Match Atmosphere

[timnufc22]

Considering what was happening on the pitch I was hoping it was just the mics on tv, but as much as I was loving the performance, that’s a little embarrassing the atmosphere really  was as flat as it came across on tv, based on what people have said.
 

Cant fathom how you could resist rubbing it into the Spurs fans if nothing else. 
 

Will standing in the corner make any difference next season? There’s no changing of seats for it to be a singing section I understand? If not, has there been any dialogue with the club about such a premise? I can’t bare to see SJP become like the etihad.

[huss9]

19 minutes ago, timnufc22 said:

Considering what was happening on the pitch I was hoping it was just the mics on tv, but as much as I was loving the performance, that’s a little embarrassing the atmosphere really  was as flat as it came across on tv, based on what people have said.
 

Cant fathom how you could resist rubbing it into the Spurs fans if nothing else. 
 

Will standing in the corner make any difference next season? There’s no changing of seats for it to be a singing section I understand? If not, has there been any dialogue with the club about such a premise? I can’t bare to see SJP become like the etihad.

the corner isnt the problem.

[Lush Vlad]

There were spells of people just chatting to each other. Really strange atmosphere when it’s like that. Villa 4-0 was similar.
 

Today, everyone seemed knackered after 5 goals in 20 minutes. It is always the way with games like that. I bet it would be the same at most grounds up and down the country. Except perhaps in a derby game. 
 

It’s been said on here loads of times. When we are cruising and comfortable. The intensity goes out of the game and out of the crowd as a result. All that nervous tension and energy gone in 8 minutes! Yet in tight games, the atmosphere can be electric. 
 

FWIW, I thought there were a few more songs than usual and it got pretty loud. The Spurs fan I was with said he was surprised most stands join in with the chants and said it got ridiculously loud at times. But I suppose that was always going to happen with the goals flying in like that. 
 

I’ll never understand people fucking off on 37 minutes. Leaving on 88. Or wankers that are up and down all game for a pint or a line. But that happens every game. 

[timnufc22]

26 minutes ago, huss9 said:

the corner isnt the problem.

I'm just wondering if the rest of the ground cant feed off the corner during a game like that, does another adjustment in the ground not need to happen? Perhaps an example of why there should be a separate corner designated as a singing section, so the two can bounce off each other.

[huss9]

i think we need standing sections in each of the four corners.

[TheGuv]

 

[Hovagod]

In whatever context it is being done, anybody singing ‘Saudi boys’ is a stupid cunt and I want nothing to do with them. Just moronic and shameful, have some fucking self-respect 

[Shadow Puppets]

I thought first half the atmosphere was great. Second half flat, but it’s completely understandable. When the game is effectively finished after 21 mins it’s hard for the crowd not to just sit back and relax.

[TRon]

3 hours ago, Wandy said:

As I said right at the beginning of the thread....the issue is not that NUFC now has crap support, it's the fact that the stadium is too top-heavy with spectators/casual fans and the traditional football fans are unable to get back in, and the ones that remain are too interspersed around the ground. These are two issues that need to be urgently addressed by the club.

 

Agree with this tbh, and I say this knowing some of my own new rich family are going to these games when they don't have the slightest fucking clue what is going on. But I guess this is how it always starts so maybe we have to accept this as a natural progression.

[Wolfcastle]

Its going to get worse not better regardless of standing.  Goes with expectations.

 

Sky sanitised the game and changed the clientele, I hated but its been so long the case now its long since been a redundant point. I remember dot com getting uppity about people using flares, might have been dickheads doing it but the point still stands.  Dortmund, the extreme example, is not replicable in this country for those reasons. You've been liable to get chucked out or a word for less for decades here.

 

Not sure we should get embarrassed by players calling for more energy, its often a gesture of that and only possibly because high levels are attainable. You see players doing it all the time winning corners and free-kicks and stuff everywhere, so everywhere must be equally shit.

 

 

Edited April 23, 2023 by Wolfcastle

[SteV]

1 hour ago, TheGuv said:

 

Notice they only show one stand. Because the other 3 stands will all be sat in silence watching that stand.

 

’Great Bundesliga atmospheres’ are the biggest myths going.

[LFEE]

Had an interesting conversation for ambiguity only with our flag wavers.

 

Basically the club are approx 4th in priority when controlling our match day build up. EPL and Sponsers and broadcasters lead the way in the musical build up including what is played and when and for how long. Plan to challenge this with the NUST at next meeting but in all honesty it’s all totally believable when explained.
 

For those on the same page regarding reduction in music/volume it has been requested but out of “his” hands.

