The Crowd

[MikeH72]

Give the fans something to get excited about, they're paid to entertain

What, you mean like a beautifully worked early goal by a player playing against his former team? Tried it unfortunately, didn’t work.

 

[ilikecheese]

I don’t know the answer mate.

But laughing at Watford bringing about 400 fans up and then being outsung by them isn’t great.

It's a thing mate, innit?

Very weird for me.

Again from my far away American perspective, the crowd made the difference tonight in Seattle.

 

[ijjysmith]

It's a thing mate, innit?

Very weird for me.

Again from my far away American perspective, the crowd made the difference tonight in Seattle.

Yeah. But MLS.

LOL

 

[Seathestars]

What, you mean like a beautifully worked early goal by a player playing against his former team? Tried it unfortunately, didn’t work.

Yeah, you have a point, I bow to your reply.
I remember the 80's when Goodison rocked, not sure what's happened but it is quiet

 

[deipnosophist]

My take? ...we're all just worn out.

 

[MikeH72]

Yeah, you have a point, I bow to your reply.
I remember the 80's when Goodison rocked, not sure what's happened but it is quiet

Don’t even have to go back that far mate, just the mid-00’s.

 

[ilikecheese]

Yeah. But MLS.

LOL

Well my Sounders are crap, but I was on about the Seahawks creating a great environment for the home team, and crushing @Moomin's dreams.

 

[zzr45]

Most fans at Goodison these days aren't interested in vocally supporting the team - don't know why a lot bother to turn up.

There’s this crazy thing called watching the team you follow in person.

 

[Big Neville Southall]

Park End PE7 should stand up all game, at the very least for the big games. The Park End lives off its 70s reputation. it's antithesis of that now.

 

[Andy McGurk]

Upper GS was the first time I turned to my dad and said "It's a morgue" and that was 2 minutes in. Some odd chants here and there, but if the crowd were a little more passionate then maybe the 2 kids in front wouldn't have been talking to each other all game. Managed to see the goal at the end just because 10 people in front left early.

My dad did say it's been like that before right back to 60s and 70s, plus this season I've been to a Peterborough United home game against Barnsley and no one made any noise there, and that had terraces. Plus I don't think Watford were that loud.

All I can say is thank God you get terrible phone signal at football grounds. There would silience all game.

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

Hate it when I watch the match at home on the TV and the atmosphere is rubbish at the ground. Really ruins the armchair experience for me.

Wish these people who make the effort to go on a Monday night in crappy weather and paid their money hard earned money just before Xmas got behind the team and made my TV experience that much more enjoyable.

Haha love this post, this is what this thread sounds like, a load of armchair sky subscribers fuming because they couldn't turn the telly up to 40 and singalong in their slippers, like most people who went the match yesterday, I'd been in work all day got in, showerd, changed then taxi straight back out, no time for me tea, I've never liked a midweek game because that's what atmosphere you get unless it's a big team, so really it's all you armchair supporters that are to blame for paying sky who have Monday night football, nice one bellends

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

I am obviously with you here from my American view, but I am hoping there is a logical answer to why Goodison is a sneering hole of contempt, while our away support is over the top ready to cheer a simple pass.

Easy answer, ale, especially on a Monday, the home fans have come from work, the away fans have travelled up early and been bevvying most of the day, this works for everyone

 

[D410]

They should call Goodison "The Morgue" .

 

[Big Neville Southall]

I often look at support in the lower and non leagues because it shows the seeds and the minimum numbers needed in order for an atmosphere to be created. Quite often there's only 20-30 fans that generate the singing for the rest of the fans to join in with.

Applying that to Goodison, you only need 20-30 fans to generate it. If you're within, or next to that 20-30 the noise will be loud, though it won't sound anything special from afar. The idea then would be to put that 20-30 in the middle of the Gwladys Street and their noise rubs off on those around and so 20-30 becomes a far greater number. Of course put them 20-30 in say the Top Balcony, then they stay as 20-30.

 

[Milkman]

The thing that angered me most about the crowd yesterday was the reaction to the first goal. People carry on about “giving us something to sing about”, but what more do they expect than a well worked early goal? And it was the deadest celebration I’ve ever seen, by the time the players had got back to the half way line it was silent again. Horrible stuff, I felt an absolute tit for jumping up and down while everyone around me politely clapped. I feel fully justified in my early season comments about our fans being the worst in the country.

I noticed that too. Actually embarrassing that we couldn't sustain some celebration for longer than it took the players to get back to the halfway line.

I'm convinced that we'll never win anything again because we're the most nervous, reactive fanbase out there. It's no wonder we constantly bottle the big games when one bad pass is met by a big collective 'argh ey ye 'kin sh*te'.