No buzz about the place?

ParkerAteMyKebab

ParkerAteMyKebab

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Agree with @td53 about a lack of excitement at BR. I am usually incensed about poor results but they don’t come as a surprise anymore. In fact it’s when we win I’m most surprised. Our Work Xmas party on Tuesday and for years I would never choose that over a home game but would sooner be at the party.

Maybe the Prem year, the Oystons and Covid has taken its toll and that sense of excitement is disappearing. A lot of talk over summer about automatic promotion would really benefit the club but ironically this mid-table mind numbing season could start to kill it off.

Would I sack Critch - probably not - but what I would say is I’d sooner have Dobbie’s attacking exciting football than this cautious boring stuff Critch is dishing out.
 
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ParkerAteMyKebab said:
Agree with @td53 about a lack of excitement at BR. I am usually incensed about poor results but they don’t come as a surprise anymore. In fact it’s when we win I’m most surprised. Our Work Xmas party on Tuesday and for years I would never choose that over a home game but would sooner be at the party.

Maybe the Prem year, the Oystons and Covid has taken its toll and that sense of excitement is disappearing. A lot of talk over summer about automatic promotion would really benefit the club but ironically this mid-table mind numbing season could start to kill it off.

Would I sack Critch - probably not - but what I would say is I’d sooner have Donnie’s attacking exciting football than this cautious boring stuff Critch is dishing out.
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Works Party on a tuesday, what could possibly go wrong ...?!
 
ParkerAteMyKebab said:
Agree with @td53 about a lack of excitement at BR. I am usually incensed about poor results but they don’t come as a surprise anymore. In fact it’s when we win I’m most surprised. Our Work Xmas party on Tuesday and for years I would never choose that over a home game but would sooner be at the party.

Maybe the Prem year, the Oystons and Covid has taken its toll and that sense of excitement is disappearing. A lot of talk over summer about automatic promotion would really benefit the club but ironically this mid-table mind numbing season could start to kill it off.

Would I sack Critch - probably not - but what I would say is I’d sooner have Dobbie’s attacking exciting football than this cautious boring stuff Critch is dishing out.
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Our home record is W7 D2 L3. Not automatic promotion form but if that amounts to a lack of excitement then all you'll settle for obviously is winning every game.

Give your head a shake and become a fan not just a fair weather supporter.
 
Meliora said:
Our home record is W7 D2 L3. Not automatic promotion form but if that amounts to a lack of excitement then all you'll settle for obviously is winning every game.

Give your head a shake and become a fan not just a fair weather supporter.
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2 away wins all season is relegation form. Were a top ten team at best and won’t make the playoffs cos the manager ousses about with the team too much and plays a shite formation most of the players clearly can’t play
 
My point wasn't so much that we get bad results but more that we seem to either a) completely control a game and win it comfortably or b) look a bit confused by the opposition and lose.

There's not been a lot of breathless tension. The defeats haven't been 'sickening' ones where you come away going 'we was robbed' and the wins have rarely been white knuckle rides.

Off the top of my head, the end of the Wigan game, the comeback vs Fleetwood (and subsequent fuck up) and that's about it for edge of the seat stuff. When we're good we're excellent. When we're not, we're pretty characterless.

It's an observation. It doesn't need to be read as one side or other of the Critch debate. It's football this, not ** Brexit.
 
ParkerAteMyKebab said:
Agree with @td53 about a lack of excitement at BR. I am usually incensed about poor results but they don’t come as a surprise anymore. In fact it’s when we win I’m most surprised. Our Work Xmas party on Tuesday and for years I would never choose that over a home game but would sooner be at the party.

Maybe the Prem year, the Oystons and Covid has taken its toll and that sense of excitement is disappearing. A lot of talk over summer about automatic promotion would really benefit the club but ironically this mid-table mind numbing season could start to kill it off.

