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Post by y2j on Apr 18, 2014 9:38:21 GMT
As a Season Ticket holder who attend games with a variety of other Season Ticket holders we have felt for a while that the ground could have minor changes that would help improve the matchday experience. A key part of this concerns the look of the stadium. If you go to Anfield, and inside the stadium, you notice straight away that Liverpool FC have a lot of flags, banners, logo's attached to the stadium (inside & outside) making it look far more intimidating. It's fair to say that ours looks fairly plain and boring and small changes like this will have a positive affect on SCFC fans. It wouldn't be expensive to do and would make the stadium look a lot more homely. It badly needs a clean inside and the introduction of more flags, banners etc would cover up such isses.
Surely others have thought the same?
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Post by baltipiesmuggler on Apr 18, 2014 9:42:36 GMT
Got no problem with flags or banners as long as they're the fans, and not made by the club, a la Citeh or Chelsea - highly embarrassing.
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Post by StokeOnTour on Apr 18, 2014 9:43:08 GMT
how do flags intimidate people?
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Post by Matthews dad on Apr 18, 2014 9:49:31 GMT
Yet we have a fantastic home record over the last few years? No shitty banners or flags will improve that.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Apr 18, 2014 9:54:25 GMT
You want intimidating but homely? Forget filling in the corners put machine gunner positions on every corner and lots of barbed wire.  |
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Post by ukcstokie on Apr 18, 2014 9:55:20 GMT
Got no problem with flags or banners as long as they're the fans, and not made by the club, a la Citeh or Chelsea - highly embarrassing. Totally agree. The large flag waving at Chelsea and Arsenal, and all the corporate slogans thought up in meetings with marketing managers just makes me want to puke. Passion comes from the fans and history. It can't just be added on by some marketing execs. |
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Post by jwhpotter on Apr 18, 2014 9:59:11 GMT
Yet we have a fantastic home record over the last few years? No shitty banners or flags will improve that. My thoughts exactly after reading the thread. We have one of the best home records in the country, why change anything?! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2014 10:00:27 GMT
For as good as Liverpool's atmosphere is against the likes of Man United , Chelsea etc it's equally as shit against the likes of us and a fflag or two doesn't change it. Don't believe the hype.
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Post by stokiekey on Apr 18, 2014 10:01:39 GMT
You mean like Bolton Wanderers' stadium? Big stadium, all the corners filled in and a smart ground. They're finding life hard in the Championship. Makes absolutely no difference to the football or how "intimidating" a place is to go. Be nice to fill in the corners, of course but it won't make a spot of difference in any other way other than a bigger capacity stadium in my opinion.
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Post by harryburrows on Apr 18, 2014 10:04:14 GMT
Got no problem with flags or banners as long as they're the fans, and not made by the club, a la Citeh or Chelsea - highly embarrassing. Totally agree. The large flag waving at Chelsea and Arsenal, and all the corporate slogans thought up in meetings with marketing managers just makes me want to puke. Passion comes from the fans and history. It can't just be added on by some marketing execs.[/quot Our home success comes from the passion of the fans feeding into the team thereby raising their performance levels and intimidating the opposition . We want less corporate bullshit in football not more . |
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Post by Olgrligm on Apr 18, 2014 10:06:26 GMT
Got no problem with flags or banners as long as they're the fans, and not made by the club, a la Citeh or Chelsea - highly embarrassing. The same goes for that awful 'twelfth man' flag we had before kick off for a while. |
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Post by hooftastic on Apr 18, 2014 10:07:22 GMT
We need bears.... Lots of bears...
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Post by Nick1984 on Apr 18, 2014 10:13:09 GMT
What's the latest with having the screen corner filled in?
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Post by Squeekster on Apr 18, 2014 10:16:59 GMT
Not that boring that its one of the center piece shots on sky's sports channels when they advetise Ford.
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Post by mrrburgundy on Apr 18, 2014 10:20:19 GMT
If anything, I think the moodier and bland the ground, the more intimidating. Home made banners by the fans are good but my preference would be loads of concrete, poor facilities in the away concourse and away dressing room and as much bad weather as possible! Couple that with the Brit in full voice and you can't go wrong. You want the opposing fans and players to be counting down the minutes until they can escape from the place. Think of Napoli's Stadio San Paolo and their fans, superb (besides the violence of course!).
