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| It has made me laugh reading this thread today....
Some people on here are sounding as desperate as Chelsea FC in their attempts to create atmosphere in the ground.
You can't create an atmosphere by having flags, less music, drums etc.
Certainly not the sporting atmosphere you are talking about.
Unfortunately modern day sport will never have the same atmosphere as it did back in the 80's and 90's purely because of the design of the new grounds.
The seated stadiums and the push for a more family orientated experience at the matches also has an effect.
But the most important aspect and the atmosphere I think we are referring to in this thread can only come from game itself.
In this respect, Warrington have become a victim of of their own success.
Last season at Wire, the majority of games we played were complete walk overs. We were expecting to win, we did win and it wasn't even close.
Some times when a big win isn't expected (i.e. Huddersfield in the cup) it can be a great atmosphere, but when you expect to win and the opposition are unable to mount any kind of challenge, what is there to get excited about???
And that is the key phrase here, getting excited. That is what creates atmosphere in a tight game when a player makes a good break or you have 5 minuutes of pressure on the oppositions line and look like a try is coming. It is in these situations that the crowd get excited and start shouting and getting nervous etc, and that is what creates the atmosphere.
And it is in these tight games when you come through and get a victory against the odds that suddenly the man in the crowd who never joins in with the songs suddenly starts singing along because his heart is racing and he has got caught up in the atmosphere.
Unfortunately that is only likely to happen in the big games against Saints, Wigan, Leeds, Bradford.
Against the "lesser" teams we are expected to win, so if we are winning no one gets excited and if we are losing we get a negative atmosphere.
Atmosphere is not about singing or music or drums. The best atmosphere I have ever experienced at this new stadium was against Leeds when Andrew Johns was kicking a conversion from the sidelines and the entire stadium went silent. There was no noise at all but you could feel the atmosphere it was that good!
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| How about a trumpeter leading the singing, ala English cricket. Paid for by the club ?
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| I agree that the music is played too loud and for too long on a matchday. For the last 10-15 minutes before a big game such as v Wigan and Saints they should just stop playing music and allow the fans to generate an atmosphere. It would really get the place going. Instead the first chance for the crowd to generate an atmosphere is after kick-off. Against Sts they scored after 2 minutes which meant that the ground was quiet before it had even had chance to get going.
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| Quote phuqertrfc="phuqertrfc"It has made me laugh reading this thread today....
Some people on here are sounding as desperate as Chelsea FC in their attempts to create atmosphere in the ground.
You can't create an atmosphere by having flags, less music, drums etc.
Certainly not the sporting atmosphere you are talking about.
Unfortunately modern day sport will never have the same atmosphere as it did back in the 80's and 90's purely because of the design of the new grounds.
The seated stadiums and the push for a more family orientated experience at the matches also has an effect.
But the most important aspect and the atmosphere I think we are referring to in this thread can only come from game itself.
In this respect, Warrington have become a victim of of their own success.
Last season at Wire, the majority of games we played were complete walk overs. We were expecting to win, we did win and it wasn't even close.
Some times when a big win isn't expected (i.e. Huddersfield in the cup) it can be a great atmosphere, but when you expect to win and the opposition are unable to mount any kind of challenge, what is there to get excited about???
And that is the key phrase here, getting excited. That is what creates atmosphere in a tight game when a player makes a good break or you have 5 minuutes of pressure on the oppositions line and look like a try is coming. It is in these situations that the crowd get excited and start shouting and getting nervous etc, and that is what creates the atmosphere.
And it is in these tight games when you come through and get a victory against the odds that suddenly the man in the crowd who never joins in with the songs suddenly starts singing along because his heart is racing and he has got caught up in the atmosphere.
Unfortunately that is only likely to happen in the big games against Saints, Wigan, Leeds, Bradford.
Against the "lesser" teams we are expected to win, so if we are winning no one gets excited and if we are losing we get a negative atmosphere.
Atmosphere is not about singing or music or drums. The best atmosphere I have ever experienced at this new stadium was against Leeds when Andrew Johns was kicking a conversion from the sidelines and the entire stadium went silent. There was no noise at all but you could feel the atmosphere it was that good!'"
Agree with most of that and you're right in saying less music won't create an atmosphere but more music will definitely stop it from taking off.
I said the same last season about watching walkovers every week. The best atmospheres, celebrations and victories are always the ones in the face of adversity. When you're the underdog, come from behind to win or last minute trys/goals.
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| Quote latchfordbob="latchfordbob"Rubbish. Where do you get that from? There's more chance of expletives during the game where they can't drown out it out with music.'"
Surely you can recall such high class tunes from our neighbours as "ohhh w**ky w**ky" and so on and "s**t Helen" from our fans plus various others, which when sung by a large numbers come across as as bit neanderthal, especially when the good folk from tv land are there.
Me i just want to go and watch a good game the atmophere is what it is.
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| Quote Snaggletooth="Snaggletooth"Surely you can recall such high class tunes from our neighbours as "=#FF0000ohhh w**ky w**ky" and so on and "s**t Helen" from our fans plus various others, which when sung by a large numbers come across as as bit neanderthal, especially when the good folk from tv land are there.
Me i just want to go and watch a good game the atmophere is what it is.'"
Ahhh but when you hear such banter it gives the perfect opportunity for the (fairly recently rolled out) "We're not w##ky, we're not w##ky anymore". 
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| Quote Snaggletooth="Snaggletooth"Me i just want to go and watch a good game the atmophere is what it is.'"
couldn't agree more.
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| Quote Snaggletooth="Snaggletooth"Surely you can recall such high class tunes from our neighbours as "ohhh w**ky w**ky" and so on and "s**t Helen" from our fans plus various others, which when sung by a large numbers come across as as bit neanderthal, especially when the good folk from tv land are there.
Me i just want to go and watch a good game the atmophere is what it is.'"
Drowning it out before the match didn't stop it from being sung during the match.
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| Was a bit flat again tonight, which for a derby is disappointing. I guess the crowd were just expecting to win...
Mind you, it was less cringeworthy than the inbreds and the one chant they brought along 
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| The atmosphere in the Hull derby is something else, they always are from what you see on sky. Credit to both sets of fans, it must be great for the players to play in that sort of atmosphere.
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| I think one of the reasons we don't hear football style chanting at the HJ is because we have something to watch on the pitch, whereas football crowds tend to chant to relieve the boredom of what they are witnessing. As for noise surely the south stand sound loud for north stand spectators.
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