Did anyone else notice on Sunday that when we sang the Pellegrini song, we got a sort of acknowledgement from him with a limply raised arm? First time I've seen him do that.
Whatever faults Mancini had, he certainly knew how to work an audience.
West Ham have sold 52,000 season tickets for next season, will have a 60,000 capacity and have made a request to install another 6,000 seats for 2017-18.
There's a reason for that. They haven't taken the piss out of their fans and have introduced a family season ticket for two adults and two children for £500.
A kid's ticket is just £90.
There is absolutely no excuses that our ownership can't afford to compete at that level.
The disconnect between club & fan has a great amount to do with a squad of players who couldn't care less about the fans. It's become obvious, and has been obvious for a number of years now, and it contributed to the walkout on Sunday. No passion & no connection, two major issues that I think Pep will go some way to dealing with. Not because he's a miracle man, but because I think it's in his character to bring passion and connection back to the club, and he'll do this by, amongst other methods, ridding the club of the players that need to go and changing the mindset of the players that stay.
With 5 PL teams in London (Watford not included) there is potentially 2.8 million fans per team.The London metropolitan area has a population of 14 million people.
The Manchester metropolitan area population is 2.8 million people.
I suspect that the disposable income of the southerners is significantly higher than ours too.
So I agree with you; expand the stadium to 60,000 asap and price it sensibly.
This is probably the only way we can compete with London in future.
Players that barley acknowledge the fans, a once a season address from the Chairman and a CEO and DoF that are largely anonymous.
As good as they may be in their positions, there certainly needs to be a lot of work done reconnecting with the fans. Lip service, tick box schemes and surveys are transparent and merely serve to alienate rather than generate inclusivity. Perhaps, and understandably, the lack of identity with the area from those at the top is an issue and outsourcing to highly professional firms is only good if those firms fully understand the club, the Manchester City fan and Manchester. I really do feel that there is a well of untapped talent in the fanbase that the club should be tapping into and at least consulting.
There seems to be a tendancy to appeal to worlwide fans in a manner that waters down our identity. This needn't be so, we would attract more fans by remaining true to our roots and our Mancunian attitude and identity rather than whoring ourselves out with streile, generic marketing. Designer brands do this to great success - concentrating on the core and making people buy into it rather than the other way.
No Mancunian would ever have santioned "We play for you".
With 5 PL teams in London (Watford not included) there is potentially 2.8 million fans per team.
That is twice as many as we can possible get even assuming it is a 50/50 split between us and the other lot.
Tottenham, West Ham and Arsenal will all have bigger capacities than us and Chelsea are also planning to go above us.
Getting in the top four in future years is not going to be easy.
Players that barely acknowledge the fans, a once a season address from the Chairman and a CEO and DoF that are largely anonymous.
As good as they may be in their positions, there certainly needs to be a lot of work done reconnecting with the fans. Lip service, tick box schemes and surveys are transparent and merely serve to alienate rather than generate inclusivity. Perhaps, and understandably, the lack of identity with the area from those at the top is an issue and outsourcing to highly professional firms is only good if those firms fully understand the club, the Manchester City fan and Manchester. I really do feel that there is a well of talent in the fanbase that the club should be tapping into or at least consulting.
There seems to be a tendancy to appeal to worldwide fans in a manner that waters down our identity; this needn't be so, we would attract more fans by remaining true to our roots and our Mancunian attitude and identity rather than whoring ourselves out with streile, generic marketing. Designer brands do this to great success - concentrating on the core and making people buy into it rather than the other way round.
No Mancunian would ever have santioned "We play for you".
Are the board even aware though of this? Theres obviously alot of fans feeling the same way.
Are the board even aware though of this? Theres obviously alot of fans feeling the same way.
Why do prostitutes love consultants as customers?
Because they never actually do anything but sit on the edge of the bed and tell them how great it is going to be.
West Ham have sold 52,000 season tickets for next season, will have a 60,000 capacity and have made a request to install another 6,000 seats for 2017-18.
There's a reason for that. They haven't taken the piss out of their fans and have introduced a family season ticket for two adults and two children for £500.
A kid's ticket is just £90.
There is absolutely no excuses that our ownership can't afford to compete at that level.
West Ham have a big shiny new stadium to fill, see how those tickets go in a couple of years.....also we sell out but with S/C's si cheap some fans don't bother with some games, this would probably get worse if the tickets went cheaper.Spot on Tolm's . If we did that, the stadium would be full every game, great atmosphere and getting ready to build the extension to the North Stand.
It's crazy.
That's a very good point and one that hadn't really occurred to me before.'Consultation' probably isn't a word and/or concept that has figured large in the lives of our owners and they are also probably not used to shows of open dissent.