It’s not just Ulster or rugby.solidarity wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 10:16 pmCorrect, it's a joint thing. I also think the gentrification thing is right, we're a more polite crowd than we were before. I also think the big reduction in peope standing is a factor. There's something about standing that builds an atmosphere, maybe there's more bodies packed together, feeding off each other. As for the age element. As an old bloke, I'm convinced that the younger generation are so used to merely watching at a distance or on a screen that they don't get really involved at a gut level.allezlesverres wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 8:01 pmRegarding the atmosphere I agree it is a joint thing. What boils my pi$h is the idea (not your idea) that the team are entitled to the atmosphere. They aren't. If they serve up awful boring rugby and show no passion themselves, the crowd react in kind.BaggyTrousers wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 3:32 pm Atmosphere? It's a joint effort, team and supporters.
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It is a fact that the eternally stupid, like the poor will always be with us. I've heard estimates between 700K - 850K as the hammering the coffers of UR took thanks to this act of treachery to which the FIRFUCs were complicit. What level of Moron must you be to then consider that the game should be free gratis? Some people are just as dumb as a beg of racks.
Rant Ends.
The crowd do still get their dander up from time to time. If we get the stormers in a SF, I think it will be pretty electric.
By the way, did everybody get their emergency call on Sunday at 3.00pm? I didn't! presumably, when Armageddon comes, I'm dispensable, expendable, surplus to requirtements.
The atmosphere at grounds like Ninian Park, the Vetch Field, the Baseball Ground, Highbury etc hasn’t been replicated, arguably for the better.
Made me laugh earlier this season when some kids turned up at Ravenhill and took the pi$h when they saw the corners hadn’t been filled in.