Danish Fans at the All England

[Kieron]

I thought the Danish fans where excellent, the sight of a group of fans all in red tops getting up in unison to shout ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK was great fun. They where still going strong during the women’s singles right at the end. I think the BAOE should offer them cheap tickets for next year, they added so much to the atmosphere over the four or five days they attended.

Kieron

[Alex]

But then again, there are going to be other people sat around them who it really will have annoyed, i guess you cant please everyone though.

Personally, i love the banter, i think its great. The first time i came across any sort of noise was years ago at the ICT, it was totally new to me as i was used to playing club level badminton where there was, and largely still isnt a place for it - i like to try and make some noise during the big games though! :D

Didnt make it to the AE this year though due to work, did they have the Yonex inflatable tubes that you bash together again?

[Markostar]

They certainly did, also the danish guy who was sounding out tunes from his trumpet was absolutely superb. What made the difference was that they had so many chants that they all sung their hearts out together to.
The best part by far though was the couple of times during the mixed when the whole of the english fans actually chanted the same thing and the volume was superb. Must have been great to play in for an English pair as they probably dont get much support when they play elsewhere. Superb day!!!!

[Thorberg]

Yes, I can only add, that is was great fun to watch on danish television too - specially the final in the mixeddouble. When players and the crowd show their feelings, it adds something to the sport - something to make it more interesting - even for television in all countries - including England.
After the final Thomas Laybourn said, that he never smiled so much after a loss. Laybourn and Juhl enjoyed so much, they didn't feel like leaving the court.
In danish badminton the final match in the teamtournament has been as fun for some years. 3-4000 spectators, screraming and shouting. Load, fun and friendly. Emms and Robertsson will as part of Hvidovres team be in the center of that event next week in Copenhagen, when Hvidovre faces KMB in the final goldmatch.

Greeting

Michael

P.S. I hope Gail Emms parents has recovered! :)

[Woody]

Keep up the noise.

I first saw it at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester when the Scots were heavily supported by the 'bangers'.

Unfortunately they were given out by a sponsor who wern't one of the official sponsors so after the team events were over 'officials' banned them until the last couple of days.

By then people had tapped up the offending instruments so out they came and helped make the atmosphere tremendous.

Its mutch better than sitting there like deaf mutes not knowing whether to applaud a good shot for fear of embarrasing someone because they may have made an error.

The players love it

Keep it going (in the right place)

[Phil McBride]

It was mostly the Danish junior squad that were sitting in the front making the noise - anyone know if they were playing in the qualifiers and early rounds or just there to watch and support?

[tango]

i've gotta hand it to the danish fans as well! i thought they were absolutely fantastic! all the different chants, the atmosphere.. just excellent. personally i hate those noisy tube things but the chants work for me! (so you got there this year then philip?)

[Alex]

I tell you, a good game of badminton is every bit as tense as a good game of football so why should there not be the noise, excitement and atmosphere that is present at every football game?

Come on badminton, this is all good stuff!

[redkingjoe]

football fans must watch this and learn to express passion and excitement in a civalize way. when i watch the news about football, always see violence...some of the football fans are even banned to enter certain countries....

(btw: a warm welcome back to kieron, markostar, thorberg) :)

[Thorberg]

Dear Phil.

Almost all the noisy danish youngsters are from two different badminton-colleges - both of them located on the danish island Fuen. None of them were players in the tournament.

Michael

[johng]

Have to agree that the atmosphere in the arena on finals...and semi final days was fantastic. It was great to finally hear an English crowd creat some noise.

As has been pointed out before, this was basically down to the large group of Danish fans, although the small pockets of Chinese, Indonesians and Koreans did their best not to be outdone.

Hopefully all those Junior Club groups will have taken notice of what was happening and start some chanting sessions (why not practise on the drive up..and piss of the coach driver......hopefully the one who cut me up today !!!!!).

By the way..what do you folks think about the dancing girls between game breaks...good idea?.......bad idea? ...good idea that went slightly wrong ?????

Personally i think a troup of Drummers bashing out a good beat would work, and would also help to continue the atmosphere, Any other suggestions and I mean Polite suggestions

[Michael Banks]

By the way..what do you folks think about the dancing girls between game breaks...good idea?.......bad idea? ...good idea that went slightly wrong ?????
I think that dancing girls can never be a bad thing, not a case of if, but how many!

[Woody]

John G,

Compare the atmosphere at the NIA to that at Sussex for the Elite.

I know its a different standard of play but as I said earlier people sit there making polite applause whenwhat is actually needed is NOISE. It doesn't matter where it comes from but make some.

