The club missed a big opportunity when they opened the new top tier. That should have been pushed as the atmosphere end. The rest of the ground would follow a definitive leader, it’s human nature. New fans are attracted by atmosphere and noise, particularly kids.
That was Soriano’s biggest mistake to date.
The effect it has on our fans, the effect our fans can plainly see it has on our club, the effect seeing our clubs hierarchy and especially the media department sit idly by year upon year whilst we are attacked, belittled, ignored daily by the same individuals and media outlets and also the nations public news outlet the BBC should be brought to their attention. This is OUR club, it was before the Sheik, Shinawatra, Bernstein, Franny, Swales.... yet we are the ones that are impotent, it doesn’t matter what we say or do we can’t defend City against the media feeding the plastic rag and dipper trolls but the powers that be are at least capable of firing a few shots for usThanks for picking this up. I really believe that we do not do enough as a club to protect our reputation, and that includes our fans' reputation. We are constantly under attack in the media, mostly unfairly. Everyone at the club has to stick together and the least we should expect from senior leaders like Pep is that they defend our corner. The manager very rarely criticises the players in public and the same should apply to supporters. It would be great if you could get Pep to a meeting. Some of our enemies would love to drive a wedge between our fans and the club management.
Push it as an atmosphere end how exactly?
It’s already got a singing section where they turn a blind eye to standing and the atmosphere there is DEAD. May as well call it the stood up arms folded section.
The away fans have to go somewhere and we’ve been here before with this argument, they won’t be moved from where they are as all the infrastructure to deal with them is in place at that end.
I'll never get fed up of winning things and I don't think any City fan of the last few years will either. But that has its price. We used to play 19 PL home games, definitely no European games and maybe a couple of domestic cup games at homeat most if we were lucky, before being knocked out for another season. Remember that West Ham QF at the Etihad and the one at Blackburn? The excitement at being one game from a semi-final was incredible.
But now in addition to those 19 home games, we expect at least 5 CL games and a run to the semi-finals in the domestic cups as a minimum. That's nearly 30 games that have to be played, in the same time period, with often a Wembley final, and where the tickets have to be paid for out of the same pocket.
The irony is the game that had the largest amount of empty seats that was staged in Manchester/Salford was last week at the Swamp , more than 25k below capacity and around 90% empty at the full time whistle , move a week onwards and we attract the third highest crowd in the FA Cup when the game is live on terrestial TV , and we get shitloads of criticism , the media can just go and f*ck off.
Just a thought, but If you've spent £100 on a League Cup Semi ticket and the Real-Madrid game and already spent or put aside double that to get to the games perhaps £17 and the assiciated travel costs are too much?
Yea true but did the paperboy come and say he was disappointed with the scum turn out without any prompting from the reporter? Pep did he started the topic.
Oooh l will see if l am up to itThats this Thursday mate. ;)
You forgotit should have been promoted hard and called the New Kippax.
The fans in the existing singing areas should have been offered first refusal on season tickets at half price.
Ticket prices capped as the lowest in the stadium.
Banners allowed. Standing too.
Beer easy to obtain.
1894 given a section at the back.
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Guardiola didn't say that either. He said he hoped there'd be more there against the rags and that it wasn't full. It's not exactly controversial stuff but for some reason seems to have hit a nerve.
it should have been promoted hard and called the New Kippax.
The fans in the existing singing areas should have been offered first refusal on season tickets at half price.
Ticket prices capped as the lowest in the stadium.
Banners allowed. Standing too.
Beer easy to obtain.
1894 given a section at the back.
If you got the existing regular singers from both sections together right under a roof the noise would be miles better and more people would join in around the stadium. I’d guess that area now holds about 4K. That’s all it needs.
Yea true but did the paperboy come and say he was disappointed with the scum turn out without any prompting from the reporter? Pep did he started the topic.
I'm sure someone else has posted this but the constant ticket price rises have almost certainly had an impact. As they've crept up and up, it's not been by much each time but it's forced people to make decisions. Even though they may be able to absorb an annual increase, people have dropped Platinum or cup schemes. I certainly did.
I made a decision for a few seasons that I'd reduce my overall expenditure on tickets. I bet others have done this or else have decided to prioritise the later rounds of cup competitions, taking the chance we'd get to Wembley and saving their money for a final weekend. Some just pay for their season tickets and nothing else, and even that's a struggle for them. And by constantly putting prices up, they've not exactly encouraged casual attendees to fill the gap.
Our CEO used to run an airline (which went bust). Imagine an airline that charged £250 for a return flight but that included checked baggage and an on-board snack. Then they decide to charge for those two separately, but don't change the basic price. How many would happily pay for both extras? Only those who had no choice. You'd take hand luggage where possible and buy a sandwich to take on board with you. As the low cost airlines have shown, even charging low basic prices sees people try to cut as many corners as possible. And when you add all the charges up, it's often no more expensive to take a scheduled full-service flight where all the extras are included in the price.
Why go on a cup scheme when you've no idea how much each game will cost or when the club will take the money? Pick and choose. You might pay a few quid more per game but you'll save the money on games you don't fancy, that you can watch in the pub or in the comfort of your own armchair. If the club wants to charge people a few quid extra, via Platinum, give them a discount on a set number of cup tickets, say 50% off any 5 tickets in the first 3 rounds of the domestic cups & CL group stage instead of double points. Then you get money for Platinum and also bums on seats for games that we might ordinarily struggle a bit to sell.
Despite supposedly being a "business" I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that the people ruining the club have little commercial nous.