"Singing Sections"

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I was looking on the FLS-Nufc site and one of the ideas they proposed were to have singing sections which have apparently been put forward at old trafford. Basically, everyone who wants to sing take a seat in this certain place. I think it sounds like a good idea. ANY1 else?

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001

Answers

Takes a LOT of hard work and you'll get hundreds going in there just to be in with the "atmosphere" yet not contributing.

"The voice of experience"

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


Ok, how about if you don't sing you get whipped or something.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001

So LR has it actually been tried at Man.u? If so how many seats were for the "choir"? A whole stand?

Why don't all fans sing the way they do when at away games? 2,000 fans can be defeaning so think what 52,000 could do.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


I don't think it's really needed to be honest, for the amount of time and effort it would take.

There have been a few games this season when virtually everyone in the ground was singing, this is without special sections. It's a bit sad that we need to be "psyched up" to start singing (ie sh*te referee, opposition goal, great home display.

Everyone used to sing when Keegan was manager, but then we were nearly always winning when Keegan was manager.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


Our away support is always vocal and noisy and sing great(ish) songs. At SJP all you ever hear is.......'Newcastle, Newcastle, Newcastle....etc,' or 'stand up if you hate Sunderland'.

Where's the sense of humour gone! We hear it away but not at home. I suspect this is the same for most sides though.

I'll never forget the first time I heard the Cheer Up Peter Reid song at Sheffield Wedsnesday at start of 96/97 season. Very funny but sadly nothing as funny since.

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001



Jim - have you seen Manure at OT this season? You surely can't blame the fans for not singing. Seems like a great opportunity for a new sponsor - Kleenex.

WRT to the noise at SJP - it has in general been poor. The reasons have been discussed on here and they are basically the same at most grounds. At least the folks at OT are trying to do something about it. We could do a tlot worse than try to emulate that. But I recognise the challenge isn't easy. Perhaps the idea of whips has something going for it. Might at least keep them entertained at OT ;-))

-- Anonymous, December 03, 2001


I thought Kleenex were already corporate sponsors of the media section at OT althought they have since branched out to Anfield.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001

There are mighty problems with creating a singing section, not least that you'll have to displace people, something that NUFC will probably avoid after the SOS debacle. Also, as LR says, you'll get people who go to sit in the Singing Section but won't join in. I was all in favour of the notion until it dawned on me that it's p*sspoor football coupled with the sanitisation of the game that has ruined the atmosphere - I don't think a Singing Section will help with this. Also, if everybody who moaned about the atmosphere actually tried to get things going, there'd be no atmosphere problems. We seem to expect somebody else to get things going.

You're still alive, then, Screach?

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001


No.

This is an automatic response from a robot PC. God, whoever called it "keep fit" must have had a bliddy good sense of humour. It's nowt like gym used to be at school. No beanbags or climbing frames :-(

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001


The longer people sit together the more comfortable they feel making noise so initially a seat swapping exercise may be a bit self defeating, that said there is nowt like a bit of commitment on the field to generate a bit atmosphere. Leeds at home last xmas and the coffin dodger to my left even started clapping.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001


It's a kind of living, Dougal :-)

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001

Thanks for the vote of confidence Bobby.

-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001

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