Atmosphere

You the one that sounds like Aled Jones?

 

We should have never got ride of level 7 supporters

 

This! Since they destroyed the singing section in the leazes corner it's been ****e.

 

Well you must have really high standards because I was at the man utd game, and watched the replay on TV and the atmosphere sounded great for almost all the game.

I think you've still got the ringing of the leazes corner in your ear, as it must have been loud up there, and you moving to where you are now, the difference of noise must be shocking.

Lower your standards a little bit and realise that fan bases are never going to be what you think they should be.

Fans respond to performances a lot and today, the team was ****, and the performance for most of the game lacked energy. When the game picks up in pace, the fans respond to it, and that's how it works.

I've been to so many matches now over the last 4 years where the fans have struggled to get together for a chant, as the game has been very poor, and then when the game picks up pace, the fans will respond to it and urge the team on.

 

We need to get a bit more to our repertoire than, "Stand Up If You Love The Toon", that's just to the fans, we need to chant to the players.

Get a chant going and urge them on, it used to work, let's all try and get it together and see if it still does.

 

i agree with you to some extent, the atmosphere is a lot more poor than last year, but to say its one of the worst in the league is a bit of an exaggeration, In my ideal world I would love to have what they have in germany, where there is a stand for safe standing and that would be the gallowgate end and basically everyone who wants to contribute to the atmosphere go there and the rest anywhere else

 

Must say, the atmosphere against Man Utd, especially in the last 15 minutes was very good. Hair tingling.......

 

Your last two paragraphs are the exact problem with our support, and it is what makes our support no better than anyone else's. It's fickle, plain and simple.

The Leazes Corner was special, nowhere else in the country had a section like it. Now, people just moan, sing for one verse on the odd occasion and just shut up.

We slate Anfield, but ours is no better. Our away support is sensational, our home support is borderline the worst when things aren't going our way.

 

Last 15, when winning. But people are kidding themselves if they think the atmosphere was good before we scored. The only noise was having a go at the ref, and maybe the odd loud chant.

 

Our support may not be as good as it's hyped up to be, but it's still not in the same category of **** as Anfield, the Ethihad and Old Trafford at all.

But I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

 

Agree.

 

Different types of people go to home games. If people want to sing then it is up to them but it doesn't mean they should be criticised for not singing. One of my friends who I sit next to is quite into it when other fans around him are but it just never got going anywhere in the ground except the Strawberry Corner. Away fans are normally quite loud but QPR fans weren't singing either. It was a **** game in freezing weather and there was nothing to get people excited or create an atmosphere.

 

The away support is still great!

 

If that was about what I said about away fans I was referring to the away fans at the match today (QPR). They weren't creating much of an atmosphere either.

 

Pretty much all PL home crowds are quiet for the majority of games in my experience.

Some are hyped up by the media (Stoke, Liverpool) but most are poor. I go to more away games than home games, but the only brilliant atmosphere I've experienced at SJP was the Arsenal game last Feb (for obvious reasons). Others times it's been very mediocre I've got to say.

Safe standing is the way to rectify it, that's why the away support is fantastic, you can get more into it if you're not sat down.

 

I'm sorry to piss on the fire, but it was ****e WITH the singing section too

 

Definitely makes for a better atmosphere when standing, for some reason it tends to make people less self conscious about singing

 

Definitely true. More or less everyone sings at away matches. I personally feel like a twat if I'm sat down and singing my heart out! And most people look at you like you're an alien.

 

Atmosphere was pretty poor today, but i kinda expected it. Was similar to the Swansea game. The team didn't really do anything to inspire the fans and vice versa. It has to work both ways. Having said that, it was a freezing sunday, dinner time game so i wasnt really surprised.

A combined 20 minutes or so of O'Brien and the Gutierrez song :|

 

I would love it if safe standing was introduced. Maybe standing in the Gallowgate and sitting everywhere else would be brilliant (bearing in mind a lot of people at home games would probably prefer to sit)