| North Stand 19:07 - Feb 28 with 3271 views | Harry_The_Hamster |
I sit in B block in the Cobbold and I felt a bit sorry for A Block today, they were trying hard to get songs going and generate some atmosphere but for large parts of the game the North Stand were having none of it.
Seems strange the complete lack of cohesion between the 2 groups, surely it can't be purely down to 'acoustics'? Something needs to change as we shouldn't be 2,3 nil up and not have a peep from our most prominent singing stand.
How can we bridge this gap in atmosphere? |  | | |  |
| North Stand on 19:10 - Feb 28 with 3219 views | SitfcB |
It comes down to BA singing new songs that not many people know, they’re good songs, just not ‘out there’.
Belt the classics out and more people will join in.
The PR atmosphere is a myth, was very quiet at times today, always some noise coming out of A block but not enough.
All depends on where you sit as to what you hear - I bet people in A/B block didn’t hear the Swansea fans singing ‘football in a library’ just as much as the Swansea fans didn’t hear A block.
From my vantage point in SBRU1 I can hear almost everything apart from SBRL - wouldn’t be able to tell you if they sung today. [Post edited 28 Feb 19:49]
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| North Stand on 19:16 - Feb 28 with 3156 views | Blue_Order |
To be honest, A-Block was as bad as the North Stand today. Really poor participation levels, one of the worst it’s been this season.
Very frustrating considering we’re in a promotion race, won midweek and scored early on. What more do people want before they’ll get behind the team? |  | | |
| North Stand on 19:23 - Feb 28 with 3076 views | tractorboy7777 |
| North Stand on 19:10 - Feb 28 by SitfcB |
It comes down to BA singing new songs that not many people know, they’re good songs, just not ‘out there’.
Belt the classics out and more people will join in.
The PR atmosphere is a myth, was very quiet at times today, always some noise coming out of A block but not enough.
All depends on where you sit as to what you hear - I bet people in A/B block didn’t hear the Swansea fans singing ‘football in a library’ just as much as the Swansea fans didn’t hear A block.
From my vantage point in SBRU1 I can hear almost everything apart from SBRL - wouldn’t be able to tell you if they sung today. [Post edited 28 Feb 19:49]
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The new songs aren’t helped by the drum at the front being the forefront of the noise. I’m in the North Upper and can’t work out what they’re singing as do those around us. People have in games tried to get more known songs going but BA obviously can’t hear for the same reason which blocks each other out.
It’s become a bit dull in the North Stand Upper because it’s difficult to work out who to sing along with when different songs are being sung! |  |
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| North Stand on 19:23 - Feb 28 with 3079 views | IP9 |
A Block looked like it had a lot of empty seats today from my view point in SBRU Block 2, with very few actually joining in with anything.
As a side where I was, didn't even hear one song from the Swansea fans before or during.
A lot of apathy and expectation has set in, it just won't be possible to recreate the 23/24 atmosphere. | | | |
| North Stand on 19:27 - Feb 28 with 3016 views | Simonds92 |
| North Stand on 19:10 - Feb 28 by SitfcB |
It comes down to BA singing new songs that not many people know, they’re good songs, just not ‘out there’.
Belt the classics out and more people will join in.
The PR atmosphere is a myth, was very quiet at times today, always some noise coming out of A block but not enough.
All depends on where you sit as to what you hear - I bet people in A/B block didn’t hear the Swansea fans singing ‘football in a library’ just as much as the Swansea fans didn’t hear A block.
From my vantage point in SBRU1 I can hear almost everything apart from SBRL - wouldn’t be able to tell you if they sung today. [Post edited 28 Feb 19:49]
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On top of that, when there were chants of 'Blue and white army' for a number of minutes in the North, it was completely silent in the Cobbold, they kept waiting for it to stop so they could sing their song instead. | | | |
| North Stand on 19:35 - Feb 28 with 2931 views | Scuzzer |
Simple solution...bring them back to the SBR. Knew it wouldn't work..and it doesn't.
Also the chants are pretty tedious to be honest. |  |
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| North Stand on 19:36 - Feb 28 with 2921 views | Blue_Order |
| North Stand on 19:27 - Feb 28 by Simonds92 |
On top of that, when there were chants of 'Blue and white army' for a number of minutes in the North, it was completely silent in the Cobbold, they kept waiting for it to stop so they could sing their song instead. |
It was impossible to join in with that for how fcking fast it was being sung!