Would I sack Critch - probably not - but what I would say is I’d sooner have Dobbie’s attacking exciting football than this cautious boring stuff Critch is dishing out.
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I disagree. Apart from the prem year the excitement of getting covid out of the way and that 1st year in the championship was tremendous. The atmosphere home and away was 2nd to none!

Critch leaving and the subsequent disastrous season, mostly manager related with umpteen injuries thrown in has flattened the mood.

There's an understandable frustration that we can't string 3 or 4 wins together but as soon as we do I reckon the feelgood factor will return.
 
I can only view games on TTV but I have to say the noise level coming through my telly is vastly reduced this last year or so, what has happened to BFC fans?

I don’t buy into the fans need to be encouraged by what’s happening on the pitch of course it has an effect as the game goes on but at kick off the crowd should be right behind the team and make some bloody noise but unfortunately it’s sounds more like a morgue☹️
 
It’s only my opinion but think the mood has been killed with a series of poor appointments since Critchley left back in 2022. This coupled with lacklustre transfer windows and a completely shite 3/4 of a season in the Championship where we got pumped most weeks.

You then have the depression of the League 1 fixture list, reappointing a manager who lots of fans don’t like or want to forgive for the way he left whilst playing teams with little followings who are as far away from the main singing section as can be due to a shit stand layout and a ground safety officer who doesn’t want to hear why Lancashire is wonderful and the police who need fans 500 yards apart.

Throw in selling your best two players and fan favourites and seemingly not invested back into big signings with a transfer record fee now 13 years old, whilst being told we’ve signed “the most expensive player in the league” who was part of a swap deal, because we wouldn’t have signed him without it.

Not saying it’s right but that’s what’s happening 👎🏼

A show of intent in January in the window and a good run of form would get that buzz back pretty quickly.
 
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I can only view games on TTV but I have to say the noise level coming through my telly is vastly reduced this last year or so, what has happened to BFC fans?

I don’t buy into the fans need to be encouraged by what’s happening on the pitch of course it has an effect as the game goes on but at kick off the crowd should be right behind the team and make some bloody noise but unfortunately it’s sounds more like a morgue☹️
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disagree. The fans will respond to a team that is committed to attack from the start rather than play slow laboured football. Our fans are great but as AK says above, relegation meaning unattractive fixtures, and some pretty terrible performances by the players caused by the managers tactics has led to a far less vociferous atmosphere than it was. And i fully get that.
 
It's a factamundo that the atmosphere at the last 2 or 3 home games has been sh1te. I was in Block X against Carlisle and the 3 grassroots kids teams there made more noise than the North. Credit to the 10-12 years olds there they gave the Carlisle fans pelters and did a great of job of winding them up. The noise from the north was negligible. Considering the amount of moaning that goes on on here about entertaining play etc, well the 12th man has packed up and f00ked off so it's not surprising it feels dull at BR at the moment.
 
DiggersBFC said:
It's a factamundo that the atmosphere at the last 2 or 3 home games has been sh1te. I was in Block X against Carlisle and the 3 grassroots kids teams there made more noise than the North. Credit to the 10-12 years olds there they gave the Carlisle fans pelters and did a great of job of winding them up. The noise from the north was negligible. Considering the amount of moaning that goes on on here about entertaining play etc, well the 12th man has packed up and f00ked off so it's not surprising it feels dull at BR at the moment.
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Spot on . Those youngsters in block x were terrific and had more than a few Cumbrians frothing at the mouth !
 
AlternativeSeaside said:
I can only view games on TTV but I have to say the noise level coming through my telly is vastly reduced this last year or so, what has happened to BFC fans?

I don’t buy into the fans need to be encouraged by what’s happening on the pitch of course it has an effect as the game goes on but at kick off the crowd should be right behind the team and make some bloody noise but unfortunately it’s sounds more like a morgue☹️
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I take it then you don't actually attend home games (apologies if you do, wasn't being arsey)? The atmosphere is eery. It's flat, the feelgood factor, the excitement, the hope, belief and enjoyment has GONE. When we score there is a brief cheer followed by the usual chant then dead again. All the chants are strained, contrived and it just feels underwhelming.

