck off you ****”s, “do one you fucking twat!”s..... there’s a distinct lack of that all over the ground. Everyone just needs to get more involved full stop.

We already have plenty of songs. I agree you don’t need many at home but why don’t we start singing staples like “City, City” etc that people can then easily join in with. I hope we can find a way to get those fans who would sing but don’t want to do it on their own

 

[jrb]

1894 need to inquire about moving the singing section to south stand 3. The expansion doesn’t look like it’s happening so this is the only option.
Away fans in ss1 can create an atmosphere as they’re in a single block but most songs in our end do not reach past 115-116 and if they can’t spread through a few blocks then they’re never gonna spread to other parts of the ground. South stand 3 are always audible when they sing.
The acoustics problem is not a myth People don’t join in when they should. But they need to be able to hear a song to join in
SS3 is the way forward

It won't happen. In fact no move will happen. Seats are already taken in every block by season ticket holders. The final chance to get it right is when and if the NS is ever expanded.

Personally I think the singing section should be moved back to 111/110. That's where it was unofficially at it's best. And that's where it was loudest and more visible to the away fans. In SS 115 the away fans are side on.

I think City should look at making the lower sections of 110 and 111 new or alternative singing sections, if enough seats are avaialable? 114 and 115 aren't working.

 

[quiet_riot]

Also an atmosphere doesn’t have to be singing. It just needs to be a vocal or audible involvement in the game. Applause, “come on”s, “yyyeesssss!”s, “fucking have him!”s, “well in!”s, “well played!”s, “go on lad, go on”s, “fuck off you ****”s, “do one you fucking twat!”s..... there’s a distinct lack of that all over the ground. Everyone just needs to get more involved full stop.

When you do this, you often get a glare from a steward or a quiet word shortly after. As people in 221 will testify

 

[cyberblue]

Just seen a load of photos of City & rag fans from the late 70s .so many fans of that era were vety young .The majority of fans nowadays are not young maybe that is a reason for the decline in atmosphere

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

It won't happen. In fact no move will happen. Seats are already taken in every block by season ticket holders. The final chance to get it right is when and if the NS is ever expanded.

Personally I think the singing section should be moved back to 111/110. That's where it was unofficially at it's best. And that's where it was loudest and more visible to the away fans. In SS 115 the away fans are side on.

I think City should look at making the lower sections of 110 and 111 new or alternative singing sections, if enough seats are avaialable? 114 and 115 aren't working.

tbf if the entire blocks of 114 and 115 actually sung it would work. right now theres about 20 people at the back of 115 singing and thats it

 

[MCFCTrick]

Just seen a load of photos of City & rag fans from the late 70s .so many fans of that era were vety young .The majority of fans nowadays are not young maybe that is a reason for the decline in atmosphere

Exactly .... it was young lads, in groups and going nuts and singing their heads off. Prices etc have stopped a lot going, but also most nowadays are more likely to be either filming it, or chatting on social media during the game than getting vocal ..