Brilliant post. 100% Spot on.

Has anyone contacted the club about this sort of thing before? If so what have they said?

All this music blaring out is a very bad habit that sport has got into. It is the epitome of cheese! Drums are crap, they drown out and stop spontaneous atmospheres; but this blaring music at every opportunity is just as bad.

It has to stop for me. Let the fans create the atmosphere on our own!

People on this site have been wire fans longer than me and would
D surely have more sway in terms of contacting the club regarding the volume of the PA.
Are the club aware of this forum or do they even care?

On a side note, Latchford Bob, I was at that game and my dad drove the Barca team coach. Got me a signed ball with Maradona, Boniek etc all signed on it.
Great night.

I (along with a few others I believe) contacted the club before the Leeds play off game last year after Simon Moran was quoted as saying, “We need to make the place a cauldron for this match”, “A place where the atmosphere is intimidating for the opposition and a boost for our own players” and “It is time for people to vote with their feet and really get behind the team.

The reply was a we take onboard your suggestions but it was unlikely they would get rid of pre match/try music. To their credit though and to my surprise the music was turned down around half an hour before the match and the atmosphere was allowed to build accordingly.

The levels before the match are ridiculous, made worse by the fact that you have no choice to walk past some speakers when you enter the South Stand.

Unless people contact the club in big numbers, I can't see anything changing. I think there a lot of fans who don't even know what a good atmosphere is and are quite happy to dance along to The Black Eyed Peas/Take That/Duran Duran before the match and Tom Hark when we score.



That is superb. Boniek was at Juve who we played in the Semi Final. He was some player along with Platini, Rossi, Gentile, Cabrini and Tardelli. European Champions a year later.

Great post. It's like a morgue compared to the Fletch nowadays.

Was a few years back, I was only 14. Dont even know what happened to the ball.
I was in the stretty. At that time I used to go on the railings at the front. My dad was called in at short notice but I never knew. He was trying to contact me as he got 2 tickets for the main stand and access to the players lounge. I had already left to go to the game so didnt find out till I got home.
Absolutely gutted. I could have met them all.
Damn pre mobile phone days.

I have just emailed the club to complain about the volume and how it is killing any pre match atmosphere.

Great I'll just e-mail Tony Smith and tell him his teams awful Rugby is killing atmosphere during the match

Whats the point. He won't listen to a kn0b like you

I remember a Maine Road derby (2001, Beckham free kick, 0-1 United win) where the tannoy/speaker system broke down about 45mins before kick off and Maine Road was bouncing pre-game (helped by the fact we hadn't played United for four and a bit years due to being in the darkness of our late 90's days!). Since then we've not replicated that pre-match atmosphere, and thus what carried on into the game, because we play music over any chanting that starts up.

I think, just once for a big game, Wire should cut the music pre-game and just see what we can create in the stands.

The pre-match music is played loud so that it drowns out any expletive ridden chanting. Its the only way the clubs have of controlling this behaviour.

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.

Liar for the South Stand. The West would have to be the Chicken Coup!

Drums are e, a lot of people beleive this (myself included) and we never needed them at Wilderspool. However, we aren't there anymore. We are at HJ that has recently had a poor atmosphere and is really reliant on the drum. People will have to accept that without a drum there is no atmospere.

I say we get more drummers. An entire back row of drummers. Blast the place out and have a caldron of noise for the Wire (I am only half joking)

Both the railway end and the fletch at wilderspool generated great atmospheres. Even large numbers of visitting fans generate an atmosphere in the West. What do they all have in common..................behind the sticks. I never remember there being a "big atmosphere" along the terracing infront of the BB stand at Wilderspool.