there is not too much that you can do to replace the energy of the crowd, the chants of the fans at home are like no other. it can easily turn the tide of a close game when you know the whole room is behind you in what you are doing. as a close knit group, the rage have always been there for each other but knew that whatever we came up with would have to be very fan involved, because without them we are nothing. so before games we have set aside some time to video chat with randomly selected fans. small groups of the people on the team will call in to whatever fan they are assigned and have a little conversation about the upcoming game, how the season is going and what the future of it holds, things like that. it will never hold a candle to the rumbling of your building from your fans but there is a connection on a more personal level and you can see it means a lot to the fans. its a good way to pull yourself out of that sort of rigid game day mind set, going in to the game with a sort of clarity.