Match Atmosphere

[OCOCOL]

9 hours ago, Lush Vlad said:

Are they still checking tickets at away games, or was it a bit of an empty threat?  My mate has been to a couple of aways, he has 4 ST's and on both times he had a couple with him that weren't the correct name on the ticket and no dramas.  

 

I think he'd be happy to help me out.  But I feel like it isn't worth the risk for him and his points, no matte how small the chance of getting pulled is.  

 

Anecdotally, a few mates have said the away ends seem worse off this season.  But I've not been so can't comment and I think it could be confirmation bias, due to everyone being pissed off with how they have handled the ticket changes.  I've been in plenty of shit away ends down south over the years. 

Southern games have generally had poorer atmospheres in my experience than games in Yorkshire / North West going back 20+ years. Not a new thing 

[OCOCOL]

8 hours ago, SteV said:

Yeah, they are still checking.

 

However, checks are probably limited to the region of ~100 tickets, so if you do the maths, the odds are in your favour of not being checked.

 

That being said, clearly it’s all about whether you, or more realistically, your mate want to take the risk.
 

I haven’t actually heard what punishment, if any, has been handed out to anyone that’s been caught out. You’d guess for a first offence it would probably just be a (final) warning, but like I say, I don’t know that for sure.

I’ve heard people are still giving tickets to non named people under the proviso that if ticket is rejected at the gate they just leave. Not sure what the club could do in this instance as in theory there’s multiple reasons why you might not go in 

[Chicken Dancer]

57 minutes ago, Whitley mag said:

Same after the match should be an old classic with local roots, for a club steeped in local history we seem to want to downplay it and play music from Glasgow and fucking Liverpool instead.

 

End of Big River would be ideal I think. 
 

I’ve always wondered why Coming Home Newcastle has never caught on, especially away. I know there’s loads of verses but even a snippet would be class. Should definitely be celebrating local music before owt else. 

[pubteam]

On 08/10/2023 at 22:52, Heron said:

Ah. Canny rich considering we paid for their stadium

 

 

 

The Olympic stadium is like the country's biggest council house and west ham the single mother with 10 kids to different fathers.

[SteV]

9 hours ago, OCOCOL said:

I’ve heard people are still giving tickets to non named people under the proviso that if ticket is rejected at the gate they just leave. Not sure what the club could do in this instance as in theory there’s multiple reasons why you might not go in 

Tbh, there’s no other option than walking away. Waste of time going to the box office and trying to claim a ticket you don’t have ID for.

 

I suspect that if you get given a duff ticket and you don’t appear at the box office and collect the genuine one, that gets noted down somewhere…

[RobsonsWonderland]

Too be honest west ham has to be the worst away ground for supporters (even ours ! )

I mean they got it for free so surely they could have spent some money to make it work better for everyone.

[Danh1]

2 hours ago, RobsonsWonderland said:

Too be honest west ham has to be the worst away ground for supporters (even ours ! )

I mean they got it for free so surely they could have spent some money to make it work better for everyone.

I’ve done Upton Park 4 or 5 times (unbeaten) and I think it’s disgusting that they’ve left it for such a soulless permanent building site. 
 

On another note, I wish we would ditch Hey Jude pre match and bring Thunderstruck back. It’s just came on my Spotify. 

[pedro111]

Thunderstruck is epic. Get Brian Johnson in for the next CL game. The roof will come off!

 

 

Edited October 10, 2023 by pedro111

[Whitley mag]

Lindisfarne, AC/DC, Busker, Fender and even crocodile shoes would be better than hey Jude and moving on up.

[LFEE]

1 hour ago, Whitley mag said:

Lindisfarne, AC/DC, Busker, Fender and even crocodile shoes would be better than hey Jude and moving on up.

You not just mixing your musical tastes for what works though?
 

Movin’ on up was quite an inspired choice as we climbed out of the relegation zone and the club started to grow again. Again Hey Jude seems to work for the masses and probably why a couple of clubs use it.

 

Couldnt see Crocodile Shoes working at all and what little I’ve heard of Fender is just MOR AOR. AC/DC/Thunderstruck pre match a good shout though. 

[jack j]

I like movin on up tbh. Sure it was played after our first win under Howe. Very fitting

As For crocodile shoes

[Danh1]

I don’t mind Moving on up. Glad we’ve not reverted to KC and the Sunshine Band yet. Not sure how I feel about Status Quo.

