Originally Posted by
Burgs
I maintain that an absolutely silent stadium would be far more effective than noise these days, to be perfectly honest I think the noise from a crowd says far more about the crowd than it effects a kicker.
However, with nowdays the fairly wide spread use of noise players are used to it, so if you could hear a pin drop at MES then it may well be more off putting.
Likewise when the opposition runout pre-match, while I generally clap them, it would weird them out a bit if they came out to stone motherless silence, followed by extreme noise for the Force!