Atmosphere like a morgue.

[Pinchy]

On another note. I don't think much of these new songs.

Magic hat song is tiresome and as for that Coutts, there it is. What is all that about?

HH

Surely better than the alternatives of the same three or four all too familiar favourites or, the preferred option for many, nothing at all?

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

A slightly different angle on this. I make as much noise as the next person (well, more, actually, though the little kid in front was belting out the hat song, but looking at his dad sheepishly when it came to the rude word), but I do have reservations about the organised hype. 'We are the campions...of the world' has to be played over the PA; lets retain a bit of Yorkshire cussedness over this type of thing. It's been a fantastic season in so many ways - but champions of the world we are not. If there is a Blades way, it involves self-awareness, self-irony, pride in what we do well, and a dislike of the self-aggrandisement of some other sets of fans. Long may that last.

 

[Grecian2000]

So since I came on last we've sealed the being Champions bit and had a bit of a celebration.

First thread I bump into is the weekly "atmosphere is shit" nonsense. Can't we have a separate forum for this bollocks so those of us who quite like the football (you know, the thing that really DOES matter) can just have our fun???
No? Go on then moan on.

 

[Sean Thornton]

A slightly different angle on this. I make as much noise as the next person (well, more, actually, though the little kid in front was belting out the hat song, but looking at his dad sheepishly when it came to the rude word), but I do have reservations about the organised hype. 'We are the campions...of the world' has to be played over the PA; lets retain a bit of Yorkshire cussedness over this type of thing. It's been a fantastic season in so many ways - but champions of the world we are not. If there is a Blades way, it involves self-awareness, self-irony, pride in what we do well, and a dislike of the self-aggrandisement of some other sets of fans. Long may that last.

Gary Sinclair was far too cheesy all day yesterday.

 

[Nade]

I'll be glad when we are shit again and have 13k hardcores singing their hearts out.

I agree. I for one am looking forward to the day that we get relegated to the fourth tier again, so we can show who the real fans are!

 

[sitwell]

Gary Sinclair was far too cheesy all day yesterday.

Did anyone else cringe and imagine him cracking one off about he '2 games and 3 added minutes in this league' belter ?

I do like him btw.

 

[alcoblade]

It's a sign of how good things must have become at the lane that we're literally scraping the barrel for things to complain about.

 

[Rodders]

Did anyone else cringe and imagine him cracking one off about he '2 games and 3 added minutes in this league' belter ?

I do like him btw.

Kasabian blaring out on the Westfield Health Upper Tier when the team came out for the Bradford guard of honour making it impossible to hear the ground's appreciation in full voice pissed me off slightly.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

'We are the campions...of the world' has to be played over the PA; lets retain a bit of Yorkshire cussedness over this type of thing.

This ^^^^

Gary Sinclair was far too cheesy all day yesterday.

This ^^^^

Did anyone else cringe and imagine him cracking one off about he '2 games and 3 added minutes in this league' belter.

This ^^^^

Yes, he does a good job compared to other clubs' announcers, but did we really need to be told "The excitement is mounting", "Enjoy every minute", "You're going to sing the loudest version of the GCB ever", etc, etc ? As BB jr (hardly a cynic or a moaner) pointed out, "..... or you could just be quiet and let us experience it for ourselves".

"We Are the Champions" ?? Set the controls for the heart of the cliche, Gaz. Naff, naff, naff.

 

[derfblade.3]

"Sing up Shoreham".........was all the guy in front of me was on about all game. In the end i said "Why don't you concentrate on the great football being played and grow up". He shrugged his shoulders, then 2 mins later......"sing up you wankers".
What a waste of his money having a pop at fellow Blades in our long overdue time of triumph. Not everyone wants to sing . I join in when the tempo of the game is high but the quiet spells in the game are met with the big gobs shouting abuse at the guys enjoying watching the game. .............so leave us alone!

 

[JJBlade]

I remember being stood on the railway end at Rotherham as a sixteen year old kid with about 12000 Blades squeezed into an area fit for 4000

Two overweight drunken 30 odd year old twats were stood in front of me

The crowd surged forward and this pair of twats decided that the whole thing was my fault and started threatening me

It happened again a few minutes later and one grabbed hold of me and the other punched me in the face

These twats didn't care about health and safety, they didn't care about the match day experience either

They were just twats looking for an excuse to start a fight, and who better to pick a fight with than a sixteen year old kid

Stood all around me were other big 30-40 year old blokes, they could have picked on them but they didn't for some strange reason

We still have these types now, they think it's unreasonable that somebody stands up in front of them when we get a good chance because people in front of them are standing up, and people in front of them are standing up but they'd think nothing about chinning somebody for standing up. They have no objection to the standing at all, they're just twats looking for trouble

If you're unlucky enough to be sat in front of one of these twats you'd better sit down and shut up or be prepared for a scuffle

Like I said, it's just as well some of them don't support other teams, they'd actually not live very long

 

[borg elite]

Up until my daughter arrived six years I'd had a season ticket since 1986. I've only managed a handful of games this season and I was immedietly struck by how quiet the Kop is. Yesterday was very flat. The usual groups at the back of the Kop trying to start things but very few people joined in to make much of a noise. It was weird. Certainly less noisy than things used to be in my opinion and I can say that with some certainty given that I can compare with these two periods of my attendance at the Lane.

