| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? 17:28 - Jan 1 with 4519 views | unstableblue |
Someone put a fair summary of player grades over the half season up, in a recent post.
Well what would you give the Town fans today?
I thought it was awful, lifeless barring some valiant attempts from A Block.
This was a Town side who are fighting for 2nd place and AUTOMATIC promotion to the Premier League.
People stating it was a ‘frustrating and lacklustre’ display. But I’m afraid that up until their goal Town had dominated and played at times some innovative stuff and scored. Yet barely a murmur from the Lower North. And this from a returning Town side who had given us such cheer with a Coventry display of great merit on the road.
But let’s park the general lacklustre support, that didn’t back or motivate the team and focus us on some specific really poor examples of town support…
Multiple exciting moves in the second half which barely raised a murmur in the lower north… one brilliant move that led to Clarke breaking into the box…
Silence?!
Philogene the goal scorer subbed off… half the people round me couldn’t be arsed to get to their feet.
It’s affecting the players and the energy round the club, which we’ll need over the second half of the season, in a very tight top six.
Are we all tired and hungover? Or just not invested?
Must do better.
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 22:49 - Jan 1 with 673 views | BouncebackIpswich |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 22:42 - Jan 1 by ashtonscoffeecup |
i barely moved a muscle in the stadium today, i’ve worked the last 7 nights getting by on 4 hours sleep in the day.
i doubt the highly motivated professionals playing the sport they love need me to be bouncing around for 90mins to get a result, and if they do and we lose because of it, then i can only say sorry in advance |
I'm sorry you had to work all through Christmas / NY and good on you for getting to the game, it's totally understandable you weren't up for creating a atmosphere.
Without meaning to be provocative, your situation won't apply to most of the fans in the ground. The whole point of home advantage is having the fans encourage the team and ideally put the visiting players off. Otherwise, you might as well meet halfway between the 2 towns and play at a neutral venue without fans. [Post edited 1 Jan 22:50]
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 22:54 - Jan 1 with 648 views | ashtonscoffeecup |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 22:49 - Jan 1 by BouncebackIpswich |
I'm sorry you had to work all through Christmas / NY and good on you for getting to the game, it's totally understandable you weren't up for creating a atmosphere.
Without meaning to be provocative, your situation won't apply to most of the fans in the ground. The whole point of home advantage is having the fans encourage the team and ideally put the visiting players off. Otherwise, you might as well meet halfway between the 2 towns and play at a neutral venue without fans. [Post edited 1 Jan 22:50]
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no need to be sorry, it’s the dumb choice i have made professionally :) [Post edited 1 Jan 23:19]
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 23:06 - Jan 1 with 604 views | bazza |
I’d love to see the age range of the lower north, something isn’t right, it’s definitely not the acoustics either, its the north lowers job to get the crowd going around the whole ground, there are kids sitting in the upper alf making more Noise nowadays. |  | | |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 23:13 - Jan 1 with 569 views | BouncebackIpswich |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 22:54 - Jan 1 by ashtonscoffeecup |
no need to be sorry, it’s the dumb choice i have made professionally :) [Post edited 1 Jan 23:19]
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Hope you're getting some time off this weekend fella! | | | |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 23:16 - Jan 1 with 561 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 20:57 - Jan 1 by Cheltenham_Blue |
I've said it before, but I think a mistake was made by moving into Cobbold A from S6.
I can hardly hear Blue Action now, as I sit right next to the away fans, you'd have to assume that they can't hear the singing section either.
A few of us try to get stuff going in the SAR, but its a tough ask, and lately seems to be the non season ticket seats (in the lower anyway) are filled with families, who aren't there to join in. |
As a member of one of the families you describe, I would happily have joined in with most chants. There simply weren't any on offer to join in with. I did respond to the occasional "Blue Army!" that was thrown out. I even did my own solo of "Come On You Blues!" for the corners we had. The issue was more with no one starting anything than the lack of anyone joining in. (Along with not being able to hear what was being sung by Blue Action in the far corner.) |  |
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 23:17 - Jan 1 with 560 views | unstableblue |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 22:42 - Jan 1 by ashtonscoffeecup |
i barely moved a muscle in the stadium today, i’ve worked the last 7 nights getting by on 4 hours sleep in the day.
i doubt the highly motivated professionals playing the sport they love need me to be bouncing around for 90mins to get a result, and if they do and we lose because of it, then i can only say sorry in advance |
I think you’ve got a rock solid excuse to be passive today.
Not sure the rest of the ground can justify being so passive, and it’s a theme this season.
Do agree players are paid enough to do the job… but support and home atmosphere improve our chance of promotion.
Check out Stadium of Light today. Carried the Sunderland players today. | |
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 23:22 - Jan 1 with 547 views | ashtonscoffeecup |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 23:17 - Jan 1 by unstableblue |
I think you’ve got a rock solid excuse to be passive today.
Not sure the rest of the ground can justify being so passive, and it’s a theme this season.
Do agree players are paid enough to do the job… but support and home atmosphere improve our chance of promotion.
Check out Stadium of Light today. Carried the Sunderland players today. |
when i look at a number of our home games this season, vs coventry away for example, if it’s great on the pitch it’s great in the stands.
just my take on things, but it’s how it seems to be with us | | | |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 02:31 - Jan 2 with 455 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 17:49 - Jan 1 by Blue_Heath |
Yes it was but a combo of NYD hangover, cold, not the best match all played a part. |
There’s always an excuse, night game, early kick off, cold! Outside of the numbers our home crowd is genuinely awful from an atmosphere standpoint. The Wednesday game was so quiet that I was at which confirmed how it sounds on the TV. |  |
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 04:43 - Jan 2 with 426 views | Benters |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 23:22 - Jan 1 by ashtonscoffeecup |
when i look at a number of our home games this season, vs coventry away for example, if it’s great on the pitch it’s great in the stands.
just my take on things, but it’s how it seems to be with us |
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 08:15 - Jan 2 with 347 views | yorkshireblue |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 20:57 - Jan 1 by Cheltenham_Blue |
I've said it before, but I think a mistake was made by moving into Cobbold A from S6.
