I'm hopeful for improvement next season with the changes in the Stretford End - 5k sounds small but seeing as the 'singing section' started with just 1.2k in 2019 it's already growing
I’d like to see this as a positive but from me experiences of J stand recently, it’s not a good move. J stand is fecking awful these days.
This is great news mate.
Yeah, will do mate, hoping it's gonna be good as it tags onto the side of TRA
Ah yes that is a load of bollox too
even my 14 year old daughter (who to be fair has been going home and away since she was 8) recognised it and called it out for being what it is - absolute pony!It is small but given what 3000 of our away fans can get going it will be noticeable. Hopefully will get expanded.
I tried to not make a distinction between hooligans and ultras.
Just above you in W210 row 25
let’s just make sure we keep the noise going where we are then!!
I've been going regularly for 20 years, season ticket holder for over 15 now I think, and that was the best atmosphere in my time. After what happened in Rome, you could sense the United fans wanted revenge that night. Never been so pumped up for a game before and I think everyone was the same.
Don't hold your breath. It has been flat as a pancake even in the big games this season, including City at home.
it was certainly the loudest outside the ground, as the Roma fans arrived, I’d seen in years.
We don't often bother, but we went round to the away fan entrance that night to join in the atmosphere. I just remember the train pulling in and a large group of them getting off, then a shower of bottles heading their way. They looked keen to get into the ground that night.
Leeds first game after covid on the forecourt was very lively by modern standards but other than that it was the last time I've seen away fans literally having to run into the ground.
The club made a bit of a mess when J Stand first started by forcing people to move and then there was the kind of split with TRA when a load shifted over so got a bit watered down over time
This has passed me by a little. The club are running an atmosphere section independent from TRA as of next year?
Yes and no.
If that's done properly it should make a huge difference.
Cool. What seats are you in? Is there a group of you?
I got an email from the club saying they were accepting invitations to move to the Stretford end, but only from members who had applied for 50% or more of away games over the last 3 seasons or would like to form groups with their friends. I have a couple of match going friends but no one wanted to move and I have only been eligible to apply for away tickets for 2 years...
I’d have recommended applying anyway.
Ye hopefully this makes a difference - 2 seperate standing sections next to each other with people who want to sing should work in theory
First game back post trip. Not been since the cup semi final last season.
Yes it's a group - I'm not even sure how many as I'm not the lead on it but at least 20 that I know well and then mates of mates
Worth contacting the club still - there will be quite a bit of shifting around this summer
Brighton away ?
Do you still have that seat near the weird drunk guy who'd always take everyone's money for drinks and then just not come back?
What about the hooligan firms of the 70s?
Not organised, not ultras. But it's probably a discussion for another thread
Yeah, I might try them.
Will do
Have i every been to old trafford? no, but i have been to old trafford many many times, living in salford. And big screens are those things that can be rented or displayed for the purposes of watching football. hope this helps.
No I moved (partly due to him!) when they started the first 'singing section'
Atmosphere has been shite at OT for years but it's at least as shite as everywhere else.
The atmosphere is far worse now than it was under Fergie and for a few years after. It was bad then but its chronic now, you can feel the apathy in the ground. I said to somebody during the City game that it was dead and felt like a pre season game. I've not noticed it ever being that bad against City at home before.