So two things struck me on my return. The quiet crowd and probably the best Blades side I've seen!

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

I'm not "watching" the pork. I've seen them on tv in a few of their big games over the past few seasons,most notably the wonderful play off final last season. Like it or not they made a fucking lot of noise. Saw some of the match at St James Pk this season. Noisy fuckers. Sure. The sty can be deader than a dead person a lot,but on an occaision like today,and it really,truly pains me to say this,I think they'd have given it the beans. Sometimes it isn't nice to hear what someone thinks when it isn't what you want to hear,but I honestly believe calling things as you see them is the best way. I don't post for likes,or controversy,I post what I genuinely think,as should everyone.
I genuinely think all pigs are cunts btw.

We could always start singing "all the way" and start "bouncing"

 

[Rodley]

 

[Rodley]

Up until my daughter arrived six years I'd had a season ticket since 1986. I've only managed a handful of games this season and I was immedietly struck by how quiet the Kop is. Yesterday was very flat. The usual groups at the back of the Kop trying to start things but very few people joined in to make much of a noise. It was weird. Certainly less noisy than things used to be in my opinion and I can say that with some certainty given that I can compare with these two periods of my attendance at the Lane.

So two things struck me on my return. The quiet crowd and probably the best Blades side I've seen!

It was quiet.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Having never tried cocaine, I'm not sure what benefit it bestows on football as a spectacle.
Does Hammond's unseen work becoming magnificently clear?
Does it make Scoogs appear 10x bigger (about 5'3'')?
Can you tell the difference between Desso and inferior grass?

Can a partaker in such substances explain the point?

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

2-1 Ken can do an impersonation of Russ Abbott.

 

[Rodley]

So since I came on last we've sealed the being Champions bit and had a bit of a celebration.

First thread I bump into is the weekly "atmosphere is shit" nonsense. Can't we have a separate forum for this bollocks so those of us who quite like the football (you know, the thing that really DOES matter) can just have our fun???
No? Go on then moan on.

The problem is Bramall Lane is and was notorious for having an exceptional atmosphere. Ask any Away fan who has been around the block, look at online reviews of our ground, read the press from Henry Winter, Rod Liddell, Irvine Walsh et al.

For many one of the special parts of our historic old ground was the noise we make, the raw passion and the wit and repartee from the support. I love a sing song at the match, I don't go to be a passive observer, I go to be a active participant. I was sat with my old man at the game and he was roaring them on without a care in the world - he's 70 this year. It's part of being a Blade.

We can and must do better. It's what defines us as Blades - we walk with a swagger, have the craic with a sense of self-deprecation and are full of gallows humour. I couldn't give a toss if the atmosphere is crap at most grounds, Bramall Lane isn't most grounds.

We need to do everything to preserve what makes it so special.

 

[I should coco]

We can and must do better. It's what defines us as Blades - we walk with a swagger, have the craic with a sense of self-deprecation and are full of gallows humour. I couldn't give a toss if the atmosphere is crap at most grounds, Bramall Lane isn't most grounds.

Sadly I can only give you the one like.

Spot on!

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

Having never tried cocaine, I'm not sure what benefit it bestows on football as a spectacle.
Does Hammond's unseen work becoming magnificently clear?
Does it make Scoogs appear 10x bigger (about 5'3'')?
Can you tell the difference between Desso and inferior grass?

Can a partaker in such substances explain the point?

Spice blanks it all out,a pig taking spice becomes zombie pig.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Having never tried cocaine, I'm not sure what benefit it bestows on football as a spectacle.
Does Hammond's unseen work becoming magnificently clear?
Does it make Scoogs appear 10x bigger (about 5'3'')?
Can you tell the difference between Desso and inferior grass?

Can a partaker in such substances explain the point?

It makes skinny seventeen year old virgins think they're men and older ones with hipster beards think they're straight men.

 

[Sheff de party]

The club have been right on point giving the ground back to the fans with the whole BLUT today. I swear to God most of the sad gets in their today should have gone to a fucking garden centre not a match. I was embarrassed we were live given the shit vocal support.
Hate to say this but I genuinely think in our position today the fucking pigs would have rocked the joint especially given the great football on show.
A couple sat behind me spent the whole fucking match talking about the behaviour of some cunt in an episode of some fucktard soap opera. Disappointing vocal support.

