Sparky Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 i like many others are frustrated at the lack of atmosphere at the walkers stadium and maybe it is time we did something about it. the foxes trust tried the idea of printing songs in the sporting blue that we could sing but although it was a good idea it didnt work . i feel this website has grown in to the best supporter site that is currently linked with l.c.f.c. and that makes us all part of a strong supporter group. i think we all need to put our heads together and come up with some ideas on the matter , maybe we could speak with the mercury on the matter and veiw our concerns that the walkers lacks atmosphere, back on the songs issue we need to find another way to get fans singing them. i havnt spoke to petrescu or anybody else from the admin of the site but if we came together as foxestalk we would get good publisity for the site and could make the walkers as load as filbert street ! come on guys lets have some ideas ! thanks for your time
Benji Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 put song words on the scrolling scoreboard or, preferably, swap the kop and family stand
Ash Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 To but it bluntly , the atmosphere is shocking at the Walkers .Worst team in the Premiership & Championship for our home supoort
Sparky Posted 21 October 2004 Author Posted 21 October 2004 one of my great memories of growing up is standing in pen 2 singing my heart out and even when the kop turned in to all seater we then moved across to pen 1 to sing load and proud. we can change the dull atmosphere at the walkers.
Ash Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 one of my great memories of growing up is standing in pen 2 singing my heart out and even when the kop turned in to all seater we then moved across to pen 1 to sing load and proud. we can change the dull atmosphere at the walkers. 28292[/snapback] Yer by swaping the Kop with the Family Stand
Sparky Posted 21 October 2004 Author Posted 21 October 2004 good idea but cant see the club agreeing to it
Sparky Posted 21 October 2004 Author Posted 21 October 2004 im not convinced anybody would pursuade city to swap stands around , they put family stand next to away supporters to reduce trouble therefore its a safety procedure
Sparky Posted 21 October 2004 Author Posted 21 October 2004 maybe we could introduce singing areas , some clubs have introduced it but i dont know how it faired
davieG Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 i like many others are frustrated at the lack of atmosphere at the walkers stadium and maybe it is time we did something about it. the foxes trust tried the idea of printing songs in the sporting blue that we could sing but although it was a good idea it didnt work . i feel this website has grown in to the best supporter site that is currently linked with l.c.f.c. and that makes us all part of a strong supporter group. i think we all need to put our heads together and come up with some ideas on the matter , maybe we could speak with the mercury on the matter and veiw our concerns that the walkers lacks atmosphere, back on the songs issue we need to find another way to get fans singing them. i havnt spoke to petrescu or anybody else from the admin of the site but if we came together as foxestalk we would get good publisity for the site and could make the walkers as load as filbert street ! come on guys lets have some ideas !thanks for your time 28284[/snapback] Just some thoughts and probably quite negative. Latterly, since the introduction of all seating Filbo wasn’t the cauldron of sound you imagine, and was largely confined to SK1 in the kop, with that being next to the away fans it gave the impression of being loader than it actually was, the ground being smaller and compact added to this impression, these fans were also standing and it's much easier to sing whilst standing than sitting. You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of times the North, East and West stands joined in. It's obvious that the big brother authorities (government) and the money men of football prefer us all to pay our inflated entrance fee and to sit down, shut up and clap when they play the appropriate music. On the one hand you have control of the people, and on the other it makes it a more attractive product to market to a broader base of fans. If this results in driving away the few fans (relatively) that want to stand and sing then that's the price they’re willing to pay. To get this to happen at Filbert Way we would need a separate section, so as not offend others for those fans that want to sing, stand, shout, gesticulate, curse and take the piss out of people. This needs to be located next to the away fans. At Filbert way this needs to be the Kop/South stand with the away fans between the East and South stands, it's a nonsense that they are next to the family enclosure. Sure people will get excited and sing for the occasional, exceptional game but on a game by game basis you can't force people to sing and create this atmosphere you're after, you can however help by providing the right environment. Unfortunately the die is cast in terms of sitting and stadium layout, I believe it would take a miracle to get standing again and a catastrophe (relegation) with respect to LCFC to get the layout at Filbert Way changed. We’re not the only ones with this problem; even the Liverpool fans are saying how crap the atmosphere is at Anfield. As someone who has been in Filbo with 37000 fans mostly standing (i.e. North, South and East Stands) I know that’s not a lot of help and very defeatist, but a realistic perspective I believe.
Sparky Posted 21 October 2004 Author Posted 21 October 2004 i went to anfield last season for a european game and i sat in the kop and as you said davie g the atmosphere was poor although they did have 4 or 5 songs that got the majority of the crowd singing . maybe its just a case of getting more songs
Craig Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 I remember when we went Manchester City in the cup, they used that match to experiment. They had a designated singing area just next to us awayers i think, might be wrong though.
Sparky Posted 21 October 2004 Author Posted 21 October 2004 I remember when we went Manchester City in the cup, they used that match to experiment. They had a designated singing area just next to us awayers i think, might be wrong though. 28307[/snapback] was the atmosphere good?
