[Football] The Cardboard Cut Out Fan- Albion & Newcastle United Said To Be In Favour.

[Herr Tubthumper]

Let’s hope our fake sound feed isn’t managed by the teenage girl that seems to look after the twitter account (judging by the emojis etc) then.........

Actually. It will be amusing if there is a loud LOL when someone puts the ball wide, or a high pitched quick Oh-My-God when we score. And a what-ev-eeeer when Stephens passes back to Ryan.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Be sure to carry a flask in your photo

 

[A1X]

Will they be properly authentic and start removing them after 80 minutes?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Anyone else ordered this £5 optional extra?

 

[clapham_gull]

Surely there is some footage of the South Stand and centre line West stand seats they could print out for cardboard cutouts ?

Wrap an out the packet Persil fresh blue and white scarf round them, put on a "never went to Withdean" t-shirt and frankly the players would never notice the difference.

 

[swindonseagull]

Environmentally unfriendly and a prime example of excessive waste in a cash-rich business where money always has the overriding emphasis.

It's a [big fat] "no" from me ....

And Me ......I will keep my £20........and while we are here is that £20 for the last remaining games or per game? either way its still No from me.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Fake crowd, fake noise... what do they think we are?
Silly, patronising gimmicks.. Please treat the fans with respect and just show it as it is. NB . I would rather hear the players cursing each other. Maybe that’s why they want fake noise.

 

[Southern Scouse]

I seem to remember a man called Maxwell wanting to add sound effects at Derby many years ago to add atmosphere. It was pathetic. The thought of us using card board cut outs is just as bad. I always think of a lot of Chelsea Fans as “Plastics” what will palace come up with? Who exactly are they for, the players or the fans at home?

However, I did watch the Dortmund game on BT last night with crowd sound effects and it definitely made watching it better.

 

[sully]

The Cardboard Cut Out Fan- Albion & Newcastle United Said To Be In Favour.

Absolute no from me.

They have decided to play behind closed doors so do just that. Don’t fleece us for more money for this stupid charade when we’ve already paid for part of next season that we probably won’t be able to attend and will keep paying for even though many of us have reduced / no income currently.

I’m falling out of love with football rapidly at the moment and have zero interest in the rest of the games being played to different rules. It’s just a farce.

And that’s without starting on the environmental reasons why this is a totally stupid idea.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

It's a no from me. I'd love PB to go on Dragons Den and try and sell it though !

 

[Chicken Run]

Absolute no from me.

They have decided to play behind closed doors so do just that. Don’t fleece us for more money for this stupid charade when we’ve already paid for part of next season that we probably won’t be able to attend and will keep paying for even though many of us have reduced / no income currently.

I’m falling out of love with football rapidly at the moment and have zero interest in the rest of the games being played to different rules. It’s just a farce.

And that’s without starting on the environmental reasons why this is a totally stupid idea.

Will you be watching any of the Brighton games? Genuine question.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Are they going to pipe the sound of sporadic tutting and the occasional fart over a background of snoring and Werther's Originals being sucked into the East Upper

 

[yxee]

I think it's a silly idea. Throwaway culture.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Thought this at 1860 Munich yesterday was probably just as effective as the cardboard cutouts and not quite as gimicky.

Unsure whether it's more environmentally sound than the cardboard cutouts, although yesterday Amazon delivered 2 small children's story books that my kids had been bought by their grandmother. The cardboard box was almost the size of a person once unfolded. And there was a load of plastic in it. So I can't help feeling the environmental impact of these cutouts would be quite minimal in terms of the broader picture.

 

[Snowy]

Cheltenham Town are doing the same thing through Crowdfunding for their prospective play off semi in League Two. So far they have nearly 800 fans signed up and even offer spaces in the away end to Northampton fans (not sure how many have taken up the offer!).

The blurb on the Crowdfunding page ends up with “The one thing we do know is that when it does go ahead, it will be the only time our supporters will be 'board stiff' all season . . . “


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[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It's a no from me. I'd love PB to go on Dragons Den and try and sell it though !

Wonder if the directors will enter into the spirit of the thing with a cardboard, er, board

 

[Wozza]

Fake crowd, fake noise... what do they think we are?
Silly, patronising gimmicks.. Please treat the fans with respect and just show it as it is. NB . I would rather hear the players cursing each other. Maybe that’s why they want fake noise.

You know both the cutouts and crowd effects are optional, right?

 

[Taybha]

There will be enough cardboard cutouts in Arsenals defence so no need for more in the crowd .

 

[SeagullinExile]

Not many in the upper tiers.

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Exactly.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Fake crowd, fake noise...

Apologies if I've missed it above - this fake crowd noise, is it piped through the public address system inside the ground [so the players hear it too] or is it just added to the TV broadcast to accompany the pictures and commentary?

Personally, I'd rather hear the players talking / shouting ....