Matches Suggestions on Matchday Atmosphere Improvements

Think ship has sailed for any changes to seating/safe standing/singing area arrangements for this coming season with Season Tickets on sale now.

Needs to be something that is really pressed for in the discussions for a new stadium so it happens from Day 1.
 
Looking into what teams like Dortmund and Galatassary do to create those types of intimidating, simmering atmospheres would be a good starting point. Flags look great but they wont intimidate visiting teams or overly inspire our players. You probably have to sail close to the wind to crank the atmosphere up to something that's going to have a really positive on pitch effect.
 
Essexyellows said:
Its the close season and time for eternal threads........... :)

The product on the pitch builds the atmosphere. That`s it.

And for those who say "standing helps" - remember the club have a text service that allows folk to grass on you for such things. :rolleyes:

Some of us bought our tickets "off plan" so that we could stand, at the back, with like minded folk. Trouble is we are getting old now. :ROFLMAO:
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I pretty much agree with the first sentiment here and I'm not big on the increasing number of posts that seem to criticise our own fans - not enough away tickets sold, no atmosphere, etc. It's never been easy in a ground where the sound just drifts away.

Much as their some of their righteous fans get up my nose, I thought the atmosphere was really good at Wimbledon last year - low stands all around three sides of the ground and the sound bouncing around.
 
bashamwonderland said:
Working class history, standing areas, seating close to pitch, young fans, good performances.

Allowing under 15s to watch for free would be a good investment in future atmosphere.
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Hmm, that working class bit doesn't bode well for the future.

Having been located in the ghettos of Headington and Greater Leys for all of our history we're now looking to move to an idyllic garden village.

I'm surprised you hadn't heard tbh.
 
m said:
Hmm, that working class bit doesn't bode well for the future.

Having been located in the ghettos of Headington and Greater Leys for all of our history we're now looking to move to an idyllic garden village.

I'm surprised you hadn't heard tbh.
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Moving?

Not really sure why we can't just extend the lease at the Kassam, to be honest.
 
Older Shotts said:
I think we need some better songs.
Bring back some more old classics.
Modern football songs are naff, dull, and every club sings them (eg that awful "everywhere we go" nonsense - i refuse to sing that).

Yellow Submarine is all well and good but its just a chant, in current form, which is soon done.
Liam Mannings Yellow Army is fine, but gets boring quickly.
Swindon fan on a string - doesnt exactly inspire / lift the team.

We need our own new song, something lively and uplifting to get the players going, that can be sung over and over.

Otherwise we end up with a song starting, ending and thats it.

Get yer quills out lads, and get writing some songs. We must have a yellow Noel Gallagher who can write something simple and catchy
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Definitely need some more songs and variety.

But we also need a snare drum to keep everyone in Rhythm. I've lost count of how many times a song has filtered out because one section sing faster than others.
 
OX14 said:
Definitely need some more songs and variety.

But we also need a snare drum to keep everyone in Rhythm. I've lost count of how many times a song has filtered out because one section sing faster than others.
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Couple of things we noticed over the years was that our fans speed up when clapping which causes the songs to finish pretty quickly. Secondly, instead of clapping, if someone started banging a seat or (away from home) banging the back of the stand, we'd suddenly sing 10x louder.

That's when we brought in the snare drum which was mid-higher pitched, couldn't be heard by the South or North Stands when being played. The East Stand sang louder, more fans joined in, the songs continued for longer and the whole atmosphere was significantly better. That was probably my favourite ever home atmospheres (other than the obvious massive playoff / Swindon games). Luckily at the time we had a genuine drummer and enough of us who had seen how it's done overseas, it's important to get it right.

To this day I don't think some fans are even aware we played a drum in the East Stand for a season!
 
WuTang said:
Couple of things we noticed over the years was that our fans speed up when clapping which causes the songs to finish pretty quickly. Secondly, instead of clapping, if someone started banging a seat or (away from home) banging the back of the stand, we'd suddenly sing 10x louder.

