Protest?

[kippax123]

We all take the piss out of the scousers but they would of stood up for their fans and the rags probably too ,our lot swept it under the carpet.

100% agree. I think because our fan base gets slated all the time about cheating and empty seats I feel like some of our fans are really protective over City and won't have a word said against them. But we really, really should stick together and try and get the club to reconsider. And it's definitely not just the ticket prices that City need to be thinking about.

 

[Eccles Blue]

I'm up for a protest wtf has happened to the meat + potatoe

Now that I will complain about!! ;-) :-)

 

[wolfie1988]

100% agree. I think because our fan base gets slated all the time about cheating and empty seats I feel like some of our fans are really protective over City and won't have a word said against them. But we really, really should stick together and try and get the club to reconsider. And it's definitely not just the ticket prices that City need to be thinking about.

Some of our fans are fucking terrified of us being shit again. And because of that, they won't have a bad word said about the club incase the ownership decides to up and leave.

Any talk of an independent supporters trust has been shouted down because of this. We have a massively divided fanbase on issues which means that proper protests will never be a success.

 

[BringBackSwales]

They could show the replay in reverse too, with someone laughing loudly into a microphone.

Yep and that someone could look absolutely nothing like someone he’s supposed to look like

 

[I'm Blue]

Aren’t protests illegal these days? We’d be put on the extremist list!

Just carry a Palestine flag and you’ll be alright.

 

[Stephen230]

There are 40 price categories on the price list.

If you take the average category for a Gold ST that is £849 rising from £802, so a £47 rise or 5.9%

Whilst that is only the average category and not the average ticket, 40 categories are enough to know the average price rise is far closer to 6% than 5%. Therefore these statements about the 5% average rise just show the club can't even piss straight, 5.9% being 18% higher than 5%.

The new categories range from £425 to £1,600 with the median of £860.

£860 is the 4th out of 5 category of ticket on CBL1 and ES1 (so the 2nd cheapest excluding pitch side) or the 2nd out of 5 categories on CB3 and ES3.

The £860 tickets have risen by £55 (6.8%) on level 1 but only £40 (4.9%) on level 3.

The line above is evidence of a direction of travel towards "price equalisation" within tiers/stands, with the best example is the Colin Bell or East Stand Level 1, with the expensive tickets going up £35 and the cheapest going up £75 as shown below:

CB L1 1	CB L1 2	CB L1 3	CB L1 4	CB L1 5
£915​	£900​	£875​	£860​	£820​
£880​	£855​	£825​	£805​	£745​
£35​	£45​	£50​	£55​	£75​
4.0%​	5.3%​	6.1%​	6.8%​	10.1%​

What is most concerning about the above is the Cat 5 tickets were considered North Stand a few years ago, they are the 132 and 140 corners. 132 and 140 North Stand ST holders were told they would need to move over a decade ago as NS L1 was becoming part of the family stand along with NS L2 which already was. 132 and 140 ST holders were then informed they could stay as there wasn't enough demand, but now are reclassified and CB and ES, and the prices are being accelerated to CB and ES L1 "target prices".

I found out a few other things of interest, but I am using the word very euphemistically.

Every year I look at the price in 140 and think, Jesus. The people on the end seats are paying £200 more than the person next to them in 139. And it’s probably a slightly worse view if anything, right over the corner flag.

It’s an even bigger difference in SS3. There’s people in there paying £260 more than the bloke in the seat directly behind them.

We certainly have a unique pricing policy.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Just carry a Palestine flag and you’ll be alright.

Not on CL nights though! They were mysteriously absent for the Copenhagen game.

 

[jrb]

Every year I look at the price in 140 and think, Jesus. The people on the end seats are paying £200 more than the person next to them in 139. And it’s probably a slightly worse view if anything, right over the corner flag.

It’s an even bigger difference in SS3. There’s people in there paying £260 more than the bloke in the seat directly behind them.

We certainly have a unique pricing policy.

Apparently the person coming up with these different seat prices is called Johnny Ball. His motto is…. Think Of A Number.

