Atmosphere at SMS

[OldNick]

I feel the arguements about moving the away fans is now dead and buried. It is now multiple times that the atmosphere has been incredible at SMS, sunday being the latest. Even the TV pundits are mentioning it as well as neutrals. Fans who want to sit by the away fans are there doing os, and on Sunday both sides of the away end was raucous. The whole ground getting involved and yet again The Northam Wall drove the noise. Where I sit in the Itchen, hearing the Northam and Chapel also really getting involved has made the matchdays so much better, the playersmust love having the support from both ends and the away fans marginalised, where they cant have such an impact that they had when we stupidly split our home advantage.

Well done Parsons, a brilliant decision to enable this, should have been done form day 1.

SMS now feels like our home and fortress

[Oh no Mick Mills]

Spot on mate.

Unfortunately the first season with the Northam Wall coincided with our worst season ever .

The Northam has properly found its voice now and I love the way we instantly back the team with OWTS when we concede a goal.

More and more songs about the players which is great.

Sure there's a few crappy songs that irritate me...the father's gun Pompey one that serves no purpose...apart from when we are actually playing the Skates and the We Spy when we want is cringeworthy.

Plus we've now got the Chapel crew if you want some bantz with the away mobs....win win. 

[skintsaint]

Watched on TV and sounded great, amusing too see on SM that bitter skates said the atmosphere was crap 😅

[OldNick]

5 minutes ago, Oh no Mick Mills said:

Spot on mate.

Unfortunately the first season with the Northam Wall coincided with our worst season ever .

The Northam has properly found its voice now and I love the way we instantly back the team with OWTS when we concede a goal.

More and more songs about the players which is great.

Sure there's a few crappy songs that irritate me...the father's gun Pompey one that serves no purpose...apart from when we are actually playing the Skates and the We Spy when we want is cringeworthy.

Plus we've now got the Chapel crew if you want some bantz with the away mobs....win win. 

Since I first went in the late 60's I always craved for us to have a proper end, ok we had the Milton but that was often mixed with away fans. Now we have the Northam Wall. 

[saintwbu]

It’s been clear since the start that it’s definitely reduced the noise of the away end. I sit much closer to the current away end than I did the previous one, and yet the noise feels significantly less - often I forget they’re even there.