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The Lack of Atmosphere
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BringBackSwales
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I also don't think it helps just before the kick off getting someone who cannot sing murdering Blue Moon - nobody joins in and it is frankly embarrassing, kills any pre match atmosphere dead in its tracks. We as a group of fans had an absolute fucking shocker last night
jimharri
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Let's be honest; apart from the occasional game; Hamburg, the derbies, QPR (obviously) and the odd top 4 game (not all of them), the atmosphere has never been that outstandingly brilliant in the stadium since we moved in. But I suppose you can say the same for a lot of the new grounds. Is all seater stadia the problem? Quite possibly? Will safe standing be brought in? Unlikely, I'd have thought. I don't know what the answer is, to be honest. When we're not making intense noise with the football we're playing this season, it's hard to see us doing so again away from the ''big'' games. The fans who travelled to Spurs made a lot more noise than the entire stadium did last night. Shame, but there you go.
jimharri said:Let's be honest; apart from the occasional game; Hamburg, the derbies, QPR (obviously) and the odd top 4 game (not all of them), the atmosphere has never been that outstandingly brilliant in the stadium since we moved in. But I suppose you can say the same for a lot of the new grounds. Is all seater stadia the problem? Quite possibly? Will safe standing be brought in? Unlikely, I'd have thought. I don't know what the answer is, to be honest. When we're not making intense noise with the football we're playing this season, it's hard to see us doing so again away from the ''big'' games. The fans who travelled to Spurs made a lot more noise than the entire stadium did last night. Shame, but there you go.
Why can't the fans that make all this noise away from home, make the same noise at home? With a few thousand others joining them , it would be better.
citijin said:atmosphere is never fine. there is always a way to improve it. i want to hear the sound of it on tv.moomba said:Don't see the problem really. Atmosphere was fine for me, although obviously a bit of a downer to concede first and not really look like scoring ourselves.
Pfft! And take over the sound of the pundits! I'm all for improving the atmosphere, but that is a step too far.
Santiago Street . said:What happened to the whole stand rising spontaneously in expectation as a player is put thru on goal or a dangerous attack develops. Hardly happens anymore.
Some people don't even stand up when we score.
You can argue for hours about where to put away fans and singing sections and the ubercheesification of pre match "entertainment" but you'll be wasting your time.
The cohort has changed, they're less passionate about City and so the atmosphere suffers accordingly.
The owners have genuinely taken an interest in improving the atmosphere but they're part of the problem. While they want to help engender a good atmosphere, they want a whole lot more to have a stadium full of ABC1 types because -and lets be brutally honest here- City and Eastlands is just a giant image laundering vehicle for Abu Dhabi. They want shiny happy families holding hands not rabid young men, faces contorted with passion, bellowing obscenities at each other.
It'll never come back.
Fair post - the 1st line sums it up, this is what is meant by atmosphere !!
Listen to the Kippax here as he crosses the half way line
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dNI2-W2dc8&list=PL4969D640DEDA3DEF[/youtube]
I cant agree more... the night we need the ground bouncing and what do we produce.. a library atmosphere and hundreds of empty seats way before the final whistle.. no wonder the rags sing that song about 20000 empty seats..
We laud our own support... try asking the support of teams that come here, they`ll tell you different..
Sad.. we haven't turned into the Rags... we`re worse.
We laud our own support... try asking the support of teams that come here, they`ll tell you different..
Sad.. we haven't turned into the Rags... we`re worse.
Puppet Master Silva
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Great. Another thread whinging and whining about the atmosphere but doing nothing to improve it. I don't know why people persevere with making these God awful threads.
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dronefromsector7g
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bluesheep said:I cant agree more... the night we need the ground bouncing and what do we produce.. a library atmosphere and hundreds of empty seats way before the final whistle.. no wonder the rags sing that song about 20000 empty seats..
We laud our own support... try asking the support of teams that come here, they`ll tell you different..
Sad.. we haven't turned into the Rags... we`re worse.
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