 

[Scuttler blue]

It needs a group of fan representatives from all clubs to coordinate a protest as lots of regular fans at all clubs have the same issues. Clubs are moving away from the loyalty from season ticket holders to getting more match day revenue from tourist or casual fans. Spurs have taken away OAP concessions and many more will follow

FOC like me will remember the days when it was pay on day and sell outs were a rare event with clubs desperate for loyalty and season ticket holders

Times have changed and with rising prices and additional games all adding to the cost for loyal regular fans it’s a bigger commitment each season

The atmosphere and passion at any ground is better when season ticket holders get together with mates on a regular basis to create the noise to transmit to the pitch (and tv)

Co ordinated action from fans at all clubs is successful when you remember the cap on away tickets prices and the break away European league collapse so things can be done

its our game and if younger fans are not careful the game experience as we know it will be lost and matches will be a theatre full or neutral /corporate / tourists fans spending a fortune for a day out

thank god I am an FOC and have seen City at all levels….and saved the best years till last

We have hundreds of supporters clubs it just needs unity if you recall we were the first supporters to protest about away ticket prices and we made a stand at arsenal away they lowered to away ticket prices and made it £30 for away games we saw unity against the proposed champions league split which again fans kicked up a fuss and it got binned this is our club the present owners are custodians we must make a stand now and I urge all the supporters clubs to come together to have a unified voice

 

[Taza]

Check out the average season ticket price in Germany

Bundesliga price check 2023-24: The cost of German football – DW – 08/18/2023

German football is known for its relative affordability, with inexpensive standing tickets and public transport included. But how cheap is it really? Ahead of the 2023-24 season, DW takes a closer look.

www.dw.com

 

[m100cfc]

Football as we know it is dying, nothing we can do about it. Do you really think they don't know they are pricing us out? That's what they want

Always remember … the club don’t want us … they can sell our tickets to “ Tourist” who will pay vast amounts of money for our seats, spend money in the shop, buy crap food and drink in the stadium , wear half and half scarfs and sit there taking selfies through out … this is the future … on top of that they will use public transport so no street parking .. happy days for the club

 

[failsworthblueboy]

Before I start, I want to say that on the field this has been the best few years I've witnessed as a blue. But off the field, I'm finding myself feeling angrier and angrier at the decisions being made by the club.

Recently we've seen:

• Ticket Prices that completely price out our core support
• More expensive Season Tickets than ever before
• Far too many away tickets are being siphoned away from the loyalty points scheme
• Home tickets for big games are being sold via Hospitality Packages and Third Party Websites, with very few being made available to Matchday members
• Plans to put "Premium Seating" in the new north stand, despite constant calls from WeAre1894 and City Matters NOT to do this
• Failure to acknowledge, let alone condemn, the trouble that our own fans faced in Istanbul

Not only are all of these a betrayal of the very supporters who've supported this club through thick and thin, but show a clear lack of long-term business understanding. Which tells me that our current business strategy is to make as much money as possible right now, and then 10 years from now it'll be someone else's problem anyway so who cares right?

The reason I believe we need to organise some kind of protest is that the

club simply won't listen unless we make a fuss. They've proven time and time again that they won't listen to City Matters, and as individuals, we have absolutely no voice. If we make a fuss and the Media catch on, then we could finally start to see some change for the better.

Just a suggestion, would be interested to hear how others feel?

I'm not out priced mate but can't go for health reasons but, If I could I would no matter what the price you are coming from a point where you are emotionally involved.
The people who set the prices are coming from a business angle and are simply offering "the right to treat option" you don't have to buy, they don't have to sell to you or anyone they don't want to.
If you can't afford it they will sell to whoever will buy and sadly a lot of the times that is ticket touting companies because it's there job to do so.
They will not listen and it will give ammunition to the Media scum,we don't need protests against our club at a time when we the fans are the only ones who will celebrate when we are found not guilty of the charges.

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

Some of our fans are fucking terrified of us being shit again. And because of that, they won't have a bad word said about the club incase the ownership decides to up and leave.

Any talk of an independent supporters trust has been shouted down because of this. We have a massively divided fanbase on issues which means that proper protests will never be a success.

I'll say a bad word about how our club is run.
It's a joke.
Real supporters are more of a hindrance to the club .
Feels like we're not welcome anymore.
Yes what's happened on the pitch has been far more than anyone could ever imagine.
But at what cost.
City used to be the be all and end all for me.
My one true love.
One constant in my life that will never leave me.
Sorry but that's gone .
Thanks city but if this is the price of success I'd rather be shit again.

