TheGuv

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Watch what happens at half time tomorrow. Everyone sitting will stand for 15 minutes. But they won’t do it during the game. It’s bizarre.

Helped the good lads and lasses out tonight. All I can say is, I now truly appreciate the job they do. Fantastic work from everyone.

Maintain that Everton game started our spiral to doom that we’ve never truly recovered from (we’re finally beginning to now). Partizan Belgrade then cemented the shit storm to come.

It begins:

Better than it being Gallowgate Upper which was mooted by the club. Hopefully it is a big success and it can be rolled out properly. Hopefully I can get in there one day! No chance if it’s only 1800 mind.

It’s mad how old I used to think SBR was when he was managing us at 71. He died aged 76. Imagine him managing us at 75 mind

Total meh. Probs keep them up, it’s his boyhood club. Crack on tbh. Good luck to him.

I hate that little rat faced cunt

Mitro off too? Wtf

Ffs

4 good games in a row for him.

I’ve clearly misunderstood the offside rule my entire live then. Utter horseshit

Queens Road in Whitley?

It’s some bloke sitting a few rows in front. Can never work out who it is Least he pipes up tbf to him!

?? It’s literally around 10-20 blokes. I think there was 6 of us singing it for 2 minutes trying to keep it going. If 10-20 of us can get the East Stand/Leazes going I’d love for us to have 1000-2000 in the Leazes safe standing please

There was 3 of us taking turns smashing the hoardings on the back of the NE corner.

Sing when we’re winning ??

Aye a pie, aye?

Kicking off on this thread

A display doesn’t = atmosphere though. Those displays are create by 20-30 lads every week. That’s it. Imagine 20 lads singing all game, it would barely make a h’appeth’s difference. We’ve become a fan base that pats ourselves on the back for waving a flag and deciding that’s enough for the rest of the game. The same volunteers that put the flags out and do all the work are now basically a free marketing arm for the club who take a photo and post it on social media for other fans to see - again recreating a myth on ‘atmosphere’. Matt Ritchie came out and had a go at the WF lads for not having a display against Bournemouth ffs! I’m paraphrasing here but it was something like “I never want to see this ground without flags ever again!”. Clearly the fan base thinks this too, as their Twitter DMs were full of abuse after the game. We’re now in a position where the WF lads are effectively beholden to doing some form of display every week otherwise there isn’t even a pre match atmosphere for us to pat each other on the back with. What happens if WF decided to jack it in overnight? Or they can’t be arsed to continue devoting hundreds of hours a season when other fans can’t be arsed to help them out by moving a seat to allow safe standing? Or others who sit on their hands, or others who moan and boo continue to not contribute positively in any way other than being happy to sit there every week? Like it or not, we’re on a precipice here. We’re in uncharted territory. If we get this wrong now, as the club heads into unknown highs, and we become a global brand - everything we’ve moaned about in here will feel like child’s play compared to what’s about to come. I think it’s a conversation we need to have and it’s one that’s been going on since the Toon Ultras. A tiny pocket of the Strawberry Corner singing (ex Level 7ers may I add) isn’t enough, and it’s beginning to show. I’ll leave it there for now and I’m intrigued to see what Sunday brings…

Howay then. There’s enough of us on here that want to make a difference. Wor Flags have made a difference with just 20 lads. What could we achieve by following suit and trying to bring back the atmosphere properly? I really like @NUFC91’s idea of trying to get things going each week at a pub. I know the WF lot has done things previously from the North Terrace. Perhaps a good starting point to get like minded individuals and get a pub bouncing and work our way down to the ground. Fuck Wonderbar and stuff like that - it plays its role I suppose…I dunno.

Quite glad they came back with that tbh. Means I could drive that view home. Wouldn’t be surprised if plenty of them just rate it out of 5 and leave it there. I’m sure @Heronand the WF lot in attendance will do the same. Really hope we can force this change like. Had a good discussion with Heron and the lads last night about bringing back a bit of a weekly pub/March to the stadium again. Bring that away style atmosphere to the ground that @NUFC91has mentioned too.

Just received an email for a review on the night. I’ve added more feedback on what has been discussed in here. Predominantly, catering to as many fans that want to safe stand. Not just using an arbitrary figure of 1500

If we start poorly, I can see people getting on their backs straight away.