Strange one that. For folks who park in Walton Street I can understand. It takes at least half hour to get out after the match if your lucky, my old mans ex used to insist we park there because she was a right lazy Jakupovic and couldn't be arsed to walk for five ****ing minutes, we've been stuck in there for an hour a few times. If I was going out on a Saturday night we'd have to leave early else we couldn't get back before the last bus into town and I'll be ****ed before I'm spending £35 on a pissing taxi at peak times. We always have and now again park down near fer ark where it's a piece of piss to get away from any time, there's that disused garage people use that always has a few cars missing when I walk past post match, and a fair number of cars are gone from the streets in that area and all. I don't **** about either once that whistle goes I'm up and gone and I walk pretty quick, probably out of the park before half the people have even got out of the stadium. So a lot of them are just Jakupovic's leaving early for the sake of 5 minutes.
Not bad suggestions from you and Shirl actually. I think the missing link in all of this is trying to engage the west stand more. There are people/pockets there who do try and join in.
I agree I am in the West and prefer to be vocal, as many also around me are, but we are all to spread out, we need to find a way of getting the vocal groups to sit in the same areas.
You could put Jakupovic in a goalie kit and stick him in a premier league game, he'd still be a useless moron.
Before today's game I watched the first half of Newcastle versus Liverpool - believe me, the KC was a cauldron of sound in comparison.
The answer is for the home side (us) to play from the half way line throughout the game. Meaning we squeeze the other team into their own half, pressurise then when they have the ball and spread them wide when we have it. If they do get beyond the half way line we have them offside. This keeps the pressure on the away side and builds up the pressure from the home team which should be helped by the home supporters vocally getting behind the team.
Sat in north stand today and plenty of noise there ., loved the 'your so far south your oractically french' song .. classic
The only reason I mentioned Palace is because they sing from minute 1, we wait for the team to do something to get the crowd going, when it's good at the KC it's great, today was ****e I often wonder what happened to the fans that turned up when we played Swansea that year when we went top of the third when fans were locked out.
Palace are the new Stoke - in that we're constantly told how wonderful their fans are, yet when they come here they're actually silent.
It was bad when there were two songs being sung at the same time in the east stand, it's ****ing ridiculous that it's still happening in the north stand with a lot fewer people, need to get something sorted to get the songs the same
Just watching the game back, and I would guess that a part of the problem is that west and north will struggle to understand what the issue is. On tv I could make out some noise from north, at the game in east, apart from a tiny bit from N4, north could not be heard at all.
Dont you think we need some new songs anarl?? Why dont people come up with some songs for the players we've got now. It may inspire them. Never heard the Oh Tommy Tommy one yesterday. Work on some songs for the players, is my advice. Ah just thought of one for Livermore. His middle names Cyril. Get Nice one Cyril going easiest song to do that one. Anyone think of any others?
There was something on a couple of weeks back about starting new football chants and how they spread. It might have been the One show. Was quite interesting.
I think you're spot on. A chant for a player would come when they'd come to fans attention for some particular reason, so all stands would have a fair idea it was due, so stands a chance of all joining in together. The problem I have is that in the 'old days' songs were made up on the coaches and by the time they got to the terrace, there was already a good bunch knew it and it could take off. I'm not sure how it happens now. I suspect posting them on here's an option, but I feel songs growing organically is more sustainable, I'm just not sure how that happens now we're spread all over the place. Perhaps away games are the key?
No two stands sing in time with each other. When East was all ours the North East and South East would be completely out of sync. This is what the problem is, when different areas try to join in the same chant they're all out of time with each other and the quieter areas drop out leaving the loudest to sing on their own. There needs to be some sort of visual conductor so all can join in together without sounding like a ridiculous inaudible jumbled mess of noise.
Or conductors with mobile phones so they know what songs are being sung in all parts of the ground. We know the problems we have to work at solving them. Yesterday was a poor day in the North, MoTD captured our best bits. There were fairly long periods of silence. I only want us to be like Palace in the sense that at home matches they sing for 90 minutes. We're not from Hamburg or Palace we should have enough of our own songs for people to recognise us as Hull City not a copy of anyone else.
