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jrb said:
The protests on the concourses will be filmed and uploaded to social media.

I really don't see what the issues or problems are.

There's absolutely no need to question it and to pick holes in it.

It's the first City fan protest inside the Etihad. That in itself is significant.
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With the singing section trial in 313, will there be protests on the concourses of both SSL1 and SSL3 jrb?
 
Tim of the Oak said:
I liked Big Steve’s video but wasn’t he getting sponsored by a rival ticket agency a few weeks ago. This might be mistaken identity and you were right to lionise Big Steve.

On a wider point, I am glad the Vianogo rebellion is getting national coverage. The Directors have gone too far.
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I honestly don't know Tim.

I don't follow City fans on social media.

I watched the video because it was doing the rounds.

As others have said, fair play to him for coming out in support of the fans, and for being honest and upfront about his dealings with the club in the past.

The PR guff to distract has already started. Maybe I'm too cynical of the people running City, and the tricks they get up to?

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Alan Harper's Tash said:
The biggest issue will be with getting the current kids to come when the day trippers have finished.

Most don’t come now as it’s either too expensive or they can’t get tickets.

As the “legacy” fans die out, there’s no guarantee that today’s youth will fill the void.
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That's the gamble they're taking right now. The rags are even worse, I'm sure I read it's £66 a ticket for kids there. It's a huge risk for us as we definitely do not sell out every game no matter what the statistics say. I notice you can never see attendance figures anymore, they used to always be shown but I don't see them now. Leicester are home will be interesting, especially if we're knocked out of the cup on Sunday.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
This is just feeding the monster, careful what you wish for. Man U fans turned against the club, but every other clubs’ fans will ignore that because we are the Champions of the last decade, so the press will feed on this and push the club’s reputation further into decline. Who knows? They might even listen.
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You would be surprised, every match going fan has had enough of this shit. As much as I hate the rival clubs I have plenty of friends who support them and while I give them banter and occasionally fall out big time over football we are all the type of football fans who are getting fucked over by greed. On this issue you will find a lot of sympathy and support even from dippers and rags!
 
Soriano needs to fucking go aswell. We let him get away with the Super League too easy, he's a slimy Barca ****, he doesn't give a fuck about City fans. I much preferred Garry Cook who was a decent fella who seemed like he actually cared its a shame he sent that daft email then lied about it.

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Never forget this shit he got involved with. His head needs to roll.

Watch the YouTube video someone posted earlier in the thread for proof. He is the bad apple. He is the poison. We need to target him personally. Make him so uncomfortable he scurries back to Spain.
 
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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Not just the memberships and tickets being bought by anyone, but the problem of the ticket tout sites were there to see that night n’all. Nobody knows how many tickets were able to be bought through those sites but there were a lot of tourists there that night, while people like my Father who’d been going to City since 1964 ended up without a ticket despite trying to get one from the City website.
 
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Tribal rivalries have been managed to be put aside momentarily on issues such as this in the past aswell, don't get the 'opposition fans will take the piss' viewpoint. Who cares what some numpties on Twitter think, IIRC not long after this happened away tickets were capped at 35 quid across the League.
 
I was hoping that the Leicester home game was going to be a big game where we would get behind the team for about the first time this season. Not having a go at anyone but the atmosphere has been poor all season.

However, I also think the club needs to sort the ticketing out, so I will support the protest. I am not bothered about how City distribute or sell hospitality seats but I am bothered about high ticket prices and the lack of availability of season tickets.

My angle would be to make the protest most effective we should turn up in massive numbers and show how effective the fans can be. This is City without fans, and this is City with fans. Please whatever you do, do turn up and support City loudly for the 81 minutes.
 
jrb said:
I honestly don't know Tim.

I don't follow City fans on social media.

I watched the video because it was doing the rounds.

As others have said, fair play to him for coming out in support of the fans, and for being honest and upfront about his dealings with the club in the past.

The PR guff to distract has already started. Maybe I'm too cynical of the people running City, and the tricks they get up to?

Headline news.

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I’m not sure “mascot wars” was a City leak!
 
Kippax Street 1880 said:
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Tribal rivalries have been managed to be put aside momentarily on issues such as this in the past aswell, don't get the 'opposition fans will take the piss' viewpoint. Who cares what some numpties on Twitter think, IIRC not long after this happened away tickets were capped at 35 quid across the League.
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Kippax Street 1880 said:
Soriano needs to fucking go aswell. We let him get away with the Super League too easy, he's a slimy Barca ****, he doesn't give a fuck about City fans. I much preferred Garry Cook who was a decent fella who seemed like he actually cared its a shame he sent that daft email then lied about it.

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Never forget this shit he got involved with. His head needs to roll.

Watch the YouTube video someone posted earlier in the thread for proof. He is the bad apple. He is the poison. We need to target him personally. Make him so uncomfortable he scurries back to Spain.
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I get what you’re saying. But for all we know this is how Sheikh Mansour and Egon Durban want the club to run so they maximise return on their shares, maybe Khaldoon al Mubarak is the main man with these plans, maybe it is Ferran Soriano as we suspect, Roel de Vries works closely with him as well though, and I remember that Omar Berrada quote that the club preferred lockdown football because they didn’t have the fans who are a pain to deal with (good riddance to that Rag). Look at what the club’s Chief Marketing and Fan Experience Officer, Nuria Tarre, just coming out to the media saying “99% of our fans are outside of Manchester so we need to find a way to engage with them and give them the best fan experience possible.”
Maybe it’s the collective and not just Soriano? Maybe the problem would still be there or even get worse if he was to leave? But he is the CEO, so you can see why his name may be at the forefront.
 
