Strange quiet atmosphere yesterday

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Some theories:

  • The issues with the Kop.
  • A very weird complacency towards the (pretty much unprecedented) quality of players we have.
  • Apathy towards to the Prem and familiarity with recent promotion.
  • Our controlled style of play.
  • Lack of feisty games and refereeing howlers.
I still feel pretty nervous at games because without promotion the future looks bleak, and we’ll have very little legacy from the Wilder era. Not sure what’s in everyone else’s head…
 



it was freezing yesterday as cold as i remembered for a while, that final 20 mins for the players & my legs was tough watch.
atmosphere its not great & i would like to be better but i think its very harsh to call this a purely us problem, its a football problem. because id say its 90% of football matches in the football league are exactly like this. i was watching FA Cup, of the live games only Cardiff/Leeds was interesting in atmosphere.

id love us to have atmosphere like at world cup. with Argentinians, Morocco & Senegal. but it likely not in our nature, but we do need in a singing section back at the back of the kop
 
WF10BLADE said:
The guy in the white coat on the South Stand got it going for a bit.
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He took a lot of stick too. Another area of the ground that's usually noisier. I personally think that once the kop ticket situation is resolved things will improve.
 
I was stood outside Mansfield Town's ground yesterday for about 20 mins (long story) and they made some reight noise all the time I was there.
It was lead by someone with an annoying drum though!
 
west_yorks_blade said:
Myself and those around me spent most of the match tearing our hair out as the players conceded possession and for the entire second half sat back and let a mediocre Stoke side batter us. Too busy muttering 'Oh for fucks sake', to sing with joy.
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If fans only sang when there teams played very well, football as an experience would be finished.

It's awful atm and definitely contributed to the teams nervy 2nd half and end to the 1st. We're two nill up and they look on edge, wondering what they're doing wrong.
 
Only thing that is strange is that we were ahead for 90% of the game and those that need permission from the players to do anything still shut the fuck up. West side of the South tried, but the Kop was as bad as it's been all year. Sad state of affairs.

And to whoever was saying it was as cold as he can remember, he must have a short memory or wasn't at the Huddersfield game about a month ago, not that it was an excuse at that game either
 
It's all very well us complaining about the lack of atmosphere, but who amongst us actually does anything about it? Not me, that's for sure. I sit in the SS, sing the GCB before each half and that's about it (apart from the occasional swear word littered rants at either the team/player for giving the ball away cheaply or the ref). Other than that I'm intently watching the game, very nervously at the moment, not singing.

I take my hat off to any of you who get the singing going on the kop.
 
Every away game I've been to this season the home fans have been better than ours: Blackpool, Hull, Coventry, Luton, Middlesbrough.

We can't keep saying "all home fans are quiet", even though it's relatively true. We are on another level.
 
Whilst going to a match is a great stress buster, the subdued atmosphere could be due, at least in part, to the dreadful state of the world and indeed the incessant lousy weather!!
 
I wish I could make this go away but the last season in the Prem took a lot out of me. I can't bear another season like that. I really dislike that league, var, diving, big 6 bias etc.
Knowing that the prize for success is having to play in a league where finishing 17th is the best we can hope for. I realise that promotion is an absolute must this season or I fear the return of the wilderness years.
I like us to be winning games, as we are now, but the thought of another year of batting for our lives fills me with dread. What a conundrum.
I know I'm not on my own here and I'm sure it contributes a bit part in the lack of atmosphere this time around.
I hope I am very wrong and we go up and more than hold our own.
 
