Atmosphere tonight

[phil_clevedon]

17 hours ago, BobBobSuperBob said:

Look,around at how most clubs ‘accommodate’ away fans

Normally away on the side , up,in the gods , or in a corner , and if one end tend to use the upper tiers - In fact I’m struggling to think of Clubs where the away fans have such a dynamic position

No coincidence that Sheff Weds , QPR , Newcastle etc don’t put away fans in the lower tiers behind the goal

Not sure it's most clubs, in the Championship Reading, Birmingham, Burton, QPR, Sheff Utd, Sheff Weds, PNE, Brentford, Fulham, Boro(?), Millwall, Barnsley & Bolton all put away fans behind the goal (or very close). A lot depends on the logistics of the stadium, also the size of away support. But in my experience, atmosphere is invariably driven by what's happening on the pitch e.g the Man Utd fans didn't outsing us did they, despite 2600 of them having a prime position behind the goal!

[AshtonPark]

5 hours ago, harrys said:

Thought Wolves were fairly quiet until FF got sent off and they equalised, they then had the initiative and their fans got right behind them as you’d expect, just a side note but Villa would rather have 10,000 empty seats tomorrow rather than give us any more than 2000 tickets, same with Birmingham only giving us 2000 odd, QPR also did the same and they only had 11,000 home fans against us

The police won’t give more tickets. Nothing to do with villa 

[wendyredredrobin]

The south stand sings but soyls do better, the dolman aings a bit but we need more voices here too.

The west stand must be full of mutes as far as I can tell.  Can nobody on that side of the ground sing?

[Lord Northski]

Would agree that the atmosphere was disappointing. From S24 Wolves sounded pretty impressive all game as did our singing section. You guys over there have been very impressive all season, looks amazing as well. We try to make as much noise as we can in 24, but sometimes it feels like pushing a rock up hill. 

Seem that when there’s a lot of new fans the atmosphere is muted, almost as if they’re waiting to be entertained by everyone else. Perhaps it’ll take a few games before the new people find their voice. 

For the record, from S24 we couldn’t hear anything coming from the Lower or Upper Lansdown or the Dolman on Saturday. Not sure about the Lansdown, as it may just be acoustics and there’s not really been enough games with that many fans there to pass comment. But the Dolman have sounded pretty loud on occasions in the past. But Saturday wasn’t one those occasions. 

We talk on here enough about players not showing up, and we also talk about the fans being the 12th person on the pitch. But Saturday was definitely a time when our 12th player didn’t turn up.