That's when we brought in the snare drum which was mid-higher pitched, couldn't be heard by the South or North Stands when being played. The East Stand sang louder, more fans joined in, the songs continued for longer and the whole atmosphere was significantly better. That was probably my favourite ever home atmospheres (other than the obvious massive playoff / Swindon games). Luckily at the time we had a genuine drummer and enough of us who had seen how it's done overseas, it's important to get it right.

To this day I don't think some fans are even aware we played a drum in the East Stand for a season!
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Do you lads still have the snare drum/materials you can pass on to whoever the new kids on the block are? From Ultimate Yellows, to GE/OU it always felt like our vocal support, displays were getting better year after year and then Mixter and lads moving away seemed to kill it.

Judging by twitter one of our main young lads is actually a Chelsea fan, proper Reading behaviour, that. Really hope we can get something going aain one day. Been some good atmospheres at home over the years and most definitely away.

Imagine if every game had the atmosphere and passion of when we play Swindon, I'd never miss a game!
 
This hurricane of guff here is all well and good but the first step should be to get in some club management who have a positive attitude toward and some affinity with football supporters instead of the fucking Chuckle Brothers who regard us as a terrifying mutation of sheep and mushrooms that should be kept at arms length in the dark at all costs.
 
Wandering Yellow said:
Do you lads still have the snare drum/materials you can pass on to whoever the new kids on the block are? From Ultimate Yellows, to GE/OU it always felt like our vocal support, displays were getting better year after year and then Mixter and lads moving away seemed to kill it.
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Unfortunately I think I can remember us breaking the drum near the end of the season and binning it, £200-300 down the can! I had a number of materials but had to throw a lot away as I needed the space. The new lads seem to have a decent funding from somewhere as they seem to get all their flags/banners printed. We had some of the complicated designs printed but felt it showed more passion (and saved a lot of money!) if you sew materials and paint them, they looked more authentic and less like a club funded project.

Fairly certain they're still waving a union jack waver I left behind and possibly some of the flag poles we left in the East Stand storage room.
 
WuTang said:
Unfortunately I think I can remember us breaking the drum near the end of the season and binning it, £200-300 down the can! I had a number of materials but had to throw a lot away as I needed the space. The new lads seem to have a decent funding from somewhere as they seem to get all their flags/banners printed. We had some of the complicated designs printed but felt it showed more passion (and saved a lot of money!) if you sew materials and paint them, they looked more authentic and less like a club funded project.

Fairly certain they're still waving a union jack waver I left behind and possibly some of the flag poles we left in the East Stand storage room.
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Where abouts in the East Stand are the singers congregated mainly these days? Feels quite sparse and spread out. I've seen people 2 or 3 rows from the back wanting to sit down. Don't get it.
 
Video on YT of some of the "good old days" in terms of atmosphere:


I don't think our support should be club funded, but is there a desire to work with the club from some, rebuild some relationships, get it going again? Would be a shame if we just wait for the new stadium to try and sort things out. Because, and I may be wrong, a new stadium wouldn't be ready before the 26/27 season?
 
m said:
Hmm, that working class bit doesn't bode well for the future.

Having been located in the ghettos of Headington and Greater Leys for all of our history we're now looking to move to an idyllic garden village.

I'm surprised you hadn't heard tbh.
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I’ve already ordered chinos, tweed jacket and hunter wellys in prep for this. Out goes my working class attire of jeans, hoodie and trainers so I’ll definitely be doing my bit and looking the part.
 
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Concretebob said:
Wheel out one of the FoSB lunatics before every game, that'll get the crowd going. Might also be a great opportunity for them to see some working class people for a change too!

"Please welcome to the pitch, Suzanne McIvor!"

"BOOOOOOOO!"
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I'm not against wheeling out people onto pitches per se, but I just don't believe this is the right pitch to do it.
 
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