Relative luxury compared to Ibrox Park,Parkhead and Hampden in the 70's...Pissed where you stood on the terracing or against the corrugated iron round the back of the stands. Rivers of p!ss and broken Lanliq and Four Crown bottles everywhere. It was medieval!!!
Someone must have already asked what I am about to ask. How many times are you going to have to listen to it this season? Answer: Not enough to get worked up about.
Yep. Start of that season we were doing alright but losing a weird amount of home games (we barely drew any). It's only got worse since. Now we barely win any.
A side point to this is that his shouting into the microphone is too loud. They need to sort the audio out because it’s borderline painful at times.
It's better than "How's your touch" (which was like Roseyball in HT entertainment form), but not by much
Is it? All the attempts so far the ball has barely got off the ground. At least with how’s your touch the result varied person by person. Cross bar challenge is dreadful and there’s no stakes as no one is going to do it anyway.
I've been in my seat a good half an hour and more before kick off for the last few home games and I've noticed a few things that the club might consider changing. For the warm up's all the visiting teams aways head for the North Stand end and there are always more away fans already in their seats than we have in the North Stand. The away team always get a good reception from their fans and always end up with a little routine right in front of them in the far corner to thunderous applause and encouragement from their fans. They literally bounce off the pitch back towards the tunnel. Meanwhile our smattering of fans in the North Stand are drowned out by the non stop Ibiza 'anthems' from the DJ positioned in the corner. The Burnley players were jigging along and laughing with him, on Wednesday night, but to be fair it was bouncing atmosphere to warm up to for the away team, doing routines directly below him. Whilst our team warm up is at the other end in silence, no thunderous applause for them when they trot off back to the changing rooms 10 minutes before kick off. A stranger to the stadium would swear that we were the away team, and it happens every game now. Also does anyone know why we always kick towards the South Stand in the second half? I hear very little vocal support from that end of the ground whilst the away fans, like Wednesday and last Sunday v Sunderland, are roaring their team on every time they get in our half. Just a couple of little things that annoy me on a quiet news day.
Apparently you get a good atmosphere from having good half time entertainment, And we were told on that missive from the club, if everyone remains seated it improves the match day experience and the atmosphere. Having goal music will make ita febrile hotbed instilling fear into the opposition and giving us an enormous lift. Or maybe not…
All good points. Regarding which end we kick towards, I think it was originally set up the way it is because the North stand had the away fans and so the South stand end was closest to a "home end". But obviously since we now have our vocal fans behind the North stand goal that no longer makes much sense. We briefly tried it the other way two seasons ago under Rosenior. I think it was only for two games and both games were drawn, which some used as proof that it wasn't working. But in both games we actually had sustained pressure and got the equaliser in the second half after being a goal down, so I think there's a good argument that it did work really. For whatever reason it was quietly changed back and everyone forgot about it. As you say, I think it'd be logical to swap it around again and stick to that.
I voted no to goal music. However, what if they waited for 30secs for the original celebrations to die off - goal celebrations tend to finish with everyone stood clapping - before playing something that all fans can sing to in unison prior to the game restarting? That would be similar to kick off when the ground sing wise men collectively. Just a compromise proposal to see how it goes? It would have to be good tune though, thought the one used the other night would probably work in that regard. I'll put me tin hat on! Edit: It would be better still if the tune played was player specific, I would have thought Gold being played 30 secs after Ohio scored last season after the Ipswich equaliser would have gone down well for everyone to join in with?