Chris the Blade said:
It's a Sheffield phenomenon. Local people here are always down on themselves, down on their city, down on their football team. There's no romance or style in our city. It's all just flat caps and whippets. Never going to change so please don't expect a Dortmund like atmosphere. You'll be constantly disappointed. You could make a start though. When someone asks you how you are, stop saying steady or fair to middling. Start to express yourself. Say I'm absolutely wonderful thank you and how are you?
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Utter nonsense
 
Chris the Blade said:
It's a Sheffield phenomenon. Local people here are always down on themselves, down on their city, down on their football team. There's no romance or style in our city. It's all just flat caps and whippets. Never going to change so please don't expect a Dortmund like atmosphere. You'll be constantly disappointed. You could make a start though. When someone asks you how you are, stop saying steady or fair to middling. Start to express yourself. Say I'm absolutely wonderful thank you and how are you?
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Would you agree that a big majority of fans at lane on a Saturday come from anywhere but Sheffield/South Yorkshire region
 



AWetFlannel said:
If fans only sang when there teams played very well, football as an experience would be finished.

It's awful atm and definitely contributed to the teams nervy 2nd half and end to the 1st. We're two nill up and they look on edge, wondering what they're doing wrong.
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I don’t disagree, but I was being very honest and saying that when the team are playing poorly and there is an air of negativity and frustration around me I don’t have much inclination to sing.

That said I have been to plenty of games, usually away, when a few (probably pissed) people will rouse everyone around them to start singing. We seem to be missing those old school rabble rousers who lift the atmosphere.

Case in point was the fella in the white coat that has been mentioned a few times. He single-handedly baited the away end for much of the game. And IMO was a bit of a cock. But at one point, his antics caused the away fans to up the volume, which in turn provoked a response from the south stand and the BLUT. For about a minute there was a great atmosphere.

As I say, I think we need more of those old school fanatics to start chants and get everyone going.
 
west_yorks_blade said:
I don’t disagree, but I was being very honest and saying that when the team are playing poorly and there is an air of negativity and frustration around me I don’t have much inclination to sing.

That said I have been to plenty of games, usually away, when a few (probably pissed) people will rouse everyone around them to start singing. We seem to be missing those old school rabble rousers who lift the atmosphere.

Case in point was the fella in the white coat that has been mentioned a few times. He single-handedly baited the away end for much of the game. And IMO was a bit of a cock. But at one point, his antics caused the away fans to up the volume, which in turn provoked a response from the south stand and the BLUT. For about a minute there was a great atmosphere.

As I say, I think we need more of those old school fanatics to start chants and get everyone going.
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We all need to find out what the man in the white coat was swigging pre match?
 
petcharlie said:
Yes they do but blades fans being blades fans always seem to be on the edge . Also we are picking up the points without playing well so nerves start to jingle .
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There is an atmosphere of fear. Fear that we blow an eleven point lead.
Had we played yesterday as we did against Burnley we would all go home happy, but yesterday many went home celebrating a win, but somehow feeling uncomfortable !!
The biggest noise was when we scored the third and an outpouring of relief exploded !
 
Maybe we all need a white coat as I keep seeing the cold is somehow to blame. Don't remember it being cold in August when the atmosphere was also, crap.
 

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coaxingstar71 said:
It's all very well us complaining about the lack of atmosphere, but who amongst us actually does anything about it? Not me, that's for sure. I sit in the SS, sing the GCB before each half and that's about it (apart from the occasional swear word littered rants at either the team/player for giving the ball away cheaply or the ref). Other than that I'm intently watching the game, very nervously at the moment, not singing.

I take my hat off to any of you who get the singing going on the kop.
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You, me and thousands of others. We love the noise when it happens, but our nature( and perhaps age) negate joining in.
 
Proper Blade said:
And half the stadium were on their way out at 2-1 up, just before the third goal. Nobody seems to care anymore
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Some were on the way out, but no where near 10%.
People have left the stadium early ever since I can recall.
 
We always sing at the back of the kop, problem is no one from about 6 rows down joins in, and further along the kop they usually start a different chant.
The younger fans are too busy with their vapes and phones to join in as well.
Ironically it's usually people in the silent South stand moaning that the kop doesn't do enough.
 



If this forum is representative of our support, it's hardly surprising. 'Not singing that because Bradford sang it in 1988'; 'Not singing that because it's slightly offensive to..... (insert type, group or sexual orientation here)' ; Not singing that because I don't like the stanza'... etc etc
 
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