[Albion] How to improve NS and Amex atmosphere?

[Coldeanseagull]

Moshe, you won't ever get an exclusive singing section....unless you have a magic wand or want to go forth up the road. Their atmosphere only sounds good because the fans are two yards from the side of the pitch. Maybe it is time to allow the biggest clubs to ever be in existence back into the premier league. let's see how quickly the noise levels drop when they realise they are in trouble of shipping goals against established top six sides.
It could be about microphone placement as well, cos it doesn't sound like a library all the time(on telly ,anyway)

 

[Dougie]

You can’t manufacture a singing section, there must be a desire from the fans to actually do it.

 

[Weststander]

You can’t manufacture a singing section, there must be a desire from the fans to actually do it.

They’re not a panacea anyway. Go a goal or two goal down at home, the singing soon dies away, and the lone drummer sounds a dick.

 

[drew]

Can't believe this thread!

If we are winning then people sing, that's why the atmosphere was banging in the championship. Not so successful in the prem.

 

[Weststander]

Can't believe this thread!

If we are winning then people sing, that's why the atmosphere was banging in the championship. Not so successful in the prem.

So obvious.

Reiterated by the brilliant atmosphere and songs at full volume when we beat Spurs 3-0, just one PL example.

 

[blue-shifted]

Can't believe this thread!

If we are winning then people sing, that's why the atmosphere was banging in the championship. Not so successful in the prem.

Seems to be the truth. Utterly depressing.

 

[wigman]

It would help if we had some decent songs to sing.
The majority of the new chants are feeble at best.
We need to bring back some of the old chants.

 

[Weststander]

It would help if we had some decent songs to sing.
The majority of the new chants are feeble at best.
We need to bring back some of the old chants.

“Charlie Webb’s blue and white army”.

“He shot, he scored, he must be Adrian Thorne”.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Campaign to create a Singing Section in the North Stand for 2021/22 Season

Can't believe this thread!

If we are winning then people sing, that's why the atmosphere was banging in the championship. Not so successful in the prem.

Exactly this. A few more seasons of dire bottom half results and we’ll be thinking of the first season under Hughton as a golden era of atmosphere


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[Cheshire Cat]

I thought the entire ground was a singing section.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

You can’t manufacture a singing section, there must be a desire from the fans to actually do it.

Like many, I want to sing when I'm in the crowd but I don't want to lead the singing or start the songs. I'll join in. What the separation of the two sets of singers in the North may well have done is reduce the singing leaders I think, I don't know, I tend to be lower West. But that's what the old days of a terrace would do, the song starters would congregate in the middle and it would just flow out from there

What I do remember from the early days in the championship was how loud we could be in the North West corner.

 

[Weststander]

Like many, I want to sing when I'm in the crowd but I don't want to lead the singing or start the songs. I'll join in. What the separation of the two sets of singers in the North may well have done is reduce the singing leaders I think, I don't know, I tend to be lower West. But that's what the old days of a terrace would do, the song starters would congregate in the middle and it would just flow out from there

What I do remember from the early days in the championship was how loud we could be in the North West corner.

I used to sit WSU in those early Championship seasons, tons of singing, on a par with the NS. Seems to have died away, other than GOSBTS pre match.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

We haven't imitated anything yet......

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

“Charlie Webb’s blue and white army”.

“He shot, he scored, he must be Adrian Thorne”.

Peter Ward, Shirley?

Or if you're actually going for chants that don't scan,

Óscar García Junyent's blue and white army.

 

[Weststander]

Peter Ward, Shirley?

Or if you're actually going for chants that don't scan,

Óscar García Junyent's blue and white army.

What about this cleverly crafted number:

Oh Jim Cannon wnk wnk wnk, wnk wnk wnk, wnk wnk wnk.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

What about this cleverly crafted number:

Oh Jim Cannon wnk wnk wnk, wnk wnk wnk, wnk wnk wnk.

Cracked it

 

[pornomagboy]

move the away fans to east stand Lowe and south east corner and have home fans behind the goal

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[Kalimantan Gull]

I used to sit WSU in those early Championship seasons, tons of singing, on a par with the NS. Seems to have died away, other than GOSBTS pre match.

I think everything is just different in the prem. Up here the football is far less aggressive, less chest - beating. Players are judged more on their trickery with the ball than their work rate and willingness to die for the cause. Not many Charlie Oatways up here. If you played top of the table sides you would 'get into em, f*ck em up', in the prem you adopt zonal marking and keep your shape. You're more likely to attack directly with pace lower down, up here you build pressure, move it around, look for the edge. Games can be more end to end lower down, they spend longer periods as chess games in the prem.

I suppose my synopsis is that certain styles of football are more prone to getting crowds going than others. I think it's true that as we get deeper into games and seasons, the football starts to break up and become more passionate, less organised, more end to end. Fans tend to respond, atmospheres get better later in games.

The other thing is that things are way more tense in a premier league relegation battle. Most people get tight when they're tense, less willing to sing. But then when we score it comes out as a release. We haven't won that much of late, so it is all very bottled up.

 

[Weststander]

I think everything is just different in the prem. Up here the football is far less aggressive, less chest - beating. Players are judged more on their trickery with the ball than their work rate and willingness to die for the cause. Not many Charlie Oatways up here. If you played top of the table sides you would 'get into em, f*ck em up', in the prem you adopt zonal marking and keep your shape. You're more likely to attack directly with pace lower down, up here you build pressure, move it around, look for the edge. Games can be more end to end lower down, they spend longer periods as chess games in the prem.

I suppose my synopsis is that certain styles of football are more prone to getting crowds going than others. I think it's true that as we get deeper into games and seasons, the football starts to break up and become more passionate, less organised, more end to end. Fans tend to respond, atmospheres get better later in games.

The other thing is that things are way more tense in a premier league relegation battle. Most people get tight when they're tense, less willing to sing. But then when we score it comes out as a release. We haven't won that much of late, so it is all very bottled up.

I was going to say games of chess too. Always tense, a defender’s slip away from going a goal down or up, with the losing club then up against it for several reasons.

When we scored against Villa, I went berserk, with added “f*cking hell, f*cking hell”. The quiet 65 year old man next to me with his equally quiet daughter, always seem shocked by this. I am NS D. So much tension released. But then I was quietly resigned as Villa fought for everything second half, we were not at the races. Bloody PL.

 

[Nixonator]

The stand is too small and, save for a few groups, full of deadly silent frauds who sit on their hands all game.

I've been in there a few times and every time I regretted it, there's more passion on display in my WL section.

'Home end' my arse. It's ****ing dismal. Won't be going back unless a conscious effort is made to liven it up.