btb
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Post by btb on Apr 28, 2024 20:50:59 GMT
Aren’t the Aces or whatever they called themselves supposed to be our ultras and create the atmosphere? What happened to them?
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malotru
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Post by malotru on Apr 28, 2024 20:54:55 GMT
I left the NRE in my mid 20’s and have returned to the Habbin where I first started when I was a kid. I’m 43 now and like to go in the South Habbin for the view. Not as moany as the North Habbin in my experience, possibly because it contains more casual fans who only attend high profile games and large groups of students every so often. And a hiding place for undercover away fans when the South Stand is sold out.
I may have to relocate back to the NRE should the Habbin get redeveloped first as sitting down on football stadium seats hurts my back. Or get a ST at the back row of a new seated Habbin and hope I can stand for most of the game.
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cufcwill
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Post by cufcwill on Apr 28, 2024 20:55:50 GMT
Lower capacity in the NRE hasn’t helped on bigger game days, poor acoustics, some crap chants, but it does feel loud ish when in the NRE . Doesn’t travel well. Think the point about acoustics is spot on. The NRE can sound loud when you're in it, but I imagine the away end does too and that can't be heard from the NRE usually. Chants don't travel particularly well round the ground (fair enough if people don't want to join in with some of the weirder/coarser ones) and so the noise gets lost. If we're going to develop the NRE, it'd be good if we can do that with some attention to how it could carry sound better. Maybe if the South Habbin becomes designated for the away end, some of the wannabe 'hard' fans will migrate to the North Habbin, potentially giving an option to spread the sound round there too? Low roof keeping the noise trapped in, making it louder for those in the stand but stops the noise from spreading super well. Having four individual stands makes it fairly difficult to get that too happen and the four corners of the ground being exposed does the same. Assuming the expanded NRE will go the full length of the pitch and come level with the Habbin should help that to improve. Will be interesting to see how/if the renovation plans can change this.
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Post by joffjog on Apr 28, 2024 21:04:52 GMT
All are welcome in the South Habbin 🙂 In general we’re more upbeat and less grumpy than the North, which is why I migrated over. We get a lot of families and excited day-trippers, which helps. (And obviously my positivity and adoration of our players infects all who come close). Flip-sidedly that makes getting chants going tough. The comment about Habbin needing some leaders/time keeping is 100% spot on, I think this would make the biggest difference to getting us lowly Habbinites more vocal.
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Post by unclemike78 on Apr 28, 2024 21:08:40 GMT
All are welcome in the South Habbin 🙂 In general we’re more upbeat and less grumpy than the North, which is why I migrated over. We get a lot of families and excited day-trippers, which helps. (And obviously my positivity and adoration of our players infects all who come close). Flip-sidedly that makes getting chants going tough. The comment about Habbin needing some leaders/time keeping is 100% spot on, I think this would make the biggest difference to getting us lowly Habbinites more vocal. I prefer Habbinista.
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Post by whiteswan on Apr 28, 2024 21:28:08 GMT
The NRE is at its best when the atmosphere is organic and spontaneous. More exiting football would obviously help that. Since being in league 2, we’ve lowered our standards as to what is considered a decent performance, which I get. A decent performance when you’re trying to get promoted out of league 2 looks different to a decent performance when you’re trying to survive in league 1, but some of the football on display the last two seasons has been really really poor. Not just the quality, but the general exitiment levels. Football doesn’t need to be high quality to be exiting, but most of the time we have neither ingredient.
That being said, fans can do more to generate a better atmosphere, even when the football is bland. I don’t mean ‘organised’ atmospheres. I don’t think Brits respond well to staged, choreographed or forced atmospheres. It works in Europe, not here. The NRE needs to galvanise when the natural energy builds. But they don’t. They don’t know how to. Wrong songs, wrong times. When the games crying out for a lung busting ‘yeeellllooowwws’, the little twerps start singing the latest generic rubbish they’ve seen on tik tok that week.
…and it’s their train set.
This season is as bad as I’ve ever known it.
Bring back Will J.