Kippax Street 1880 said:
I'm not hating on foreign fans either, they deserve to come and watch us aswell, but the way the club operates is wrong and pitting us against eachother.
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We should confront any racism amongst City fans. I am uncomfortable with the actions of some City fans in raising the issue of tourists at games where it seems to me that a lot of local Asian supporters have been at the games. That even put me off 1894 for a while because their communication was very unclear on this. However, City fans have to take a stand on ticket prices. We are being priced out. You can't just ignore that. It's happening, and not just at City but at every club. We are one of the worst.

IMO City have not addressed the issue of season ticket prices because they are overwhelmed by the 115 case. But that does not help City fans, and they have allowed ticket prices to go up to astronomical levels for Premier League games so they cannot be defended. I don't think they understand that City's traditional fanbase cannot afford to watch individual games any more, or they are not bothered. But Manchester City needs to keep its traditional support.
 
I can see loads of loyal blues fucking their season tickets off from next season. The club sadly don't want them anymore you know the ones who were watching City against Chesterfield, Crewe etc bitd, they don't give a flying fuck about them.
The disconnect is massive now between local fans and City and it's very sad and disappointing to see.

I've been going to see City from 1979 not religiously but to several games each season, but this season I've been to one champs league group game, I'm just not feeling it anymore. You'll never stop loving the club but your interest because of certain factors can definitely start to wane. That's where I am at present
 
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It has no doubt been mentioned but a big issue is in regards tourist fans getting away tickets.

Solve that and a lot changes. There will always be tickets available for home games but when they get away games like Utd, Liverpool, Bournemouth and say Brentford that is a piss take.

A lot of the anti tourist stems from that.

I would also suggest City have a section dedicated to tourist fans. Sell all the tickets in a certain block. Open that block to tourist sites whatever, if they sell fine, if not open it up at £30 to local like they do when away clubs do not take the top tier of SS3. But you know where you will be.

Liverpool certainly do, you can see it when there.
 
Fordyboy46 said:
I can see loads of loyal blues fucking their season tickets off from next season. The club sadly don't want them anymore you know the ones who were watching City against Chesterfield, Crewe etc bitd, they don't give a flying fuck about them.
The disconnect is massive now between local fans and City and it's very sad and disappointing to see.

I've been going to see City from 1979 not religiously but to several games each season, but this season I've been to one champs league group game, I'm just not feeling it anymore. You'll never stop loving the club but your interest because of certain factors can definitely start to wane. That's where I am at present
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I support City just as much as I ever did but the ticket price increases have got to stop.

This season has not been enjoyable. The team plays a massive part but even so a big frustration for me has been the lack of atmosphere in the ground. We should be thinking about that. City were rubbish for most of my life but the fans would get behind the team when it mattered. ThIs season we haven't done that. I think it's because traditional fans are getting alienated.
 
Marvin. said:
We should confront any racism amongst City fans. I am uncomfortable with the actions of some City fans in raising the issue of tourists at games where it seems to me that a lot of local Asian supporters have been at the games. That even put me off 1894 for a while because their communication was very unclear on this. However, City fans have to take a stand on ticket prices. We are being priced out. You can't just ignore that. It's happening, and not just at City but at every club. We are one of the worst.

IMO City have not addressed the issue of season ticket prices because they are overwhelmed by the 115 case. But that does not help City fans, and they have allowed ticket prices to go up to astronomical levels for Premier League games so they cannot be defended. I don't think they understand that City's traditional fanbase cannot afford to watch individual games any more, or they are not bothered. But Manchester City needs to keep its traditional support.
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A lot of people have came over from Hong Kong recently that could also explain the jump in Asian faces in the crowd. A lot of them do live in Manchester and they shouldn't be subjected to abuse. It isn't their fault and they are being ripped off by the reselling sites aswell.

It should be a hell of a lot easier than it is to pass your ticket on to a friend or family member. A lot of people, especially older fans find it very difficult and confusing and when that seat they couldn't pass on gets filled by a tourist (or somebody who looks like one) they unfairly feel the brunt of that resentment.
 
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mayo31 said:
It has no doubt been mentioned but a big issue is in regards tourist fans getting away tickets.

Solve that and a lot changes. There will always be tickets available for home games but when they get away games like Utd, Liverpool, Bournemouth and say Brentford that is a piss take.

A lot of the anti tourist stems from that.

I would also suggest City have a section dedicated to tourist fans. Sell all the tickets in a certain block. Open that block to tourist sites whatever, if they sell fine, if not open it up at £30 to local like they do when away clubs do not take the top tier of SS3. But you know where you will be.

Liverpool certainly do, you can see it when there.
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City are more likely looking at putting all us season ticket holders in one area and giving tourists the rest.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
I get what you’re saying. But for all we know this is how Sheikh Mansour and Egon Durban want the club to run so they maximise return on their shares, maybe Khaldoon al Mubarak is the main man with these plans, maybe it is Ferran Soriano as we suspect, Roel de Vries works closely with him as well though, and I remember that Omar Berrada quote that the club preferred lockdown football because they didn’t have the fans who are a pain to deal with (good riddance to that Rag). Look at what the club’s Chief Marketing and Fan Experience Officer, Nuria Tarre, just coming out to the media saying “99% of our fans are outside of Manchester so we need to find a way to engage with them and give them the best fan experience possible.”
Maybe it’s the collective and not just Soriano? Maybe the problem would still be there or even get worse if he was to leave? But he is the CEO, so you can see why his name may be at the forefront.
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It's fair to say it's not solely Soriano, of course, but this was written by Sheikh Mansour when the club was taken over. (Ignore the bit about Hughes lol)

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Somewhere down the line that promise has been broken and the buck has to stop somewhere doesn't it, there's been a long slow slide away from this under Ferran and it seems its finally coming to a head.
 
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