GET THE PINTS IN! Easter Road visit and thoughts from visiting German fans.
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Took a couple of St. Pauli friends along to the Livi game, some interesting thoughts from their first experience of Scottish football live.
- They thought there would be a better atmosphere inside and outside the ground, they turn up hours before the game, beer sellers outside, street food,festival atmosphere, horns going off all sorts.
- They thought we were good and Livi were pathetic, singled out Youan, Cadden, Maolida and Alf.
- They are fed a diet of ugly sister matches only in Germany for Scottish football and I think expected all games to have that intensity.
Overall, we agreed that we in Scotland go the game waiting to be entertained, before singing etc, whereas on the continent they are all amped up and singing hours before kick off and during (kinda like the Swiss were against us over there).
Cultural differences I suppose, and I think I might prefer our way, it seems a little forced or stage managed to start chanting etc hours before the start, at every game, but maybe that could be changed by beer being sold outside or inside the ground….:wink:
Or, if we were like them; at or near the top of the league! But they claim it is the same no matter what the league position. (The beer option being the more likely,:wink:.)
Regards the beer selling, it works like this, the club get nothing, the sellers are street folk who go and buy slabs of cans from Aldi/lidl etc and sell it outside the ground for 1euro profit a can so the fans get beer the the sellers make some dosh, everyone is happy! (and singing as they go into the game). Can you imagine that outside and around Easter Road…..:cb:cb:cb
here is a short film about st pauli, love their message, fan based identity, total commitment, i think I now have a second team! Fantastic stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTwrCEN2L5w
If you think about it there are thousands of Hibees boozing before the match, but all in separate boozers dotted around, if the club could get all those thousands concentrated somewhere like outside the East stand with beer kegs, street food, music etc the mass would probably begin singing and a more upbeat atmosphere could emerge? Been discussed before I know, could it happen, do we want it to happen?
Any thoughts? I think Ron Gordon was looking at something like that?
- They thought there would be a better atmosphere inside and outside the ground, they turn up hours before the game, beer sellers outside, street food,festival atmosphere, horns going off all sorts.
- They thought we were good and Livi were pathetic, singled out Youan, Cadden, Maolida and Alf.
- They are fed a diet of ugly sister matches only in Germany for Scottish football and I think expected all games to have that intensity.
Overall, we agreed that we in Scotland go the game waiting to be entertained, before singing etc, whereas on the continent they are all amped up and singing hours before kick off and during (kinda like the Swiss were against us over there).
Cultural differences I suppose, and I think I might prefer our way, it seems a little forced or stage managed to start chanting etc hours before the start, at every game, but maybe that could be changed by beer being sold outside or inside the ground….:wink:
Or, if we were like them; at or near the top of the league! But they claim it is the same no matter what the league position. (The beer option being the more likely,:wink:.)
Regards the beer selling, it works like this, the club get nothing, the sellers are street folk who go and buy slabs of cans from Aldi/lidl etc and sell it outside the ground for 1euro profit a can so the fans get beer the the sellers make some dosh, everyone is happy! (and singing as they go into the game). Can you imagine that outside and around Easter Road…..:cb:cb:cb
here is a short film about st pauli, love their message, fan based identity, total commitment, i think I now have a second team! Fantastic stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTwrCEN2L5w
If you think about it there are thousands of Hibees boozing before the match, but all in separate boozers dotted around, if the club could get all those thousands concentrated somewhere like outside the East stand with beer kegs, street food, music etc the mass would probably begin singing and a more upbeat atmosphere could emerge? Been discussed before I know, could it happen, do we want it to happen?
Any thoughts? I think Ron Gordon was looking at something like that?