Our Fans need an upgrade

[Doctor Dinkey]

The problem is fans are spoilt.

Yeah, cos we've had so much success and trophies over the years....

 

[Lighty64]

Neigh surely not. Hoarse maybe? ;-) (Sorry)

no I was correct the 1st time

 

[SugarRay]

Yeah we suck. The pool fans were singing and overpowering us the entire time. And I asked a simple question as to where to go for a pint with some spurs fans and noone answered. Honestly. We suck as fans.

Liverpool were quiet until they scored

 

[Dougal]

Yeah, cos we've had so much success and trophies over the years....

Not by spurs. By life. People expect instant results. It’s the age we live in. Everyone lives in the minute, sharing thoughts on forums, social media. Instant gratification on meaningless little things and absolutely no grasp on the reality that the bigger things in life may take time and fail occasionally. That’s why they sit bored waiting for the goal. Anyone can celebrate a goal. What kind of fan you are is what you do between them.

 

[mickdale]

Another heartbreaking loss at Wembley, another lame chorus of fans telling my son ‘get used to it lad, that’s the heartbreak of being a Spurs supporter.’ How do we expect our players to believe when the silence from our fans was deafening yet again today? We have to do better as supporters of the club - we have to be louder than the opposing team, and have to believe (as we should) that not only do we deserve to be in the Top 4, we actually deserve to win. Every. Single. Game. Let’s bring flags and drums and whatever else we need to create a winning environment. Our players and beloved club have earned it.

Stick your drum up your ass. I was at the chav game last season and that was the most embarrassed I’ve been in 37 years of watching spurs.
No loudhailers.
Don’t even mention clackers.
We are spurs. We sing.

 

[Lighty64]

Stick your drum up your ass. I was at the chav game last season and that was the most embarrassed I’ve been in 37 years of watching spurs.
No loudhailers.
Don’t even mention clackers.
We are spurs. We sing.

when we used to have a drummer at the Lane when I used to go as a ST holder in the early noughties, the only only stand never getting involved was the West stand, it used to be Park Lane, Paxton and the shelf. they banned the drum, made the Paxton a family stand, and the atmosphere dropped.

the way they have set up the acoustics, and where they have positioned the away supporters hopefully that will get the North and East going, have a drummer lifts the noise, and more will get involved other than the west stand

 

[mickdale]

when we used to have a drummer at the Lane when I used to go as a ST holder in the early noughties, the only only stand never getting involved was the West stand, it used to be Park Lane, Paxton and the shelf. they banned the drum, made the Paxton a family stand, and the atmosphere dropped.

the way they have set up the acoustics, and where they have positioned the away supporters hopefully that will get the North and East going, have a drummer lifts the noise, and more will get involved other than the west stand

behind the goal in the paxton was my place
Remember singing well before kick off and throughout the game. Used to sing for a song from shelf side or park lane.
If I remember right it was the seating that did it for atmosphere.....

 

[midoNdefoe]

Monaco vs Marseille at stade Louis there are only about 200 Monaco fans and they sang the full 90 minutes, with the occasional charge at the Marseille fans who’d all bought home tickets...

They had a drummer and a lunatic with a microphone orchestrating it... it was intense - flag waving ultras singing their hearts out all game - hard not to join in...

I’d say it’s not a problem with the fans not singing, people get swept up in the atmosphere and it happens naturally...
IMO, the problem lies with the fans who seem to turn up hoping for a bit of peace-and-quiet...
We should all agree to elbow anyone in the head who frowns at people singing - I’m still scarred from that west stand experience, utter disgust on faces when you got above a whisper!

 

[worcestersauce]

behind the goal in the paxton was my place
Remember singing well before kick off and throughout the game. Used to sing for a song from shelf side or park lane.
If I remember right it was the seating that did it for atmosphere.....

When was that? It must have been before it became the family/members end.
I remember it too in the Park Lane but I was much younger then of course, maybe that's got something to do with it, I was going to games with a bunch of mates from the age of ten and right through my teens so by the time I'd reached twenty I'd been doing it for ten years and had the scars to show for it but it had become second nature to me.
God that makes me feel a bit like Uncle Albert, during the 60's and 70's..........
I also think the fact that all the fans resent going to Wembley this season doesn't help.
Not keen on a performance though, not in the German style anyway.

 

[SugarRay]

It’s fucking Wembley. It’s soulless and full of tourists unfortunately. Especially for a game like yesterday.
I had two East Asians next to me, clearly on holiday and who were there to take pictures basically. Up to them, not my cup of tea but they’ve paid their money can can do as they please.

Of course we’ve had some decent atmospheres there at times but even then, it’s based on the occasion. I’ve been going there since it’s been built with England, only one fixture had what I’d call a good atmosphere for national games and that was the 5-1 v Croatia.