Like trying to get back on the motorway from a lay-by when everyone’s doing 120mph. | | | |
| North Stand on 19:43 - Feb 28 with 2840 views | lazyblue |
| North Stand on 19:23 - Feb 28 by tractorboy7777 |
The new songs aren’t helped by the drum at the front being the forefront of the noise. I’m in the North Upper and can’t work out what they’re singing as do those around us. People have in games tried to get more known songs going but BA obviously can’t hear for the same reason which blocks each other out.
It’s become a bit dull in the North Stand Upper because it’s difficult to work out who to sing along with when different songs are being sung! |
Totally agree with this , the drum is the problem.
I sat in North stand for years now I am SAR upper and moved back to for one game in SBR early Jan and all you can hear is the Drum and unless you know the ‘new era ‘ songs you have absolutely no chance of learning them and joining in ( luckily learnt them at couple of away games). The drum is too overbearing and would be so much better without it.
Unpopular maybe but true. | | | |
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| North Stand on 19:45 - Feb 28 with 2820 views | Blue_Moses |
I sit just to the left of the goal in the lower North and I've never experienced such a poor atmosphere when we've been comfortable winning in the last 30 years | | | |
| North Stand on 21:41 - Feb 28 with 2348 views | SuperTommySmith |
I’d honestly still lean towards it being largely an acoustic issue.
I’ve been in Block 5 of the lower North for all but 3 games this season, I’ve sat lower South a couple of times and been in VU2 for Wrexham when they returned it to us. I went in Block A once last season. The difference in what you can actually hear from each area is massive.
Over the years, from the lower North I’ve often thought away fans were quiet most of the time. But having now gone in different parts of the ground it's pretty clear the sound just doesn't carry most of the time. At the Wrexham game I didn't hear anything from the lower north or Block A. Same goes for the games in the lower south.
When I was in Block A last season for a game, we were singing pretty much non-stop, but I genuinely couldn’t hear the North Stand at all. Spoke to mates in Block 5 after and they said they didn't hear us at all.
I kind of wish that Blue Action just got moved to lower south next to the away fans. | | | |
| North Stand on 21:53 - Feb 28 with 2241 views | FrimleyBlue |
Barnsley away showed that one song is all thats needed
So 90 minutes of blue army followed after a win by waka waka and super kieran mckenna will do |  |
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| North Stand on 21:53 - Feb 28 with 2260 views | backwaywhen |
I sit in West stand H2 , and the atmosphere today was the best it’s been for a long time , sounded cracking from where I sit …..well done all . | | | |
| North Stand on 21:59 - Feb 28 with 2208 views | Slambo |
| North Stand on 19:10 - Feb 28 by SitfcB |
It comes down to BA singing new songs that not many people know, they’re good songs, just not ‘out there’.
Belt the classics out and more people will join in.
The PR atmosphere is a myth, was very quiet at times today, always some noise coming out of A block but not enough.
All depends on where you sit as to what you hear - I bet people in A/B block didn’t hear the Swansea fans singing ‘football in a library’ just as much as the Swansea fans didn’t hear A block.
From my vantage point in SBRU1 I can hear almost everything apart from SBRL - wouldn’t be able to tell you if they sung today. [Post edited 28 Feb 19:49]
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I have to challenge this notion that we sing all these weird, complicated songs that no-one knows. Jens Cajuste - I like It, the song for Philogene to the tune of When The Samba Rhythm Starts To Play, Marcelino Said Fck Off Norwich to the tune of Ciao Bella...every club in the country is singing versions of these.
It's generally been a revelation in A Block and it"s really been cooking the last few games - Bristol City a particular highlight. But, as Blue_Order said, it was nowhere near good enough today. We can blame this and that, but the cold hard reality is that there were too many people who came into the section today without the right mentality.
This idea that your singers can be scattered about all over and they'll somehow link up across stands or over masses of bodies is a nonsense. There is not a ground in the country - in the world - where that happens. Every club in the world (who takes atmosphere generation seriously, that is) has a designated singing section where you have your singers concentrated in a tight block. This is the role A Block plays, and has been doing a good job, but it's still operating below it's potential. In time - hopefully - the remaining singers in the NL will trickle over and youngsters attracted to ACTIVELY watching football will instinctively head towards there.
