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richards30 said:
Define hard yards mate? Again, only from personal experience but the hospitality type guys if you want the honesty finance the so called legacy fans who only want to turn up and have a half time pint? I’m 47 years of age by the year so not a youngster and my family originate from longsight before moving to the Isle of Man for business reasons. We’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds as a family alone in the last ten years doing flights, hospitality etc and make the most of it spending our time in the atmosphere and surroundings of the etihad etc? Tunnel club, chairman’s lounge etc just to watch games as apparently it’s sold out but seats empty on the day? The there are fans who opt out of cup competitions so someone had to use that seat? I do want to point out though that I do understand fans frustrations but literally throwing the ownership under the bus with walking out etc after the success we’ve had without taking time to try and engage will only open the club up to more ridicule? The rags, dippers etc would be applauded for it but we all know we won’t be and it will be a stick to beat the whole club including the fans
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richards30 said:
Define hard yards mate? Again, only from personal experience but the hospitality type guys if you want the honesty finance the so called legacy fans who only want to turn up and have a half time pint? I’m 47 years of age by the year so not a youngster and my family originate from longsight before moving to the Isle of Man for business reasons. We’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds as a family alone in the last ten years doing flights, hospitality etc and make the most of it spending our time in the atmosphere and surroundings of the etihad etc? Tunnel club, chairman’s lounge etc just to watch games as apparently it’s sold out but seats empty on the day? The there are fans who opt out of cup competitions so someone had to use that seat? I do want to point out though that I do understand fans frustrations but literally throwing the ownership under the bus with walking out etc after the success we’ve had without taking time to try and engage will only open the club up to more ridicule? The rags, dippers etc would be applauded for it but we all know we won’t be and it will be a stick to beat the whole club including the fans with?
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No words.
 
Jesus H Gabz said:
The club will be scratching round for some good news to throw out between now & then, announcing they’ve booked City matters in for a ‘we’ve already made a decision’ chat won’t be enough.
Spot on about the club, I watched big Steve’s latest video before, and he was quite open about being black balled, and more worrying for him, it seems a few stewards have been more than a little antagonistic towards him, when you pair that with all the bans & suspensions, and things like Man City tickets on twitter being targeted, it seems like they’re already targeting so called aggravators (in their eyes)
Some will say they saw all this coming, maybe I’m naive, but I honestly never thought it would come to this, although that Madrid game was a tipping point for me
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The directors and their managers are really targeting the fans now, and have been for quite a while. It has got toxic. And the people running the club are solely to blame. They decided they wanted it this way.

Not only are the directors taking on Masters and the PL, they are also taking on City fans.

They have completely lost the plot and the sense of what's important and what matters.
 
jrb said:
The directors and their managers are really targeting the fans now, and have been for quite a while. It has got toxic. And the people running the club are solely to blame. They decided they wanted it this way.

Not only are the directors taking on Masters and the PL, they are also taking on City fans.

They have completely lost the plot and the sense of what's important, and what matters.
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Jrb… Where do you want your statue mate. Posts are spot on blue.
 
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ArdwickBlue_M12 said:
Unfortunately the club has been fully gentrified. they are only MANCHESTER City in name but they don't want anything to do with the Manchester people. hence why they are always in New York, Cape town, Tokyo etc wheeling out the premier league trophies. I might sound pessimistic but I don't see a way back.
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The club literally think of us like this:

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They think of us as the 1% and care about us that amount.
 
