Protest?

Phil1 said:
I think a lot of it is disappointment rather than absolute vitriol.
No doubt some will go overboard but that’s just how they are wired up.
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In my opinion it was way over the top, and if you're that pissed off well do something, organise a banner or something, it's the British way, moan like fuck but do diddle squat about it.
 
Eds said:
The club's wage bill is circa £420m (if this is incorrect I am sure someone will correct me. The proposed ticket increases I read will bring in the club around an extra £1.5m if that. Just imagine if the entire staff bill was cut by just 1% then we could all have a discount. The club wouldn't be receiving all this appalling PR and everyone would be happy. For someone like KDB that would mean a weekly wage of just £346,500 instead of £350k. I think he could survive and even at the bottom end of the scale someone like Rico would earn £24,750 per week instead of £25k. Businesses do increase costs but the difference between a players wage and the average supporter is world's apart. I reckon if you ask the players to have a 1% wage decrease (not bonuses) so that the supporters weren't priced out they all would. Tourists are not going to follow the club when we aren't winning things (and it will happen) but we will.
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100 million for Grealish! & city can’t freeze ticket prices, which would cost them 1.5m! take it out of massive profits they’ve made? Payback the fans who given their well earned time & money. Instead they’re intending to gain 1.5m on the us! Of course we are being priced out, time to feed it back! When its not so good, the Pep golden era ends, your. Half n half corporate lot will be long gone!
 
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halfcenturyup said:
I trust that Mansour and Khaldoon are men of their word, and that to be seen keeping their word is important to them. It's a cultural thing. I wouldn't trust a Spanish consultant further than I can spit, but the other two, I would like to think so.

So does anyone think they have spoken to an actual fan? Or is the only information they get from fans passed to them in board meetings from the sanitised results of focus groups and those damned questionnaires?

We need someone in AD to get the message across. Any volunteers?

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If I get the chance, I'll raise it with HH SHEIKH MANSOUR If he's in the Monte Carlo Beach Club on Saturday .
 
m100cfc said:
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
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Sniff, Sniff, Sniff
 
We're the perfect target... too many people who are completely against critiquing the club in any way.

Constant price rises (whilst making an £80m profit) are unnecessary and show how little the club cares for its legacy fans. City gets a hell of a lot wrong when it comes to fan engagement, and one day, the chickens will come home to roost.

Pep and Haaland won't be here forever... and neither will a lot of us legacy fans if we continue down this path.
 
Meanwhile in the real world most supporters are busy renewing, some with the intention of moving to a cheaper seat maybe and a few have probably decided to jack it in either for financial reasons or because they aren't enjoying it any longer.

I've been match going since 1962-63 season but thinking about it have I ever felt valued by the club at any point and I have to say no. Ticket prices have always been what the club felt they could get away with. Did Swales, Lee, Wardle & Makin value me and if they did how come I missed it?
 
I felt valued by the club during the Franny and Gary Cook eras.

I did take part in the Swales out protest even though he was a true City fan.
 
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Manchester33 said:
We're the perfect target... too many people who are completely against critiquing the club in any way.

Constant price rises (whilst making an £80m profit) are unnecessary and show how little the club cares for its legacy fans. City gets a hell of a lot wrong when it comes to fan engagement, and one day, the chickens will come home to roost.

Pep and Haaland won't be here forever... and neither will a lot of us legacy fans if we continue down this path.
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I always firmly believed in the idea that a football corporation (I'm refraining from using the term 'club' from now on) would adopt the mantra "we'll be there for you in good times so that you're there for us in bad times".

I'm not necessarily against price increases per se, and certainly not at a time when operating costs are going up. It's the scale of the increase without explanation that disappoints me. I'm up 9.5%. I can afford it but that's not the point. For me, even a bland statement would go some way to easing the disappointment, but no, nothing.

Everyone has the right to react how they want, but I'm quite surprised how much bootlicking there is towards the corporation. People suggesting some sort of dissent are met with a great deal of hostility. I think it’s fine to disagree but I am somewhat perturbed by the lack of empathy from some towards those who feel the effects of this price hike. There will doubtless be some in this camp who themselves may fall victims to incessant increases further down the line.
 
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