Staffers In!
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I agree in fact the atmosphere has improved loads in the last 2 years. I can remember games at Bescot with 4000 or less when it was so quiet you could almost hear the traffic on the motorway and the players shouting to each other.
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The 50/50 draw maintained my interest during half time. Anyone know why they stopped doing it?
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I’m an old fuddy duddy and I do prefer to hear the score read out properly with the home team first. Also it’s a bit embarrassing when he gets the really young kids on the pitch at half time for the crossbar challenge and they’re so small they can hardly reach the goal line with their kicks, let alone get the ball in the air. Surely there must be something a bit more age/height appropriate they could try, maybe hitting the post?
Having said that I think Simon does a great job overall in stoking up the fans just before kick off, and I’m sure the players feel it too.
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I agree on the cross bar challenge.
It should be a “hit the woodwork” challenge whereby under 10’s can hit a post whilst over tens have to hit the bar.
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Thought you had to be 18 or over to do that sort of thing P.T lol, unless The Locker allow it as part of the membership package 
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It could be a little more slicker. Participants just sort if wander off the pitch with a vague promise of ‘Walsall Goodies’ if they were successful.
A more satisfying end could be a presentation of a shop voucher to the winners and consolation prize for those who took part.
It just seems all a bit perfunctory.
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I like Simon and think he does a great job. He’s one of us. You cant really say that about the rest of the media and comms team cam you?
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Similar to you, its the way the game has gone, just wish they’d turn the music and mic down a few decibel to allow you to hear what the person next to you is saying, not sure what it is like in the rest of the ground but it booms in the middle tier.
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As a fellow middle tierer I agree.
it’s a rare thing in this day and age but allowing a bit of judgement from the match day team. For big games with over a thousand away fans there’s nowt like the noise of the crowd for creating atmosphere. Sometimes it’s actually at its loudest from 2:50 until 3:05. Yet ten minutes of that is drowned out by the manufactured atmosphere which in my opinion is crap. Whereas other times, especially Tuesday nights when the away team have brought less than a hundred the manufactured atmosphere is the only atmosphere there is.
Anyway - the main thing is that the team wins and I can now envisage other channels going “they’re losing their heads on UTS about the music because we won and they need to find something to moan about. Weird bunch.”
No head loss here just trying to suggest ways of making it even better.
Worst ever for over loud PA was the Cardiff play off win, couldn’t hear yourself think.
But it is a problem at all events not just our ground/football.
I agree. They need to judge it better. When the fans are in full voice they need to rein in the music as sometimes it can actually drown out and curtail the singing.
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At least we don’t have a feckin drummer annoying the crap out of us…
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I was working at Old Trafford last week and went down the old tunnel just to have a nose and the whole music set up is fed from an iPad sat ontop a fuse box and some conduit.
Two blokes were debating when the next song goes on and when to play stone roses, when to do the Premier League Anthem and then when to to country roads..
At one point the main bloke said when we start country road cut it off when I say, he stood by the dugout looked at the Stretford end and then waved at the other lad.
It was mad to think it’s that directed at a large stadium and that any thought went into it at all. Such a single point of failure too!
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Cracking video here showing behind the scenes at AC Milan and everything that goes in to a match day from an announcer’s perspective.
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Bloody hell, massive Roman Empire vibes from those fans.
The biggest question for me is has the atmosphere improved since he’s been part of the proceedings. I’d say it definitely has. Based on that I think he’s done a cracking job, regardless of if he’s everyone’s cup of tea or not
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Agreeded. Seems teams often turn us around if they win the toss now. Don’t remember that happening much at all before. The big stand is feared!
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And like I said before when your the other end of the ground it is pretty loud, louder than being in the stand. Especially when everyone stands up for a byline cross. Must have a factor on defenders hearing seats clank and people screaming behind you.
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When he does the ‘allez, allez, allez-o…..’ he whips the lower tier up into an absolute frenzy, I should know I sit directly above them and it’s shaking. He’s quite superb at getting the audience involved, all the more reason for spectators to make their way to their allocated seats in good time before kick off.
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