Jesus H Gabz said:
With respect mate, it’s the clubs lack of engagement that’s got us to this point
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But initially it says hospitality? You all know that there have been issues of tourist fans etc in the stadium but then we also know that lots of season ticket holders haven’t always used the ticket exchange service and made money out of their standard ticket?
 
richards30 said:
Define hard yards mate? Again, only from personal experience but the hospitality type guys if you want the honesty finance the so called legacy fans who only want to turn up and have a half time pint? I’m 47 years of age by the year so not a youngster and my family originate from longsight before moving to the Isle of Man for business reasons. We’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds as a family alone in the last ten years doing flights, hospitality etc and make the most of it spending our time in the atmosphere and surroundings of the etihad etc? Tunnel club, chairman’s lounge etc just to watch games as apparently it’s sold out but seats empty on the day? The there are fans who opt out of cup competitions so someone had to use that seat? I do want to point out though that I do understand fans frustrations but literally throwing the ownership under the bus with walking out etc after the success we’ve had without taking time to try and engage will only open the club up to more ridicule? The rags, dippers etc would be applauded for it but we all know we won’t be and it will be a stick to beat the whole club including the fans with?
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Good. That’s is EXACTLY what we want!

We want the club to get as much ridicule about its ticketing policy as possible.
 
My love for City was broken, and I never really felt the same way afterwards, it was such a betrayal. The club lost its way, it's identity was consumed by greed and it surrendered to the marketing genusises. They decided that for a home champions league semi-final against real Madrid in 2023, that any fcker, from anywhere, who just paid £35 for a membership had the same ticket buying entitlement as everyone else, regardless of how long you were supporting, how many shit group games you attended, how much Pearce-ball you paid to watch.

It was a horrendous decision, I wrote to Omar Berrada about it, Utd are welcome to that cretin, and are seeing his policies in all their glory.

I know it didn't affect season ticket holders, so a lot of people don't care, but for the rest of us it was absolutely despicable. There were so many at the ground who got lucky in the lottery, attending their first ever game. Atmosphere was actually great, but I really felt for my usual travel companions who got no tickets, and the other "legacy" fans who lost out. Something really broke for me with that decision, the realisation they absolutely genuinely didn't care.
 
richards30 said:
Care to expand mate? It’s a conversation about a touchy subject but we can always at least talk about both sides?
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richards30 said:
Care to expand mate? It’s a conversation about a touchy subject but we can always at least talk about both sides?
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Sorry mate, not having a pop. It reads and appears, like you are not prepared to have a go at the club and having a go at legacy fans with ‘half time pint’ comment and then go on to say, what the club has done for us. Everyone is entitled to watch the game how they want, they’ve bought their ticket.
The club don’t have the right to treat fans with utter contempt, because we’ve won a few trophies. The bigger picture is and the way it’s going, we will lose our club and the local fan base with years of family history and traditions will be lost. Khaldoon, reeled us all in, with his end of season interviews, and how the local fans will never be forgotten. Well we have been and it’s going to get worse, if we don’t all pull together. It’s staring us all clear in the face, but, we have fans, stating, ‘but look what they’ve done for us though, we can’t complain’
We can and we should. Ticket fiasco, no season tickets, only flexi and now we have safe standing back, yet we have tickets being sold to away fans in home sections, someone is going to get hurt. I could go on, but the wife is looking at me, like I’m having an affair. She’s just said, you’ve on that phone a lot lately ha ha

Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Just think, we need to look at the bigger picture and City appear to be trying their utmost to rid our club of local fans and season tickets.

I’ll have to go, wife looks fuming:) best wishes though blue. Cheers.
 
We all have differing opinions on what the clubs doing - here's my tuppence worth.

The club no longer care who's in the seat.

The players and Pep probably do, as it's either me signing or a foreign fan taking selfies - one brings atmosphere, one brings coins.

My season ticket is on a par with lower league teams, mainly because its a front row ticket - so whilst I don't 'moan' about the actual price, its actually gone up by 35% since Covid.

What is 1000% more noticable is the tourist fans. I have no issue with this type of fan in certain areas of the ground, but the "singing section" shouldn't be on general sale - I'm not the entertainment and I'm not there to be filmed by a teenage Japanese human dressed as a Pokemon.

I'm also not there to stop someone getting a thumping when they start talking videos of Mo Salah - or to be at risk of some rabid United fan who's bought a ticket via gogo.

