Missiles being hoyed all game from North Stand Upper

[Swindon On Tour]

Northumbria Police Force just stood watching? Never

Did they offer a crime number?

 

[Agent Zigzag]

Which should then, according to this place, spark off our supporters (who need supporters to compete with).



If you're hearing away fans why aren't you singing against them/in reaction to them?



Why don't others help with the atmosphere instead of wanting another stand to do it? Are are you saying many want to enjoy an atmosphere rather than add to it or help create it? In fairness that's the impression I get, even from some who moved to the south stand.

TBH I think because of the shit football over the last 4-5 years, we’ve lost a generation of “lads” who would have otherwise graduated from going with their Dads to going with their mates and looking to join the noise. Like moving from the front of the Fulwell to the cage at the back.

Now indeed too many want to observe the atmosphere rather than join in. And trotting our By Far The Greatest Team 15 times a match is monotonous. Even at Wembley we were poor compared to 5 years ago.

Sad

 

[North Yorks Mackem]

The set up is exactly like it is at the mags. Do their fans sit in silence whilst aways sing all game? Everyone on here reckons the away fans are really loud at our place so why isn't it sparking off those who need away fans to compete against to sing?

You have to be able up see the whites of their eyes otherwise you can't sing back at them.

 

[Alma]

Wish I'd been in the Wheatseaf on Saturday

They've f***ing shit themselves

I'm not angry, just disappointed

 

[Daffy]

Generally the ones that complain about the atmosphere are the ones that sit on their arse & do nowt
The lads that put a tremendous amount of effort in with the flags were even criticised on a thread on here - yet again by another zombie
Either get involved & try to improve the atmosphere in the stadium or shut the fuck up

 

[hank williams]

I'm not angry, just disappointed

Me too cheaper pint

But stil nee need the way Coventry scum & Shitty force acted the way did


I love the Wheatseaf too

Generally the ones that complain about the atmosphere are the ones that sit on their arse & do nowt
The lads that put a tremendous amount of effort in with the flags were even criticised on a thread on here - yet again by another zombie
Either get involved & try to improve the atmosphere in the stadium or shut the fuck up

Totally agree marra

I try to get the atmosphere gan

I've broken my vocal chords again

 

[TravellingMackem]

If you're hearing away fans why aren't you singing against them/in reaction to them?

Because I am not 15 years old. I consider 30 year old lads going to the match just to sing a bit sad, so no I won’t be doing it. Haven’t got anything against those who do but it isn’t for me.

There are other ways to support the team than making up rhymes about the players - shouting, pressuring referees, roaring to drive them on while countering, etc. - all of which I will do, and I am very vocal at the match. I don’t mind the occasional verse of Sunderland Sunderland Sunderland, but I just think it’s a bit sad singing some of the songs that go around.

Is that okay or am I not a proper fan?

 

[Seaham_FTM]

Because I am not 15 years old. I consider 30 year old lads going to the match just to sing a bit sad, so no I won’t be doing it. Haven’t got anything against those who do but it isn’t for me.

There are other ways to support the team than making up rhymes about the players - shouting, pressuring referees, roaring to drive them on while countering, etc. - all of which I will do, and I am very vocal at the match. I don’t mind the occasional verse of Sunderland Sunderland Sunderland, but I just think it’s a bit sad singing some of the songs that go around.

Is that okay or am I not a proper fan?

this marra

 

[Sgt Pepper]

The set up is exactly like it is at the mags. Do their fans sit in silence whilst aways sing all game? Everyone on here reckons the away fans are really loud at our place so why isn't it sparking off those who need away fans to compete against to sing?

The Mags sell 95% of their home tix, have concessions next to away supporters, and have at least three established singing areas (Gallowgate, Strawberry corner and L7 corner). We all look toward the South Stand and expect them to bring all the atmosphere.

The mags complain about their atmospheres just as much as us from what I see, and complain the makeup of the type of fan at SJP today is very different to the one of the 90s/early 00s. From what I gather from mates who are season card holders there, they used to have a section that stood and sung a bit like our SWC next to the away fans but that got turned into a family section so isn’t a vocal area anymore. The Gallowgate for all it holds up banners and flags and strawberry corner are also not singing areas, they have one block at the back corner of the Gallowgate at the opposite side to the strawberry that is their new singing section, block V or U or something. It’s where my mates have their season cards so that’s how I know, so our standing/singing section actually remains bigger than their’s as ours is the SWC blocks and half of the South Stand.

