Marc1901
Peace out.
I just typed a long reply and my internet went off. Bloody thing.
You don't stand there reading songs off a piece of paper.
Away games are very good at spreading a new song. If 5 or 6 of you start singing and carry on, the people around you will pick it up and start singing if it's any good. Then, it spreads throughout the crowd and then you've got 300 of you singing it.
The Holmesdale Fanatics may have looked stupid at first. With 30 of them bouncing and singing to a drum with no-one else joining in.
But then the rest of Block B joined in and then there is 450 people making a noise. You then get Block C standing up and there's a 1000 people singing a song and making a noise.
Now, we have the Fanatics starting a song and people joining in and the song spreads straight across the Holmesdale. You've got thousands of people singing new songs and bouncing to it.
Our atmosphere was dead when Peter Taylor was in charge. We lost 5000 fans. The last 3 years since the HF have grown in numbers, the atmosphere is the best i've seen there. And visiting Away grounds, the atmosphere across the Championship is dead bar a few teams. I go to Selhurst and look around, and you see kids bouncing around waving to the song. Those are the fans that this is great for. Fans that hopefully we get back when they're older.
Have the guts to start a song in a little group and it'll spread if other fans want to increase an atmosphere.
And stand up. If 500 of you are standing, they wont make you sit down. Join together as a group and refuse to sit. Stand Up if You Love Palace starts as soon as Stewards make a few fans sit down. And then they've got a lot of the ground standing and they give up.
Give it a go.
Good for you.