You must be easily pleased if you thought the atmosphere wasn't that bad , do you remember Swansea in 2003 ?
The difference between back in the 70s and now is the youth of the day . Kempton / bunkers use to be full of 12 to 18 year olds off the estates , most of them made loads of noise .. Nowadays that age group just want to play on playstations or take drugs or can't afford to go . I use to sing on bunkers and in the kempton and I still do in e3 but there's a huge lack of younger fans now .. Most of the singers around me are at least 40 . We need a singing area in the north stand with pay on the day and as I say free or cheap tickets for that area for under 18's ..even better if the north stand was standing only ..
When I can get to the match I am always in the West Stand and I ALWAYS give my vocal support to the team
The so called leaders in the East Stand spend most of the game having a chin wag. It is a bit like Loose women at times. Most of them around me only bother to moan and groan when a pass goes astray and don't contribute any vocals. Waste of a seat.
I struggle to understand the people who go to football matches and sit in almost complete silence I'm not saying everybody should sing but I wish more people would get behind the players with a bit of encouragement
I remember going to a game a few seasons back when we beat Cardiff 4-1. We were 3-0 up I think (it was when McPhee tried that daft rebound from the penalty). When they scored, the fans around me immediatley started shouting "Come on Hull, forget it, just keep going etc" and it spread around the stadium. I was sat in the West Stand, towards the South Stand end. Good football rouses the crowd. Nobody seems to want to sing for the sake of it anymore. I have a season ticket in the South Stand and sometimes I don't really feel much like singing; I won't stop anybody else from doing it, but please don't have a ****ing go if I choose to watch the game instead of joining in the pointless shouts of "Forward!!!" or "I wanna go home" (Hate that so much. If you would rather be at home than sat in the cold watching the game, **** off home and free up your seat for somebody else.)
I don't think the problem with the west stand is that they don't sing its the fact that they don't really understand the game, or they just moan and have a go at the players unfortunately. I personally sit in the premier club area and many of them know nothing, and its frustrating. However they pay the same if not more than others and if they don't want to sing they don't have to. Personally i like a sing song away from home, but there is no joint effort in the home games from any stand.
I sit in the West stand although I'm saying no more than that. Where I sit there is a lot of passion and knowledge about the team and the game in general. I started the season in the South Stand and there are some absolutely clueless clowns in there, just as there is in the East and the West. Trust me despite what some on here reckon there is no section full of clued up, up for it singing types. It just doesn't exist.
Suppose it depends where you sit, i think you are going to get idiots no matter where you sit. The guys next to me in the west stand when i am not in the Premier Club are quite good and understand the game, but some fans just frustrate me. I swear there is an idiot in the upper tier who just shouts hoof it or get it down on the ground depending on which we aren't doing.....
In fairness at games I think frustration can override sense, when I'm at a game and we ain't doing to well I just get frustrated and talk bullshit specially in the second half when I'm craving nicotine, then as soon as the game finishes and I have a fight my reasoning comes back. The people who sit nearby must hate me