But the club needs to be more proactive in pushing the concept of a singing section. Did you know there's a tab about it on the official website? No, nor did we until like a month after they quietly slipped it on there. The language is still pretty milky and in no way entices singers and atmosphere generators to get involved. They intend to build a link so that when someone goes to buy a ticket in A Block they're automatically directed to that page, but - quelle surprise - 6 months down the line this hasn't happened.
Unfortunately, atmosphere generation is just not a priority in English football. Clubs kind of want it, but don't really want to empower fans in order to achieve it. They'd rather keep it in house - lightshows and a stadium announcer screaming BLUE ARRRMYYY into a pa system. Clubs are already starting to culturally appropriate tifos. It'll be t-shirt cannons and kiss-o-cams before long. |  |
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| North Stand on 22:12 - Feb 28 with 2138 views | g0ddard |
| North Stand on 21:59 - Feb 28 by Slambo |
I have to challenge this notion that we sing all these weird, complicated songs that no-one knows. Jens Cajuste - I like It, the song for Philogene to the tune of When The Samba Rhythm Starts To Play, Marcelino Said Fck Off Norwich to the tune of Ciao Bella...every club in the country is singing versions of these.
It's generally been a revelation in A Block and it"s really been cooking the last few games - Bristol City a particular highlight. But, as Blue_Order said, it was nowhere near good enough today. We can blame this and that, but the cold hard reality is that there were too many people who came into the section today without the right mentality.
This idea that your singers can be scattered about all over and they'll somehow link up across stands or over masses of bodies is a nonsense. There is not a ground in the country - in the world - where that happens. Every club in the world (who takes atmosphere generation seriously, that is) has a designated singing section where you have your singers concentrated in a tight block. This is the role A Block plays, and has been doing a good job, but it's still operating below it's potential. In time - hopefully - the remaining singers in the NL will trickle over and youngsters attracted to ACTIVELY watching football will instinctively head towards there.
But the club needs to be more proactive in pushing the concept of a singing section. Did you know there's a tab about it on the official website? No, nor did we until like a month after they quietly slipped it on there. The language is still pretty milky and in no way entices singers and atmosphere generators to get involved. They intend to build a link so that when someone goes to buy a ticket in A Block they're automatically directed to that page, but - quelle surprise - 6 months down the line this hasn't happened.
Unfortunately, atmosphere generation is just not a priority in English football. Clubs kind of want it, but don't really want to empower fans in order to achieve it. They'd rather keep it in house - lightshows and a stadium announcer screaming BLUE ARRRMYYY into a pa system. Clubs are already starting to culturally appropriate tifos. It'll be t-shirt cannons and kiss-o-cams before long. |
The drum kills everything I think. There's lots of time where chants get started and then the drum overwhelms everything and it ends up to out of time it breaks down.
Having a drum in those bad times were great but I dream that we give it a rest for a few weeks and see how organic the atmosphere really can be. | | | |
| North Stand on 22:44 - Feb 28 with 1987 views | USA |
| North Stand on 19:35 - Feb 28 by Scuzzer |
Simple solution...bring them back to the SBR. Knew it wouldn't work..and it doesn't.
Also the chants are pretty tedious to be honest. |
The ‘putting on a show song’ is shiite let’s be honest | |
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| North Stand on 07:19 - Mar 1 with 1594 views | Blue_Heath |
It's down to a lot of factors imo:
1. The 'new' stand clearly had no thought about acoustics
2. The 'old' northstanders were not put back properly after move
3. Fanbase has aged, people don't sing as much now
4. Location of BA is wrong
5. People in general don't drink as much now so less likely to sing
I'd say the best atmospheres are when we get a crap ref and everyone gets on the back of a decision oddly. | |
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| North Stand on 09:33 - Mar 1 with 1328 views | kpblues |
The battle of the drum/blue action versus the north stand kills the atmosphere.
I applaud the enthusiasm blue action and love the coach welcomes etc but inside the ground Blue Action sing new songs at a pace that the North stand cannot keep up with.
When the North stand does open up the drumming starts and that's the end of the chant.
Not sure what the answer is but maybe give the drum a rest for a bit and let the chants be more organic.