 

Thunderstruck in that period when the players are finished warming up before they come out would be class. 

[bobbydazzla]

DJ Otzi needs to be put on repeat. Before, during and after the game. We quite simply don't need any other music.

[jack j]

Good Memories of rocking allover the world tbf

After we beat Anzhi

The arsenal flag Display

Now Eddie Howe and Jason tindall

 

 

[Whitley mag]

5 hours ago, LFEE said:

You not just mixing your musical tastes for what works though?
 

Movin’ on up was quite an inspired choice as we climbed out of the relegation zone and the club started to grow again. Again Hey Jude seems to work for the masses and probably why a couple of clubs use it.

 

Couldnt see Crocodile Shoes working at all and what little I’ve heard of Fender is just MOR AOR. AC/DC/Thunderstruck pre match a good shout though. 

I was just messing with crocodile shoes, big river was great against Spurs in first match since takeover though.

 

That flag some lads had over in Milan with hey mister dreamseller on is the type of link we should be going for.

 

Play that after the game against PSG in ode to Eddie and I bet it would have taken off. 
 

It’s a perfect homage to Eddie Howe and would also make for a great display by Wor Flags.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch_5dB1FkqY&pp=ygUWaGV5IG1pc3RlciBkcmVhbXNlbGxlcg%3D%3D

 

 

 

 

Edited October 10, 2023 by Whitley mag

[pedro111]

But we need a song where the first few bars hit and the whole ground joins in as one. Something like that new Arsenal one. Even if you think it's shite it gets the whole ground joining in. 

[bobbydazzla]

17 minutes ago, pedro111 said:

But we need a song where the first few bars hit and the whole ground joins in as one. Something like that new Arsenal one. Even if you think it's shite it gets the whole ground joining in. 

It would help if the songs weren’t sang faster than the speed of light

 

Even once you figure out what the words are, keeping in time as they belt through it at a billion miles an hour is something even the finest Makina MC would struggle with 

 

 

 

Edited October 10, 2023 by bobbydazzla

[Danh1]

3 hours ago, bobbydazzla said:

It would help if the songs weren’t sang faster than the speed of light

 

Even once you figure out what the words are, keeping in time as they belt through it at a billion miles an hour is something even the finest Makina MC would struggle with 

 

 

 

 

Imagine new monkey pre match man. Cowies handed out in the concourse, 20 quid for 3. Be the best atmosphere in world football. 

[Wolfcastle]

Apropos of nothing really don't know how many stopped back long enough to catch the regular post match playing of "We Wish You Well" by Whitesnake back in 93/94. It really fit a calm after the storm feeling of the atmosphere in those days and as you headed home - being the last thing you'd hear there but was there some link to Keegan tailing off many interviews of the time saying "wish you well"? 

Just whenever I hear it, I always wonder that.

 

 

Edited October 11, 2023 by Wolfcastle

[Superior Acuña]

19 hours ago, SteV said:

Tbh, there’s no other option than walking away. Waste of time going to the box office and trying to claim a ticket you don’t have ID for.

 

I suspect that if you get given a duff ticket and you don’t appear at the box office and collect the genuine one, that gets noted down somewhere…

 

Yeah that'd be my fear, that not collecting is noted the same as wrong ID.

[Sima]

Flat today and plenty sitting down in the standing section in L7.

 

 

Edited October 21, 2023 by Sima

[Superior Acuña]

Was a bit of a strange one, was almost too easy. Teams didn't help tbf by trying to run the clock down - that was also weird for a mid-season game.

[NE27]

One of them ones where the 3 points never seemed in doubt and there were very little reasons to get animated.

 

Mind I found it pretty flat at the start before a ball had been kicked. Odd considering everyone was clamming for the football to be back.

 

I spent a lot of time talking to people about Wednesday so I wonder if the CL is on people's mind

[Izakaya]

Whole pre-match build up need a drastic change imo. Announcer has an incredibly limp cuck voice and he needs to stop cramming 6 tracks between players coming out and kickoff. 

[NE27]

1 hour ago, Izakaya said:

Whole pre-match build up need a drastic change imo. Announcer has an incredibly limp cuck voice and he needs to stop cramming 6 tracks between players coming out and kickoff. 

 

He's an absolutely terrible announcer for reading the room and encouraging atmosphere, just totally jarring and incessant.

 

And whoever has control over the volume of this man, and his back catalog of shite music needs a serious word like, it's absolutely ear splitting man.