Roll call for 9 minute protest

Psychedelic Casual said:
It’s a protest around ticketing in general, not just a potential price rise again for next season.

12 price rises in 15 years.
Over two dozen of my friends+family have been priced out in that time.
More expensive for my ST at City than the equivalent seats at Anfield or Old Trafford.
The club not communicating with fans over ticket prices when other clubs have been with theirs.
City Matters reps going on strike over poor communication and dismissive ignorance from the club.
Fans who’ve had enough with the amount of tourists and away fans there are in the City home ends.
Situations where worldwide ticket tout sites have huge amounts of our tickets for home and away games and them freely being able to get tickets for big home games with no membership (CL semifinals or title deciders, for example) or away games with limited availability of tickets, when proper core supporters who try and get them through the proper club channels with their Supporter Number, membership or Season Ticket can’t get them. Many Blues who’d been going to City for decades couldn’t get a ticket for the Madrid CL semifinal a few years ago yet the ground was swarming with tourists and Madrid fans.
Those who can get tickets, can rarely ever get seats next to each other, yet tourists and away fans get a full row together.
No new season tickets for future generations of young Blues… who’s going to support the club when we’re all dead?
Season Ticket holders who give up their seat, they are not re-listed as a Season Ticket and are put on the worldwide ticket tout sites (I’ve had a different foreigner next to me for two years, half the time they aren’t even City fans).
Fans who’ve had enough of seeing rows of fans of random clubs at away games, bringing into question how many tickets the club just give away to nobodies who aren’t there for City.
City away ends swarming with tourists at Anfield and Old Trafford.
A Season Ticket holder of many decades becoming so unwell he had to give his ST up for a few years, when he thankfully got back to full health the club didn’t want to fucking know the bloke and dismissed his requests to get a season ticket back, yet goes to games for individual matches now and sees the ground full of tourists and away fans so it’s not like they’re struggling for seats to give to him.
Many many fans have complained to City Matters reps, 1894, even our City fan YouTubers like Big Steve, about the tourists and away fans situation being utterly fucking wank to be part of in the ground and it not being a good ‘Matchday Experience’, with City Matters being ignored when they ask for a meeting about it, yet in thr meantime, the club come out and announce a new worldwide ticket tout partner (which is an organisation embroiled in constant scandals over their operations) which will increase tourists with no memberships and away fans even further in the ground next season.

…and they’re just the reasons I can think of off the top of my head now. Someone else might be able to add as many points again.
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jrb said:
Pep has given the protest his endorsement. He didn't duck the question. What more do the fans against the protest want?
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Just because I'm not taking part in the protest doesn't mean I'm against it.
In my honest opinion I think boycotting buying food beer and anything from the club shop on match days would have a more profound effect.
I totally agree that match day ticket prices are ridiculous and I've said it many times before that if I didn't have a season ticket I couldn't and wouldn't pay what they are asking.
I'm going to ask a question that to all those that are going to stay on the concourse ( not that I have a problem with any fans that choose to do so )
If we were joint top of the league with Liverpool and were playing them tomorrow night would you all honestly miss the first 9 minutes?.
I honestly hope the protest works and the club see sense and reduce match day prices but I really think hitting them financially by not buying food and drinks would be more effective.
 
Anyone think we will have soriano out protest before the end of the season if season ticket price rise announced?
 
117 M34 said:
Anyone think we will have soriano out protest before the end of the season if season ticket price rise announced?
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Don't know but it would be silly. IF prices go up anyone thinking it's a decision made by Soriano alone ,are looking for easy targets.
 
Eccles Blue said:
I have but I guess I am being a rebel in a different way? Actually I am having a bit of a daft half hour. It was getting a tad angsty around this thread. Sorry. Is that really really bad of me? :-)
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Shall we organise a protest to protest the protest?

Maybe in the toilets if the concourses are full?
 
jrb said:
Pep has given the protest his endorsement. He didn't duck the question. What more do the fans against the protest want?
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Stop being misleading he hast at all, he has endorsed the fact that fans should be able to protest and prefers it to passive supporters, but he in no way endorsed the actual views of the protesters .
 
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117 M34 said:
Anyone think we will have soriano out protest before the end of the season if season ticket price rise announced?
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Despite suspicions many have, I’d be careful about targeting one man about this (and other things).

For all we know it’s a purposeful boardroom+Chairman+shareholder-wide culture of disdain toward, or in ignorance of, our core supporters. For all we know the entirety of the suits at the club could have bought into all this.

Where were the other boardmembers, Chairman and shareholders when we joined the Super League? Where were the other boardmembers, Chairman and shareholders after what happened in Istanbul? Where are our other boardmembers, Chairman and shareholders every time we see ticket price rises and even more siphoned off to worldwide ticket tout sites?

None of them, not a single one, consulted with fans about the Super League before joining and not a single one of them apologised to fans afterwards. Not a single one of them stepped forward to apologise to City fans on behalf of UEFA or Turkish authorities after Istanbul and not a single one of them stepped up to do anything about the experiences Blues had towards UEFA or Turkish authorities after Isntabul. And the last time I remember anyone at the club mentioning anything about ticketing was Vincent Kompany in 2018:
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Vincent Kompany calls for Premier League ticket price cut

The Man City player has graduated from Manchester Business School - and he has a plan for the Premier League.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
…nobody else from our boardroom, the Chairman or the shareholders have ever said owt. None of them.

