How quiet can Goodison get?

[marmor]

Noticed at the game today there was hardly any enthusiasm or encouragement let alone singing.
All the usual away chants, is this a library?etc etc. Then when you watch us on MOTD you can hear it's the quietest ground in the country right now.
So just how quiet will it get before somebody complains about the lack of noise or will it ever change?

What songs did you start or sang to mate?

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

This isnt a Sam thing, Goodison is a very quite ground, has been for years

It has, but at what point does the club except responsibility for its part in this. Our fan base have zero hope. I've always supported the side no matter how crap we are but today finished me. I saw zero effort from the players so why should I try to make effort for them? Ill support the worst team in the world if they fight for the shirt but if they play like today and disrespect the shirt, why am I supposed to respect them? I've slagged our fans off in the past for the lack of atmosphere but enough is enough. The club broke me today.

 

[JelavicBrate2]

Well it's not just Allardyce even when we were doing well under Martinez the atmosphere was crap. When I had a season ticket in the lower street end about 8 years ago the atmosphere was great on occasion but rubbish for most games, but still not as bad as it is now. I moved seats then gave up my season ticket and only go the game and sit in the Lower Gwaladys and have found the atmosphere to pretty poor even in relatively big games. Last season against Man City was awful, despite the fact we were great on the day. The way I look at it is, there are too many fans in the vocal areas of the ground such as Lower Gwaladys and the Park End who don't get behind the team. In the past there were less women and kids so people felt more comfortable starting chants and making funny shouts, now people are worried about offending people around them. The truth is Everton like many other clubs and to a lesser extent the media love showing fans celebrating wildly, waving flags, bouncing about and letting off smoke bombs, but when anyone suggests any ideas to create a better atmosphere they don't listen. It's quite simply to create a better atmosphere at Goodison, Lower Gwladys should become a Curva, or a Tribune where fans who want to stand up and sing during the game go in. Ticket prices should be no more than £30 in this section. The types of people who sit down and don't sing, who arrive late, go down 10 minutes early for a pint, come back 10 minutes into the second half and leave 10 minutes early can go somewhere else. Honestly the amount of people who would quite happily take these divvies tickets off them and they still abuse it. Some people seem to enjoy those horrible rollover hotdogs more than getting behind the team.

 

[Eggsyblueskin]

We've stopped believing.

 

[Abraders]

The atmosphere can get good on occasion, but it isn't in general and hasn't been for a while.

Expected losses etc etc,

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Am guessing with about 30000 season ticket holders same folk going?
There not likely to become happy clappers any time soon.
Scousers too cool to chant?

 

[larbert toffee]

Listened to the commentary on Talk Shoite on my way to work and they were going on about a big fist fight in the lower balcony of the main stand next to the Directors box, anyone know what that was all about?

 

[Gareth Gibson]

In fairness we do make a lot of noise abusing our players when one of them misplaces a pass. I know that's probably not quite what you meant like.

 

[Gareth Gibson]

Listened to the commentary on Talk Shoite on my way to work and they were going on about a big fist fight in the lower balcony of the main stand next to the Directors box, anyone know what that was all about?

Moshiri and Kenwright came to blows when Mosh said he preferred Emmerdale to Corrie.

 

[deipnosophist]

A generation and a half of failure can be a real buzz-killer.
All us Evertonians expect from the club that's any good these days is Blue Chrimbo

 

[deipnosophist]

Here's the thing: I no longer watch Everton, they're crap. Yet even if they served another generation and a half of crap, whilst I still wouldn't have watched a second of them, every year the next season's tickets will sell like hot-cakes. I'm convinced Evertonians are masochists.

 

[zzr45]

If you want to sing, go join a male choir.

 

[McMagic]

Moshiri and Kenwright came to blows when Mosh said he preferred Emmerdale to Corrie.

Yeah, I think Mosh said something nasty about Betty Turpin. Much the same happened with Zidane & Materazzi.

 

[streeky]

You can hear the ball screaming everytime it's hoofed 70 yds up field to Cenk.

 

[Eggs]

..perhaps it’s a generalisation, but grounds and fans generate an atmosphere dependent on what is being served up. It’s not rocket science, it’s the way it is.