Following is the description and then followed by link to facebook group! Join Please:
Mainly for the North Upper but starting next season or for the rest of this season, everyone bring scarves and chant in the north upper! Bring the passion back home and cheer the team on to push for promotion back to the championship! Be the twelve man and raise your scarf whilst Valley Floyd Road is sung. Imagen a sea of red scarfs and flags at the valley every home game and away and imagen the spirit that would give the team! Anyway everyone get the scarfs and flags out and lets cheer the lads on!
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=8258&uid=178921980222#/group.php?gid=178921980222&ref=nfThanks
Sean
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Imagine you could spell ;-)
Bit cringeworthy when you have to coerce people into singing/cheering when they wouldnt do without persuasion.
exactly!
If you're saying that, Rodders, then you must be fairly young.
Ask any of the older posters on here and they will tell you that not so long ago, football supporters always created the big atmosphere, scarves held high, variety of songs, humour and passion.
And it was the pre-match that built up the tension and atmosphere, before the teams even kicked off.
Nothing to do with being 'Americanised like the Gladiator crowds in the 90s'.
It's the way football crowds traditionally always were.
It's the fact that we no longer have a pre-match build up of supporter anticipation and tension that seems to have contributed to the muted atmosphere today. That seems the most evident change between now and back then.
It's just not the same generally today.
And fans have different expections and are much more passisive overall.
Maybe it's all-seater stadiums, maybe it's the way the pre-match tannoy music drowns out the fans - though of course society has changed too
Yeah i was at the play offs (waving my scarf) so see what you mean. I understand your point completely what I meant was the sort of manufactured/ plastic shows of support that is apparent in modern football and like you say with the modern stadium and difference (particularly in the prem) seems a bit diluted and unauthentic sometimes with dancing cheerleaders at half time and professional Mcs geeing up the crowd (with no real link or interest to the club other than the money they are getting for the gig).
Im all for the support of old you describe and remember the electric atmospheres when i was a nipper and would love it to be like that again. I love it when the atmosphere and support at the valley sends a shiver down the spine and thats what the buzz of going to football is about for me. Just meant that it doesnt feel as genuine to me when its not spontaneous and too pre- planned or engineered.
Still regardless of what i said if the facebook thing does generate some good support and atmosphere next season then itll be a good thing.
Agreed - it's the artificial/ razzamatazz/ too loud tannoy music/ MC's, etc (not just at The Valley) stuff that grates - and gets in the way of supporters generating excitement. But fans are so used to it nowadays that maybe it's a lost cause.
It's that 'shiver down the spine' that you mention that seems to be missing in the pre-match.
If the holding scarves high help to bring it back, create some decent singing it'll help lift the energy of the whole ground.
Which in turn lifts the players.
Indeed. Hopefully next season will be a remedy in many ways.
Let's hope the pendulum swings. We're overdue a bit of success.