Pitch invasions

Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Believe me, with the racket you lot were making in the stands (hats off, by the way), nobody could possibly conclude that any City fan is anything less than ecstatic at present.
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I meant more in terms of the media mate. They slag off the pitch invasion and if we didn't do it they'd say "even City fans are bored of them winning it" and list all the previous pitch invasions and suggest we didn't care now.

I'm not bothered by what others think. Few thousand went on the pitch, took a few photos, sang a few songs then went back to their seats. 10 minutes roughly and no violence etc so all good. What the media should be doing is saying how it was a good example of a pitch invasion done the right way, which McCoist alluded to on TS this morning.
 
Benzino said:
Yeah I don’t dispute that. I can’t help but feel sorry for him though. But yeah, City are not going to ban thousands of people. But if you’re crazy enough to email them and tell them, you might get banned. Obviously that would be terrible for anyone.

The security and stewards are a separate company, they do the areana and lots of festivals. Just as the bar staff are a separate company, and the ticket and access control tech is a separate company. They would not dare try and add money, they’d lose their contract in a heartbeat. It’s such a competitor market. I know where you coming from, but the financial implications won’t impact the fans. This is like the 6th time we’ve done it, they expect it, it’s prepared for. I thought they did a great job of speeding up. My point is simply that I like it, because it separate us from the prawn sandwhich brigade.
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Of course the fine will impact the fans, blimey O'Reilly I'm just a lowly non mathematical personage but even I know that if I have to pay out a huge amount (or even a small amount in my case) I have to economise somewhere else or do without things. Come off it ..... you may not have noticed that our season card price went up this season, and you're trying to tell me that the fine last season hasn't impacted!! Pull the other one!!
Wow
 
lets get this to 100 pages of negativity! haha

City, City, City!!

For the record, don't mind pitch invasions althought it was a shame it made people leave due to travel.

Only thing I was unimpressed with was the morons trying to climb on the crossbar again. The club banned a fair few after last season
 
Gingers Dad said:
It's brilliant. The stands look awesome from the pitch. Apart from all the miseries in the upper tiers going ape at you.
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Imagine your own fans invading your own pitch for no reason what so ever, and then shouting and gesturing at you to fuck off when you boo at them for it.

Grown men swearing back at families with kids who are sat doing the right thing in the crowd, and then trying to justify it on here. You couldn't make it up. (Many many instances of this happened yesterday)
 
I'm slightly surprised the club hasn't found a way to monetise the pitch invasions tbh...

An option to add on "pitch invasion" to your ticket purchase for £10. Give everyone going on a wristband and get the stewards to only stop those without the wristband on.

That'd be the future fine paid for in advance....

(I'm half-joking here.)
 
Moss Side's Finest said:
Imagine your own fans invading your own pitch for no reason what so ever, and then shouting and gesturing at you to fuck off when you boo at them for it.

Grown men swearing back at families with kids who are sat doing the right thing in the crowd, and then trying to justify it on here. You couldn't make it up. (Many many instances of this happened yesterday)
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OK
 
Benzino said:
Yeah I know other clubs do, small clubs. I agree the crossbar thing though, wasn’t good. Happened once though. We’re being ridiculed in the media for the pitch invasion anyway. Called small time again, by every rival fan. Only a small club would celebrate winning a league so wildly it seems. I so dearly want to be considered a big club (said with pure sarcasm).
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Truth be told, I give zero fucks about what rival fans think and say, what the media think and say, what they get wrong and how, how it looks or is presented.

It is unfortunate that in this instance, what I think and what they are saying happens to coincide. Which always disappoints me.

But at the end of the day, fuck it, it is ultimately just football fans being football fans. And forum commentators having opinions on it.

We are the champions and nothing changes that. And there is more to play for, with more to celebrate.
 
mattcity5 said:
I'm slightly surprised the club hasn't found a way to monetise the pitch invasions tbh...

An option to add on "pitch invasion" to your ticket purchase for £10. Give everyone going on a wristband and get the stewards to only stop those without the wristband on.

That'd be the future fine paid for in advance....

(I'm half-joking here.)
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It's worth pursuing. Facial recognition with the stewards and only those who have stumped up can get on. At least it'd pay the FArce fine that will drop through the Etihad letter box on the morning of the Cup Final.
 
It was disappointing that, before the RM match, City chose to show highlights of the QPR match, with greater footage of the pitch invasion than the trophy presentation
 
Moss Side's Finest said:
Imagine your own fans invading your own pitch for no reason what so ever, and then shouting and gesturing at you to fuck off when you boo at them for it.

Grown men swearing back at families with kids who are sat doing the right thing in the crowd, and then trying to justify it on here. You couldn't make it up. (Many many instances of this happened yesterday)
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The same people who are complaining about the extra cost of tickets for these events to police it and pay the CLUB fine
 
I don't mind pitch invasions, per se. As an explosion of unbridled joy, it happens. After the QPR, West Ham and Aston Villa title deciders, I fully got it.

Yesterday, however, I couldn't get my head around it. There was nobody there that felt unbridled joy, whose emotions were out of control at the end of the game. It wasn't a spontaneous thing. It was pre-planned.

Now, again, I wouldn't have too much issue with it in itself. However, what kind of numb-nut must you be to go on the pitch when the club has been warned that sanctions up to as far as a ground closure for one game could be implemented should there be another, and that banning orders could be issued upon yourself for the breaking of ground regulations?

City, the club, did not want people on the pitch and repeatedly appealed for fans not to do so, yet these people blatantly stick two fingers up the club and the players.

As for those trying to bring the goalposts down, those that did it last year were given substantial bans from the ground. How on earth can somebody be so stupid as to try and do it again?

The dimwittedness of a cross section of our society never ceases to amaze me.
 
BlueRockape said:
The same people who are complaining about the extra cost of tickets for these events to police it and pay the CLUB fine
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I’ve read it all know.

Connecting the increased cost of season tickets and match day tickets prices to a possible fine by the PL. Lol!

Don’t worry, when the club increased the cost of season tickets and match day tickets for next season I’m sure they factored in any fine from the PL for another pitch invasion.

It’s been almost RAWKish on this thread since yesterday,
 
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