If you're embarrassed about completely crushing the team in third because it was a bit quiet, you must be pretty unhappy!

Makes about as much sense as the variety of posts you see on here or on Roy's View From that go something like:

"We may have lost but their fans didn't sing."
"Quietest ground we've been at all season."
"People who don't sing aren't real fans."

I was at the game and joined in a little, but I was with my mum and she's 61. Offering to shag someone's women and drink their beer doesn't have quite the same ring to it when sat next to the only person in the ground who's changed my nappy

You just get different people there who come for a day out and it's their day, so they can do what they like. Away games however. Different kettle of fish.

 

[Kevincarterversion2.0]

I thought the atmosphere was OK - decent in first half, quieter in the second - and the last 30 mins or so felt a bit like waiting for the game to end so the celebrations could begin.

I think there are always going to be parts of the ground more vocal than others. That's naturally going to happen - not everybody wants to sit there and sing. You'd get that at most clubs, so it's no big deal.

 

[South Bucks]

Thing is we've debated all this lack of atmosphere stuff many times and the causes and potential solutions and then when the season tickets come on sale we create the same old problem each year. Increasingly old quiet people hogging the best, central and most acoustically important seats. Its then hard for younger more energetic folk to get a song going from a corner of a stand when those in the middle are too old or tired to join in.

Was never like this with standing on the kop or probably with unallocated seats, the more energetic take the centre and the quieter folk move to the side for a quieter life. We reap what we sow.

Its one of the reasons the atmosphere is much better away from home where this doesn't happen as its all mixed up or a free for all.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Thing is we've debated all this lack of atmosphere stuff many times and the causes and potential solutions and then when the season tickets come on sale we create the same old problem each year. Increasingly old quiet people hogging the best, central and most acoustically important seats. Its then hard for younger more energetic folk to get a song going from a corner of a stand when those in the middle are too old or tired to join in.

Was never like this with standing on the kop or probably with unallocated seats, the more energetic take the centre and the quieter folk move to the side for a quieter life. We reap what we sow.

Its one of the reasons the atmosphere is much better away from home where this doesn't happen as its all mixed up or a free for all.

Dont ignore the possibility that most of these"increasingly quiet old people" might have served their time on the Kop when the chabbies on here were in their crib. A hard core following of the sixties, seventies and eighties would laugh out loud on hearing that only the younger fans matter, and then rightly tell you to show some respect.

 

[Rodley]

Dont ignore the possibility that most of these"increasingly quiet old people" might have served their time on the Kop when the chabbies on here were in their crib. A hard core following of the sixties, seventies and eighties would laugh out loud on hearing that only the younger fans matter, and then rightly tell you to show some respect.

I don't think that's his point. But if you're not singing why be back centre of the Kop.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

I don't think that's his point. But if you're not singing why be back centre of the Kop.

Used to stand on the Kop every match, and going home hoarse as well - I'm not on the Kop now because I'm 6'4" with all that entails with Kop seating. I won't be back centre of the Kop because I'm north of sixty, and standing and singing is not really my role in life anymore.
I've no problem at all with others doing so, but as you get older, you look like your dad dancing at a wedding, and my singing is shite anyway.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Yesterday just seemed to have its own pleasant, happy atmosphere.

It wasn't raucous, but it was enjoyable (from where I was sat anyway).

Loved the "stand up if you've won the league" that started on G/H block, spread over to the John Street near the Lane End, and then just worked on down the South Stand and the John Street to the Kop. Looked and sounded great. Like a Mexican Wave, but genuine.

Plenty of other times for intimidating atmospheres, yesterday was never going to be one. What was the need? Can't we just be happy now & then?

 

[South Bucks]

Dont ignore the possibility that most of these"increasingly quiet old people" might have served their time on the Kop when the chabbies on here were in their crib. A hard core following of the sixties, seventies and eighties would laugh out loud on hearing that only the younger fans matter, and then rightly tell you to show some respect.

When the kop was standing there was respect for people that had been giving support for decades but was irrespective of where they were standing. By hogging the key areas at BDTBL the older folk are slowly killing the atmosphere and its a bit selfish in my view to slowly choke something others also love when there is a choice that works better for all. Its the classic dog in a manger story but clearly a taboo subject so will come up after every home match but rarely for away matches and for good reason.

I ask my kids to show respect to me but I wouldn't do things that stuff up their future and things they love.

 

[Fanny magnet]

So that's what a chimp can do banging away randomly on a keyboard.
Cheers.

How come you haven't been banned yet you obnoxious tit ?