How about a huge flag passed round lower teir before kick off. Maybe the club would fund it
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Sacrifice fans who don’t sing in a Wicker Man cage over the pitch braziers after each loss.
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One way to improve the atmosphere in the ground would be to introduce an Ultra Low Emission Zone between junctions 9 and 7 on the M6.
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Carnival de Paris has always and will always be my favourite
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Some good ideas touted and a few others I’ve heard:
A dedicated singing section
Area of unallocated section enabling people like minded spectators to sit together
Move the away supporters down the side and open their current area up to home fans
Safe standing
A disc jockey on the pitch pre match to crank up the volume and atmosphere
The club to distribute song sheets and come up with new songs
Band/drummer in the stands
Non playing members of the squad to interact with fans pre match and encourage them to make some noise
Theme days for certain match days (P Party, old legends, vicars and tarts, 1920s circus etc)
Free clackers distributed to supporters
A Walsall FC choir
Play exciting football, score goals and win games.
The ‘atmosphere’ will follow.
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Only allow the proper supporters in who attend the pisspot trophy matches instead of all the uncouth rabble who attend the league games.
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That is real answer.I am not against themed days etc but get a team playing good attacking football and get involved in the promotion race is my remedy. Some signs of that at home this season but we need some away wins and overall more consistency!!
That’s your answer to every problem.
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And a sniper in one of the other stands?
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I really think the biggest issue is most people who want to create an atmosphere are sat in the lower where sound doesn’t travel too well. I’d say the best thing we could do is dedicate a couple of blocks as close to the away fans as possible in either the family stand (probably won’t happen with it being family friendly and the club allocating part of this to bigger away followings) or the OAP stand. With the nature of our stadium and the corners joining one stand to the next, the club would want to cordon off some rows towards the corner so home and away fans aren’t as easily accessible to each other. The latter option would be the more likely although there is then an extra cost to sit there. That for me is where the club has to step in and help. Dedicate a couple of blocks which are always empty anyway and make them the same cost as sitting in the lower. Starting next season, launch it with the early bird campaign, gives them time to plan logistic etc.
Having home and away fans in close proximity always creates an atmosphere. Atmosphere was awesome at FP when we were either in Street End or Cowsheds right next to away fans depending which way we were kicking
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For the game against Stockport I had some free tickets which we’re in the upper tier (usually in the lower), now whilst I know the upper tier isn’t famed for singing, even when the lower tier got into full voice it rarely lasted more than a minute or so and just petered out pretty quickly but I could really hear the Tranmere fans when they got going, Pretty simple answer for me, move away fans to the side and put the ones who want to have a sing and get behind the team in the now away stand, (also lower price of the beer, no normal Walsall fan will buy too many pints when they are near the 5 quid mark in the stadium suite)
If you could hear them all the way from Milton Keynes, I think the answer is to just ask them.
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Gosh, they must have been loud. How far away were they?
I hate putting away fans to the side, just isn’t right to me.
They should be able to support there team same way we do. I hate being to the side when I go away. It sucks
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Think the club looked into this in the past and were advised against it by the police given the fact away coaches park at the back of that stand.
*Stockport… I meant… 
I think when a game is the real deal we as fans know it. The Leicester game for instance. We didn’t need some nonce getting the crowd going, we didn’t need dreadful soft rock played over the tannoy, we didn’t need anything because we knew it was a proper game and we treated it as such. I lost my voice through singing and shouting and loved it. Give us something to react positively to and we will react.
Incidentally, I went to lots of game at FP where you could hear a pin drop. The atmosphere wasn’t always great there, but of course in games against Newcastle or Liverpool, or games where we were putting five past Swindon or six past Reading, or surging towards promotion, it was fantastic.
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Some stirring martial music to come out to (in the right thread)
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