As I said in my earlier post though - it feels like there is a general sanitisation of football - get rid of the beer swilling loudies, replace them with happy smiley families with disposable income or Johnny Tourist who want a days entertainment. Sky can pipe in the crowd noises like they do at A-Field.
 
Greenandblue said:
My love for City was broken, and I never really felt the same way afterwards, it was such a betrayal. The club lost its way, it's identity was consumed by greed and it surrendered to the marketing genusises. They decided that for a home champions league semi-final against real Madrid in 2023, that any fcker, from anywhere, who just paid £35 for a membership had the same ticket buying entitlement as everyone else, regardless of how long you were supporting, how many shit group games you attended, how much Pearce-ball you paid to watch.

It was a horrendous decision, I wrote to Omar Berrada about it, Utd are welcome to that cretin, and are seeing his policies in all their glory.

I know it didn't affect season ticket holders, so a lot of people don't care, but for the rest of us it was absolutely despicable. There were so many at the ground who got lucky in the lottery, attending their first ever game. Atmosphere was actually great, but I really felt for my usual travel companions who got no tickets, and the other "legacy" fans who lost out. Something really broke for me with that decision, the realisation they absolutely genuinely didn't care.
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Maybe not quite as bad as the Madrid debacle but I was very pissed off with city for the Everton home game in the covid season in which we lifted the trophy and it was sergio's last game.
Limited seats obviously due to covid and a random ballot was perhaps the fairest way to do it but it should have been season ticket holders only. Instead anyone with a membership could apply and many season ticket holders, myself included, missed out in favour of fans who may have only been to a handful of games ever.
 
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Greenandblue said:
My love for City was broken, and I never really felt the same way afterwards, it was such a betrayal. The club lost its way, it's identity was consumed by greed and it surrendered to the marketing genusises. They decided that for a home champions league semi-final against real Madrid in 2023, that any fcker, from anywhere, who just paid £35 for a membership had the same ticket buying entitlement as everyone else, regardless of how long you were supporting, how many shit group games you attended, how much Pearce-ball you paid to watch.

It was a horrendous decision, I wrote to Omar Berrada about it, Utd are welcome to that cretin, and are seeing his policies in all their glory.

I know it didn't affect season ticket holders, so a lot of people don't care, but for the rest of us it was absolutely despicable. There were so many at the ground who got lucky in the lottery, attending their first ever game. Atmosphere was actually great, but I really felt for my usual travel companions who got no tickets, and the other "legacy" fans who lost out. Something really broke for me with that decision, the realisation they absolutely genuinely didn't care.
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Agreed, I was lucky to get a ticket despite not having a season ticket but I'd been to nearly every game that season and had a season ticket in the seasons building up to it.

That was genuinely the most disgusting ticket criteria they'd set. Although that Everton covid game that someone has mentions is a disgrace too.

It was pure greed and shitting on the fans.
 
The club are probably in a no lose situation with this, though they are taking a bit of a gamble. Make loads of money while we're successful and fuck off new season tickets for sale and don't freeze prices. If we have a few seasons like this one or worse and ticket sales fall they can reduce prices and flog a few more season tickets. Win/win in a way. The gamble is they may have pissed off the people who may have snapped up these tickets if they become available. Time will tell.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
Fair enough. I don’t really get why you’re so bothered about what everyone else thinks. Surely it’s what city fans think that’s important right now.

It’s 9 minutes mate. You’ve got years to watch 9 more minutes. If you get priced out are you really going to be that bothered? Think about the bigger picture, rather than missing a goal or a penalty.
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I don't care what other fans think, I care about a gesture or protest not being undermined by freak pointing or Paddy Power parodies. Which we would all be doing if it were other clubs giving us an angle.

I've already been priced out of adding cup games to the mix mate. Partly why I'd rather enjoy the Leicester game, the one I've paid a lot of money to watch.

Each to their own. More importantly let's hope the club see sense. We all want the same thing!
 
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