I have been sat with the same bunch for some years now. Some of those around me from the days of the HE.
I like it when it's a good atmosphere. I don't mind how loud it gets and even to a degree I don't mind a bit of lively banter. I think the games really drag when there's either nothing to generate a decent atmosphere, or there doesn't seem to be a willingness to get into it by the support.
I listened to a very very interesting conversation on talk sport this morning where Simon Jordan was being asked about the usefulness of supporters protesting, or making a fuss about things at clubs. I would really urge people to listen to it. The reason I mentioned it, is because it touched quite heavily on the sense of entitlement that supporters have about a club. I come from an era where our role as supporters was influenced only by family, friends, where we lived, or was born, newspapers, or what we saw on the pitch. I'm a massively believe in being primarily a supporter of the club and the team. I genuinely feel that many supporters have wandered into a world beyond their concern, or their business, and feel that they are duty bound to be holding players, managers and owners feet to the fire all the time. I encounter as much conversation (at any ground, including premier grounds) about football finances and management of the club at half time, as I do about the actual game. I also find that social media is riddled with a similar sense of entitlement. A sense of entitlement that would not be leveled at any other business.
So.. In terms of the game day experience. I think for some, it is impossible for them to take the experience at face value. Losing a sense of the reason why we should attend games. As I have said repeatedly. It is my time, supporting a club that I love. Where I can undergo irrational expectations and thoughts, with no more evidence to sustain my belief in NTFC than sheer devotion and blind optimism. I still love game days. Because I haven't over complicated it. I still love it.
Not a criticism or real point being made, but concerning the fans straying into the self entitlement zone, can or could never have been worse than the ridiculous antics in Italy (Argentina too) by the ultras...dictating away ticket allocations (not amount but who gets) turning up en masse at training to attack/abuse players etc.
We get Beds standing on the hill!