Was that a drum in the town end on Tuesday btw?

Not a big fan of them but if it gets some atmosphere and singing back inside the ground then I wouldnt mind.

It would be better if the person playing it had a sense of rhythm, rather than just beating it, I stuck wotsits in my ears to drown it out and the singing it generated wouldn`t power an ant light bulb

Previous banging on the back of the stand was more rhythmic than the drumming , he's no ginger baker

You had a full band going at the San Marino/England game but it was still morguelike. Atmospheres are created by excitement and passion not drums. If the football isn't exciting you can have as many drummers as you like but it'll still be quiet.

Drums do not belong at a football match, unless it's in South America, Africa or some other exotic place. I would love to see rattles make a come back.

Drums don't bother me, I think they sort of create a fake illusion of an atmosphere. The only problem is, they were utter useless at playing it.

I hate the Vuvuzela. FACT

How can anyone think that drums/any other instrument is a good idea at football? It's just wrong and anyone taking any form of musical instrument to a ground should be banned for life.

Music playing after a goal is also very wrong.

How about a megaphone like all German sides seem to have.

No

Wooden rattles and glass clackers. .us kids were spoilt for choice with dangerous toys back in them days.

Fortunately I was at work on Tuesday and didn't have be inside the Vic for a Pools game with a drum present.

Hopefully whoever was responsible never brings it again, and if they do someone puts a knife in it.

Drums don't belong in fourth division football, take one to watch MK Dons to create a false happy clappy atmosphere, not to the Vic which is a proper footy ground full of moaning twats but on the occasions the place warrants a real atmosphere, either when the club needs it because we are in the shit, or (more rarely ) what we are watching on the pitch prompts it the place is bouncing naturally as much as anywhere without a fucking drum.

I'll never forget what the reporter wrote from Bristol City's local rag wrote when we played them here in the play offs here in 2004, that he'd followed them all over for 20 years to places like Anfield and the Vic that day was the best most intense atmosphere he'd witnessed.

I suspect nobody brought a twatty drum.

Is just shit.

The clown with the drum worsened what was an already turgid night - lets hope that the stewards confiscate the thing on Saturday. it was a pathetic attempt to create an atmosphere that only succeeded in annoying the majority of Town-enders who stand near me.

Why ridicule someone who's only intention was to create more atmosphere, ffs in my time following Pools we've had people with rattles, school bells, foghorns, why criticise?, if we want the Vic to be like a fuppin graveyard crack on, but don't criticise people trying to break the mould.

Us, the fans, should have been consulted before this (in my opinion, daft) decision was made. What happened to the initial talk of consultation and working with the fans? A good example of why we need the Supporters Trust - not just for relatively minor issues like this but we need to make ourselves heard whenever possible.

Eh?

So this wasn't the choice of one person just to bring it in? He was actually a plant? Sack the board!!

This club gets more absurd by the week

I presumed it was Mr Coxall's idea - apparently he was talking about it the other week? If it wasn't then, fair enough - it was someone else's daft idea.

Weren't most of those items last seen in a football ground in about ninetysixtyfuppingtwo!?

I'm growing a tash, wearing a flat cap, smoking a pipe and am going to stand on a Milk Crate on Saturday.... up the Hartlepools!!

Oh and by the way none of those items were a fucking monotonous, irrelevant drum. Thud, thud, thud is not a football atmosphere. Why not set off an air raid siren when we get a corner to recreate the full Sincil Bank experience?

By the way if this one of Coxall's 'plans' I'm worried, because ultimately we couldn't give a shit about stuff superficial crap like this, we still have no idea who the new owners are, he is the only person we've ever been introduced to.

I'd rather know about the long term vision for the club, and who the fuck actually owns us, oh and if they have any money.

Was this post supposed to be on the ground sponsorship thread?

I noticed JPNG were tweeting about Rugby tickets yesterday, I thought maybe just a raffle to etc to get more followers or something but no they were selling them.

Which i found strange.

I thought that, i bet they were mega expensive.

Coxall seems to have lots of little pointless ideas, when the only thing that really matters is 3 points, get them n the rest is irrelevant.

I think a drum can work to build up a bit of atmosphere, but the one on Tuesday sounded like somebody randomly hitting a Pringles tube.

Cripes, maybe we should all sit/stand quietly praying like in a church. Shushing people who dare to raise their voices over 70 decibels. You know fine well an air raid siren would breach health and safety rules. Don't worry next time I have a tickly cough I'll stay at home.

drums are horrendous at football games, especially when the same people then start chanting 'our support is shit'.

it's been pointed out many times but a drum doesn't serve an atmosphere, fans being excited by something generates an atmosphere and over the last 6/7/8 years we have been subjected to absolute tripe. I missed the exeter game last season but i heard the atmosphere was terrific, along with the morecambe game the season before.

It's going to take a while to get it going again, as some of our games are very boring still