On TV unfortunately they didn't show the dancing girls.

Shame

[Phil McBride]

Nope Tango, again I managed to get bogged down and have just started a new job so couldn't get time off to get down.

On the topic of the dancing girls they were only just seen on the Sky footage bouncing up and down (is there any other way) and then running off court as the games were about to start up, but I would think it was a good idea gone slightly awry.

[Markostar]

The dancing girls werent actually that great as to see a group of 14/15 year old girls dancing around without much clothing on is a little strange to me. Also looked like lin dan and chen hong werent sure where to look during their 90 seconds at change of ends :)

With regards to the atmosphere at domestic events it really is down to a culture thing. No-one needs to be told of the differences in the badminton cultures between England and Denmark but what is good is that the BAofE/BE are seriously looking to build up the profile of the sport which will hopefully bring us a couple of steps closer to the likes of Denmark (Hard to imagine ever catching them up though).

Experiencing an event in one of those countries, and even just a sample of their fans just goes to show you what we could have and what could be done with the sport.

[Phil McBride]

They should just get me into all the events - I could just shout banterish rubbishings from the crowd and everyone else would just join in.

As for the cultural thing, I think it's more of a "nobody wants to go first" thing. No one wants to shout or to start a chant in case no one else joins in.

The reason it worked so well is that the Danish juniors were in a big group and were all pitching in at the same time. Good on them!

[redkingjoe]

By the way..what do you folks think about the dancing girls between game breaks...good idea?.......bad idea? ...good idea that went slightly wrong ?????

Personally i think a troup of Drummers bashing out a good beat would work, and would also help to continue the atmosphere, Any other suggestions and I mean Polite suggestions

when watching an event "life" the effect of the dancing girls, especially on those with not much clothing, are quite different from that of the drummers....lots and lots of lookers/peepers/watchers

The dancing girls werent actually that great as to see a group of 14/15 year old girls dancing around without much clothing on is a little strange to me. Also looked like lin dan and chen hong werent sure where to look during their 90 seconds at change of ends :)
:
wow, you really saw that?

[JKL]

I was sat directly and immediately behind the Danish kids, it was fantastic! There was this young Danish kid who kept on chanting in Chinese which was great fun, including "Gao Ling I love you" in Chinese.

The dancing girls were a bit strange to watch as Markostar pointed out, it was a bit wrong for 14 year olds to have nothing more than a bit of cloth (now I sound like an old dad).

[AdamK]

Hmm the Danish singing in English isn't the most harmonic at the best of times however they were fun and livened up proceedings. The singing for Lin Dan in the singles was odd but who cares.

I just pity anybody who had to sit near the teenage female Korean supporters screaming KOR RE AH in a high-pitched awful shriek :mad: . Quite a turn on if your name is Gary Glitter no doubt. :eek:

[redkingjoe]

I was sat directly and immediately behind the Danish kids, it was fantastic! There was this young Danish kid who kept on chanting in Chinese which was great fun, including "Gao Ling I love you" in Chinese.


really? the Danish chanted in Chinese? when i took a tour in Demark a few years ago the tourist guy told us that they were having the best language skills in the world...i thought it was only BS...well now that i must add some "reputation points" to them.

[Thorberg]

Lets hope that spectators will enjoy badminton live in the future, but if you are prevented from coming up yourself, i must say that internet-live-streaming is a fanstastic solution. Right now I am watching Anders Boesens playing mens single in Swiss Open on this link http://www.swissopen.com/english/besucher/live-streaming.php
:D
Michael

[Loafer]

It was perfect right up to my Work IT department ringing me and asking me to stop as I was killing the bandwith.....:D:o

[redkingjoe]

Almost all the noisy danish youngsters are from two different badminton-colleges - both of them located on the danish island Fuen. None of them were players in the tournament.


I was sat directly and immediately behind the Danish kids, it was fantastic! There was this young Danish kid who kept on chanting in Chinese which was great fun, including "Gao Ling I love you" in Chinese.

Hey micheal,

do you have any "insider information" on training these Danish kids chanting in Chinese?

[JKL]

Erm ... I saw the kid talking to a random Chinese guy seated next to him so I presume he was asking him how to say particular phrases in Chinese. I guess they've seen enough international matches to know the standard foreign chants, it's not uncommon to see some of the Danish fans chanting in Malay when any of the Malaysian players are playing.

[snapeo]

I didnt go to the ae but i was at the olyimpics, the atmosphere was awesome there but after watchin it when i got bk it soundes rather quiet just like it did from the ae. Yea the danes are a great set of ppl and yea they make alot of noise. Does any 1 no that song they sing wot it translates to??