Irish Crowd noise at Aviva

Was it just me or did the Irish crowd appear very quiet during the Scotland game? Only coming alive when Ireland were close the Scottish line and even there it was muted. IMO.

Conversely the Welsh crowd was on fire from the start and that was against Italy!

Is the Aviva stadium design poor for crowd noise / acoustics or is there not the same crowd passion? Did no one else get same sense?

Hope the noise will be better this weekend   

They'll be plenty of noise when a penalty decision doesn't go their way - from the crowd and the players to the ref  

The roof at the MS was closed which amplifies the noise there. There were moments where the irish crowd were quiet but it was a very stop start game. Srum resets hampered any continuity and Scotland came to spoil. As a result the game lacked pace. In any case you cant expect any crowd to get excited if the spectacle isnt exciting.

munkian wrote:They'll be plenty of noise when a penalty decision doesn't go their way - from the crowd and the players to the ref  

Too right. Is a fair ref too much to ask? There have been too many botched calls in Ireland Wales games of late and with Barnes on the whistle I cant see this game being much different.

We'll never get the world's best ref for our games   

I thought the Irish were pretty quiet as well, but any game with Craig Joubert in charge is going to struggle for atmosphere. Always stop and start, with no control over the scrum.

He needs lessons from Nigel Owen.

Down with the bead pan, bring back the old Landsdowne.

The Irish are connoisseurs, don't you be mindin'

We don't just cheer for any old rubbish - we is Romans, we want Lions and thumbs up Gladiator kinda entertainment before we embarrass ourselves.

Give us what we want and we will.......................... well, cheer.

It was fairly quiet during Kidneys reign, I thought the stadium design may havhe been an issue back then but then the New Zealand game happened. Some of the players said theyd never heard a stadium as loud. So could be just a matter of the team giving them something to shout about.

SecretFly wrote:The Irish are connoisseurs, don't you be mindin'

We don't just cheer for any old rubbish - we is Romans, we want Lions and thumbs up Gladiator kinda entertainment before we embarrass ourselves.

Give us what we want and we will.......................... well, cheer.

You Irish are so very polite.

Thought I was watching Pot Black for a moment there. I didn't realise you guys played snooker on such big fields.   

Linebreaker wrote:

SecretFly wrote:The Irish are connoisseurs, don't you be mindin'

We don't just cheer for any old rubbish - we is Romans, we want Lions and thumbs up Gladiator kinda entertainment before we embarrass ourselves.

Give us what we want and we will.......................... well, cheer.

You Irish are so very polite.

Thought I was watching Pot Black for a moment there. I didn't realise you guys played snooker on such big fields.   

I hear the New Zealanders are another lot that get it hard to let their hair down and go mad. So we got something in common with their politeness