I can hardly hear Blue Action now, as I sit right next to the away fans, you'd have to assume that they can't hear the singing section either.
A few of us try to get stuff going in the SAR, but its a tough ask, and lately seems to be the non season ticket seats (in the lower anyway) are filled with families, who aren't there to join in. |
I was in the Huddersfield end on promotion day... you couldn't hear the Ipswich fans much at all despite seeing the crowd was bouncing. |  | | |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 08:53 - Jan 2 with 323 views | sotd78 |
I've been going to Portman Road for nearly sixty years. Probably seen 1200 home games. The fan base has never been raucous. But then that's worked both ways. Stoic, dependable, slow to turn on team or manager. Yet we've always had to have a fall guy. Someone to blame.
In the days of walk up and pay the singers congregated at both ends. Today those guys have grown old sitting in the same seats. The solution is a return to some form of unreserved safe standing at one end or both. The solution lies with the club. I'm not sure they have the bravery to tackle it. Look at the reaction Norwich got from their River End. Our Sir Alf equivalent. If we put in rail seating in the blocks behind the goals at each end of the ground but sold them as unreserved seats but still season tickets.... that would improve things deffo.
Long term the club might try some sort of "ultras" corner when and if we redevelop the ground. Until then it's going to be as it is now. 13,000 rock solid core supporters and another 13,000 fair weather fans, and 2,000 passionate away supporters. It's not much different at any club unless the game on the pitch creates the atmosphere. We can do it. We did for Norwich. But against Oxford, in thy cold, full of food and hungover... Nah! |  |
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 09:15 - Jan 2 with 301 views | Plums |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 20:57 - Jan 1 by FrimleyBlue |
Problem i think too is alot of these games feel like youre watching a friendly.
80 odd % possession.
I think when a game goes end to end and you've got tackles flying in etc it gets you going naturally. When youre walking the ball from your box to theirs it doesnt get you off your feet.
Im going to assume that most people dont expect a goal
Ive never see a home end not stand up as the ball is being played into the box. [Post edited 1 Jan 21:02]
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I spotted this quote from Bernardo Silva on the BBC Sport site. He's explaining why Citeh didn't score in the second half:
"We attacked a bit too quick - we didn't move them to find spaces. Second half we had a lot more chances and today was one of those days we couldn't finish them.
It would appear that there's a widening gulf between what (some) fans want to see or respond to on the pitch and how coaches and teams at the upper levels need to or want to play. See also the England national team as a further example.
I'm not sure what the answer is - because kick and rush teams aren't winning much. |  |
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 10:01 - Jan 2 with 260 views | TheBlueGnu |
10 out of 10 - turned up on a cold day to watch footy, paid lots of cash to do so, enjoyed a win. | |
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 10:08 - Jan 2 with 252 views | You_Bloo_Right |
To be an equitable comparison between the players and the crowd shouldn't all attendees be marked individually?
That being the case the septuagenarian next to me gets an A for turing out at all and a D for making little to no contribution to supporting the team. So what's that? C+? |  |
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 11:06 - Jan 2 with 218 views | unstableblue |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 23:22 - Jan 1 by ashtonscoffeecup |
when i look at a number of our home games this season, vs coventry away for example, if it’s great on the pitch it’s great in the stands.
just my take on things, but it’s how it seems to be with us |
Go and watch the first 16mins yesterday up to the goal; some great football, 3-4 really good attacking moves, some clever passing, and longer distribution, and also ball winning/tackling (Cajuste especially) which is normally a really good trigger for support.
All against a low block from Oxford, unlike Coventry, and actually a closer press than Coventry.
And yet nothing from the crowd.
I’d agree that after that we did resort to having to play in front of them.
So to your point, it had been pretty great, the fans didn’t react. And then the atmosphere helped to slow the game.
It was woeful. NYE hangovers and post Christmas fatigue are fair excuses. Nothing else. | |
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 12:54 - Jan 2 with 156 views | MathieandMarshall |
You could sense a flat atmosphere upon entering the stadium today. Even my 12 year old mentioned before kick off how quiet it felt.
Heavy night? hangovers? the cold? (everyone who normally claps along but dont sing wearing gloves?) - no idea!
I even said to my lad at the start of the 1st half "Blimey its flat in here. If I was Kieran i'd be sending Wes out to warm up just to wake the crowd up!" |  | | |
| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 12:57 - Jan 2 with 152 views | SitfcB |
My 8 year old boy asked why people didn’t celebrate the goals properly!! Even he noticed it because compared to the celebrations at Coventry it was quite mild, I did say with different games/opposition comes a different expectation which is natural but we were scoring goals to potentially go 2nd, which we did end up doing!
We celebrated as usual, by me chucking him around a bit 
As mentioned already disappointing to see a lot of people head for the exits straight away again, just gone 2nd, stay and enjoy it, give the team and McKenna a clap, it will help with the fan to squad bond that people say isn’t there!! |  |
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| What score would you give the crowd today? D-? on 13:27 - Jan 2 with 118 views | carlisleaway |
On a bloody freezing afternoon, crowd were very muted.
Compare this to the away following at Coventry on the Monday evening who were brilliant.
Still think as a club we desperately need a song…if you look round various Championship clubs they all have some type of song which they will call there own ( Edward Ebenezer is good but need better) Anyone see the Hibernian fans over Xmas, absolutely brilliant |  | | |
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