 

[Lighty64]

behind the goal in the paxton was my place
Remember singing well before kick off and throughout the game. Used to sing for a song from shelf side or park lane.
If I remember right it was the seating that did it for atmosphere.....

definitely the start of it, but when I went 2000/01-2001/02 there was a good atmosphere on all 3 sides, and usually picked up with the drum. before all seating, though due to work stopped going just before the 84 UEFA Final the Shelf was the place for me before they moved the enclosure there. weird thing is in those days when it was rocking I even remember us with scarves doing the "walk on" tune

 

[riggi]

The ultra style constant monotonous drone isn't something I like but still better than nothing. I don't see much wrong in how it was in the cl at whl, time before last. Spontaneous chants rather all that orcastrated stuff.

 

[Lighty64]

Monaco vs Marseille at stade Louis there are only about 200 Monaco fans and they sang the full 90 minutes, with the occasional charge at the Marseille fans who’d all bought home tickets...

They had a drummer and a lunatic with a microphone orchestrating it... it was intense - flag waving ultras singing their hearts out all game - hard not to join in...

I’d say it’s not a problem with the fans not singing, people get swept up in the atmosphere and it happens naturally...
IMO, the problem lies with the fans who seem to turn up hoping for a bit of peace-and-quiet...
We should all agree to elbow anyone in the head who frowns at people singing - I’m still scarred from that west stand experience, utter disgust on faces when you got above a whisper!

I know the feeling, was sat directly behind the directors box when we beat Leeds 2-0 in the FA Cup replay 98/99 season 2 great goals from Anderton and the magician Ginola. that was my 1st game since the 87 Cup final

 

[riggi]

I hope stuff can still get chucked on the pitch in the new whl. Sad day when that stops.

 

[Lighty64]

The ultra style constant monotonous drone isn't something I like but still better than nothing. I don't see much wrong in how it was in the cl at whl, time before last. Spontaneous chants rather all that orchestrated stuff.

if your talking about the Bale, Modric and VdV time, we had players that lifted the crowd the minute they got the ball with any space, plus once upon a time (before you was born) when it was a European night the whole stadium would rock, those days the West lower was known as "the Enclosure" and even they got invloved

 

[riggi]

if your talking about the Bale, Modric and VdV time, we had players that lifted the crowd the minute they got the ball with any space, plus once upon a time (before you was born) when it was a European night the whole stadium would rock, those days the West lower was known as "the Enclosure" and even they got invloved

Bring back Lennon running down the wing.

 

[Bobbins]

We're pretty shite fans let's be honest - only sing when we're winning, and when we are winning we spend 50% of our time singing arrogant shite like the "You're shit" song, being properly full of ourselves. It's no wonder other fans think we're spoilt ****s when we tend to act like it.

 

[ECHamilton4]

I'm a season ticket holder at Boca Juniors, so every time I went back to the Lane I always thought the atmosphere was rubbish - a chant never lasts longer than one verse, long periods of silence whatever is happening on the pitch etc. Same wherever else I've watched football outside Argentina over the last twenty years.

How do you creat an atmosphere? You organise it. Here the barras have drums and trumpets and whatever, but they also have teams of fans leading the singing in each section of the terrace, encouraging the fans around them to sing. And if you're in the segunda bandera and don't sing, you soon hear about it.

Any new songs they come up with, they distribute the lyrics on fliers before the game and then sing it for twenty minutes non-stop so everyone gets the tune. It may all sound naff and orchestrated, but the result is incredible. And needless to say all the best choirs are conducted, so this is what's needed in football stadiums. It's easier to do among away fans and when all stood close together. But sat at home just needs more coordination. If the new stadium is going to have a decent atmosphere it's going to need orchestration. I doubt that will come from the club, so it has to come from the fans. If I was a season ticket holder I'd've been on here before the season ticket allocation to try and get all the wanting to sing SC members to be sitting in the same section of the ground, if a little spread out, so we could organise some sustained and orchestrated singing.

So many people would sing if the people around them are singing, but it's really hard to be the first and run the risk of looking stupid if no-one else joins in. So who's going to take up the baton?

I love this - let’s do it!!

 

[ECHamilton4]

I nominate @riggi and @Dougal for the North stand. Doris the tea lady in the West, the cheese room haters in the East and the 1882 club in the South

oh and @MyNameIsNicolaBerti as a 54 year old when ever I go, I come home horse

I’m in! Don’t care where I’m sat in new stadium just to be clear - and I would never worry about ‘embarrassing’ myself or my family - let’s make some noise! ? COYS

 

[Lighty64]

We're pretty shite fans let's be honest - only sing when we're winning, and when we are winning we spend 50% of our time singing arrogant shite like the "You're shit" song, being properly full of ourselves. It's no wonder other fans think we're spoilt ****s when we tend to act like it.

our away support is one of the best, no matter what the score is