I'm not going to get into the whole entitled fans stuff. I don't agree with that. I've been following the team for over 50 years, most in the lower leagues. I've seen it all before. The buzz has gone, the impetus too from expectations actually being far, far lower than the surge up to the Premier League. Most fans imo have subconsciously accepted that we might be stuck in the bottom 2 divisions for some time (dare I say it???) with the current owner and his less than inspiring managerial choices. That's only my opinion of course. Maybe I am a doom and gloomer, glass half empty. But the atmosphere is crap.
 
I wonder whether the focussing of all the singers in the North has led to a normalisation of lack of atmosphere in the rest of the ground. When the North is then quite the atmosphere is flat. As someone who is a season ticket holder in the south it frustrates me no end the amount of people in the South who clap but don't sing. Don't get me wrong there are some that do sing, but most don't.

It's also clear that having the away fans situated away from the "singers" whilst preventing some of the less savoury activities also contributes to killing the atmosphere.

There is, I believe, a solution to be had. Some of you block A and B'ers need to migrate. Not all, just some, to blocks W and X and then we have two sets of singings fans. One near the away fans which will definitely get things bouncing. You may even wake up the sleepy ones in the south (not the west, they're a lost cause) but maybe the south. Oh and bring another drummer whilst you're at it. May be 2 or 3 even. For when the atmosphere is bouncing, the whole place feels different. A simple win becomes an occasion to be treasured, a battling comeback driven by the fans one to talk about and a gallant loss, made bearable because we all sang our heads off. Or don't and everyone can continue to come on here, moan about the lack of progress and how sh1t the atmosphere is.
 
Razzledazzle53 said:
I disagree. Apart from the prem year the excitement of getting covid out of the way and that 1st year in the championship was tremendous. The atmosphere home and away was 2nd to none!

Critch leaving and the subsequent disastrous season, mostly manager related with umpteen injuries thrown in has flattened the mood.

There's an understandable frustration that we can't string 3 or 4 wins together but as soon as we do I reckon the feelgood factor will return.
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We can't string 3 or 4 passes together, never mind 3 or 4 wins!
 
Blackpool Are Back! said:
Unattractive fixtures with paltry away followings for the kop to compete with, have greatly contributed to a less vociferous atmosphere.
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So, we can lay the blame for the funereal atmosphere evident at Bloomfield Rd during matchdays squarely at the feet of rather 'mundane' opponents ...

You really couldn't make this s---e up.
 
DiggersBFC said:
I wonder whether the focussing of all the singers in the North has led to a normalisation of lack of atmosphere in the rest of the ground. When the North is then quite the atmosphere is flat. As someone who is a season ticket holder in the south it frustrates me no end the amount of people in the South who clap but don't sing. Don't get me wrong there are some that do sing, but most don't.

It's also clear that having the away fans situated away from the "singers" whilst preventing some of the less savoury activities also contributes to killing the atmosphere.

There is, I believe, a solution to be had. Some of you block A and B'ers need to migrate. Not all, just some, to blocks W and X and then we have two sets of singings fans. One near the away fans which will definitely get things bouncing. You may even wake up the sleepy ones in the south (not the west, they're a lost cause) but maybe the south. Oh and bring another drummer whilst you're at it. May be 2 or 3 even. For when the atmosphere is bouncing, the whole place feels different. A simple win becomes an occasion to be treasured, a battling comeback driven by the fans one to talk about and a gallant loss, made bearable because we all sang our heads off. Or don't and everyone can continue to come on here, moan about the lack of progress and how sh1t the atmosphere is.
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I'm a 'Westy' which fits with my age and experience nicely thank you.

