Atmosphere

[Spud]

Big occasion, a few beers prior to the game for most I guess, but also maybe some who'd normally be in the South stand ended up around the ground, making for a better round the ground atmosphere?
Whatever the reason it was probably the best atmosphere I've ever witnessed in there, & must have lifted the team.

[TonySoprano]

Best I've witnessed at the stadium.
I'm around halfway in the west, and only heard the crewe fans when they scored.
The south stand was immense however, donny fans really brought the noise last night, it was a real partizan atmosphere.

It also shows me this club has real unlocked potential, the fan base has grown massively since the SOD years.
Great to see.

[graingrover]

If Grant can deliver a Championship winning squad for next season there the ECO Power stadium will witness many joyous occasions even without local derbies .
He will no doubt have to replace at least two of our favourites and we all know who they are but if we have Ironside Miller and Biamou then he will find players to flank them up front .

[TonySoprano]

Honestly, if mcann gets us back to the Championship, which I think is a real possibility, there will be regular sell outs. 
We're not plucky little donny anymore, we're a real force at league 1 level. (I know we're  league 2 but it's a false position)

[Chris Black come back]

McCann is more than capable of hammering this league and getting us in to League One again. That’s a great result for us to be back in there again and competing.

Unless we have some serious external investment, McCann couldn’t if he swapped out Cliff for Ancelotti and had Pep washing bibs get us into the Championship. There is huge external investment largely US private equity piling now into clubs in League One, as an early entry into a tilt at entering the Premier League. We’ve got little hope of competing against that I’m afraid. Times have changed.

Top half League One competing with likes of Lincoln, Oxford and Peterborough is where we should be aiming. That’s a good result for us.

League Two is a terrible league. We need to get out of here as quickly as possible.   

[Jonathan]

Can we stop this nonsense of couldn’t hear the South Stand / Crewe fans louder. No. Crewe fans will have done themselves credit (>1k would when winning away in the play offs) but to suggest our fans were quiet is just contrary bullshit. Atmosphere was great. Of course the early goals against affected it but the crowd stayed with the team and naturally picked up when shooting our way.

I think it's more to do with how the sound travels in our stadium than a criticism Jonathan.

However it travels (we know acoustically it’s not the best) it’s just rubbish to suggest the South Stand couldn’t be heard within the ground. All sides joined in and we need more of that, it was great.

How's it rubbish? I was in the ground in the opposite end and couldn't hear it, that's a fact? Whether it was the best atmosphere that stand has ever created it still couldn't travel to the opposite end so your comment is daft saying that it's rubbish to say that they couldn't be heard.

Respectfully, if you couldn’t hear it then there could be an issue with your hearing. The Crewe fans may have felt louder if you were right next to them, but I’m not having it that you couldn’t hear the rest of the ground cheering the team on unless you have a hearing problem, in which case I understand.

[DonnyOsmond]

Can we stop this nonsense of couldn’t hear the South Stand / Crewe fans louder. No. Crewe fans will have done themselves credit (>1k would when winning away in the play offs) but to suggest our fans were quiet is just contrary bullshit. Atmosphere was great. Of course the early goals against affected it but the crowd stayed with the team and naturally picked up when shooting our way.

I think it's more to do with how the sound travels in our stadium than a criticism Jonathan.

However it travels (we know acoustically it’s not the best) it’s just rubbish to suggest the South Stand couldn’t be heard within the ground. All sides joined in and we need more of that, it was great.

How's it rubbish? I was in the ground in the opposite end and couldn't hear it, that's a fact? Whether it was the best atmosphere that stand has ever created it still couldn't travel to the opposite end so your comment is daft saying that it's rubbish to say that they couldn't be heard.

Respectfully, if you couldn’t hear it then there could be an issue with your hearing. The Crewe fans may have felt louder if you were right next to them, but I’m not having it that you couldn’t hear the rest of the ground cheering the team on unless you have a hearing problem, in which case I understand.

So dense.

[NickDRFC]

Can we stop this nonsense of couldn’t hear the South Stand / Crewe fans louder. No. Crewe fans will have done themselves credit (>1k would when winning away in the play offs) but to suggest our fans were quiet is just contrary bullshit. Atmosphere was great. Of course the early goals against affected it but the crowd stayed with the team and naturally picked up when shooting our way.

I think it's more to do with how the sound travels in our stadium than a criticism Jonathan.

However it travels (we know acoustically it’s not the best) it’s just rubbish to suggest the South Stand couldn’t be heard within the ground. All sides joined in and we need more of that, it was great.

How's it rubbish? I was in the ground in the opposite end and couldn't hear it, that's a fact? Whether it was the best atmosphere that stand has ever created it still couldn't travel to the opposite end so your comment is daft saying that it's rubbish to say that they couldn't be heard.

Respectfully, if you couldn’t hear it then there could be an issue with your hearing. The Crewe fans may have felt louder if you were right next to them, but I’m not having it that you couldn’t hear the rest of the ground cheering the team on unless you have a hearing problem, in which case I understand.

Weird, patronising take.

[DonnyOsmond]

Can we stop this nonsense of couldn’t hear the South Stand / Crewe fans louder. No. Crewe fans will have done themselves credit (>1k would when winning away in the play offs) but to suggest our fans were quiet is just contrary bullshit. Atmosphere was great. Of course the early goals against affected it but the crowd stayed with the team and naturally picked up when shooting our way.

I think it's more to do with how the sound travels in our stadium than a criticism Jonathan.

However it travels (we know acoustically it’s not the best) it’s just rubbish to suggest the South Stand couldn’t be heard within the ground. All sides joined in and we need more of that, it was great.

