ASPINALL- Get a big drum and get the Amex rocking

[Publius Ovidius]

Oh, OK then Dave, Granny, Publius.

Good man..you know it makes sense.

 

[El Presidente]

His words 'The germans do it, it gets the atmosphere going'.

Are we talking about invading Poland?

 

[oneillco]

His words 'The germans do it, it gets the atmosphere going'. We need to stop worrying about cringing and embarrassment at the Amex and worry more about raising an atmosphere.

Thoughts?

I vote yes, with a divided North Stand who specialise in singing two different songs at the same time we need a metronome. There was a bloke who used to bring a drum to Withdean; can't he dig it out and give it a polish? And the drum at MK Donuts today was pretty good I thought.

 

[Bwian]

It works at other grounds, so why not at the Amex. It might get the whole North stand singing the same song for a change. I still don't understand why we seem louder and more united away from home than we do at home. We need to get the singers singing the same song together and be more united in the North stand, and then the whole ground can get into it.

We're you there today? If you were then you would never, ever suggest having some fat tw@t banging away on a frigging drum at The Amex.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

No.

But he did say Hemedrose like a tin of john west.

 

[Eeyore]

At my age, I'm getting forgetful. Indeed, I can't even recollect the last time palace actually won a game.

That's not forgetfulness. The most agile of minds struggle.

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

I'm totally for the montage to ramp things up before the teams come out but for Gods sake please get rid of the deafening music right up to the second the kick off takes place. It totally kills any chance of the atmosphere building and the feeling of the crowd getting behind the lads as the kick-off approaches after we've sung GOSBTS.

..and no drum thank you!

 

[Sheebo]

How did they do today?

On the subject of drums, I've always been in the no camp, but sometimes the atmosphere at the AMEX is dire, maybe it's time to move on, after all if a few spotty yoofs can get that shithole up the road rocking, imagine what an accousticly superior amex could be like.

There's been a few games where the atmosphere has been good without a drum, but nowhere near often enough.

It's certainly not 'dire' - it's amongst the top in the league for atmo on the whole. I don't know what & where people think these amazing home atmospheres are in England but the Amex isn't bad at all. Dire is MK today - the Amex is 100 times better - no exaggeration. I guess some of this depends on where you sit but the North is pretty loud and when the West get going it sounds incredible. MK offered one song all game - one song with a drum was audible in the away end. That lasted 10 secs max - and yes you could see they were signing and clapping so it wasn't like the sound just wasn't travelling

 

[Sheebo]

We're you there today? If you were then you would never, ever suggest having some fat tw@t banging away on a frigging drum at The Amex.

It seemed very Bizaare today that their drummer seemed to give up/go missing for about 70 mins?! Could hear the annoying shite for first ten mins then didn't seems to bang again til they scored?!

 

[Buzzer]

His words 'The germans do it, it gets the atmosphere going'. We need to stop worrying about cringing and embarrassment at the Amex and worry more about raising an atmosphere.

Thoughts?

Let's not please. For anyone who is sitting a fair distance away from the drum it just becomes a montonous thud...thud...thud...thud...

Off the top of my head Orient, Boro, Preston, Bristol City have all been away games where a drum has just become an irritating background noise.

 

[Wilko]

Let's not please. For anyone who is sitting a fair distance away from the drum it just becomes a montonous thud...thud...thud...thud...

Off the top of my head Orient, Boro, Preston, Bristol City have all been away games where a drum has just become an irritating background noise.

I agree that the continual aimless banging of a drum does your head in at a tinpot team. HOWEVER, a drummer on the shelf to keep the fans in time (which we need) or to slow down SBTS I think would be worth trying out for one game. If everyone hates it then yep, move on.

 

[W.C.]

Does anyone remember Glen Hoddle's slightly odd, but to give him some credit, at least a little different, training technique where he had 4 to the floor house music playing whilst the England players were training? Something to do with rhythm.

We've got a great big sound system up there and nothing sounds quite like an 808.

 

[Wellesley]

His words 'The germans do it, it gets the atmosphere going'. We need to stop worrying about cringing and embarrassment at the Amex and worry more about raising an atmosphere.

Thoughts?

Can we all wear lederhosen too?

 

[Working class pride]

Could do a Palace and import a Spurs fan to tell the drummer boy when to bang it as well. You lot do make me laugh.

 

[el punal]

KFC? . . . . oh no, that's a bucket.

 

[Bromley shrimp]

In the fifties the drummer in the marching band at half time at the Goldstone hit the drum so hard the stick went right through the skin so I'm told. Anyone hear of that?

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

No to the drum. No to goal music. I notice that MK didn't have any red card music?

 

[Bromley shrimp]

Not a Dave Clarke Can then?

 

[Perfidious Albion]

When we have played at Leicester, when I lived up there, I used to hate their drum.....and worst of all that damned hunting horn as they came out...
Maybe it is to upset the opposing team and fans? I think that we are above such cheap gimmicks

 

[W.C.]

No to the drum. No to goal music. I notice that MK didn't have any red card music?

Now THAT would be good. Wa wa waaaaaaaa trumpet syle? The old yellow pages music? Nelson from the simpson's? Family Fortunes sound?