bignose wrote:EWT spoons wrote:bignose wrote:
Or more correctly, Murrayfield isn't the problem either.
No I would say more correctly is Myerside isn't the problem. Murrayfield is too big
Obviously we have different opinions here.EWT spoons wrote:.., no matter how well the team play, we are unlikely to get even close to filling it, ...
Agreed.EWT spoons wrote:or even getting enough people in to generate a bit of atmosphere.
And this is where I fundamentally disagree with you. If 200 Leinster or Munster fans can generate an atmosphere in Murrayfield - as they have, repeatedly - then that shows it's possible. The problem with the atmosphere is (a) the Librarians and (b) the rugby on the pitch (in *that* order).
It makes no difference where you put them, Edinburgh fans are currently (and traditionally) at the bottom of the league for making noise and building an atmosphere. Blaming the stadium or claiming that Myreside will magically improve that is just nonsense (IMHO).
I fully agree with you that Edinburgh fans are largely terrible for generating atmosphere, and if you chucked all of them into a phone box it wouldn't greatly improve things, but what little noise they do make is not helped by MF being so vast and empty. I know some away fans have managed to generate a bit, but it's not been so much that it really stands out. Also clearly Edinburgh fans need all the help they can get, so make it somewhere easier to generate some noise, which MF is never going to be.
If we can improve things on the pitch then that'll help as well. Possibly advertising games a bit to attract fans who aren't going every week anyway would be another improvement, but that's a whole other issue.