When the North stand open up their chants go round the ground and are way louder. | |
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| North Stand on 22:01 - Mar 1 with 971 views | Bluespeed225 |
I have to say, I was at work yesterday, so it was Brenner and Mick for me, but the crowd sounded alright on the radio! | | | |
| North Stand on 22:12 - Mar 1 with 921 views | longtimefan |
| North Stand on 22:01 - Mar 1 by Bluespeed225 |
I have to say, I was at work yesterday, so it was Brenner and Mick for me, but the crowd sounded alright on the radio! |
From my vantage point in the SAR lower the atmosphere was better yesterday than for either the Preston or Bristol games. | | | |
| North Stand on 22:14 - Mar 1 with 916 views | pointofblue |
| North Stand on 07:19 - Mar 1 by Blue_Heath |
It's down to a lot of factors imo:
1. The 'new' stand clearly had no thought about acoustics
2. The 'old' northstanders were not put back properly after move
3. Fanbase has aged, people don't sing as much now
4. Location of BA is wrong
5. People in general don't drink as much now so less likely to sing
I'd say the best atmospheres are when we get a crap ref and everyone gets on the back of a decision oddly. |
Point one is it all over. The one tier North Stand was brilliant for acoustics. The current stand is not. From SBR upper I actually hear the visiting fans more clearly than Blue Action at times, and I doubt that's because of the relative volume of singing. | |
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| North Stand on 11:18 - Mar 2 with 611 views | Leaky |
Well I'm in section 5 been there since the stand was rebuilt, remarked to my son that I had never seen so many people I didn't recognise. Seemed very odd. |  | | |
| North Stand on 11:35 - Mar 2 with 526 views | ZedRodgers |
| North Stand on 21:59 - Feb 28 by Slambo |
I have to challenge this notion that we sing all these weird, complicated songs that no-one knows. Jens Cajuste - I like It, the song for Philogene to the tune of When The Samba Rhythm Starts To Play, Marcelino Said Fck Off Norwich to the tune of Ciao Bella...every club in the country is singing versions of these.
It's generally been a revelation in A Block and it"s really been cooking the last few games - Bristol City a particular highlight. But, as Blue_Order said, it was nowhere near good enough today. We can blame this and that, but the cold hard reality is that there were too many people who came into the section today without the right mentality.
This idea that your singers can be scattered about all over and they'll somehow link up across stands or over masses of bodies is a nonsense. There is not a ground in the country - in the world - where that happens. Every club in the world (who takes atmosphere generation seriously, that is) has a designated singing section where you have your singers concentrated in a tight block. This is the role A Block plays, and has been doing a good job, but it's still operating below it's potential. In time - hopefully - the remaining singers in the NL will trickle over and youngsters attracted to ACTIVELY watching football will instinctively head towards there.
But the club needs to be more proactive in pushing the concept of a singing section. Did you know there's a tab about it on the official website? No, nor did we until like a month after they quietly slipped it on there. The language is still pretty milky and in no way entices singers and atmosphere generators to get involved. They intend to build a link so that when someone goes to buy a ticket in A Block they're automatically directed to that page, but - quelle surprise - 6 months down the line this hasn't happened.
Unfortunately, atmosphere generation is just not a priority in English football. Clubs kind of want it, but don't really want to empower fans in order to achieve it. They'd rather keep it in house - lightshows and a stadium announcer screaming BLUE ARRRMYYY into a pa system. Clubs are already starting to culturally appropriate tifos. It'll be t-shirt cannons and kiss-o-cams before long. |
Hoping that the "remaining singers in the NL will trickle over" to a club-sanctioned 'singing section' in the Cobbold is probably the most depressing ITFC-related sentence I've read this year, and there have been some serious contenders. |  |
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| North Stand on 13:08 - Mar 2 with 352 views | WeWereZombies |
| North Stand on 21:53 - Feb 28 by backwaywhen |
I sit in West stand H2 , and the atmosphere today was the best it’s been for a long time , sounded cracking from where I sit …..well done all . |
We got 'walk in' tickets right at the back of Churchmans and the crowd sounded fantastic from up there, maybe the best since that dramatic final ten minutes ten man comeback against the Blunts all those years ago (I wasn't at the Huddersfield promotion winning game). |  |
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