Has the St. James’ roar returned to the Toon?
Posted on October 17th, 2011 | 24 Comments |
Over the past few years I’ve been disheartened by the fact the for a team with supposedly some of the best fans in the world, St James Park has been a bit flat, on some occasions you can hear a pin drop, even when we were drawing the game. My theory is that the crowd was so nervous that we would concede we never really got going.
I’ve looked enviously at Stoke (never though I’d say that a few years ago!). Say what you want about them, but you can’t deny that the crowd is the 12th man at the Britannia Stadium. The noise levels are so loud that sometimes I have to turn the TV down to a lower volume. I think that they are one of the main reasons that Stoke have been so successful given their short time in the Premier League.
So you can imagine my delight yesterday, whilst watching Toon v Spuds that the crowd was chanting away right from kick-off, building to a crescendo of fantastic noise in the last 5 minutes. In relation to my colleague’s previous blog regarding St James’ Park as a fortress, we need to keep the noise and passion in order to get the lads on the pitch fired up and intimidate the opponents.
Back to my original question then: why has the noise suddenly returned? Level 7 has been split up so in theory we should be quieter than ever. My glory supporting friends have said that we only sing when we’re winning. In a way I suppose that’s true for any team to some extent; after all, you aren’t going to cheer on a 5-0 drubbing!
I suppose that in summary, what I’m trying to say (in a roundabout way) is that the noise is back in St James, lets keep it there!
Howay the Lads.
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