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andyrt
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Post by andyrt on Apr 28, 2024 21:31:38 GMT
All are welcome in the South Habbin 🙂 In general we’re more upbeat and less grumpy than the North, which is why I migrated over. We get a lot of families and excited day-trippers, which helps. (And obviously my positivity and adoration of our players infects all who come close). Flip-sidedly that makes getting chants going tough. The comment about Habbin needing some leaders/time keeping is 100% spot on, I think this would make the biggest difference to getting us lowly Habbinites more vocal. Of course you’re more upbeat and less grumpy. Filled with family and day trippers, you’re not real football fans, and can’t make your minds up if you want to be nearer the home or the away fans.
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Post by cufctheparrot on Apr 28, 2024 21:59:30 GMT
Whilst we're on the topic of NRE / Habbin, I turn 40 next week. Does that mean I'm obliged to transfer to the Habbin, never to return to the NRE? I wasn't sure if the cut-off was 40, 50, or just whatever age incontinence hits. No, I started off in the Habbin when my Dad started to take me to matches in the late 70s and remained there until my mid thirties when we dropped down into the Conference and the lack of crowd / atmosphere inside the ground forced me to move to the NRE. Moved back to the Habbin in my late 30s / early 40s thanks to my son coming to the matches but moved back to the NRE post covid after my son had grown a bit taller. Now into my mid 50s and the NRE is the preferred option for both me and my son. I think I have another 10 years of the NRE in me. As for the atmosphere, I don't really get it. It hasn't changed much in my years in the NRE, perhaps more supporters have not added more vocal support in the way people expect, but its certainly far from being as bad as a typical conference match, but we have not matched the levels of those conference play off matches, although the 10 minutes when we were leading against Wycombe was a bit special.
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Post by smartspud on Apr 28, 2024 22:35:58 GMT
72. Still in the 'corona' end. Think it's just the acoustics, sometimes seems really loud to me and mine. Like a bit more originality please in the songs, and won't sing the one about 'kicking heads in', makes me think of Simon Dobbin. Not nice.
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Post by westchestertonbear on Apr 28, 2024 22:39:17 GMT
Difficult to get enthused about the NRE singing about Barry Fry when you are getting reamed by Lincoln, P1sh, , Cheltenham, Bolton etc…
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Post by fatherjhackett on Apr 28, 2024 22:58:08 GMT
Whilst we're on the topic of NRE / Habbin, I turn 40 next week. Does that mean I'm obliged to transfer to the Habbin, never to return to the NRE? I wasn't sure if the cut-off was 40, 50, or just whatever age incontinence hits. If you are surly, miserable, unreasonable and pessimistic, you will be very welcome in the Habbin. Priest relocated from the Corona to the N'Habbin this season. People have observed that my formerly sunny, optimstic disposition has been superseded by a salivating cyncism, misanthropy & the routine use of fecking foul langage. And then there's the proximity of this arse baxtad who unfailingly emerges at the back wall during every match:
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Post by funkymonk on Apr 28, 2024 23:12:25 GMT
So, I hear you're a Habbinistaite now, Father...
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Post by zx10racer22 on Apr 28, 2024 23:18:09 GMT
If you are surly, miserable, unreasonable and pessimistic, you will be very welcome in the Habbin. Priest relocated from the Corona to the N'Habbin this season. People have observed that my formerly sunny, optimstic disposition has been superseded by a salivating cyncism, misanthropy & the routine use of fecking foul langage. And then there's the proximity of this arse baxtad who unfailingly emerges at the back wall during every match:
Out of interest… I’ve wondered this for years… why was it called the Corona? A sponsor? Dates back to the 80s doesn’t it?
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Post by fatherjhackett on Apr 29, 2024 0:16:03 GMT
Much earlier: the lemonade bottling plant was at the rear where the Hire Car joint is now.
I'm hoping the club will reinstate it as part of the development plans, along with the Globe Tea Gardens.
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Post by madmarvin on Apr 29, 2024 7:55:11 GMT
If you are surly, miserable, unreasonable and pessimistic, you will be very welcome in the Habbin. Priest relocated from the Corona to the N'Habbin this season. People have observed that my formerly sunny, optimstic disposition has been superseded by a salivating cyncism, misanthropy & the routine use of fecking foul langage. And then there's the proximity of this arse baxtad who unfailingly emerges at the back wall during every match:
He'll never admit it (don't blame him) but the good Father now stands alongside myself and close associates. I can confirm that he has now joined the chorus of despair and is equally mystified as to the identity of the person nearby who clearly eats nothing but brussels sprouts before every match.
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