Stand leaders

[BlueTG]

We should just buy that geezer with the bell from Portsmouth. £2m 'ought to do it.

 

[BlueGMD]

If people want to sing they will sing. If they don't want to sing they wont sing. A stand leader isn't going to change any of that.

I disagree, people will sing when others sing around them. It only needs a small group to keep something going and others will join in.

I don't know where some of you are getting this idea that the stand leader will be at the front of the block? Surely they'll have to be in their usual seat like the rest of us!

 

[moomba]

but a big chunk of our fans seem to have lost their passion since we won the league.

People often confuse passion with singing.

 

[york away to this!]

whatever happened to that bloke with a spit the dog puppet from Peterborough away in the FA cup run, '81?

He would make a simply magnificent stand leader, as would his furry friend...

 

[Ray78]

whatever happened to that bloke with a spit the dog puppet from Peterborough away in the FA cup run, '81?

He would make a simply magnificent stand leader, as would his furry friend...

Operation Yewtree?

 

[liamctid]

Stand leaders are better than absolute silence in most of the stadium.

Disagree

Our stadium has the worst atmosphere of any top club in the Premier League so far this season and has become the butt of jokes, the same sort of jokes we've made about the swamp for years. It used to have one of the best of the top clubs, but a big chunk of our fans seem to have lost their passion since we won the league.

FWIW, I sit in Block 107 and at weekend, this guy stood up out of nowhere and at the top of his voice sang "We're not really here!" and an unusually high number of people in the often quiet 107 joined in. All it took was one brave guy in the sullen silence to get people to join in. If there was someone like that in every block, I wouldn't complain. The Family Stand could benefit, especially.

Is this really true though?

I'm not trying to say that our atmosphere is anything to be desired, but if anything I'd say it's been better (post-move to CoMs) since the takeover because we've had bigger games.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bw6pNPioQw[/youtube]

watch that. Look at the fucking state of it.

Compared to this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22BtVb3hLjw[/youtube]

And I'm not even talking about a derby.

The best atmospheres come from the bigger games.

Stand leaders will not make any difference to our home atmosphere against Fulham.

Something I will maintain was a massive mistake by City was the North Stand level 1 move. Garry Cook had this great idea where each stand had it's own identity. South for noise, North for families.

There are those that had to leave the North Stand level 1 because they didn't go to the match with an under 16. so they moved to the South Stand because it was similarly priced to the North Stand. These people might only join in to a few songs a match, which would have sounded great in the North Stand as a chant filters round the ground, but in the South Stand they're seen as a "waste" because they don't join in with everything.

 

[chris85mcfc]

If people want to sing they will sing. If they don't want to sing they wont sing. A stand leader isn't going to change any of that.

I disagree, people will sing when others sing around them. It only needs a small group to keep something going and others will join in.

I don't know where some of you are getting this idea that the stand leader will be at the front of the block? Surely they'll have to be in their usual seat like the rest of us!

My point is that regardless of the designated stand leader you are always going to get one or two guys around you starting songs off, some keep going, some fizzle out. You don't need a specific person to start a song off!!

So what if this stand leader can't go one week? Do we appoint an assistant? Or will we just have to have a poor atmosphere that week.

It's really rather embarrassing. Nearly as bad as the incredibly cringy pre match quiz. Guy on the pitch last week could only name 5 ex City players.

 

[levets]

How did we let it get to this?

Because of all the giddy kids wanting a capo... coz Dortmund were 'mint'...

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

Stand leaders are better than absolute silence in most of the stadium.

Disagree

Our stadium has the worst atmosphere of any top club in the Premier League so far this season and has become the butt of jokes, the same sort of jokes we've made about the swamp for years. It used to have one of the best of the top clubs, but a big chunk of our fans seem to have lost their passion since we won the league.

Stand leaders is not a solution to this problem. I'd rather sit quietly than sit cringeing with embarrassment are someone making an idiot of themselves trying to sing on their own

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

If people want to sing they will sing. If they don't want to sing they wont sing. A stand leader isn't going to change any of that.

I disagree, people will sing when others sing around them. It only needs a small group to keep something going and others will join in.

I don't know where some of you are getting this idea that the stand leader will be at the front of the block? Surely they'll have to be in their usual seat like the rest of us!

My point is that regardless of the designated stand leader you are always going to get one or two guys around you starting songs off, some keep going, some fizzle out. You don't need a specific person to start a song off!!

So what if this stand leader can't go one week? Do we appoint an assistant? Or will we just have to have a poor atmosphere that week.

It's really rather embarrassing. Nearly as bad as the incredibly cringy pre match quiz. Guy on the pitch last week could only name 5 ex City players.

oh how I laughed at that