by madreadingfan »
26 Sep 2018 17:55
John Smith madreadingfan You speak so much rubbish it's unbelievable. If there has been fans who have moved over from Y26 including myself and have enjoyed it in the South stand more than they have in Y26 then I would count that as a success. If attendance grows, South stand will grow. If we sing all game like we did against Hull with even 400 fans, every game that would be loud and I would consider us having a decent atmosphere rather than a soulless library.
They're trying to do something good and which is really needed, so give them a chance rather than knocking them down at every opportunity?
I think the point is that you aren't singing or building an atmosphere in your numbers. You've just moved where you sit to the south stand and put a label on it. And the fact the rest of us are somehow meant to buy into it when it's quite frankly embarrassing is all the more difficult to accept.
Also, if the point is to try and raise the atmosphere, why weren't you all there for the Carabao Cup fixtures, when typically the atmosphere is at it's quietest and therefore surely would need bolstering?
The rest of the stadium has declined in numbers hence numbers aren't coming through anywhere at the moment. I'd argue that we've sung a lot more than if this whole initiative wasn't created in the first place and we were all in Y26 still.
I found sitting in Y26, not singing, being bored and watching 4k away fans constantly outsing us incredibly more embarassing than the 200 of us making noise and keeping some away fans quiet. It it fails then fair enough, shit happens but if we get results then it may grow into some good loud noise. It's way too early to tell where it's going until we start attracting larger crowds E.G. There were about 300-400 for Derby.
What I find hard to swallow is how fans can bash it when it's really early days. What good does the consistent bashing do?
They're taking their own spare time to organise something to try and improve match day atmosphere and make games more enjoyable for fans. If you don't like their approach that's fair enough but the chances are this is the first time they've created some sort of initiative to create an atmosphere so would be pretty inexperienced. You don't know as much as I don't know if it's going to grow big or not. I really hope it does because having the south stand full of Reading fans all singing together would be a great spectacle.
The organisers have my utmost respect for doing this outside of their working hours for a club that they love and being brave enough to do so in the first place when they were bound to know there will be some fans who will criticise and call them names.