Let’s say we did target Soriono, and he said that he was going to resign, how do we know that the Chairman and shareholders wouldn’t just employ someone else who they’d tell to do the job in the exact same manner that Soriano has?
 
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blue by birth said:
Just because I'm not taking part in the protest doesn't mean I'm against it.
In my honest opinion I think boycotting buying food beer and anything from the club shop on match days would have a more profound effect.
I totally agree that match day ticket prices are ridiculous and I've said it many times before that if I didn't have a season ticket I couldn't and wouldn't pay what they are asking.
I'm going to ask a question that to all those that are going to stay on the concourse ( not that I have a problem with any fans that choose to do so )
If we were joint top of the league with Liverpool and were playing them tomorrow night would you all honestly miss the first 9 minutes?.
I honestly hope the protest works and the club see sense and reduce match day prices but I really think hitting them financially by not buying food and drinks would be more effective.
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Good idea re not spending on premises - I wonder how many more pints will be bought on the concourse pre match?
 
Moss Side's Finest said:
Pep works in a senior position for the same organisation that you have beef with. If he got the point that much I'm sure he'd have enough sway to help do something about it.
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The protest is against the MANAGEMENT, not the manager!!

I pretty sure that he is not involved with anything to do with the clubs ticket price policy, IMO :0)
 
Eccles Blue said:
As someone said to me when I was ready to protest at a Deputy Head being promoted a few years ago… be careful what you wish for you could get someone much worse. Targeting Soriano could end up with him going and someone worse coming in.
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What could be worse than Soriano?

A guy who has publicly said he sees City the same as Disneyland.

The guy who took us into the European super league and has overseen outrageous price rises year on year?
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
It’s a protest around ticketing in general, not just a potential price rise again for next season.

12 price rises in 15 years.
Over two dozen of my friends+family have been priced out in that time.
More expensive for my Season Ticket at City than the equivalent seats at Anfield or Old Trafford.
£9 for juniors in 3 of the 4 stands at Anfield for every PL game, [until Christmas it was] £15 for juniors at Old Trafford for every PL game (changed now), yet at City tickets for children are priced for many games from £42-58… FOR KIDS!
No range of prices for matchday tickets unlike other clubs, at other clubs prices can start at £35 and go up to £65 yet at City they can start at £61 and go up to £82. No range of prices to accommodate anyone they can’t rip off, just expensive or very expensive.
The club not communicating with fans over ticket prices when other clubs have been with theirs.
City Matters reps going on strike over poor communication and dismissive ignorance from the club.
Fans who’ve had enough with the amount of tourists and away fans there are in the City home ends.
Situations where worldwide ticket tout sites have huge amounts of our tickets for home and away games and them freely being available for big home games with no membership (CL semifinals or title deciders, for example) or away games with limited availability of tickets, when proper core supporters who try and get them through the proper club channels with their Supporter Number, membership or Season Ticket can’t get them. Many Blues who’d been going to City for decades couldn’t get a ticket for the Madrid CL semifinal a few years ago yet the ground was swarming with tourists and Madrid fans.
Those who can get tickets, can rarely ever get seats next to each other, yet tourists and away fans get a full row together.
No new season tickets for future generations of young Blues… who’s going to support the club when we’re all dead?
Season Ticket holders who give up their seat, they are not re-listed as a Season Ticket and are put on the worldwide ticket tout sites (I’ve had a different foreigner next to me for two years, half the time they aren’t even City fans).
Fans who’ve had enough of seeing rows of fans of random clubs at away games, bringing into question how many tickets the club just give away to nobodies who aren’t there for City.
City away ends swarming with tourists at Anfield and Old Trafford.
A Season Ticket holder of many decades becoming so unwell he had to give his ST up for a few years, when he thankfully got back to full health the club didn’t want to fucking know the bloke and dismissed his requests to get a season ticket back, yet goes to games for individual matches now and sees the ground full of tourists and away fans so it’s not like they’re struggling for seats to give to him.
Many many fans have complained to City Matters reps, 1894, even our City fan YouTubers like Big Steve, about the tourists and away fans situation being utterly fucking wank to be part of in the ground and it not being a good ‘Matchday Experience’, with City Matters being ignored when they ask for a meeting about it, yet in the meantime, the club come out and announce a new worldwide ticket tout partner (which is an organisation embroiled in constant scandals over their operations) which will increase tourists with no memberships and away fans even further in the ground next season.

…and they’re just the reasons I can think of off the top of my head now. Someone else might be able to add as many points again.
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You ever thought of being on City matters ? You’d get my vote
 
Manchester33 said:
What could be worse than Soriano?

A guy who has publicly said he sees City the same as Disneyland.

The guy who took us into the European super league and has overseen outrageous price rises year on year?
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Whoever was in charge of Man U’s ticketing policy in the late 70s, when the reached 3 Cup Finals and only allocated 11k to fans, each time. Touts got the rest.

It might have been Martin Edwards and I’m not sure if he’s still alive?
 
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