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Post by madgas on Sept 13, 2016 22:25:14 GMT
Ladies and gentleman,
The team that took to the pitch tonight, with a couple of additions got us promoted twice!
There is something lame about our support at the moment. We have been fantastic in the sh** times, but during the small stutter let's not turn on the boys, let's rally behind them. There's been too much moaning and muttering in my opinion.
I've got some fantastic memories of supporting the gas and most of them involve a fantastic crowd. Let's make more, sing, cheer shout and try to keep it positive.
Don't make me buy a drum! Sing for the boys.
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Post by WeAreTheGas on Sept 13, 2016 22:32:49 GMT
Well said.
The Mem is very, very flat at the moment and I'm not sure why.
More atmosphere on the moon than there was at Saturday's and tonight's game.
I've always thought that even on a 'bad day' the atmosphere at the Mem is better than at most L2 and L1 grounds, but this season it's been absolutely dead.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2016 22:43:18 GMT
For me this is because we are letting teams dictate us at home and some players are nervous which is making the fans nervous. Two leaders for us last season were Brown and Lockyer, all of a sudden they are both playing nervous, making mistakes and it transmits to the fans. I felt we got behind the team second half when we pressed Walsall and players like Brown came into the game.
Atmosphere is a chicken and egg situation, every game the fans are expecting us to go a goal down and it's happening a lot this way. If we go a goal up like we did against Oxford you build an atmosphere. It works both ways, I haven't missed a game in the league home and away and at Swindon and Southend as fans we were nervous because we were set up wrong and that stopped the atmosphere. Give the fans something to sing about, everything about us on and off the pitch is nervous right now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2016 23:19:04 GMT
its been very obvious our team is playing against better players and the fans have felt a bit anxious about how were going to get on but i thought the atmosphere built up in the 2nd half as we got on top.
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Post by pudseygas on Sept 14, 2016 6:09:25 GMT
And we aren't winning which always helps
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Post by madgas on Sept 14, 2016 6:14:36 GMT
For me this is because we are letting teams dictate us at home and some players are nervous which is making the fans nervous. Two leaders for us last season were Brown and Lockyer, all of a sudden they are both playing nervous, making mistakes and it transmits to the fans. I felt we got behind the team second half when we pressed Walsall and players like Brown came into the game. Atmosphere is a chicken and egg situation, every game the fans are expecting us to go a goal down and it's happening a lot this way. If we go a goal up like we did against Oxford you build an atmosphere. It works both ways, I haven't missed a game in the league home and away and at Swindon and Southend as fans we were nervous because we were set up wrong and that stopped the atmosphere. Give the fans something to sing about, everything about us on and off the pitch is nervous right now. I agree that if we were playing better, the chances are the noise would increase. However, it can't always be like that. The boys are struggling for form and we need to pick them up. We barely even busted out an Goodnight Irene. Moreover, there is a growing tendency to slag players off. Support the boys! We've cheered on some right donkeys, but at the moment were flat for the heroes that gave us our rovers back.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 6:32:49 GMT
Same thread different season.
The old chicken and egg scenario is well and good. However that suggests that there will only be a noise if we play well or are winning, which is pretty lame under the definition of "support".
Our crowd is too old and too critical to offer unconditional support. Plenty of noise on social media though....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 6:44:53 GMT
Same thread different season. The old chicken and egg scenario is well and good. However that suggests that there will only be a noise if we play well or are winning, which is pretty lame under the definition of "support". Our crowd is too old and too critical to offer unconditional support. Plenty of noise on social media though.... I can agree with a lot of that, not sure about the social media comment, think every club has fans debating it on social media these days. I think we've been used to winning football and success at home and now people have got used to it. We also have to remember our dark days at home so we should be getting behind them more, agree with you. I also get a little upset that 4,000 day trippers never went Saturday or last night, they all come when we are doing really well.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Sept 14, 2016 6:59:03 GMT
Same thread different season. The old chicken and egg scenario is well and good. However that suggests that there will only be a noise if we play well or are winning, which is pretty lame under the definition of "support". Our crowd is too old and too critical to offer unconditional support. Plenty of noise on social media though.... Our crowd is too old? Surely not. I thought people didn't think it important to make it cheap and easy to bring kids along, so that cant be it.