 

[BillCarlisle]

After a lifetime religiously buying match programmes, this season I decided to stop. No longer worth the money IMHO as its generally full of stuff that I already know, or is of little interest to me. Its now occurred to me that the effect of that has in reality reduced the cost of my FOC season ticket back to what it was about 4 yrs ago. Unfortunately since I now spend nothing at all in the campus I'm well and truly an unwanted legacy fan. :-(

 

[Blue Til Death]

Aren’t protests illegal these days? We’d be put on the extremist list!

Not if we stormed the stadium to avoid playing a game and all wore zebra striped trolleys and ran around like complete and utter knobs, we wouldn’t…!

 

[mexico1970]

Not if we stormed the stadium to avoid playing a game and all wore zebra striped trolleys and ran around like complete and utter knobs, we wouldn’t…!

Can we go to the club shop first and buy the latest shirt and full kit?

 

[VOOMER]

So will you protest about this?

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9491/

or this?

UK food prices to keep rising through 2024, industry researcher cautions

British food and drink prices will continue to rise in 2024, contributing to an extended cost-of-living crisis, a prominent grocery industry researcher said on Thursday.

www.reuters.com

or maybe this?

Data reveals UK commuters face potential £215 annual increase as train price cap lifts in 2024 - Business Money

Data reveals that UK commuters could be hit, on average, by an additional 55p per journey and £215 per year for rail fares from March 2024 when the government cap on train prices is lifted. This comes after reports that the government’s 5.9% interest cap on train travel is expected to be lifted...

www.business-money.com

No lets protest about paying to watch the best team in the world play football live rather than watch on TV.

 

[jrb]

Regardless if City win any trophies or not this season, I won't be watching Khaldoon's PR end of season videos.

From recollection, not once has Khaldoon mentioned season ticket and match day price increases for 11 consecutive seasons, no new season ticket sales, lapsed season tickets which were once made available again to other fans being turned into match day ticket sales, pricing fans out of matches with expensive match day tickets, disappearing away tickets, making away tickets harder and harder to get, away tickets ending up on ticket resale websites, the club not engaging with the fans, instead using City Matters via meetings every 3 months, the club generally not giving a fuck about the fans, dismissing our concerns and grevencies, and doing nothing more than paying us lip service if and when they feel like it, trying to replace Legacy fans with new fans, tourists and day trippers because they will spend more money on a match day.

2017.

Khaldoon Al Mubarak has apologised if Manchester City fans have been overlooked by the club

City's chairman hinted that the core of the fanbase may have been forgotten at points as bosses have gone about targeting global expansion and appealing to new fans.

"Our club is going to go places successfully," he said in his end-of-season review. "I have no doubt about that.

"But we are not going to be completely successful if we don't have our fans and community with us hand in hand fully committed to us.

"That is a relationship that is organic with this club. This club have a very special fanbase.

"What we must not do is to forget our core. That is a challenge. It's not easy.

Redirect Notice

 

[Moss Side's Finest]

Before I start, I want to say that on the field this has been the best few years I've witnessed as a blue. But off the field, I'm finding myself feeling angrier and angrier at the decisions being made by the club.

Recently we've seen:

• Ticket Prices that completely price out our core support
• More expensive Season Tickets than ever before
• Far too many away tickets are being siphoned away from the loyalty points scheme
• Home tickets for big games are being sold via Hospitality Packages and Third Party Websites, with very few being made available to Matchday members
• Plans to put "Premium Seating" in the new north stand, despite constant calls from WeAre1894 and City Matters NOT to do this
• Failure to acknowledge, let alone condemn, the trouble that our own fans faced in Istanbul

Not only are all of these a betrayal of the very supporters who've supported this club through thick and thin, but show a clear lack of long-term business understanding. Which tells me that our current business strategy is to make as much money as possible right now, and then 10 years from now it'll be someone else's problem anyway so who cares right?

The reason I believe we need to organise some kind of protest is that the club simply won't listen unless we make a fuss. They've proven time and time again that they won't listen to City Matters, and as individuals, we have absolutely no voice. If we make a fuss and the Media catch on, then we could finally start to see some change for the better.

Just a suggestion, would be interested to hear how others feel?

No, with all due respect, fuck off and stop trying to cause a mutiny

 

[Blue Til Death]

Can we go to the club shop first and buy the latest shirt and full kit?

Yes mate, that’s more than acceptable:-)