Away fans when in full voice will probably sound louder at our place than theirs for a couple of different reasons. One, the away end at theirs is one tier higher than it is at ours because the Leazes Stand has one tier more than our North Stand, so our fans are a little bit more near to our away fans than they are to theirs.

Also, our roof is metal and points downwards into our bowl shaped stadium so the noise smacks straight off the roof and is sent downwards out to the rest of the bowl (the roof at the North Stand is the same height as every other stand at our place). Their roof is glass and hangs outwards horizontally rather than pointing downwards, and is way higher than their east stand and Gallowgate end roofs so the noise is just sent straight out rather than down into the rest of the stadium.

The design of our ground means where they currently are away fans will always have a decent chance of making themselves heard, unless there’s some vocal competition beside them that can shut them up but at the minute they have free reign because they’re up there by themselves with the upper tier closed to home fans.

 

[Forty]

You have to be able up see the whites of their eyes otherwise you can't sing back at them.

How did that use to work at Roker Park then when the Fulwell used to chant at the away fans in the Roker End?

 

[kingmonkey]

How did that use to work at Roker Park then when the Fulwell used to chant at the away fans in the Roker End?

Why's the roker full of shit?

 

[Forty]

Why's the roker full of shit?

Your going home in a nice hired minibus or was that f***ing ambulance.

 

[Northumberland Rocks]

As other posters have pointed out, even the Mags and Millwall have not stooped the depths of the coventry supporters last weekend. Failure by Northumbria's finest to take any action has undoubtedly led those scum to think they could do what they liked with impunity.

Agree. The mags smashed seats but even they have never been as rotten to chuck things indiscriminately from a height like Coventry did.

Hopefully Coventry go out of business as soon as possible and we never have to witness that type of behaviour at the SOL again.

 

[kingmonkey]

They didn’t get any abuse at all. Just small fry players playing up to playing in front of a big crowd for once.

How can you abuse players you have never heard of?
They were getting no grief at all, it was a bizarre way to celebrate in the circumstances. If they had been getting shit, then go and shush the fans, that's fair game.

 

[The Beautiful Game]

How can you abuse players you have never heard of?
They were getting no grief at all, it was a bizarre way to celebrate in the circumstances. If they had been getting shit, then go and shush the fans, that's fair game.

Exactly. I didnt even have a clue who the first lad is. Assumed he was a mag or something

 

[buster]

How did that use to work at Roker Park then when the Fulwell used to chant at the away fans in the Roker End?

Plenty of us in the Roker End giving them grief anyway.

 

[Rottie]

You're good at making things up, I'll give you that.


very good.

Knows exactly what went on in the North and South stands. Quite remarkable really.

 

[small mythos]

I think part of it at our place is the proximity of the metal roof to the away fans. The sound waves will bounce off that and carry down to ground level. That’s why it doesn’t take many fans up there to create a lot of noise.

We normally sit in the NW corner but have sat in the north stand for a couple of games and all you can hear is the sound of the away fans above you . I think it takes the atmosphere away from the North stand as you can’t always hear when the rest of the ground is singing.

 

[Linus]

Knows exactly what went on in the North and South stands. Quite remarkable really.

Strange that my post was deleted?

 

[OohBaldyBally]

Because I am not 15 years old. I consider 30 year old lads going to the match just to sing a bit sad, so no I won’t be doing it. Haven’t got anything against those who do but it isn’t for me.

There are other ways to support the team than making up rhymes about the players - shouting, pressuring referees, roaring to drive them on while countering, etc. - all of which I will do, and I am very vocal at the match. I don’t mind the occasional verse of Sunderland Sunderland Sunderland, but I just think it’s a bit sad singing some of the songs that go around.

Is that okay or am I not a proper fan?

I’m not interested in the debate about what makes a proper fan or not but I can’t get my head around your views about 30 year olds being sad because they sing at the match.

What about us 40, 50, 60 year olds that sing? I’ve followed safc all over the country singing my heart out. What is sad about singing at a football game?

You sound like little Lord Fountleroy.

Pip pip. Cheerio