[Big River]

loudest I’ve ever heard the gallowgate at times in that first half. it was fucking unreal. you’re never going to sustain that for a full 90 minutes, especially when we don’t “need” to. game was won and people were just enjoying it, a lot of chatting like someone has already mentioned and most were in disbelief just taking it all in.

 

I’m the first one to complain about the atmosphere, and believe there’s massive room for improvement. but I’m pretty shocked to see such negativity about today, its not worth worrying about in the slightest.

[JonBez comesock]

10 hours ago, Big River said:

loudest I’ve ever heard the gallowgate at times in that first half. it was fucking unreal. you’re never going to sustain that for a full 90 minutes, especially when we don’t “need” to. game was won and people were just enjoying it, a lot of chatting like someone has already mentioned and most were in disbelief just taking it all in.

 

I’m the first one to complain about the atmosphere, and believe there’s massive room for improvement. but I’m pretty shocked to see such negativity about today, its not worth worrying about in the slightest.

I have to agree 

 

It was the loudest I have ever heard in the gallowgate at 3-0 

 

It did go flat a bit for the last 15 mins of the first half as everyone was in utter shock and you could hear everyone talking / chattering !! 
 

Second half was more like a training game and again felt a little flat 

 

Gallowgate did try and get it going again a few times 

 

 

[Whitley mag]

40 minutes ago, JonBez comesock said:

I have to agree 

 

It was the loudest I have ever heard in the gallowgate at 3-0 

 

It did go flat a bit for the last 15 mins of the first half as everyone was in utter shock and you could hear everyone talking / chattering !! 
 

Second half was more like a training game and again felt a little flat 

 

Gallowgate did try and get it going again a few times 

 

 

Don’t think there’s any issue with noise after we score but that’s probably the same for every club.

 

The issue is the long periods of silence where the place is flat. There’s other grounds in the country that are better keeping the atmosphere going and don’t necessarily need a goal/incident to spark them.

 

The 3 ingredients currently missing at St James are a singing enclosure, banter with away fans which is non existent compared to a ground such as Elland Road and better songs which are catchy and people want to join in with.
 

 

[mofo]

Agree with what others have said the Gallowgate was immense yesterday.  There was a rendition of Hes Brazilian I think after Joe had scored and it was soo fucking loud and incredibly at a decent tempo!

 

What a fucking day man!

[Chicken Dancer]

Feel canny harsh criticising anything at the minute but after the Man Utd & Spurs wins, why the fuck does the DJ fella think it's a good idea to play DJ fucking Otzi man

 

Either Movin on Up or fuck all. Ana it's the Shearer/Wilson rip off song, but it sounds like a Year 3 disco ffs.

[Likelylad]

I was like wtf when that came on. Not the first time he's wrecked the vibe at the final whistle either. The SF against Southampton with Doris Day. Christ.

 

[bobbydazzla]

4 minutes ago, Chicken Dancer said:

Feel canny harsh criticising anything at the minute but after the Man Utd & Spurs wins, why the fuck does the DJ fella think it's a good idea to play DJ fucking Otzi man

 

Either Movin on Up or fuck all. Ana it's the Shearer/Wilson rip off song, but it sounds like a Year 3 disco ffs.

 

If I was at an away game and they played that DJ Otzi shite at any point, never mind at the final whistle, I'd be ripping the piss about how embarrassing it was

 

Makes the Smoggies playing Pigbag look sophisticated and high brow

 

 

[Yorkie]

My opinion on music at the game changed after the morose Bournemouth home game where the lack of music definitely contributed to the miserly mood (I was formerly of the view that no music might be a good thing). I also really like the rendition of Blaydon Races that comes through the speakers too; it's nice to have the chance to actually sing it properly. 

 

I'm on board with with some sort of celebratory music at the final whistle too, if the situation calls for it, but agree that yesterday and Doris Day was just so pants. Playing it is one thing but doing so at an ear-splitting volume is another. At least give everyone a chance to soak up the joy before obnoxiously ruling that if anyone wants to speak, they have to scream over your shite music. 

 

(Nb I was at Southampton but wasn't there yesterday so if I've got it wrong re the volume, my bad)

[NG32]

The music at the end of a game is way too loud and crap. 

[Chicken Dancer]

1 minute ago, Yorkie said:

if I've got it wrong re the volume,

 

Definitely not  I've got tinnitus from it I think. Ridiculous.

 

Movin on Up is absolutely fine, play that. Fitting too.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

The PA in general is about 50% too loud, it’s ridiculous. 

[Kid Icarus]

I think we were on to a good thing with Primal Scream tbh, absolutely cannot stand that Hey Baby song, it's ear AIDS for Butlins and Benidorm nonces. 

[Big River]

said it so many times I’m actually feeling a bit bad about it. but he needs fucking off. he’s absolutely shite.