Craig Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 When they sang blue moon it was... apart from that it was shit. But it can do no harm...
davieG Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 i went to anfield last season for a european game and i sat in the kop and as you said davie g the atmosphere was poor although they did have 4 or 5 songs that got the majority of the crowd singing . maybe its just a case of getting more songs 28305[/snapback] Songs may help, but when you have such a transitional team set up as we have there's no time to build a rapport with a player. To me it's extremely ironic that Benjamin is virtually the only player that get's his name chanted out, and although he gives 100% (should that actually be rewarded shouldn't they all be doing that)he's arguably the least talented player on the pitch. It wasn't that long ago that almost all players had their names chanted out before the game started, these days the fans are so busy so who's he, or why's he playing, they'd probalby be more comfortable and justified in singing that each palyer was shit. I personaly find it difficult to sing the praises of a manager, unfortunately most fans seem to prefer that to singing about Leicester City, so when the manager goes we're buggered for a while, hence the half hearted attempt at up the football league we go, after all who's team are we surely not Bassetts.
Leicester_Mad Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 how about getting together with the leicester mercury and printing a song sheet and putting one on each seat at the game? Ok not every may join in but its worth a try. Some supporters will stop going to the game because there is no atmosphere. I would also love to have the away fans next to the kop but that WILL NOT happen
Sparky Posted 21 October 2004 Author Posted 21 October 2004 how about getting together with the leicester mercury and printing a song sheet and putting one on each seat at the game? Ok not every may join in but its worth a try. Some supporters will stop going to the game because there is no atmosphere. I would also love to have the away fans next to the kop but that WILL NOT happen 28316[/snapback] it sounds a decent idea to me.
Hullfox Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 how about getting together with the leicester mercury and printing a song sheet and putting one on each seat at the game? Ok not every may join in but its worth a try. Some supporters will stop going to the game because there is no atmosphere. I would also love to have the away fans next to the kop but that WILL NOT happen 28316[/snapback] it sounds a decent idea to me. 28317[/snapback] 1) Pointless idea as there are 10,000 or so empty seats each game. 2) The atmosphere has on occasions been electric at the Walkers. (not often enough though) 3) How's this for radical thinking. Let the people who go to the games start the atmosphere going? No song sheets, just getting behind the team. Now some will say that they need the club to perform before they can do that. If that's the case then we won't get an atmosphere for a while. 4) When we went a goal down on Tuesday, the Kop tried to get it going with little success. I've said it before, our home support is shit.
Sparky Posted 21 October 2004 Author Posted 21 October 2004 yeah home support is shit , well noticed . i just wish we could get the crowd buzzing. or shall we just accept it
MON Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 yeah home support is shit , well noticed . i just wish we could get the crowd buzzing. or shall we just accept it 28322[/snapback] The support was superb against Mancity and Blackburn last year. The problem i think is, there are too many people buying cheap seats, but not wanting to sing, If they want that they should but tickets in the family stand, or east stand.
Anish Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 yeah home support is shit , well noticed . i just wish we could get the crowd buzzing. or shall we just accept it 28322[/snapback] The support was superb against Mancity and Blackburn last year. The problem i think is, there are too many people buying cheap seats, but not wanting to sing, If they want that they should but tickets in the family stand, or east stand. 28324[/snapback] There aren't any cheap tickets anymore! I thought the atmosphere was good against Ipswich (I was on the corner of the West/South Stand) and it was certainly great against Sheff Utd (I was in the family enclosure). It's probably cos they were both night games. Ashov, we aren't the worst home supporters in the Premiership and Championship. I was at Everton last season and their support was shocking, they only livened up after their equaliser to make it 2-2, and even then it wasn't much.
Leicester_Mad Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 ok dont print out 30k, print out 20k song sheets? or we just going to accept "the home support is shit"
Sparky Posted 21 October 2004 Author Posted 21 October 2004 ok dont print out 30k, print out 20k song sheets? or we just going to accept "the home support is shit" 28352[/snapback] at last somebody who is a bit positive . there are plenty of people in the kop who would sing if the songs got started . alot of fans are a bit worried if they start a song nobody would join in.
Jonbluefox9 Posted 21 October 2004 Posted 21 October 2004 I used to sit in the Kop at Filbert Street but I wasn't near the away fans, I was near the Carling Stand. The atmosphere wasn't that good apart from those near the away fans. When we moved to Filbert Way, I moved to the family stand to sit near the away fans and when we were doing well during our promotion season the atmosphere was brilliant but this season the football's been poor and so has the atmosphere. The loudest fans in the stadium now are in the A&L stand near the away supporters but there's not enough of them to generate enough noise to drown out the away supporters. I'm one of about 7 people who actually sing in the family stand and I couldn't help laughing when someone who sits reasonably near the front of the stand, the area where none of them sing, turned around when we took the lead and started to wave his arms and tell us to get behind the team. The stand's a disgrace and I only sit there so I can taunt the away fans otherwise I'd be back in the Kop again.
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