SteV Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 4 hours ago, bobbydazzla said: Not sure when or why it started, but the booing if we’re kicking towards Gallowgate 1st half is fucking daft. It achieves fuck all other than making us look like clampits. It actually gives the away side a tiny but audible moral victory before the game has even kicked off because we’re booing at the exact moment we should be raising the roof. Does any other club boo if they’re not kicking toward a certain end of their ground for the 1st half ? Pretty sure if anyone turns Liverpool round so they kick to the Kop first half, it gets booed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 6 hours ago, bobbydazzla said: Not sure when or why it started, but the booing if we’re kicking towards Gallowgate 1st half is fucking daft. It achieves fuck all other than making us look like clampits. It actually gives the away side a tiny but audible moral victory before the game has even kicked off because we’re booing at the exact moment we should be raising the roof. Does any other club boo if they’re not kicking toward a certain end of their ground for the 1st half ? Most other clubs don’t have a sloping pitch which creates a disadvantage to a team kicking towards the Leazes in the second half. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) 15 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said: Most other clubs don’t have a sloping pitch which creates a disadvantage to a team kicking towards the Leazes in the second half. Booing isn’t going to flatten the slope And it’s the booing that does my head in, only seems to have started in last couple of seasons and the slope has been there a lot longer than that Edited January 26 by bobbydazzla Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 7 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said: Booing isn’t going to flatten the slope And it’s the booing that does my head in, only seems to have started in last couple of seasons and the slope has been there a lot longer than that I’m with you 100% on the booing - tbf I’ve never understood grown men booing under any context. It’s not a fucking pantomime. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 7 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said: Booing isn’t going to flatten the slope And it’s the booing that does my head in, only seems to have started in last couple of seasons and the slope has been there a lot longer than that Nah it's been happening for years mate. Remember when I first moved from the Leazes to the Gallowgate back in 2006 and it would happen then. We seem to lose the coin toss a lot more these days and teams seem to have also cottoned on more that there's an advantage to kicking that way 2nd half so we seem to kick to the Leazes end a lot more 2nd half now which probably makes it more noticeable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Wallsendmag said: Nah it's been happening for years mate. Remember when I first moved from the Leazes to the Gallowgate back in 2006 and it would happen then. We seem to lose the coin toss a lot more these days and teams seem to have also cottoned on more that there's an advantage to kicking that way 2nd half so we seem to kick to the Leazes end a lot more 2nd half now which probably makes it more noticeable. I don’t remember it all, only noticed it recently. Although for many years I’d be going through the turnstile as the coin toss happened and arriving at my seat just as the whistle went, had it timed to absolute perfection from a small selection of city centre boozers. And you’ve now got me wondering what our coin toss xG is and what we can do to improve our xTosser win ratio. Edited January 26 by bobbydazzla Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 3 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said: I don’t remember it all, only noticed it recently. Although for many years I’d be going through the turnstile as the coin toss happened and arriving at my seat just as the whistle went, had it timed to absolute perfection from a small selection of city centre boozers. And you’ve now got me wondering what our coin toss xG is and what we can do to improve our xTosser win ratio. Aye I remember it clearly. Sat in the Leazes End from 1993-2006 and never heard people in there booing if we kicked towards our end 1st half but from 2006 when I switched ends it was immediately noticeable. Got to say though when I used to stand in the Gallowgate in the late 80s/very early 90s, I can't remember any booing if we kicked towards us 1st half. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gottlob Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 5 hours ago, TBG said: Just a thought, when we do attack the Gallowgate second half, is Elanga struggling because we're running downhill? You know yourself when running downhill you pick up extra speed, so imagine how Elanga must feel. He's apparently a big Kate Bush fan, so I think it's just that he has nothing to motivate himself with when he has to run the other way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 32 minutes ago, Wallsendmag said: Aye I remember it clearly. Sat in the Leazes End from 1993-2006 and never heard people in there booing if we kicked towards our end 1st half but from 2006 when I switched ends it was immediately noticeable. Got to say though when I used to stand in the Gallowgate in the late 80s/very early 90s, I can't remember any booing if we kicked towards us 1st half. Seem to remember us kicking towards the Leazes in the second half more often than not under Keegan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 8 minutes ago, Sima said: Seem to remember us kicking towards the Leazes in the second half more often than not under Keegan. Aye the Leazes End became more of the "home" end from 1993. Most the singers moved there when the stand was built and even when the new Gallowgate was opened in 1994 most of the more vocal fans had already settled into the Leazes so it was noisier than the Gallowgate. After the extension in 2000 people started migrating over to the Gallowgate. The high roof made it more difficult to create an atmosphere and that, along with more of the vocal fans moving to the Gallowgate pretty much killed it off. I lasted 6 years and shifted over there myself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro111 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) I was there yesterday. Halfway up the Gallowgate towards the GWC. I thought for the first 20 mins the atmosphere was really good. Hats off to the group in the GWC giving it ten nowt all game and of course the lads at the back of the Gallowgate too. It really wouldn't take much to make a big difference. The foundations are there to build on. Edited January 26 by pedro111 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 10 minutes ago, pedro111 said: I was there yesterday. Halfway up the Gallowgate towards the GWC. I thought for the first 20 mins the atmosphere was really good. Hats off to the group in the GWC giving it ten nowt all game and of course the lads at the back of the Gallowgate too. It really wouldn't take much to make a big difference. The foundations are there to build on. Sick of saying it but the middle tier is the problem. It's full of 60 and 70 odd year olds who've been there since 1994 and now have no interest in singing/standing up/basically making any sort of positive noise. If there was a way of clearing that lot out and replacing them with vocal supporters who will stand/sing etc you'd be onto a winner cos the Upper/lower tiers, corners are fine. Just can't see how it can be done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 1 hour ago, TheBrownBottle said: I’m with you 100% on the booing - tbf I’ve never understood grown men booing under any context. It’s not a fucking pantomime. It is… let’s be honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Proud bewer of the end switch here like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tross Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 10 hours ago, LFEE said: It is… let’s be honest. Oh no it isn't Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danh1 Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 @Heron Anti-UEFA banner and booting the CL music next home game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 2 hours ago, Danh1 said: @Heron Anti-UEFA banner and booting the CL music next home game If only the club weren't such pussies Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUFC91 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Club running a 16-25 workshop , hopefully opportunity for some fans to bring up further standing, seat relocation etc... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 (edited) 42 minutes ago, NUFC91 said: Club running a 16-25 workshop , hopefully opportunity for some fans to bring up further standing, seat relocation etc... Hope the yoots go in with some haymakers: We’re priced out of tickets, we can’t get a season ticket, we can’t go to away games, we struggle to get a seat with a friend, the ground is stacked with owld codgers who do nowt but piss and moan and it’s £7 for a pint of fake Spanish Carling. Oh and one more thing, DJ Onedek is a fucking cheesy bell whiff who needs firing into the sun. The yoots are the future of the club and the club is fucking them over good n proper. Edited February 1 by bobbydazzla Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Danh1 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Filled it in, great stuff by Wor Flags. Cant wait for the club to respond by deciding to turn Hey Jude up louder and build another screen in the Milburn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Wrote a fair bit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 1 hour ago, NUFC91 said: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Opted against suggesting a genocide of the Gallowgate middle tier in the end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 1 minute ago, Sima said: Opted against suggesting a genocide of the Gallowgate middle tier in the end. Chose ‘forced migration’ instead? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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