[Football] The North Stand - Whats the point?

[jezzer]

From the posts on here, it seems obvious that there’s a definite acoustics problem which doesn’t help at all around the ground, when I was in the north for the Liverpool fa cup game it was great but being in my normal seat in wsu you can’t hear the chants hardly at all from up there, that are quite obviously loud enough if you’re in the north

 

[Clive Walker]

This again. Most of us have accepted that we’re not a loud home support. Get over it.

 

[dazzer6666]

Thanks for this sensible post.

In the North, we didn't hear West Ham at all.

The usual criticisms apply today .

NSk either singing their own songs or out of synch with the North Central group.
Hard for the rest of us to pick which version to sing along with.

A 7/10 from us today

As is usually the case………

 

[banjo]

Thought the North was supposed to be the loudest and start the chants. Silent throughout.

 

[redoubtable seagull]

5000??

I think there is less than 4k in the North isn't there?

It’s about 2500. Too small, but to quote Graham Platitude Potter, it is what it is.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

And for the poster bemoaning "not enough player songs"

Mitoma
Solly
Caicedo
Mac
Danny Welbeck
Gross
Veltman
Dunk
Steele
Sarmiento

All had their songs sung by the North today.

Not forgetting Ulloa who was interviewed before the game.

 

[Monkey Man]

I listened and then watched on a stream today. Started off loud on the radio, quietened as the first half meandered on a bit (albeit with us in total control), second half sounded great throughout on the stream

I was there IRL and I'd say that's a fair assessment of my experience. Really very quiet towards the end of the first half but we responded to the electrifying football we saw in the second.

 

[abc]

Back in the Goldstone days maybe, but the North is now the smallest stand, you’re expecting 5000 of us to lead the other 25000…. A little help would be nice, but we get nothing from the two largest stands either side of us. Quite sure the North would join in if a chant originated elsewhere.

North stand at the goldstone held 5000

 

[Triggaaar]

Thought the North was supposed to be the loudest

Their aim is not to be the loudest, it's to be the fastest. Prizes available to those who finish a chant first.

 

[Sheebo]

I sit bang on the half way line so get a decent idea of how loud the north is compared to the away support. Its funny the difference in opinion you see, maybe its acoustics. West Ham were noisy first 15 mins, but then silent after we scored. The only other noise that came from them were the 'we're f***ing shit/you're getting sacked in the morning' chants. The north was noticeably quiet for up until our penalty but then ramped up through the game, decent in the second half.

About how I saw it too.

Assume it’s wind ups but there’s a few posters who love to have a pop at our decent support - odd.

 

[drew]

Ah, that grand old Amex spectator sport whereby 90% of the home support sit silently judging the vocal efforts of the other 10%

Utter garbage. Depends what stand you're in. WSU get involved but let's be honest, it's repeatedly reported that the 'famous' north stand can't even coordinate themselves.

 

[drew]

Back in the Goldstone days maybe, but the North is now the smallest stand, you’re expecting 5000 of us to lead the other 25000…. A little help would be nice, but we get nothing from the two largest stands either side of us. Quite sure the North would join in if a chant originated elsewhere.

The north stand is about 2500/3000 at most. Surely the whole point of the club having a lax view of standing in the North from the very beginning was because this was where the cheerleaders were supposed to congregate!!

 

[Weststander]

North stand at the goldstone held 5000

Where there were gates of 33,000 (plus the thousands Bamber/Calver didn’t record ), I wonder what the NS crowds were?

The Kop held 28,000, Stretford and Holte Ends were similar.

10,000? It was mobbed, I love the crowd surges.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Not forgetting Ulloa who was interviewed before the game.

Missed it….only got there for ko….still here it is below

 

[Weststander]

Missed it….only got there for ko….still here it is below

Love him. Premier League winner

 

[portlock seagull]

Their aim is not to be the loudest, it's to be the fastest. Prizes available to those who finish a chant first.

Very much this. Away at Stoke, I was in proximity to our singers and some of the song tunes simply don’t fit the lyrics. Vocal equivalent of cramming an opera into a nursery rhyme. It’s warp speed and I was straining my ears to understand the words. Not helped by the young lad next to me being pissed and basically screaming a dirge tailored off by a chorus of noises that reminded me of a zoo. Sort of needed subtitles. Have no idea what many of our songs are anymore, and that’s was being adjacent too. Back at the Amex, how the rest of the crowd is supposed to pick up the words from a distance I’ve no idea. Impossible.

Can we just to back to GOSBTS please? Oh…

 

[Bold Seagull]

Police box crew vs rest of NS is not helping.

I was N1D - they’re getting songs going for every player, they’re trying to get noise going the entire game. The NSK or those under the box imho really aren’t the problem, it’s the number of fans in the North Stand who aren’t in there to sing, maybe just in there for cheaper tickets?

 

[portlock seagull]

I was N1D - they’re getting songs going for every player, they’re trying to get noise going the entire game. The NSK or those under the box imho really aren’t the problem, it’s the number of fans in the North Stand who aren’t in there to sing, maybe just in there for cheaper tickets?

Entirely this. Also…Incredibly some people still don’t understand those singing under the Police Box, home of the NSK, cannot hear what some might be singing further along in the NS and vice versa.

 

[Stat Brother]

If the north stand had 10,000 in it you can bet 9,800 would be in there for the ‘atmosphere’ with only 200 making some noise. Face it, we aren’t a loud crowd...

... other than once or twice** a season when we're stirred from our slumber.
At which point we take the roof off the whole fudging stadium with deafening, spine tingling, fervour making to usual passive passion all the more awkward.



** It would seem RDZ is fathering ruining that narrative too!

 

[Weststander]

I was N1D - they’re getting songs going for every player, they’re trying to get noise going the entire game. The NSK or those under the box imho really aren’t the problem, it’s the number of fans in the North Stand who aren’t in there to sing, maybe just in there for cheaper tickets?

Yep, we’re NS D, it was fine.