by Millsy »
05 Mar 2020 11:26
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on the opposition back from the game thread we have
"AWetFlannel - I went tonight, we got outsung by Reading for most of the game. Bit annoying."
To be fair, If any away fans team outsing a home team fans who normally have at least 10x the amount of fans, there are issues. Regardless of clunge 1871, it should not happen
But it actually happens at numerous grounds. A few of reasons being that the away fans are compacted into one area, are usually allowed to stand throughout and have a high percentage of hardcore supporters who will sing and chant. That, in turn, encourages other usually 'non-vocals' to join in. Club 1871 goes a long way to recreating that environment with home supporters.
Longstanding Southbank and East stand chantstarter here and I absolutely agree with this especially at the MadStad.
Reserved seating totally screwed up the chanting atmosphere at Madstad as we could no longer gravitate towards each other and form a diehard core to counteract away fans. And away fans for reasons you mention especially at the Madstad with its acoustics, slightly lower ceiling at the ends favours away chanting more than home and we'd get outsung a lot as their compacted noise would reverberate off the low ceiling and the SE and SW corners onto the pitch.
I'm now too old to be a chant man sadly, but I have to say I am VERY IMPRESSED INDEED with what I see from Club 1871 and feel they absolutely do us proud. Are they as good as my generation at Elm Park and early days on the East Stand? Of course bloody not!!!
But DEFINITELY the best thing I've seen since my day. Genius idea to put them in that part of the stand acoustically and having them all together. We seem to destroy away fans now like the good old days, which with modern stadium acoustics, plastics (people and seats!) , is not an easy feat thesedays. The demolition of Barnsley fans was a joy to behold, and immature as this sounds, the few troglodites who got wound up enough by it to try and climb across the netting had me laughing.
EXCELLENT JOB 1871 VERY PROUD OF YOU - take that from an old pro responsible for the destruction of many an away group over the years!