A decent drummer would play the drum. The boozed-up ankle-biters in the South Stand, however, just seem to just whack their drum as hard as they can whenever they feel like it

your fans need everything they can ge t to make some noise !!

One drum in the east and south stands should be ok as long as the people with the drum actually know how to play it and can keep time. Using it to strike up a chant helps the atmosphere.
I sit in the east stand and without a drum the atmosphere is very flat, it's pretty much silent all game. With a drum used in moderation the fans generally get behind it and it sounds much better.

However during the Widnes away game I was sat in one of the corners and the drumming was a appalling. A mildly intelligent ape could have been handed the drum despite never seeing one before and would have worked out how to make a better sound within 5 minutes.

Constantly whacking the drum over and over again to a repetitive chant is annoying, dull and does nothing for the atmosphere but as long as someone knows how to use the drum then it can really help.

As long as they are at the opposite end of the ground to me, or better still in the next County, I don't mind !

I reckon the club should allocate one drummer and have them as the only drummer. It has been proved time and time again when we've had no drum that we can create an atmosphere.

For home games we need one in each stand both being people who can play them. The atmosphere will never be good at home anyway!

Away games I don't mind.

Use one, played by someone who knows how to. Use it to get a song/chant/wahtever going then pack it in. Once something is going theres no need to keep banging it.

The one at Widnes annoyed me, constant drone, I nearly shoved it up his .

Don't panic.
So long as he brings TWO decent sticks I'll have a few giraffes in France and come out of retirment to show them how it's done Properly!

It's the fact that there are
a. Too many
b. They can't play them

that is the problem more than anything else.
Now and again and it gets people going, the constant thump thu
p thump just gets on everyone nerves.

What amazes me is how you can have a drum for ages yet never ever improve?

Maybe we should go the whole hog like Leeds and get a Brass band for all the singing

maybe we should start a choir and an orchestra?

Get rid of it IMO. I'm a drummer, but that constant banging isn't drumming; anyone could do that and it clearly shows.

For me all the drummers can bugger off down the north end of the east stand and go and annoy the away fans (when they bother to turn up)

The trouble is, we have a whole bunch of pïssed up little scrotes with drums, who couldn't hold a beat in a bucket.

What we need IMO is 1 drum in each stand (South and East), but ONLY if Binder plays one and we can tempt Smurf out of retirement for the other.

I've nearly been smashed in the face by Binder more times than I care to remember (particularly at Leeds for some reason), but at least he can hold a beat.

Smurf was the "original" drummer as I recall and was also rather good at it.

As for the others, they should have the drums confiscated as they walk in, on the grounds of noise pollution - They offer little (if anything) else.

Absolutely awful things. They stifle atmosphere. They don't create it. The drummers seem hell bent on playing the same God awful boring tunes all the time (the Vindaloo or Barmy Army tunes). They are counter productive, as witnessed at the recent Quins game where I remain convinced they played a part in a steady fightback by Quins. That song that night didn't encourage the home team, it encouraged an away team who were building a 2nd half rhythm. Which demonstates that not only are the drums a bad thing but the drummers themselves are total s.

They even try to destroy some half decent songs like 'Greatest Club in the world' & 'By far the greatest team' both of which require no such drum assistance.

They are murdering the atmosphere home and away.

always wondered this:

what are folks thoughts/feelings on the 'band' at Leeds in the South Stand?
What would you make of it if a trumpet (and such instruments) where to arrive at the DW on match day?


Dont worry, i'm not testing the water in hope of bringing an instrument