The East Terrace Society

We are the East Terrace Society. Our mission is to improve the atmosphere at the Millennium Stadium by encouraging the WRU to take the following initial measure: Establish a singing-section in the Millennium Stadium. [1/6]

@lowriangharadw youtube.com/watch?v=ro1wnb…

I have no interest in football but I love BRAND WALES 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 football, amazing what the brand has achieved and the excitment it builds especially around bilingualism. I hope someone does a case study on this because it’s truly bendigedig #TogetherStronger

This is MASSIVE news. Many believe the move to all-seater stadia from standing terraces has contributed to the deterioration of the Welsh rugby atmosphere. If Manchester United prove safe-standing can function successfully in the U.K., the WRU must look at it as an option.

Glad people are starting to wake up to this fact. The Welsh rugby atmosphere on an international matchday is a shadow of its former self. Join us to help change this. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Who the actual f*** decided what music to play at the rugby? Bon Jovi living on a prayer 🤯🤦‍♀️#Ymaohyd #Calonlan

Match goers yesterday, how was it? La Marseillaise during the match sounded spine-tingling on the tele.The French certainly made themselves heard. Be interesting to hear people’s thoughts?

@JackCookey Diolch Jack, great chatting with you 👍🏼

✍️ Piece I did on @EastTerraceSoc make sure you help them out by signing their petition bit.ly/2S1et0Q #SportsJournoUSW

AMEN!

@ghostsofmerthyr Still not as good imo. Not recently

@EastTerraceSoc Are we comparing the same thing though? Wales rugby in the first game is not comparable with Wales football in a must win game. Now compare against Wales rugby in a 6 nations decider or when playing England last season.

Firstly, this is outstanding. But as rugby fans, we need to be questioning why 68k isn’t currently matching 35k. I don’t think it should be a competition, more that both sports should learn from and support the other. The football are clearly doing something right atm.

Sign the petition for a singing section at the @principalitysta bit.ly/2S1et0Q

A spine-tingling rendition of Cwm Rhondda (Bread of Heaven) by the Welsh crowd, during the Grand Slam win of 2005. We've secured 3 Grand Slams at home since that day. I'm not sure there's been a better rendition than this.

Sign the petition for a singing section at the @principalitysta: bit.ly/2S1et0Q

Everyone who attended the Italy game and felt the atmos wasn’t good enough: 🔘 Fill out this survey 🔘 Suggest less corporate tickets 🔘 Say the atmosphere would benefit from grouping non-corporate tickets together And anything else you think will help! wru.tell-us-what-you-think.com/s3/Post-Match-…

@ClarkyDrums @GregCaineMedia @richmiltiadis @principalitysta Tell Welsh football fans that. And everyone else in the video you're responding to. I highly doubt any of those people are religious.

@EastTerraceSoc @GregCaineMedia @richmiltiadis @principalitysta I'm all for noise and atmosphere, but songs like Calon Lan are religious. With fewet and fewer people buying in to that sort of nonsense it's just natural that it'll start to die out at games.

@kaaydaviesPR @GregCaineMedia @meigwilym Definitely! I think this, combined with a few thousand in one place who know the songs, could create an amazing atmos

@EastTerraceSoc @GregCaineMedia @meigwilym I think lyrics on the screen of traditional Welsh songs (Calon Lân, Bread of Heaven etc) would be a huge help! Many students who have come to love & support Wales attend games but don’t know the language and haven’t grown up with the songs. This could be huge! 🙌🏻

A few have suggested this. Think it’s a great idea, maybe with the use of an app. @meigwilym has developed canu.cymru which would be handy for this!

@ClarkyDrums @GregCaineMedia @richmiltiadis @principalitysta It wouldn’t need ‘enforcing’ - for me it would be as simple as highlighting the section as a singing area on the tickets and on the site when people buy them. None would be corporate, and a certain percentage would be made available to the clubs

@GregCaineMedia @richmiltiadis @principalitysta @EastTerraceSoc How would a singing section work? How would it be enforced?

@rant_rate @GregCaineMedia @principalitysta Cytuno. That’s part of the idea for a singing section, to try and get more groups sat together to create an atmosphere. I’m a Scarlets fan myself and know the difference a good crowd can make. Please sign the petition (link in our bio). Diolch.

@GregCaineMedia @principalitysta Gyda’r tocynnu yn costi’n agos at £100 mae rhan fwyaf yn mynd i’r corporate lot. Mae rhaid cael grwps o ffrindiau/clwbs rygbi I creu’r awyrgylch (fel mae’r Sgarlets yn creu pan ma nhw’n teithio)

@richmiltiadis @GregCaineMedia @principalitysta Done 👍🏻👍🏻

@ASWinstone Maybe - but it doesn’t! So we need to do what we can to improve it. Bread of Heaven gets a bit more of an uptake but it’s still nothing in relative terms, few 100 if we’re lucky which doesn’t transfer to the rest of the stadium.

@EastTerraceSoc Bread of heaven is still popular. Heard that at last years 2 6n games If the principality stadium held just 30k I'm sure the atmosphere would be more comparable to the football as you wouldn't have as many casuals.

"SoCiEtY's ChAnGeD, nObOdY kNoWs ThE wOrDs AnYmOrE" Plenty know Calon Lân- yet when was the last time it was sang during a match by the Welsh rugby crowd?