blue b4 the moon
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Well I'm considering not making any noise today....if we're all quiet the raggy media can't say Pep was right ;)
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ultimateharold
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hmm^
Shaelumstash
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Been trying to get two together all morning and not a sausage.
Thanks a lot, Pep
Thanks a lot, Pep
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blue b4 the moon
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Why didn't you go to the Leipzig game?
In light of Pep's comments, if you're a season card holder, why didn't you buy a ticket and go last night? It isn't a go at people because I'm a season card holder and haven't been to a CL game since the Liverpool quarter final In my case it comes down to cost I spend nearly £800 on a season...
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And that's just for starters, if you are a blue look up Spurs/dips reffing, CSKA away issues.
ffs
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Try reading this thread, I’m sure things will become as clear as mud. Good luck
We still largely have a local fanbase, and with increasingly expensive tickets at a stadium that's difficult to go to and leave from there just aren't too many fans available who are willing to go. There's still usually 40000 or so and it rarely goes under that, at least not by much.
Despite being a successful club we don't yet have the legions of non-local fans that'd do whatever it takes to get to whatever game they can like the other more prominent clubs.
Also the stadium is often less empty than people tend to suggest but that's another discussion.
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Because it is not as good or as important a cup as the Carabao Cup
Lavinda Past
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At last, someone understands!
The OSC could be a much stronger unit, continuing to function at a high level within the club, if the doubters and naysayers bothered to get a few quid out to join and take part rather than just dick measuring and pissing in the wind on here.
A club is only as strong as it's membership. The OSC has the potential to give supporters a genuine voice in the club.
^This person is legitimately foreign btw.
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Some of our support reminds me a hell of a lot like Liverpool fans . Always the victims, always whiny and whinging. Fast turning into that lot. Then we have Parker at the helm. Good god. Parker fronting Pep all played out in the media. I absolutely despair. I’ve also played the game and still playing now twice a week. I totally get Pep. The players will be tired. After playing twice in a week I have to recover and limit my running times and work other parts of my body instead.these players are well paid but also human. These guys are next level with the pace of the high intensity prem
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Looking forward to the next question.
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I don’t mind people being critical of the manager if there was something to criticise.
It's a legit question from someone who clearly doesn't understand things the way we do. Play nice or find a new thread.
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To me this whole situation with the crowds ties directly into how much the club have aggressively pursued the commercialisation of the club over the past ten years. With rapid ticket price increases and the annual extensions of corporate hospitality offerings etc.
It's harmed the growth of the matchday support. Our core support has always been strong, but they've chipped away at it with relentless price increases trying to exploit the excitement of the Mancini era to begin with and now to the present day with Pep.
The growth of our tourist contingent and bandwagoners hasn't been what they thought it would be, so when the core support cut their cloth to save and skip a cup game/s the attendances suffer. It's all good and well pursuing the tourist/bandwagoner £, but in the low demand/glamour ties they're not the ones turning up in their numbers. It's the core support, and they have to cut their cloth accordingly to be able to attend over the course of a season. If you've turned a lot of them off then attendances will suffer, and trying to chuck the occasional cheap ticket for a cup tie at them when demand is low won't matter. If someone's lost the bug they rarely come back. The damage is done.
We don't have generations of bandwagoners that the other top sides in this country have. Our core support are a loyal working class fanbase, if you mismanage them we won't have the casual attendees from all over turning up like a Liverpool would. It doesn't matter to Liverpool if they price out most ordinary scousers, the slack will just be picked up elsewhere.
For me there's just a broader disconnect a lot of people feel with City that has grown for a while. That's the trend. The mobile ticketing bollocks is it in microcosm. The club pays lip service to the core support, and has been pursuing commercialisation above all else. And we've all felt that for a while.
Pep clearly isn't aware of all this, he's just aware that things are going great on the pitch. And they are. But there's a bigger picture.
His embarrassing back and forth with Parker is a symptom of this disconnect, and it's the club's responsibility IMO.
I genuinely think we'd have already been building the North Stand extension had things been managed better. Had the club not prioritised balance sheets and squeezing the absolute maximum they could out of the existing core support financially over the last ten years. They had an opportunity to organically develop the match going support at a time of unprecedented excitement around the club. They had an opportunity to turn more families into regulars in our attendances. To draw more people in who'd like to attend regularly, but can't due to cost. To make blues feel more engaged and in touch with the club, valued. To feel some kind of authenticity about that relationship between the club and it's support.
Instead we get hastags and renewal increases every year, and we're all here arguing about embarrassing and tone deaf comments the manager made about attendances in a botched rallying cry.
All on the club.
It's harmed the growth of the matchday support. Our core support has always been strong, but they've chipped away at it with relentless price increases trying to exploit the excitement of the Mancini era to begin with and now to the present day with Pep.
The growth of our tourist contingent and bandwagoners hasn't been what they thought it would be, so when the core support cut their cloth to save and skip a cup game/s the attendances suffer. It's all good and well pursuing the tourist/bandwagoner £, but in the low demand/glamour ties they're not the ones turning up in their numbers. It's the core support, and they have to cut their cloth accordingly to be able to attend over the course of a season. If you've turned a lot of them off then attendances will suffer, and trying to chuck the occasional cheap ticket for a cup tie at them when demand is low won't matter. If someone's lost the bug they rarely come back. The damage is done.
We don't have generations of bandwagoners that the other top sides in this country have. Our core support are a loyal working class fanbase, if you mismanage them we won't have the casual attendees from all over turning up like a Liverpool would. It doesn't matter to Liverpool if they price out most ordinary scousers, the slack will just be picked up elsewhere.
For me there's just a broader disconnect a lot of people feel with City that has grown for a while. That's the trend. The mobile ticketing bollocks is it in microcosm. The club pays lip service to the core support, and has been pursuing commercialisation above all else. And we've all felt that for a while.
Pep clearly isn't aware of all this, he's just aware that things are going great on the pitch. And they are. But there's a bigger picture.
His embarrassing back and forth with Parker is a symptom of this disconnect, and it's the club's responsibility IMO.
I genuinely think we'd have already been building the North Stand extension had things been managed better. Had the club not prioritised balance sheets and squeezing the absolute maximum they could out of the existing core support financially over the last ten years. They had an opportunity to organically develop the match going support at a time of unprecedented excitement around the club. They had an opportunity to turn more families into regulars in our attendances. To draw more people in who'd like to attend regularly, but can't due to cost. To make blues feel more engaged and in touch with the club, valued. To feel some kind of authenticity about that relationship between the club and it's support.
Instead we get hastags and renewal increases every year, and we're all here arguing about embarrassing and tone deaf comments the manager made about attendances in a botched rallying cry.
All on the club.
bigstanhibbert
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I hope this is heard today
andyhinch
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Boooooo, it’s the only one I know :-)
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We should sing it loud and long from the start of the game. Forget about what’s been said this week by him and by our fans. It was something and nothing, complete overreactions all round.