That obviously helps - there’s likely to be more City fans there tomorrow than we had in the ground against Napoli last week - but if you go back only 5 or 6 years, there’s no chance we’d have gotten a 50,000-plus crowd for a League Cup 4th round game against Championship opposition even with tickets priced as cheaply as tomorrow and it being during half-term.
Of course, the football we’re currently playing has sent interest soaring but I think aside from that it’s obvious our support base is increasing all the time and in contrast to some of our CL games, what we’ll see tomorrow is a far more localised crowd with plenty of kids in attendance. We lost a generation of fans in playgrounds in and around Manchester when United were smashing it up for 20-plus years under Ferguson while we were largely shite but we’re starting to claw that back now.
50% cheap tickets & the fun factor. We've had cheap tickets before and not been able to sell Cup tickets, but now everyone wants to watch City. It was a chore and a duty to be done. Now it's exciting. It's like watching City when we won the title under Mancini or Keegan in the championship when we scored 100 goals a season - in a 46 game league. Every home game you knew the Goat was going to score, the roof would go off the North Stand and the speedboat Huckerby would absolutely destroy the full back.because its cheap and affordable.
Wasn't that long ago that City fans were desperate for any hint of success but we couldn't fill the ground for League Cup quarter Finals or FA Cup quarter Finals. We had a loyal core of seasoncard holders and very few other fans. It was the free the 30,000. Now we've doubled our fan-base in a little over a decade. Only good - providing of course the original fans are still going.i kinda agree and disagree with that. it depends on who we are playing, but i think wed have easily gotten 50,000 5 or 6 years ago if it was against a prem team in the cup. hamburg is the proof of that. we sold out within something like 3 hours.there are huge amounts of city fans from manchester who have stopped going for whatever reason - priced out being one of them. i know so many city fans who used to go and stopped because it became too expensive. the club talk about attracting new fans, but we should be targeting locals. theres thousands of kids and families who live 5/10 minutes away from the ground who have never been to the etihad. i always see the gangs of kids on the estates walking past mary ds, they should be in the ground. tomorrow nights support is more of true reflection of our core support and what our crowd would be like if it was german level pricing. ( mainly locals )
our fan base is growing ill agree with you on that.
I think he will play Sergio tomorrow. He mentioned it post match on Saturday. Pity I won't be there to see him break the record.
Wasn't that long ago that City fans were desperate for any hint of success but we couldn't fill the ground for League Cup quarter Finals or FA Cup quarter Finals. We had a loyal core of seasoncard holders and very few other fans. It was the free the 30,000. Now we've doubled our fan-base in a little over a decade. Only good - providing of course the original fans are still going.
50% cheap tickets & the fun factor. We've had cheap tickets before and not been able to sell Cup tickets, but now everyone wants to watch City. It was a chore and a duty to be done. Now it's exciting. It's like watching City when we won the title under Mancini or Keegan in the championship when we scored 100 goals a season - in a 46 game league. Every home game you knew the Goat was going to score, the roof would go off the North Stand and the speedboat Huckerby would absolutely destroy the full back.
Compare the population and competition City face in the North West to the London clubs. London clubs have a bigger catchment area with a much bigger, richer population, have better transport infrastructure plus far more tourists for whom going to a football game may be an additional attraction. Considering these disadvantages, our attendances are consistent and remarkably high and include many none local supporters going back to the 1960's successes.