The jury remains out among Leeds United’s players on artificial crowd noise during today’s clash against Fulham.
The players trained at Elland Road last week and a variety of crowd noises were played during their session in a dry run of the ground on a matchday.
However, Stuart Dallas said there was far from a resounding yes among the players to having it used during the match with the Cottagers.
Speaking to the press this week, Dallas said a decision had not been made as of Thursday evening and we will see whether the club goes with it at 3pm this afternoon.
If the club’s decision-makers take the players’ feedback into account, it will not prove an easy decision either way.
“I don’t know [if crowd noise will be used],” said Dallas. “We trained at Elland Road last week and we had the crowd noises.
“The players were a bit mixed, if I’m being honest, as to whether we wanted it or not and I don’t know if a decision’s been made yet or not.”
The whole debate around crowd noise stems from the absence of the real thing on the terraces during this Championship restart.
The first taste came at Cardiff City on Sunday, when the Whites lost 2-0, but Dallas sad he was not even aware of it during the game.
“To be honest, and I’m being totally honest, there’s not once in the match I stopped and said to myself ‘wow, this is strange with no crowd,’” he said.
“Of course, going into the game, there is going to be that strange feeling without a crowd, but during a game I didn’t really notice it.
“You can’t stop and think about the crowd because you’ve got to be concentrating 100 per cent of the time and of course it would be great if the fans were there, but they’re not.
“We’re professionals, we’ve got a job to do, we’ve got to get on with it.”
