ingoldale - 22/2/2016 10:17
Bloodaxe - 21/2/2016 17:51
Ringo's drums and the trumpets helped form team Lincoln, the atmosphere was great. But 617 do a fantastic job. Would be good if the rest of the Co-Op joined in, then that would be awesome, the sporadic times that the noise spreads across the stand is great.
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Isn't other sections of the ground joining in a problem with ultras sections in general? There is a section in the Pontoon at Grimsby who are the self-nominated singing section (essentially Ultras) but if a chant is started elsewhere in the ground they either don't join in or start their own. This alienates the rest of the supporters and has the adverse effect of making them not join in.
When I was a season ticket holder at St. Etienne in France only the ultras sections behind the goals sang songs. People at the sides rarely, and I mean rarely, joined in. The two ultras sections didn't sing them same songs either. Proper atmosphere generates itself and does not require someone without a shirt on, a megaphone and with his back to the game orchestrating chants. The chants come and go of their own accord reflecting the mood of the fixture, how the game is playing out and the occasion as a whole.
A good example was the Lincolnshire derby at BP this season. About 15 minutes before kick-off both sets of fans were singing and it was really exciting. Then, after kick-off, you lot came out and were the better side and totally flattened the Town fans thus killing the noise. Had we had an ultras section singing on regardless it wouldn't have been representative of what was going on. The flat Town performance merited a dejected response from the crowd. As the game went on, and we improved, the crowd came back. That's how it should be.