These seem like great ideas to me. Different areas making noise is how its going to happen. When you say 'dotted around the ground', how many do you envisage?
That's up for discussion but perhaps one big one on the Kop and then several each in the other stands, maybe one per tier.
Part of the problem with having just one Singing Section is that it can seem like an admission of defeat. Effectively saying 'we're shoving the few vocal fans we have into one spot in the hope of amplifying what noise they make'. It can also, conversely, make the rest of the ground stay quiet because they feel that it's not their job to sing - that's the Singing Section's job. Some might even feel they are overstepping the mark, committing a faux-pas, by singing if they're not in the correct section.
But having multiple sections around the ground makes each one seem less like the naughty step for overloud scallies and more like a focal point and driving force for each stand/tier; a point where noise and songs might start so as to co-ordinate that stand/tier's output, so everyone can be in unison and not half a verse behind because it's taken time to realise that a song has started in 306 or wherever.
Then, hopefully, people in each stand will feel competetive and try to outdo the other stands, honour at stake; maybe even have back-and-forth, call-and-response engagement between stands. There are lots of possibilities if we can get the culture going again.
Not everybody feels confident enough to lead the singing; to start a song off. We all have experiences where maybe we, or some fella, starts to sing a song loudly and no-one joins in and you feel a bit if a tit. This way there'll be 'leaders' for each stand and tier, made of of groups of friends, a lot of younger, brash, vocal, devil-may-care types, who can set the tone and tempo for that part of the ground.
Completely agree about your point on terrace culture too. It's been lost and those who want to make the noise are too spread out or in the case of 306 - too small an area and not well positioned.
Yes, and there's an acoustics issue as well where not all parts of the ground can hear what's emanating from other parts. Where I sit in the Main, for example, I can hear a good rendition of PST, say, from the Kop, but later my mate in the Annie will insist that PST was never sung all match long. It just never reached them.
After the Bournemouth game I was linked to a match Vlog that some of the Cherries fans did; some of you might have seen it. They were good lads and hugely complimentary about everything to do with Liverpool, the city, the club, the people and their experiences - except that they genuinely insisted that they heard no songs coming from our fans. They weren't being snide or coming out with any 'where's yer famous atmosphere' crap; they seemed genuinely disappointed because that, and the score, of course, were the only downsides to an otherwise excellent away experience.
But I was at that match and while the atmosphere wasn't scintillating, there was a fair bit of singing; we went through all the usual songs. Yet the away fans heard nothing? Once again these lads weren't being triumphantly snide about our atmosphere. They seemed genuinely gutted that they heard very little. So there seems to be a real issue with sound reaching parts of the ground.
I'd not really thought about this before despite years of attending. Could the structure of the new Main and the new Annie be having a negative effect on the acoustics? I know little about such things.