I sat in the NW Stand in the early 70s (standalone Family Stand as was), the Kop in the late 70s, the South Paddock early 80s, the Scratching Sheds late 80s, West Paddock early to mid 90s, South Stand early 00s, and the West Stand ever since. Through my life I've sat or stood in the place which reflected my age, energy and the vibe that I could connect with at the time. Nowt wrong with that is there? Will you expect them that are now in the North Stand to be stood up all game, bouncing up and down, shouting a bawling for 90+ minutes in 50+ years? 🤦

Incidentally the South looks less than half full nowadays 🤷
 
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No buzz about the place?

Well, I'm sorry, but to address the point of the aforementioned post-header, given our current form, and with the possibility of promotion a nigh-on impossible dream, I guess all we can realistically hope for, is that Brentford (yes - Brentford) undergo a dramatic reversal of form over the next couple of seasons, suffering successive relegations, and then, for the 2025/6 season, (and assuming 'we' haven't continued our calamitous downward spiral), they will at some point find themselves coming up against BFC; and so, for what would be our home-leg, we can hopefully bank on the Bs bringing along plenty of their enthusiastic followers, with the club's vocal backing restoring the 'buzz' (cos that's what Bs do - buzz) which we had all thought had been banished forever from the increasingly muted terraces at Bloomfield Road.

I really can't wait for the day to arrive. When the fixture comes around, the ground will be an absolute hive of activity (as opposed to a rather sad, forlorn, neglected giant shell), especially with the cacophonous background sound of all that buzzing!
 
Fylde Seasider said:
I'm a 'Westy' which fits with my age and experience nicely thank you.

I sat in the NW Stand in the early 70s (standalone Family Stand as was), the Kop in the late 70s, the South Paddock early 80s, the Scratching Sheds late 80s, West Paddock early to mid 90s, South Stand early 00s, and the West Stand ever since. Through my life I've sat or stood in the place which reflected my age, energy and the vibe that I could connect with at the time. Nowt wrong with that is there?

Incidentally the South looks less than half full nowadays 🤷
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I'm sure I'll end up over there at some point as well :)
 
DiggersBFC said:
It's a factamundo that the atmosphere at the last 2 or 3 home games has been sh1te. I was in Block X against Carlisle and the 3 grassroots kids teams there made more noise than the North. Credit to the 10-12 years olds there they gave the Carlisle fans pelters and did a great of job of winding them up. The noise from the north was negligible. Considering the amount of moaning that goes on on here about entertaining play etc, well the 12th man has packed up and f00ked off so it's not surprising it feels dull at BR at the moment.
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The team has to give something back to get the crowd up. There’s no excitement in Jake Beesley is there let’s be honest.
 
Yeah the atmosphere has been mostly poor all season, by our standards, nothing like it was or it can be.

A collective sulk given some of what people mention above, decisions and what the fans have experienced. The buzz was back a bit under Dobbie, then he was ignored and NC appointed. Right decision or not that was always going to bring people down a bit, many didn't want to go back, again, he was having to regain trust, which he kind of did but just as we get going there's a poor result or 2 and suddenly the build up of a feelgood is gone again.

There's also expectation to win, not really excitement if we do, that has an effect too.

Saying all that it should still be better and people should get over what's happened in the past and do the best we can. Those better atmospheres might drive the team on that little bit more. Its also a lot more fun at games when everyone is chanting and enjoying the football.

It's a mentality thing too, also circumstantial. In the championship people are happier with us to keep the ball and pass round sides, as they are generally bigger clubs and if we're frustrating them or doing anything well, we're happier, as we're generally expected to lose in the championship, so when you win you're buzzing.

In league 1 it's all been a bit meh.
 
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AlternativeSeaside said:
I can only view games on TTV but I have to say the noise level coming through my telly is vastly reduced this last year or so, what has happened to BFC fans?

I don’t buy into the fans need to be encouraged by what’s happening on the pitch of course it has an effect as the game goes on but at kick off the crowd should be right behind the team and make some bloody noise but unfortunately it’s sounds more like a morgue☹️
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They only get loud when we’re doing well

Fact
 
Meliora said:
Our home record is W7 D2 L3. Not automatic promotion form but if that amounts to a lack of excitement then all you'll settle for obviously is winning every game.

