I hear this getting (tiresomely) trotted out all the time! Maybe you can provide a league table of good drummers - starting obviously with the one armed guy from Def Leppard, Pete Best...down to Stevenage, Blackburn and Ringo Starr?
Drums are a s***e utter embarrassment at footie...nowt to do with some percieved level of competant skill. End of!
Having experienced the orchestrated drummers at Monchengladbach for four years as a STH I can 'trot it out' from experience that they were excellent alongside, not instead of, the wide variety of songs and chants.
The majority of German clubs had the same, the atmosphere at all Bundesliga Stadia is outstanding.