[Albion] Atmosphere and support

[Sussexscots]

I left after the third goal yesterday because my stomach was 'misbehaving'. Hence the juxtaposition of a pointless train queue and unreliable bowels was not a happy one.

Given that my skittery toleys had more substance than our defence yesterday, I make no apology for that decision.

 

[zefarelly]

3 pages and nobodys mentioned high speed monorail with harmonicas on the outside and vuvuzelas on every seat

With a safe tooting zone in the north obvs.

 

[METALMICKY]

The atmosphere in the ground is terrible. The players are constantly trying to get more noise from the crowd which is fair enough. We need to support the team whether they are winning or losing.
A few things need to happen: 1. The away fans need to be moved so they are not so dominant behind the goal.
2. The north stand need to sing one song together rather than different songs clashing with each other.
3. People need to stay till the end not leave the ground early. Embarrassing - where is the support.
4. Other areas of the ground have to sing

Oh shut the feck up! This has been done to death.

 

[BN41Albion]

I do apologise for leaving when the 3rd went in , i fully understand I’m an embarrassing/bad supporter

1) the atmosphere was good until we f***ed everything up on the pitch - at any ground in the country it goes quiet in the same circumstances

2) how on earth can anyone not understand why people chose to leave after the third goal went in - the ground can be a nightmare to get away from at the best of times let alone for this game. I left on the whistle and really regretted it as got caught up in the bollocks with getting the Palace fans on the special train

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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Is it Ken Tuckeyfriedchicken?

I read about him in Private Eye 30 years ago.

What a bastard

 

[UnhingedSeagull94]

Oh boy….. THIS THREAD IS GOING TO BE BOX OFFICE!

 

[UnhingedSeagull94]

I was talking to a man u fan (from Salford) in the west stand after the match & he said the noise at his beloved old Trafford is less than the amex was on sunday - due to - less successful times, over pricing pushing the hardcore support out & mass tourism. We have a lot of tourists (including this guy), but one of the loudest people near me on sunday was a Japanese lady who shouted in english & her native language.

Clearly the 50 or so police box crew have their own agenda & are determined not to sing with the east side of the north stand.

Most brighton fans at the amex are fans of other teams 1st & have either switched allegiances or are doing the right thing & bringing their kids up to support their local team

The noise was good on sunday, but was pathetic on the Friday night against Southampton, following such impressive support against man city - when the place was rocking in that 2nd half

& a lot of brighton fans are not in their prime anymore - & can't take any excitement anyway. So to make noise may push them over the edge

Do agree. Sit back row of N1H (haters do not come and look for me ) and we try our best to get stuff going. The new problem up there is the amount of different faces or new STH every week. These people don’t want to get involved with making an atmosphere and it really F’s the long standing members off. Not sure what more can be done.
Ideally these sections of “singing support” need to get together and force the clubs hand in doing something. Hate Palace all you want but the HF have a lot of pull with the club and generating good home atmospheres.

 

[UnhingedSeagull94]

Oh shut the feck up! This has been done to death.

He isn’t wrong though

 

[dazzer6666]

The issue I think is we as a club attract mostly families and old people to games due to how expensive tickets are and thus you end up with the stadium being comprised of people who can only sit down and five year olds who aren't known for producing a lot of noise at football games. Obviously I'm not expecting us to rival Galatasaray for noise levels but with the price of tickets, the demographics we attract to the ground make it difficult to generate noise. Of course the West and North Lower are the frontline for noise as it were but even then having a modern stadium, albeit an impressive one, will naturally decrease the noise. Another problem is the notoriously terrible transport options to get to the ground, with only a single always late train line and beng next to a motorway encourages a more defererential attitude to the football, as people with young kids (back to the point at the top of this post) want to get the park and ride back to their nissan juke on mill road. It was the only possible site for the ground, however with the size of the club in 2011, comparisons to the likes of Leeds and Newcastle who have stadiums in the heart of the city was never really envisaged, and unfortunately unless ticket prices go back down (which won't happen short of divine intervention) the empty seats and lack of noise will continue to plague us. Even Selhurst, as much as we give it stick, is able to generate noise being situated admist a built-up area. I'm sorry for the essay but I would be very open to hear feedback on my theory.

Feedback on your ‘theory’ can be found on about 400 previous threads. Do you think losing a generation of fans due to having no decent ground might have contributed ?

Whiff of Croydon

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

A lot of carry on like we’re the only fans that leave early. Just one example is when we literally emptied Molineux by about 85 minutes a couple of seasons ago.

 

[METALMICKY]

He isn’t wrong though

Yes he is. Once again he's lecturing people on how they should support the team and posing himself as some sort of uber fan. Not the first and sadly not the last

 

[BN41Albion]

Feedback on your ‘theory’ can be found on about 400 previous threads. Do you think losing a generation of fans due to having no decent ground might have contributed ?

Whiff of Croydon

I just love all these theories some folk on here have on this issue at the Amex, completely choosing to ignore or just simply not believe that the same issues exist pretty much everywhere in this country- big clubs and smaller clubs. Poster earlier on in the thread talking about a united fan at the game saying how shit it is at OT. Keep seeing 'well at palace they manage it' ... do they, really? Better than average I accept (from about 200 'ultras') but I've watched many a game at Selhurst where its gone very quiet when behind. Same everywhere.

People discussing how atmosphere can be improved - fine
People slagging off our fanbase as if we're unique to the issue, which always seems to happen after a bad result, is fecking irritating

 

[BrightonCottager]

I think this just highlights the need for the wanker emoji on the immediate like responses. Come on @Bozza pull your finger out, I had to type this, when it really should be only two clicks away

W
3 clicks

 

[OzMike]

I wrnt to bed after the 3rd goal as I was tired, had to be up at 6am and had seen enough.

 

[Steve in Japan]

Mitoma puts the first chance in, the place goes mental. He didn't, and it didn't.

 

[UnhingedSeagull94]

Yes he is. Once again he's lecturing people on how they should support the team and posing himself as some sort of uber fan. Not the first and sadly not the last

I stand with him and back the opinion that the home atmosphere is shit.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

These are a familiar thread subject.

 

[studio150]

Having finished the popcorn, I have a solution to ensure that the Amex is always at full volume.

Given more and more groups are lip-syncing when playing live, we need to join the bandwagon.

Find a recording of the Sheffield Wednesday play off game, and blast that out around The Amex during our home games.

Those Uber fans who sing anyway, can sing along adding more volume and atmosphere, while the rest of us can just lip- sync and enjoy the game as we want to

Really surprised this hasn't been mentioned before, it will save the club some money as the safe standing won't need to be installed.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Do agree. Sit back row of N1H (haters do not come and look for me ) and we try our best to get stuff going. The new problem up there is the amount of different faces or new STH every week. These people don’t want to get involved with making an atmosphere and it really F’s the long standing members off. Not sure what more can be done.
Ideally these sections of “singing support” need to get together and force the clubs hand in doing something. Hate Palace all you want but the HF have a lot of pull with the club and generating good home atmospheres.

This discussion has been going on for over a decade now….I think you just have to accept people don’t want to sing.

 

[MTSeagulls]

This discussion has been going on for over a decade now….I think you just have to accept people don’t want to sing.

I was never into singing at football matches.
I go to watch the football and was always too focused on the pitch to join in or even notice most of the time.