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Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 10:48 - Oct 12 with 1322 views
Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 18:03 - Oct 11 by robcoe5
Some of us like to watch the game and enjoy sitting eating our sandwiches If you want to make a lot of noise go back to your old seats Singing stupid song doesn’t make you a better supporter.
Sort of agree here and i've spent my life in various "singing areas", from the archers when it was split, to the milton, under the east, bikeshed, northam and itchen north.
I've always been a firm believer that songs don't make an atmosphere - and singing about the f*cking skates just makes it worse - for me the best atmosphere at the old dell was actually the roar when the players got forward, and the stamping of the feet on the floors of the old upper stands.
Sadly you don't really get that much at many grounds in the country anymore, i can only really think of Goodison and Elland Road where i've heard it in the last few decades.
These days it seems to be more about songs that have no bearing on what's happening in the game, which is probably why some clubs have gone down the fancy dress "ultras" route, as they're the "logical" end point of the social media generation who care more what they look like to each other than actually supporting the team
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Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 11:25 - Oct 12 with 1298 views
Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 21:22 - Oct 11 by PatfromPoole
The holy grail for me is 30,000 Saints fans stood all round the ground all game, making such a deafening racket that the away fans can hardly hear themselves trying to sing.
I went to England v Germany in Euro 2000 in Charleroi and there was such a commotion and racket in the England end that the floodlights behind the goal were shaking. Keegan was manager, noticed it and commented on it at the time. I would love the same to happen at our ground.
Alas, I am clearly in a tiny minority and have to accept the atmosphere such as it is.
I remember that England game, we were in seats allocated through the London FA and even they were joining in! That’s unusual. I don’t think it has been quite the same atmosphere wise since we left The Dell - I remember having a conversation with Nick I in the Dell car park when I was down to renew my season ticket for our last season there and to also sign up for SMS and I said to him then that there were going to be about 16.000 ‘new’ supporters in terms of being able to attend games regularly and how it would be our responsibility as the Dell regulars to train them up to our standards as let’s face it nobody relished coming to The Dell. Because the pockets of support were fragmented once inside SMS we never quite got that atmosphere back. We were West Stand Lower (benches originally) our job was to take care of the linesman - one mistake and we were on his back the entire half. Once at SMS that group were scattered far and wide. I remember my favourite ITV commentator Brian Moore saying when he did Keegan’s home debut v Man City the needles on the sound meters were just rammed against the pin on the right hand side in the red zone for most of the game - he said he never heard a noise like it from a crowd of just over 23,000 and when Channon scored the first goal the wall of noise engulfed his commentary position on the gantry like nothing he had previously experienced at a League ground. Hey-ho, what it would be to have times like that again at SMS…
Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 20:39 - Oct 11 by robcoe5
It was not a wind up I have sat in this area for over 10 years I like the area as I can sit and watch the game with my grandchildren don’t see the point of banging on the hoardings etc is supporting the team and singing abusive songs supporting the team
Then I genuinely don’t want you at St Mary’s. You get the team you deserve in life and if your approach is docile you get a docile atmosphere and a docile team. You are contributing to the poor atmosphere at St Mary’s everyone is complaining about at the moment. I’d rather see more empty seats with those remaining raising the decibels and the roof than a ground full of sandwich munchers.
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Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 17:38 - Oct 12 with 1140 views
So the 1000’s of supporters who make all the noise and then boo the team are what you want Surely booing the team is worse than sitting watching the game
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Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 18:24 - Oct 12 with 1123 views
Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 17:38 - Oct 12 by robcoe5
So the 1000’s of supporters who make all the noise and then boo the team are what you want Surely booing the team is worse than sitting watching the game
Are you saying the supporters who sing are the ones that boo the team?
Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 15:54 - Oct 12 by WinchesterExile
Then I genuinely don’t want you at St Mary’s. You get the team you deserve in life and if your approach is docile you get a docile atmosphere and a docile team. You are contributing to the poor atmosphere at St Mary’s everyone is complaining about at the moment. I’d rather see more empty seats with those remaining raising the decibels and the roof than a ground full of sandwich munchers.
I agree. They are welcome to sit in the family stand where that sort of atmosphere is encouraged.
But to have a pop at us in BOTC for trying to introduce a home end is bizarre. They literally sit in the cheapest area of the ground (apart from family stand). What do they expect. Prawn sandwiches and half and half scarfs??
Football without what little atmosphere there is would be even more painful.
The Chapel will rise.
Modern football for you I guess.
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Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 08:37 - Oct 13 with 974 views
Singing is not the problem or cheering the team on, it’s the constant swearing in the song I have a issue with Also the singing is not always encouraging the team, as Flynn Downs mentioned
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Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 12:16 - Oct 13 with 909 views
Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 11:27 - Oct 13 by robcoe5
Singing is not the problem or cheering the team on, it’s the constant swearing in the song I have a issue with Also the singing is not always encouraging the team, as Flynn Downs mentioned
Flynn Downs should concentrate on his game.He won’t be here long anyway.
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Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 12:50 - Oct 13 with 895 views
Back Of The Chapel ! Looking To Ramp Up The Atmosphere At St Mary's on 11:27 - Oct 13 by robcoe5
Singing is not the problem or cheering the team on, it’s the constant swearing in the song I have a issue with Also the singing is not always encouraging the team, as Flynn Downs mentioned
Swearing at the football is inevitable. Apologies if it offends you, but its not going to change. Can I ask why you aren't in the family stand? Very similar view to where you sit now and swearing isn't allowed.
I used to sit there when I was a kid. Great memories.
You mention Flynn Downes - us in BOTC never slate the team. Or boooooooooo.
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