Ozwin Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 Were you the 20 year old who spoke the most sense out of everyone? If so, fair play mate.
Fosse Boy Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 Were you the 20 year old who spoke the most sense out of everyone?If so, fair play mate. Aye, that was me.
Guest ttfn Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 Ok so that attract kids in the first place. What about when they get older and realise that it is just aload of shit. People used to keep going because of the atmosphere. Of course there is the fact that people get hooked but that wont work for everyone and they should think about EVERYONE. Not just the families. I avoid all this shit by pretty much only going to away games but still. Fair point, but then we need to pull in the next generation of kids, and the next.
LCFC-ARAB Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 They all sat on the fooking fence, which pissed me off the mostStringer 'oh I prefer no goal music' Ballard 'oh I think no goal music is best' (Both of those with NO conviction whatsoever) Birchenall 'WHATEVER THE CLUB TELLS ME TO SAY' Behave wasn't expecting anything else really........
leicesterseddon Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 Dunno about that, I think I got a bit of stage fright. That was you then I assume? Thought you did your best...never really gave you enough time. Anyway, I can't see the club going back to CD, so I'm hoping 'Fire' (as much as I like the song) is a horrible failure, eventually leading to the eradication of music after goals... Well, that's the plan anyway...
Ozwin Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 We just need to bombard the club and radio Leicester with complaints. If they wanna attract kids then do something at Half Time that can get them involved, goal music isn't going to attract the next generation just because they can do a stupid jig.
Bluefoxtim Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 It should be up on iplayer soon I think? They mostly agreed with me, which I didn't expect! EDIT: The callers, not the presenters, agreed with me. Nice one, I think that summed up the general views from FT'ers. Well done for having the balls The woman at the end annoyed me. "My kids looked at me and wondered what was going on". That's the main issue - are they wanting us to score in the last minute to win 1-0, or are they wanting us to score in the last minute to do a dance and wave their arms?
Fosse Boy Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 That was you then I assume? Thought you did your best...never really gave you enough time. Anyway, I can't see the club going back to CD, so I'm hoping 'Fire' (as much as I like the song) is a horrible failure, eventually leading to the eradication of music after goals... Well, that's the plan anyway... No. I was about to open my mouth to make another couple of points but that failed cricketer Dagnall cut to Pete in Wigston or whoever it was.
Basingstoke Fox Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 Fair point, but then we need to pull in the next generation of kids, and the next. Ok, but it is free for under 8s isn't it? (I believe so, if not I'm pretty sure that it is pretty cheap). People in the next age group will generate more money so even if the club don't give a shit about peoples enjoyment at the game, if people in the higher age groups don't go, they are actually losing out on money too.
davieG Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. I may be a product of the generation of football fans who have been watching since the 'Premiership era', and so have grown up with commercialisation in football but I really don't see the problem with having goal music. I wasn't there on Saturday but by all accounts it sounded bloody weird when we scored. It's not that people don't know how to celebrate anymore (away matches anyone?) but having things like goal music at the game increases the all-round appeal of the game to allcomers. Who cares if we listen to 15 seconds of goal music which at least 75% of the crowd seem to get into if it means that we continue to be part of the advertisement of football as a family activity. Sure, it's a bit silly, but it is all part of the family atmosphere that has been built up at football over the last 15-20 years. If we want to continue to get kids through the door, we need to make the game a more attractive prospect to kids with notoriously short attention spans and their parents with increasingly less disposable cash. I'm not saying that we need this goal music to survive, but its presence makes the whole day more enjoyable for people who may not post on here. Kids, mums, dads - those who can't or won't go to every game. Do we want them to come to the Walkers or not? Whenever Chelsea Dagger came on I'd avoid dancing like a moron because I'm a grown man, but I'd always see parents and their kids dancing away, and they seemed to be having a great time. You may say that music shouldn't be necessary to get the atmosphere going, but it involves a lot of the people who don't want to join in with things like the singing during the game, and makes more people feel like they are part of the atmosphere. In a way it is sad that this is what football has come to. Yet at the same time, I feel like a lot of people on here are more than happy to slag the club off for doing little more than trying to make the game a more enjoyable experience for all involved. I appreciate why people don't like it, but I feel that there has been a total overreaction from many people on here. Times have changed. *awaits barrage* The problem with that is when these kids reach 16+ they are no longer interested or want to be controlled by all 'family atmosphere' and therefore all that effort to get them interested disappears as many of them no longer go. Study the demographics for the attendees at football matches and there's a massive void of fans in the 16 to 35 age group the same group that formed the majority before all this 'family orientated' bollocks reared it's ugly head. This has nothing to do with being 'nice' to families it's to keep this age group away and sadly it's working. You may find that as a result of this the crop of oldies will also get smaller as those 16 - 35s that no longer go will not suddenly return. you'll then be left with a whole load of kids and parents, no 16 to 35s and no 35+s
Bluefoxtim Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 We just need to bombard the club and radio Leicester with complaints. If they wanna attract kids then do something at Half Time that can get them involved, goal music isn't going to attract the next generation just because they can do a stupid jig. The club do have the capacity for decent ideas. I think EVERYONE would agree that the kids' relay races are 100000x better than some terrible singer etc
Shrenchel Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 Fair point, but then we need to pull in the next generation of kids, and the next. So why did you fall in love with going to watch Leicester when you were a kid?! Unless you're a fooking mature 12 year old, it wasn't goal music and all this happy clappy plastic stuff. A proper, traditional football atmosphere is as (if not more) exciting to a kid as it is to an adult. That's why we all got hooked on Filbo and that's why kids should get hooked on the Walkers, goal music is the complete antithesis to that.