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Post by markczgas on Sept 14, 2016 7:20:00 GMT
For me this is because we are letting teams dictate us at home and some players are nervous which is making the fans nervous. Two leaders for us last season were Brown and Lockyer, all of a sudden they are both playing nervous, making mistakes and it transmits to the fans. I felt we got behind the team second half when we pressed Walsall and players like Brown came into the game. Atmosphere is a chicken and egg situation, every game the fans are expecting us to go a goal down and it's happening a lot this way. If we go a goal up like we did against Oxford you build an atmosphere. It works both ways, I haven't missed a game in the league home and away and at Swindon and Southend as fans we were nervous because we were set up wrong and that stopped the atmosphere. Give the fans something to sing about, everything about us on and off the pitch is nervous right now. Yes BUT you would expect a chant of Come on you Blues (at the least) when we have a corner !! I'd say the vocal boys only managed it for about half the corners last night. Much More noise needed to suck the ball in the net. Maybe Wael and steve need to organise some singing practice before the game with the faithfuls
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Post by Topper Gas on Sept 14, 2016 7:22:34 GMT
Perhaps if DC stopped experimenting in home games with daft formations which don't seem to work and stuck to 4-4-2 with two wide players it would lift both the players and the fans? i can't see anything was wrong with our second atmosphere TBH.
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Post by gonzales on Sept 14, 2016 7:31:38 GMT
Thought it was sh*t last night and been poor every home game I've been to this season.
Don't agree it's to do with winning - we've often been at our best voice when things aren't going our way or we sense (invent) an injustice toward our team. However I do agree the general feeling of trepidation which seems to envelop the Mem at the moment is having an effect on noise, the murmur to my ears is unbearable.
The older age of our average fan is a contributory factor, sure, but the kids behind the goal can't even keep a whole verse going, let alone a whole ditty. Some of the songs they tried to get going last night were woeful, I applaud them for trying new things but other people aren't going to catch it at thousand bpm, or maybe they do and think it's rubbish like me. Ten German bombers, yuk, glad that faded as soon as it started. Jonny comes marching home or more likely ants go marching one by one exemplifies the lack of ideas and incoherent voice. Maybe they could use their smartphones to coordinate the support, rather than constantly checking other scores and all the other bs that lights them up.
Been feeling a bit despondent with it lately to be honest, I love the Gas but can't help but feel an unrestrained level of expectation and lack of concentration is bringing the atmosphere down - and if I'm honest it's one of the main reasons I go to football.
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Post by madgas on Sept 14, 2016 7:33:02 GMT
Perhaps if DC stopped experimenting in home games with daft formations which don't seem to work and stuck to 4-4-2 with two wide players it would lift both the players and the fans? i can't see anything was wrong with our second atmosphere TBH. Points on this. - we played 4 4 2 last night. - 'didn't see anything wrong with the second half atmosphere' kinda implies you for see something wrong with the first half. That's not good enough. We need to be more supportive. These boys have earnt our trust.
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Post by mariobalotelli on Sept 14, 2016 8:57:16 GMT
I have been to plenty of games where we have had 11 donkeys on the pitch and would lose 3/4-0 and the atmoshere has been better than it has been since DC has been in charge pretty much
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2016 8:59:07 GMT
Apart from the old firm, the last few games I've seen on tv have been flat aswell. Maybe it's the new thing.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Sept 14, 2016 9:24:09 GMT
Apart from the old firm, the last few games I've seen on tv have been flat aswell. Maybe it's the new thing. Lack of atmosphere and singing is now part of the game? FFS once again Franchise FC are light years ahead of us on this.
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Post by gregsy on Sept 14, 2016 9:29:52 GMT
Apart from the old firm, the last few games I've seen on tv have been flat aswell. Maybe it's the new thing. Lack of atmosphere and singing is now part of the game? FFS once again Franchise FC are light years ahead of us on this. this coming from a bloke who takes a blanket into the south stand
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Sept 14, 2016 9:58:38 GMT
Lack of atmosphere and singing is now part of the game? FFS once again Franchise FC are light years ahead of us on this. this coming from a bloke who takes a blanket into the south stand I regret nothing.
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Post by mehewmagic on Sept 14, 2016 10:30:26 GMT
Lack of atmosphere and singing is now part of the game? FFS once again Franchise FC are light years ahead of us on this. this coming from a bloke who takes a blanket into the south stand I wonder what he's doing underneath it though
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Post by mehewmagic on Sept 14, 2016 10:30:58 GMT
this coming from a bloke who takes a blanket into the south stand I regret nothing. I wonder how the French say that?
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