How's it rubbish? I was in the ground in the opposite end and couldn't hear it, that's a fact? Whether it was the best atmosphere that stand has ever created it still couldn't travel to the opposite end so your comment is daft saying that it's rubbish to say that they couldn't be heard.

Respectfully, if you couldn’t hear it then there could be an issue with your hearing. The Crewe fans may have felt louder if you were right next to them, but I’m not having it that you couldn’t hear the rest of the ground cheering the team on unless you have a hearing problem, in which case I understand.

Weird, patronising take.

Aye, there's no way it's the way the ground is designed, I'm either a liar or deaf.

[The Beast]

Russ Abbot seemed to enjoy it!

[Padge_DRFC]

Surely there's a quick fix. To hear people at the other end thought it was quiet when it wasn't is ridiculous. Could be the difference between people coming to the game or watching on firesticks

[ForsolongaRover]

The impresssion from watching on TV was that the home crowd kept the support for Rovers going and although the performance was very much below par there was no evidence that the team ever stopped trying.

[WheatleyRover]

I was in E1 and could hear the South loud and clear, there was even a young kid in the East North section starting chants

[graingrover]

Liverpool have speakers all over to orchestrate the singing of You’ll never walk alone .But we do need a club anthem !

[turnbull for england]

I went on a tour when stadium was being built and asked  architect about acoustics and he said they hadn't been specifically considered, that sort of design element was outside of the budget

[johnny rovers]

Liverpool have speakers all over to orchestrate the singing of You’ll never walk alone .But we do need a club anthem !

We have one, it's played over the tannoy system when the players walk out........but no one can hardly hear it. The speakers aren't fit for purpose!

[JonWallsend]

Middle  of the West stand,  albeit slightly nearer to the South than the North  Stand last night  and I could clearly  hear both teams.
I thought  the backing  for the team  last night was superb, fully merited given the last two months, and was as loud as I've ever heard it

[drfcsteve]

I wonder if it’s worth asking a specialist for advice on how we could improve the acoustics in the stadium to get a rough idea of the kind of investment that would be needed.

[GazLaz]

I wonder if it’s worth asking a specialist for advice on how we could improve the acoustics in the stadium to get a rough idea of the kind of investment that would be needed.

The best way to do that would be to the East and West stand singing as loudly as the South stand. That’s the issue.

[dickos1]

That’s the same in every stadium,
All stadiums have areas where people sing far louder than the rest of the stadium

[GazLaz]

That’s the same in every stadium,
All stadiums have areas where people sing far louder than the rest of the stadium

It is generally. Certainly been in stadiums where everyone joins in at times as well though.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

The trick is trying to generate more of that at regular home games.

The run of consecutive wins should remind us, every game is important, and more important than our last as it gets us closer to promotion. McCann managed to instill that mentality with the players, how can we do that with the fans?

We don't need technical wizzardry, we don't need acoustic experts we just need people to engage with the match, with the players, with each other to drive us on to win!

The South Stand definitely rose to the task recently with all those in it getting louder and louder which of course is the catalyst for the noise to spread.

We just need to convince people every home game is as vital as the Barrow game and their voices are just as important.

[colincramb]

Personally I think the stuff about the stadium acoustics is a myth that’s been peddled for years as an excuse for poor atmosphere. There’s literally nothing wrong with them. It was defeating at times on Friday night, especially when TLT saved the penalty. Could I hear the Crewe fans? No, not really, because there was 11000 people chanting and signing.

[mpc123]

I sit in the middle of the west stand and the noise from rovers fans was great, I could hear crewe a little bit.
It has been amazing recently and it really makes a game experience  when that atmosphere is there. Hopefully we can kick off fast next season and get everyone bought in and we can experience that at home most of the season.

[Silkscarf]

It was the best atmosphere we’ve ever generated in that stadium.

I could hear the crowd chants as I walked up to the ground 45 minutes before kick off! That never happens on a normal match day.

[ForsolongaRover]

The wide surround to the pitch has an impact on the accoustics in the same way as it does at the West Ham ground (the London Stadium) with its athletics track. And these characteristics are another factor in dissipating the sound. But you would not want to trade what we’ve got for something similar to Luton Town’s shambolic cramped accommodation. We are very fortunate to have our stadium.

It is after all the same for both teams. What can be generated from  the South stand is only a third of the potential of the rest. In some ways there might be a case for reducing the price differential between the North stand and the East and West stands so that there is more noise close to the Away support. Visually the image of empty seats in the West stand on TV makes us look poorly supported.

[johnny rovers]

The wide surround to the pitch has an impact on the accoustics in the same way as it does at the West Ham ground (the London Stadium) with its athletics track. And these characteristics are another factor in dissipating the sound. But you would not want to trade what we’ve got for something similar to Luton Town’s shambolic cramped accommodation. We are very fortunate to have our stadium.

It is after all the same for both teams. What can be generated from  the South stand is only a third of the potential of the rest. In some ways there might be a case for reducing the price differential between the North stand and the East and West stands so that there is more noise close to the Away support. Visually the image of empty seats in the West stand on TV makes us look poorly supported.

I think you mean east stand

[craigdrfc]

Im sure someone will correct me if im wrong but i believe, should the Dons somehow manage to make it to Super League, that all the audio and video equipment in the stadium would need significantly upgrading as mandatory.

[johnny rovers]

Im sure someone will correct me if im wrong but i believe, should the Dons somehow manage to make it to Super League, that all the audio and video equipment in the stadium would need significantly upgrading as mandatory.

You are probably right, but irrespective of that, upgrades are required.

[colincramb]

The PA system needs replacing, but I believe the club looked into this recently and were quoted in the region of 500k. Lot of money for some speakers