Give your head a shake and become a fan not just a fair weather supporter.
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Is that not the point though! We should be fighting for seats at BR and the place should be bouncing like it did a few years ago but the fact is it’s not.
Oh and have decided to go tonight and join the Xmas party later on - am not a negative Nelly and would love us to be salivating at every fixture but am almost going tonight more through morbid curiosity!
 
20togo said:
disagree. The fans will respond to a team that is committed to attack from the start rather than play slow laboured football. Our fans are great but as AK says above, relegation meaning unattractive fixtures, and some pretty terrible performances by the players caused by the managers tactics has led to a far less vociferous atmosphere than it was. And i fully get that.
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Nah, it’s a generational thing, youngsters these days are too lazy and don’t have the initiative to get behind the team no matter what.

Nearly all my time of attending matches was in what is often referred to as the dark days, shit teams playing equally shit teams but the fans of that time were way more passionate than what we have today.

It’s not just a Blackpool problem, it’s a UK wide issue. Leeds, Crystal Palace and Newcastle buck the poor trend somewhat but atmosphere in grounds in general is a much watered down version of what once was.
 
Fylde Seasider said:
I take it then you don't actually attend home games (apologies if you do, wasn't being arsey)? The atmosphere is eery. It's flat, the feelgood factor, the excitement, the hope, belief and enjoyment has GONE. When we score there is a brief cheer followed by the usual chant then dead again. All the chants are strained, contrived and it just feels underwhelming.

I'm not going to get into the whole entitled fans stuff. I don't agree with that. I've been following the team for over 50 years, most in the lower leagues. I've seen it all before. The buzz has gone, the impetus too from expectations actually being far, far lower than the surge up to the Premier League. Most fans imo have subconsciously accepted that we might be stuck in the bottom 2 divisions for some time (dare I say it???) with the current owner and his less than inspiring managerial choices. That's only my opinion of course. Maybe I am a doom and gloomer, glass half empty. But the atmosphere is crap.
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I wish I could attend but it’s a fair old commute from Brazil, I’ve not lived in Blackpool since 2000 so I can only go off what I see on the TV since then mainly.

You mention when we score, in my time when we scored it was bedlam for a solid minute after the event, I can recall away games when the home fans would simply look on in awe at the Pool fans reactions, it was fantastic. I also have to say that the song which has been sang for a long time now following a goal is utter shite and should be dispatched with immediately, so ** cringeworthy🤮

Because I’m an exile I am careful about what I say about our own fans because I don’t want appear to be slagging off from a far and I haven’t had first hand experience for sometime but it is clear to me that the fans need to up their game as does the whole club in fact. I would hope the new east stand will go some way to rectifying the situation…
 
Fylde Seasider said:
I'm a 'Westy' which fits with my age and experience nicely thank you.

I sat in the NW Stand in the early 70s (standalone Family Stand as was), the Kop in the late 70s, the South Paddock early 80s, the Scratching Sheds late 80s, West Paddock early to mid 90s, South Stand early 00s, and the West Stand ever since. Through my life I've sat or stood in the place which reflected my age, energy and the vibe that I could connect with at the time. Nowt wrong with that is there? Will you expect them that are now in the North Stand to be stood up all game, bouncing up and down, shouting a bawling for 90+ minutes in 50+ years? 🤦

Incidentally the South looks less than half full nowadays 🤷
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Sounds like we used to follow each other round👍😂😂
 
Was talking about this at the ground last night based on this thread and even though we only had 3,000 in there did seem to be a void of any real atmosphere. Be interesting now we have that win behind us and with 3 times that amount on Saturday what we can achieve.
 
3 points on Saturday and a favourable wind elsewhere and we're not far off the mix.
NOW .. get 2 wins at Burton and Vale and suddenly Lincoln at home would be very interesting.
Look at Derby - nowhere near most of the season and now third after 4 wins and a draw .. many more twists and turns to come but we need those wins.
 
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