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;ok It's not immediately clear from the context. I'll add a bit in brackets.
Now, how the fans view the ground and how they act is a different story, again IMO, the Boylean was intimidating, when the fans wanted it to be, it was our home, our place.
There is 0 reason why the Olympic stadium can't be just as intimidating, if not more so, given the fact that there is 20k more of us in the place. There is no point clinging to what could be. The Boylean is gone, she has been knocked down, whether you believe you were sold a "lie" or not, we can't turn back the clock.
What we can do, is as supporters of the team, is turn up and make as much noise as possible.
Throughout our lives as adults, we buy and sell houses to improve and change our lot in life, maybe because we have a bigger family, maybe for schools or just because we like the new area. We remember fondly the places that come before, but that doesn't stop us loving the new place we go to.
Sometimes they were not.
It was always the same ground. So if it was something intrinsic to the ground, it would always have had the same effect. Which obviously it didn't, so it wasn't.
You could say that because the ground was smaller, the fans were closer to the pitch and this (when the fans were in the right frame of mind) could enhance the effect.
But as moojor says, at the OS you are massively increasing the number of fans.
So now, there are more fans to make a noise and so (when they are in the right frame of mind) the size of the stadium can enhance the intimidatory effect.
2 different stadia, one common factor: the fans.
Sorry guys all my fault...
Fortunately not!
At the same time I’m not saying that the LS can’t be intimidating it’s already shown in a few games that the noise levels are insane when it’s rocking, i really hope it’s more intimidating than the Boleyn over the years to come and hopefully we build many memories of it, of course it’s going to take time nearly all these moves do
;ok
With the numbers inside the LS it's obviously able to generate noise but I personally feel it's more like a general din, while the Boleyn created was more like a wall of noise.
There's no such thing as common sense, if there was we wouldn't disagree on anything
ohhh my word its amazing
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5139907/Bill-new-Tottenham-stadium-soars-1bn.html
however what a ground
On another mail article its call spurs ground at 750 million
London stadium cost 701 million...
wow
Even if it came in on budget, you'd still want something half decent for 3/4 of a billion...
We’re going to have to make some changes to ours hopefully making it a better experience
Good news today, Brady has responded with a 5000 word letter to the RWHFAG and his some short term and long term changes to be made to the badge, stadium, heritage etc and has offered to meet them again on Wednesday.
That’s progress I’d say
I wouldn't like to think that a group of fans who shout loudest get to override what was a democratic decision already made.
People might get ideas ;wink
It was an online vote conducted over 48 hours by youGov.56% voted in favour.
Hardly representative. Did anybody on here vote ?
If eligible people didn't take the opportunity to vote, that's their choice.
But it's not acceptable to just ignore all those who cared enough to vote on the grounds that 'it wasn't representative' imo.
Even if you think the results of that poll should be set aside (for whatever reason), are you actually saying that if the club propose a new design, there shouldn't be a new poll? And that any new 'approval process' should be limited to the folks in the RWHFAG? The views of fans not in that group should be ignored, no, not ignored - never even solicited?
Won't that make any new choice even less 'democratic' than the current one based on an (in your opinion) unrepresentative consultation?
(Note: I'm not saying they can't bring forward a new design because lots of people voted for the old one.)
The club can’t be held responsible for the lack of response, I do think many WHU fans are kicking themselves that they didn’t make as much noise at the appropriate time
It’s good that the club are looking at it though, I can’t believe that RWHFAG would think this fell solely on them to decide what the new badge looks like if it does change again. From reading many comments on the subject it appears to me the badge design itself isn’t the major issue, it’s the word “London”