The Kop Band

11 hours ago, Salmonbones said:

Being kind is one thing, but the consensus is that these people are not wanted.

 

That’s fine mate 

no issue with that

its the getting personal/nasty part that needs to stop 

Life is tough enough without everyone sniping at each other in a personal way 

14 hours ago, archieswfc said:

True. But if something has bugged you for a long, long time. You're entitled to speak up. Especially when they'd jump ship tomorrow for a better offer. 

The jumping ship is an irrelevance 

if it’s a genuine opinion on the concept of the band itself it should remain just that 

You either like and want the band or you don’t (or you might not care one bit)

Anything else they do should have no impact on your decision if it’s about the atmosphere at S6

23 minutes ago, Sambo89 said:

Hard to be positive when it's drowned out by a trumpet. 

 

They've been disliked for years but they either don't care or are to ignorant to notice. 

The club is the one who can change it then - it should be a case of maturely putting forward a business proposition and case to the club for removal of the band on match days 

11 hours ago, Aingarth said:

Don’t understand all the hate about the band. For many years now, on the match days when they aren’t there, the kop sounds almost dead. What is the solution to this?

Bring back football rattles.............

4 minutes ago, longreach said:

Bring back football rattles.............

Somewhere SAG are taking blood pressure tablets at the thought of it

6 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

 

 

The club is the one who can change it then - it should be a case of maturely putting forward a business proposition and case to the club for removal of the band on match days 

And it's long overdue that they're stopped from bringing in instruments.

14 minutes ago, Sambo89 said:

And it's long overdue that they're stopped from bringing in instruments.

The case needs to be made to the club is my point though 

32 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

 

The jumping ship is an irrelevance 

 

if it’s a genuine opinion on the concept of the band it should remain just that 

 

You either like and want the band or you don’t (or you might not care one bit)

 

Anything else they do should have no impact on your decision if it’s about the atmosphere at S6

It’s not just about the atmosphere at S6 1SW, it’s also about their loyalty and priorities.

The Oxford home game, a momentous day in the history of our Club, an almost full house for the first game after chancer’s ousting when all Owls fans were asked to get behind the team, coaching staff and the Administrators.  The band played their part by going to The Etihad to support England.

5 minutes ago, wisewoodowl said:

It’s not just about the atmosphere at S6 1SW, it’s also about their loyalty and priorities.

 

The Oxford home game, a momentous day in the history of our Club, an almost full house for the first game after chancer’s ousting when all Owls fans were asked to get behind the team, coaching staff and the Administrators.  The band played their part by going to The Etihad to support England.

The issue is the band and the atmosphere at S6 though 

If our fans make a case about removing the band it needs to be purely on that 

Anything else will be seen as just jealousy 

3 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

 

 

The issue is the band and the atmosphere at S6 though 

 

If our fans make a case about removing the band it needs to be purely on that 

 

Anything else will be seen as just jealousy 

The atmosphere at the Oxford game was great without the band.

i don’t know where you get jealousy from. I watched the Oxford game from my seat on The Kop.  I wasn’t sat there thinking I wish I was at The Etihad going parp, parp, toot, toot, bang bang bang in support of England.

12 minutes ago, wisewoodowl said:

The atmosphere at the Oxford game was great without the band.

 

i don’t know where you get jealousy from. I watched the Oxford game from my seat on The Kop.  I wasn’t sat there thinking I wish I was at The Etihad going parp, parp, toot, toot, bang bang bang in support of England.

Im just offering up what the club will need in order to take any action at all 

It would need to be a cold hard business proposition that is purely and only about the atmosphere 

Anything else would be viewed as either personal or jealousy 

Luckily, I'm old enough to remember our glory days in the 90's. We had no band, and I remember the atmosphere being great at Hillsborough.

Then the Band comes along at precisely the same time as the start of our decline.

Now, obviously, I'm not saying it's all their fault, but they're an absolute albatross to the club. The friendly, hockey type atmosphere they generate does absolutely nothing to make the ground a fortress. For 30 years, they've been in place. For 30 years, we've been free-falling.

I started watching in 1980. We'd just been promoted under Big Jack, and we continued a steady rise at the hands of Wilkinson, then Atkinson and, for a period, Francis.

So my time watching Wednesday has been all rise, then all fall, pretty much (with the odd promotion here and there).

Gone are the creative songs from the fans. They've largely given up. Any of us who are a similar age to me will be able to go through those 90s teams and sing you the song for pretty much every player.

Anyone who is stepping foot inside Hillsborough for the first time in 10 years will be treated to the same old songs that they heard the last time they came - and they were tired then...

Over the last few months, we've shown, as a fanbase, that we have plenty about us. We have grit and determination. Other teams should feel this when they visit. But we've been drowned out by this lot for 30 years. It really is a truly dreadful noise and has no place at a football ground.

5 minutes ago, Hornsby said:

Luckily, I'm old enough to remember our glory days in the 90's. We had no band, and I remember the atmosphere being great at Hillsborough.

Then the Band comes along at precisely the same time as the start of our decline.

Now, obviously, I'm not saying it's all their fault, but they're an absolute albatross to the club. The friendly, hockey type atmosphere they generate does absolutely nothing to make the ground a fortress. For 30 years, they've been in place. For 30 years, we've been free-falling.

I started watching in 1980. We'd just been promoted under Big Jack, and we continued a steady rise at the hands of Wilkinson, then Atkinson and, for a period, Francis.

So my time watching Wednesday has been all rise, then all fall, pretty much (with the odd promotion here and there).

Gone are the creative songs from the fans. They've largely given up. Any of us who are a similar age to me will be able to go through those 90s teams and sing you the song for pretty much every player.

Anyone who is stepping foot inside Hillsborough for the first time in 10 years will be treated to the same old songs that they heard the last time they came - and they were tired then...

Over the last few months, we've shown, as a fanbase, that we have plenty about us. We have grit and determination. Other teams should feel this when they visit. But we've been drowned out by this lot for 30 years. It really is a truly dreadful noise and has no place at a football ground.

Same era for me. Seen the rise and the fall. I actually liked the band initially. But novelty wore off very soon. Somehow it feels they have sucked the spontaneous fun out of the ground. I don’t know why I feel like that. Perhaps because I associate their sound with decline. 

It must be time for them to retire. Perhaps on the very fair proposition that they actually spoil to atmosphere.

I remember standing on a rain soaked kop in the 70's with less than 10 000 in the ground.....oh well just the ramblings of an ageing Owl.