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Post by y2j on Apr 18, 2014 10:22:22 GMT
Miserable gits!! 'Intimation' is perhaps the wrong word. It's our home, it should resemble that not a cheap, crap looking ground with a pic of a player that left 3yrs ago on the outside!! Just because we've done well doesn't mean improvements can't be made. Young kids love to look at stuff like that, it would improve it.
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Post by scfcno1fan on Apr 18, 2014 10:25:39 GMT
Got no problem with flags or banners as long as they're the fans, and not made by the club, a la Citeh or Chelsea - highly embarrassing. The same goes for that awful 'twelfth man' flag we had before kick off for a while. The recent meeting minutes of the supporters council suggest this is going to be resurfacing next year, although possibly in an altered form. |
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Post by unknown182 on Apr 18, 2014 10:30:58 GMT
How about a giant inflatable Mark Hughes that could crowd surf across the terraces during the game.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2014 10:34:03 GMT
Let's put netting up around the away fans and turn it into an enclosure, with just a gap at the top and a catapult on top of the offices so we can fling in piles of human excrement every time they get too rowdy.
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Post by cheekymatt71 on Apr 18, 2014 10:42:30 GMT
One thing I would look into is the natural acoustics of the ground. Even if they dont want to go for total filling of the corners, surely there could be some kind of shroud put there to keep the wind out and the noise in.
Most of the time you can hardly hear what is being sung at the other end of the stadium. You just see the away fans moving their arms around in virtual silence.
Make some adjustments so the songs can be heard everywhere and suddenly you can have much more intimidation of the away supporters from every angle.
Never understood the supporters that like the wind and cold at the ground. Ive never gone to a concert and thought - wow this is too loud I wish they would open up the stadium and let some cold air in!
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Post by maninasuitcase on Apr 18, 2014 10:45:39 GMT
What we need is a bloody decent pa system and then we need to pipe rain in blood by slayer through it.
The drums at the start with the screeching guitar would shit up any opposition.
No flags no banners no corners just wind rain and slayer.
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Post by roylandstoke on Apr 18, 2014 10:51:15 GMT
No one likes coming to the Brit.
There msut be a reason for that.
I think opposition fans and players find it an intimidating place already.
With regard to the "virtual silence" of away fans; we should try to make that even more extreme, maybe by removing the section of roof over their heads.
I do like the bears idea.
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Post by lagwafis on Apr 18, 2014 10:54:37 GMT
how do flags intimidate people? I suppose this one might work the next time we play Oxford United.  |
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Post by Fenparkpotter on Apr 18, 2014 11:06:17 GMT
I do love this Maccabi tel Aviv Breaking Bad flag!  |
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Post by partickpotter on Apr 18, 2014 11:18:22 GMT
how do flags intimidate people?  Then again, maybe not outside a Disney film! |
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Post by nott1 on Apr 18, 2014 11:20:07 GMT
We are Stoke, we don't need to wave flags!
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Post by generationex on Apr 18, 2014 11:48:00 GMT
It's disappointing there is no natural place for banners - on a balcony overhang for example.
We've had some great banners appear away and they are never seen again - the ace "1863" in gothic font for example.
I wonder wether the stadium design explains their absence.
On a slightly different subject why can't we have the Stoke City Football Club sign inside the stadium in lights rather than painted on a bit of plywood? We're a 100 million + business now not Port Vale (FFS).
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Post by Roy Cropper on Apr 18, 2014 13:01:50 GMT
The first thing the club should be doing (and it should have been done years ago) is switching the opposition and home fans in the South Stand. I just can't believe they haven't done it already, Delap himself said it on Radio Stoke not long ago, literally handing the opposition an advantage before KO.
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Post by retired1 on Apr 18, 2014 13:41:16 GMT
The same goes for that awful 'twelfth man' flag we had before kick off for a while. The recent meeting minutes of the supporters council suggest this is going to be resurfacing next year, although possibly in an altered form. Green tarmac I've heard. |
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Post by retired1 on Apr 18, 2014 13:42:47 GMT
Wind machines in the corners just in case there are days when it's calm.
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