Roll call for 9 minute protest

What people forget is that City front load all the season ticket money and match day ticket money for the season at the start of the season, which is banked somewhere and makes a huge amount of interest. On top of that, City then make double money on every season ticket and match ticket previously sold, which are then (re)listed on the ticket exchange. On top of that there is the TV money, prize money, and sponsorship money. FFP and PRS is not a problem for City. People should stop saying they are because they are not.
 
M18CTID said:
A quarter of a billion pounds in profit over the past 5 seasons mate. Don't fall for the PSR/FFP narrative. No-one's asking to be let in the stadium for free. We're asking for a price freeze and more sensible match day pricing. That's not an unrealistic request. The cost of my season ticket has gone up 31% since Covid. For fans in other parts of the stadium it'll be higher.
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Correct. I live in hope that Mansour tells Soriano to take 10 million a year out of his matchday revenue budget to reduce prices for fans. It wouldn't really make any difference at all to the PSR position.

But, as you know, I am a trusting, sentimental old fool who always thinks the best of everyone.

Even if I know they are cunts ....
 
I nust confess to sitting in my standing area seat. I didn't want to rush into the stadium bowl, nor put money over the bar counters.

The banner outside was great and a spot of chanting. I think the atmosphere was eerie until 9 minutes. Lots of puzzled faces. The lass stood by me in 115 (Canadian?) left after 60 minutes but spent many minutes taking selfie and asking silly questions about the ball being something fans could take home (like the puck in ice hockey).
 
dave_blue12 said:
Business in making profit shock!

Nothing stays the same, there is a price to pay blah blah blah.

Go start FC City or whatever.

Yawn
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I take it you’re fine and dandy with:

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 in the wider scope of our boardroom in general:

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.
 
jrb said:
What people forget is that City front load all the season ticket money and match day ticket money for the season at the start of the season, which is banked somewhere and makes a huge amount of interest. On top of that, City then make double money on every season ticket and match ticket previously sold, which are then (re)listed on the ticket exchange. On top of that there is the TV money, prize money, and sponsorship money. FFP and PRS is not a problem for City. People should stop saying they are because they are not.
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You should get a job on the city board with all that knowledge...oh wait...
 
Fair play. I didn't expect anything like the numbers to take part that did. I had concerns that a 9 minute protest wouldn't be particularly visible, but because of the volume of people that were involved, it was very visible, and coupled with the protest outside the Main Entrance, I thought it very much got the point across to those in power.

Well done to all concerned. :-)

I did my bit by missing the last nine minutes. Never been as bored since Stuart Pearce was strutting his stuff on the sidelines. :-D
 
There is a Light said:
315 - proud to be Blue last night, proud that so many have stood up to say we’re not going to take how Soriano has been treating us any more View attachment 151793
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Could have got my good side.........

Great turnout (not sure thats the right word) in South Level 3, plenty more than I thought would wait did so and it was fantastically typical City that we scored after 2 minutes.

Good luck today @Alex - City Matters and the rest its about time the suits up above take notice of us lot in the stands again
 
shemnel said:
i think a good next step would be multiple protest banners in every stand, a dozen, make a real fuss of them being confiscated. All unfurled at once at 5 mins to kick off.

and well done to good numbers taking part against Leicester. If it needs to be done again, so be it.
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I think its likely even more will join in if its repeated.
 
pride in battle said:
You should get a job on the city board with all that knowledge...oh wait...
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Go on then - tell us all what's incorrect about what he posted? Anyway, I'm surprised you've even got the neck to come on here this morning after the shite you were spouting on here yesterday, and given how it all went far better than you hoped. I wonder if you were as argumentative with the protestors inside the stadium as you were when hiding behind your keyboard on here.....
 
M18CTID said:
Go on then - tell us all what's incorrect about what he posted? Anyway, I'm surprised you've even got the neck to come on here this morning after the shite you were spouting on here yesterday, and given how it all went far better than you hoped. I wonder if you were as argumentative with the protestors inside the stadium as you were when hiding behind your keyboard on here.....
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If I felt as much apathy, as he clearly does, towards a protest, id probably avoid a thread that is solely about said protest.

I read each and every post of his, and a few others, yesterday dismissing the protest and bit my tongue (keyboard) but fuck me coming onto the same thread again today talking the same bollocks shows exactly the type of person you're trying to communicate with.
 
Bentheblue said:
I think its likely even more will join in if its repeated.
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If the outcome of the meeting with City Matters is that the club are still going to put the prices up then I can see more match-goers joining in the next protest than not. Last night's numbers were far more impressive than I thought they would be and people have commented on here that some fans who didn't join are now wishing they had.
 
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