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ponsaelius

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  1. Love the nature of football fandom that Hayden and Colback get booed, but Ilias Chair who opens people's skulls with rocks is not.
  2. Easily best game I've seen this season
  3. Italy football weekend for me last week, last one I managed to do was in 2020 the week before Covid shutdown all games. Parma 2-1 Brescia (Serie B) Modena 2-3 Feralpisalo (Serie B) Bologna 0-1 Inter (Serie A) Prato 2-0 Borgo San Donnino (Serie D) Fiorentina 2-2 Roma (Serie A) https://photos.app.goo.gl/yjQcKUr8jXQaHq3k9
  4. Get on quicker and buy together? As it would be if there was general sale/free for all like there is at most other clubs in the world. But this way you know there is a set number of tickets and an equal number of purchasers so you've got a pretty good chance of getting what you want. If you end up having to buy slightly apart than that's a fact of life, or you simply return the tickets if it doesn't work. Or you could have the option to decide only to commit to 2 rather than 3-4 and the others are returned. Got to admit I really don't see how it's an issue. If anything it's better than the current situation where families are e.g. going in for 4 together and missing out altogether, at least this way they'd have the option to then go for 2+2 or 3 together etc.
  5. It's because we have 2-3 wildly different options with different costs, barriers, outcomes. They have to be explored fully before you commit to one or another. The club are undoubtedly working on it.
  6. I'll be getting 6 and becoming a tout I reckon.
  7. Just have a ballot and then allow winners a period of time to then go on the website and pick their seat. People will naturally then pick where is more in line with their sensibilities. Particularly if we have more clearly defined singing sections. Those not picked in timeframe then go back on general sale. Don't see any issue with this. It would be better than both last season's free for all and this season's nonsense.
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    England

    Phillips has managed to play his way out of the squad through regular football. If he was still at City he'd probably be in.
  9. The big hill is just spoil from digging the central motorway in the 60s. There was open cast mining on part of it up to the 40s. And from an ecological point of view it's just a giant monoculture of grass for cow grazing. Its absurd to think of it as a natural landscape just because it's empty and open.
  10. I find the biggest generator of 'monotony' is the drum. Ultra groups without a drum are better, and more likely to undulate naturally with the game in terms of nerves, tension, in drop silences after goals etc. It's a good balance between the performative and the reactionary elements to an atmosphere. Drums I find overwhelm everything and set things to one beat - and they never seem to stop. A bit like the England band.
  11. It doesn't need to be 'ultras' with flags or banners in the same way. That will always come across awkward in a UK context. I'm just talking about getting like-minded people who want to stand and sing together in same part of the ground to make noise. The same way it often happens naturally at an away game with 2-3 thousand like-minded people together, and I presume used to happen pre all seater stadia.
  12. The Town Moor actually is shit by the way. It's a waste of prime urban centre real estate while the city sprawls out west. It has limited biodiversity value. It is not a natural landscape, but also has limited recreation function. It doesn't even have many trees on it as this affects its use as grazing land, all the while the city is crying out for an actual 'green lung'. Its single point of value is that it is unique and a bit weird. But it unique because it's such a monumentally ridiculous use of land that is not equivalent probably to any other city on earth.
  13. The most important thing for me is definitely making it so fans can be together with like-minded fans as much as possible. Just got back from a weekend of going to Parma, Modena, Bologna, Fiorentina - 3 of which I stud in the curva. Noisiest ultras gather in the middle near the front, those who like to stand and sing a bit float towards the edge of this core, and then out again to the older fans and kids on the periphery who are able to sit and watch without their view blocked. It's conducive to a good atmosphere as people are naturally gathered with like-minded folk. Unfortunately the uncovered stands, crumbling stadia etc almost certainly discourages a lot of middle/upper class and tourists fans from coming so attendances in other stands suffers (we would never have that problem) - but the self policing nature of the curva underlined just how ridiculously shit randomly allocated seating through a ballot actually is. A decent sized standing and singing section in the Gallowgate would be great. And let ballot winners pick their seat if there has to be a ballot.
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