I thought the atmosphere was really good today. Inadvertently the sending off improved the atmosphere a lot as it created a sort of siege mentality among our support.
I sowed the seeds. As iv'e been saying since our first season at the Circle, it's the acoustics of the place !
Nice one Southwest theres method in the madness despite what these donks say on here!...but kempton @ 3pm sure gonna be hard to replicate
It's a shame the atmosphere didn't spread to the south stand. I did join in a few rounds of "Steve Bruce - he's got a big fat head" until I noticed no one else was singing it and the funny looks I was getting. Then realisation dawned on me it was actually the stoke fans singing it, so I just tried to make myself invisible and sat quietly for the rest of the game.
Steve Bruce suggested it. Here's a question; Who designed that awful front cover of today's match programme?
A far far better atmosphere but i know everyone will agree it was in spite of not because of the forced move.
I think Adam Pearson first mentioned it about 10 years ago, but nothing changed for whatever reason. Steve Bruce was unhappy that a few times last season we had penalties infront of a stand full of a away fans.
If certain people had been listened to it could have been so much better, thousands have just walked away, it could have been better.
Yes it was great today North stand were brilliant, i was in East and thought we were good and south were joining in, next time i think south and East are gonna gang up together against the North. Hope Thursday nights as good
People listening wasn't the problem it was the people who they listened to that were. It was approved by supporters with their own agendas and not a collective representation of people who used to sit in e1-e3.
I agree here. From the East it sounded as though you were taking time to join in and then when you'd stopped chanting it, South stand took over.
South did join in the second half. They took part in the North Stand/East Stand chant and sang from there... Well the Eastern side of the South stand did.
Clearly, there are certain people who need to be listened to, that they werent listened to needs to be looked at by people who should be looking at them but they arent. Thats the problem.
What was a definite improvement was different stands/blocks singing the same song at the same time. Last season, we'd have the same song filter down the East stand but at different points of the song so it sounded ridiculous. With fans in the North Stand, it was much easier for the two stands (three when South joined in) to join in another song/chant at the same point of the song.
