paulcityfan

Looks like the Leeds game is also audio only. Does anyone know if that will change?  Its not a saturday 3pm KO so was hoping it would be on Robins TV

On 02/09/2023 at 20:30, Phileas Fogg said:

The Lansdown stand is horrible for atmosphere. It’s enormous and filled with non-singers.

That, plus the away fans being as physically far away from vocal home fans as possible = poor atmosphere. It’s such a shame because those in the corner do try.

The club had opportunity to get this right - the way to do that was to put away fans in the closest blocks to the Atyeo in the Lansdown or Dolman.. and give the entire Atyeo to vocal home fans.

I’d bet pretty much anything that if they’d done that and allowed the culture to grow in the home end - the atmosphere would be unrecognisable.

I believe that ‘the club’ don’t really want that though. They believe that atmosphere, or at least the more typical terrace culture atmosphere, = trouble. The club want families and more of a rugby clientele.. people who will drink at the ground and buy from the club shop. 

I think most of us know that positive home atmosphere contributes to the likelihood of good results. It’s such a shame the club have never really agreed.. and dragged their feet the entire time.

I totally agree

To the chase. I was at the Birmingham home game last week. I'd already noticed this happening before but the location of our vocal fans is absolutely handing the advantage to the away teams. It is always said that the fans are the twelfth man and boy it seems incredibly ridiculous that a non football related decision can affect the football decision so much.  It is no secret that since the new stadium upgrade a great atmosphere is hard to generate unless its really rammed. Of course there have been exceptions. But in general the Atyeo stand is a fine low roof area that a few thousand fans can make incredibly hostile and this advantage should be utilised by the home fans. In my opinion the club should do as others do to help their team and locate the away fans in an upper tier where they can least affect the players morale. The above comment about having mentally weak players is pathetic

bobby.....

1 hour ago, RedDave said:

Who lives in the cottage?!

This bloke