Moaners and groaners

[Honkytonk]

It's interesting that those remembering a 'better time' long for a good atmosphere now. From where I sit in the DRS it's the old farts whose only interest is moaning and not in getting behind the team.

Even at Colchester I was sat behind a miserable old cunt whose only response to the game was to complain at Luongo.

[RedRag]

So come on people sing chant and support your club over the next few games then at least we can all say we gave it our best and have no regrets

This

[ronnie21]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the music played is crap - even the UB40 version of Can't Help Falling in Love is the slow, sedate version.  It kills the atmosphere before we start and it usually takes a really controversial incident to get the crowd going!!

[adje]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the music played is crap - even the UB40 version of Can't Help Falling in Love is the slow, sedate version.  It kills the atmosphere before we start and it usually takes a really controversial incident to get the crowd going!!

totally agree with this-must be elvis or andy williams.UB40 version is turgid shite.

[adje]

 Oh dear,just realised that makes me a moaner/groaner

[ronnie21]

 

Oh dear,just realised that makes me a moaner/groaner

Me too!!!

[Batch]

Pah, the music is crap but that's not responsible for a crap atmosphere, well not the major one. I've tried to work out what is, but I think its many things.
 - Low turnout from opposition fans - surely this isn't new though.
 - Less hostile away fans.
 - Dwindling Townend numbers, a lot of us old farts moved to the side stands when we had kids. Doesn't seem to be much backfill
 - Things are just different now. In this case, different worse. Its a lot different, goal music, people happy to clap along to glad all over, that sort of thing. Not my bag but not having a go either because a lot of people seem to like it.
 - An irrational dislike of Power and Cooper. Maybe the day will come when this is deserved, but it still seems to me that some people don't rate Cooper, and some people don't get the feeling we are going anywhere with Power. I guess what I mean is the club cutting its cloth according to income isn't that exciting. Particularly straight after the insanity of the Di Canio era.
- And many many more...

[Reg Smeeton]

It's interesting that those remembering a 'better time' long for a good atmosphere now. From where I sit in the DRS it's the old farts whose only interest is moaning and not in getting behind the team.

Even at Colchester I was sat behind a miserable old cunt whose only response to the game was to complain at Luongo.

The CG demographic, is increasingly middle aged say 30-60, and in all likelihood fans who've been going for a number of years, which as Town fans, means you're pretty much steeped in disappointment, to a lesser or greater extent.

The important thing, is that they're still going. 

Many of the more garrulous types, who shout a bit, wave a few flags etc, often haven't the attention span required for a lifetime of suffering, and rapidly drop out.

[paddieu]

It seems to be a common theme these days that many home crowds dont make much noise anymore - you even read it about liverpool. So I'd be interested in people's feedback regarding comparisons with other clubs, and especially with ones that still do mkae a noise, and see what we might learn from that.

And I agree re Town End movement out, no backfill etc.

For me that would make a good case for building a bigger one with a better view, to see how many people would then
move back there and help the noise happen. I for one would do so. Hard to get anything going in the Ark or DRS.

I also remember the gathering of noise makers at the DRS where it meets the SB end. When did that disappear ?
I recall it especially around 1992 or so.

[@mwooly63]

I also remember the gathering of noise makers at the DRS where it meets the SB end. When did that disappear ?
I recall it especially around 1992 or so.

When away fans moved into arkells only was no point anyone sitting there as is the case now, always the emptiest section ( unless the trust are giving out tickets )

[bigbobjoylove]

When did that disappear ?

I recall a season in the early 2000's when Town End prices went really cheap while South Stand prices went high. All the singers then relocated. Its probably what needs to happen to put some life back into the Town End again.

[DarloSTFC84]

Danny Dyer?

[paddieu]

So would setting that up as a singing section again work if combined with cheaper tickets for that particular section ?

[suttonred]

Used to match my Ox Blood DM,s.
The silk scarf with the white tassles.
My favourite badge the s carrying on across the t.
Sprayed that on many a wall around Oxfordshire.
My favourite being on the old pillbox on the Didcot Swindon railway line.
Always used to look out of the train window on route to Swindon from Didcot and smile at the artwork.
Sadly no longer there but it stood its ground for years as I made that journey. Sentimental me like.

Said this before but there was one sprayed near the police station in Reading in the late 70's and it stayed there until the mid/late nineties, always made me smile walking past it when I lived in Reading

[adje]

Said this before but there was one sprayed near the police station in Reading in the late 70's and it stayed there until the mid/late nineties, always made me smile walking past it when I lived in Reading

there for ever on my right arm