Ozwin Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 Little competitions, get Filbert to pick out a kid from the crowd each game to win a signed shirt or something. Make the most out of the mascot.
Unabomber Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 It should be up on iplayer soon I think? They mostly agreed with me, which I didn't expect! EDIT: The callers, not the presenters, agreed with me. Wow you were spot on, makes a fooking change that there was someone talking some sense for once.
Basingstoke Fox Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 Wow you were spot on, makes a fooking change that there was someone talking some sense for once. What the hell is that sig all about? :laugh:
leicesterseddon Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 Fair point, but then we need to pull in the next generation of kids, and the next. I agree entirely...I just don't think you need goal music to do that. Good pricing and good football will do the job If goal music is required to keep your children interested in the game, they are too young to be there.
Karljohn Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 Initially thought that we should get 10000 "no goal music" signs made up like the "dont go martin" ones that were held up when MON was linked with Leeds or the fosse/city namechange thing...... But then again the majority that now populate the walkers on a matchday would probably start waving the signs and doing the CD dance like ******. For a reminder of what a football match atmosphere used to be like, buy a ticket for Newcastle v Leicester next monday, I personally am looking forward to the atmosphere created by 40,000 geordies, they wont need a spazzy song to whip up the atmosphere at St James'
Unabomber Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 What the hell is that sig all about? :laugh: Bullard's attempt at the filming for the sky sports team thing before live matches on sky.
charliefox Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 We just need to bombard the club and radio Leicester with complaints. If they wanna attract kids then do something at Half Time that can get them involved, goal music isn't going to attract the next generation just because they can do a stupid jig. Very true: I took my brothers (5 and 7) to their first match at the weekend. They couldn't have cared less that there was music played after we scored, they were chuffed enough with the fact that we had scored. When I was their age and started going down to Filbert street I never once thought 'ooooh, this would be so much better if after we scored they played a silly little song so that half the crowd could jump around like monkeys.' I bloody hate goal music, and as nearly everyone has said, no one needed it to celebrate in the past, we don't need it to celebrate at away matches, so why do we need it at the Walkers?
Ozwin Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 For a reminder of what a football match atmosphere used to be like, buy a ticket for Newcastle v Leicester next monday, I personally am looking forward to the atmosphere created by 40,000 geordies, they wont need a spazzy song to whip up the atmosphere at St James' Amen to that.
Basingstoke Fox Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 Bullard's attempt at the filming for the sky sports team thing before live matches on sky. Its brilliant.
Fosse Boy Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 For a reminder of what a football match atmosphere used to be like, buy a ticket for Newcastle v Leicester next monday, I personally am looking forward to the atmosphere created by 40,000 geordies, they wont need a spazzy song to whip up the atmosphere at St James' I'd hope those of us making the trip to be in the away end might contribute to that too.
purpleronnie Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 I've always thought newcastle home fans were just as quiet as all the rest, their away fans are top notch though.
Maybes Posted 24 August 2009 Posted 24 August 2009 I've always thought newcastle home fans were just as quiet as all the rest, their away fans are top notch though. This. Goal music = gaydem.
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