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This one again, This one again, Please stop, I Pray I Pray I Pray - The current state of chanting.

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48 hours on and have just about managed to shift the clouds over my head. How do we all feel our chanting game was on Sunday? Personally thought Oldham fans absolutely smashed it and we came a distant second (apart from the Tifo) which was just sensational and heartfelt.
I think our coherence and variety of songs needs an overhaul for next season and we desperately need a catchy signature tune. "Every little thing" seems to be a front runner but it still isn't a powerful, impactful crowd song, like Sheffield United's "Chip Butty" etc.

Just a sidenote, we all sing a lot about one place or another is a @#£+ hole and want to go home throughout the season...by God is the Wembley area just that. National stadium? It's a national disgrace.
 
L0311 Liberty Shrimper said:
48 hours on and have just about managed to shift the clouds over my head. How do we all feel our chanting game was on Sunday? Personally thought Oldham fans absolutely smashed it and we came a distant second (apart from the Tifo) which was just sensational and heartfelt.
I think our coherence and variety of songs needs an overhaul for next season and we desperately need a catchy signature tune. "Every little thing" seems to be a front runner but it still isn't a powerful, impactful crowd song, like Sheffield United's "Chip Butty" etc.

Just a sidenote, we all sing a lot about one place or another is a @#£+ hole and want to go home throughout the season...by God is the Wembley area just that. National stadium? It's a national disgrace.
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Hmm I thought we were loud as did the Oldham fans who I spoke to after the game. Their lot sang loudly after their goals but I wouldn’t say they ‘smashed it’. Maybe it depends where you’re sat/stood?
 
I think that, despite the club making an effort to let supporters know that 3 blocks were for TBV, there were plenty of people in front of me in 111 that were sat down for quite a lot of the game. I thought Oldham were louder and more coordinated that us for a lot of the game until Parillon scored.
 
Liam AAS said:
I think that, despite the club making an effort to let supporters know that 3 blocks were for TBV, there were plenty of people in front of me in 111 that were sat down for quite a lot of the game. I thought Oldham were louder and more coordinated that us for a lot of the game until Parillon scored.
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Think it’s maybe the way the ticket allocation went and ended up with groups being split up. Now you mention it they were quiet at the front, was expecting carnage. I was in 110. Viewed as a whole maybe we were quieter but aren’t we always when there’s a huge crowd?
I sang my bloody heart out.
 
I think any “big day out” like this ends up being a bit more flat. At the end of the day the 1,300 at Rochdale or the 700 at FGR are the diehards who know the chants and get involved. At games like this they end up diluted and you get the basic chants and a flatter atmosphere.

Oldham probably have less of that to an extent simply because it’s more of an ask to get to Wembley from Oldham and so anyone going is that extra bit committed.

I saw plenty of people I went to school with and who haven’t been at Roots Hall in 15 or 20 years (if ever), but they live in London so fancied the day out. There’s not a chance they’d know a chant about super Noor Husin. I’d be surprised if they knew who he was if they bumped into him on Southend High Street, let alone know the chant.
 
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I was pretty much on the half way line. Imho Oldham fans were louder for much of the game.
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There wasn't much singing in the area I was in - a few guys some rows behind us tried to get things going and my group joined in when they did, but it never got going.

I do think the 4 ticket limit hindered the singing - for example our group of 9, there was only 4 of us in our block, the rest were in the top tier on the opposite side of the stadium! If we'd been together then you'd have had 9 of us joining the guys trying to get the songs going not 4. Oldham, I think were initially 4 ticket limit for season ticket priority but were 20 limit as soon as went on general sale. I understand why we stuck to 4 tickets for practically the whole of the selling window but it did prevent groups getting together.
 
Uncle_Rons_Teapot said:
Few of us tried to get some atmosphere going at the back of block 121 but many around not having much of it until Parillion scored
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Same. I was in 119 and tried to get a couple of songs going but everyone around me just sat in silence. A couple of guys behind me joined in with ‘sea sea Seasiders’ but I’m not sure what they was actually singing. Probably something about sliders!

I’d much prefer an option of another stadium to be honest. I know it’s a players dream to go out on the Wembley turf but god almighty the area is a dump and the stadium is just a corporate bore off.
 
I was very taken by Oldhams Soft southern bastards you’re only soft southern bastards which I thought was fair enough. To the tune of Guantanamo’s of course. We ought to sing this when we’re 3-0 up at anywhere north of Boreham Wood. Using of course we’re only soft southern bastards. I like the irony.
 
A few observations, we went in quite early and it was evident that most of the Oldham "noisy" fans had done the same, they were creating atmosphere from very early on. We were on the side, almost opposite the tunnel, so it was really clear. Our stands by comparison, were relatively empty, I'm guessing because people were enjoying their day out - as is absolutely their choice. But it did allow Oldham to grab that early ascendancy and superiority in the stands. That may have given their players an added buzz.

Once our stands filled up, it also became clear that our ticket sales had not worked as intended and there were far too many "non-regulars" in the TBV sections. I know there were all kinds of constraints with tickets sales, but it worked much better last time. It was the back areas of the dedicated blocks that seemed to have the people in that led the main chants.
 
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I really must’ve been more tipsy than I thought, having missed this wall of Oldham noise. Singers are always spread out at Wembley, it’s also true that the Wetherspoons and the concourse were better atmospheres than the stands. But I thought our fans round me gave it a good go and as mentioned before, the Oldham fans I spoke to after the game thought we were loud and in fact, that their own fans were quiet for long spells (also how I remember it).
 
Always remember the Cambridge game in 72 . If Southend won they would be promoted . The gate was over 17,000 . They lost 2-1 , the Cambridge goalkeeper Peter Vasper was having a good goal and was dealing with everything that Southend threw at him . The North Bank started chanting 'We Hate Vasper' , he must of smelt the hate that was coming from the North Bank as he spent most of the remaining game standing on the 18 yard line and kept looking over his shoulder as people started to climb over the wall behind the goal . When the final whistle went he must of been the first Cambridge player down the tunnel to get away from the howling mob that chased after him .
 
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