Questions there.
Sick of everyone turning every thread now into the drums being bad and so on, you all know the script.

Kyle

The thing is, I don't know what the atmosphere sounds like with a drum.

There's about 6 of them, all out of tune.

No, they are annoying

If the drummers didn't seem to have a complete lack of rhythm it might not be so bad. Sitting far away from them obviousley isn't so bad and does get the crowd going, but sitting anywhere near them ruins the game for me.

Do we need one? No
Do I mind them? In moderation, no.

As ABP' says, we probably could manage with one drum and one decent drummer who knows when and how to play* it.

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How's "it depends" for a fence-sitting answer?

Sometimes they can add something extra, but then you have instances like Harlequins the other week where they just don't. Seems there's a time and a place for them - not one I can put my finger on, but they're not an outright bad thing.

Just repeatedly banging a drum does NOT constitute 'atmosphere', good or otherwise though. Noise maybe, but not atmosphere. The concept of having 'no atmosphere without the drum' is bobbins.

kyle- why do you feel the need to post your name after everything you put ?

dirk.

Some people do that quite regularly

Barbara

Generally no, they drown everyone else out.

I've reset the vote and added sometimes.

Barbara

No was winning 7-0 a minute ago, now it's 0-0-0

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I think the majority of the people who sit in the East Stand are against the drum, and majority of people who sit in the South Stand are for the drum. So why cant the East Stand keep to clapping and South Stand have one drum and use that. Simples.

For away games, toss a coin.

How loud is that going to be? Easier to carry, though.

Go watching Man Utd away from Old Trafford (not my team so I'm not biased).

The best fans in terms of noise and NO drum...


(Don't come this crap about Portsmouth/Newcastle etc fans for best fans)

A decent drummer would play the drum. The boozed-up ankle-biters in the South Stand, however, just seem to just whack their drum as hard as they can whenever they feel like it

your fans need everything they can ge t to make some noise !!

One drum in the east and south stands should be ok as long as the people with the drum actually know how to play it and can keep time. Using it to strike up a chant helps the atmosphere.
I sit in the east stand and without a drum the atmosphere is very flat, it's pretty much silent all game. With a drum used in moderation the fans generally get behind it and it sounds much better.

However during the Widnes away game I was sat in one of the corners and the drumming was a appalling. A mildly intelligent ape could have been handed the drum despite never seeing one before and would have worked out how to make a better sound within 5 minutes.

Constantly whacking the drum over and over again to a repetitive chant is annoying, dull and does nothing for the atmosphere but as long as someone knows how to use the drum then it can really help.

As long as they are at the opposite end of the ground to me, or better still in the next County, I don't mind !

I reckon the club should allocate one drummer and have them as the only drummer. It has been proved time and time again when we've had no drum that we can create an atmosphere.

For home games we need one in each stand both being people who can play them. The atmosphere will never be good at home anyway!

Away games I don't mind.

Use one, played by someone who knows how to. Use it to get a song/chant/wahtever going then pack it in. Once something is going theres no need to keep banging it.

The one at Widnes annoyed me, constant drone, I nearly shoved it up his .

Don't panic.
So long as he brings TWO decent sticks I'll have a few giraffes in France and come out of retirment to show them how it's done Properly!

It's the fact that there are
a. Too many
b. They can't play them

that is the problem more than anything else.
Now and again and it gets people going, the constant thump thu
p thump just gets on everyone nerves.

What amazes me is how you can have a drum for ages yet never ever improve?

Maybe we should go the whole hog like Leeds and get a Brass band for all the singing

maybe we should start a choir and an orchestra?