“City Matters” fan committee

[Danny Hoekman]

Have to agree with this. The club and city matters aren’t representing our fans at all on this

Also why on earth is Sam lee involved in any of this? Bizarre

So when did this covert meeting take place then? I assume Sam Lee just stoked the fires, as all he has gone on about for the last couple of weeks is his infatuation with anything Argentinian.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

So when did this covert meeting take place then? I assume Sam Lee just stoked the fires, as all he has gone on about for the last couple of weeks is his infatuation with anything Argentinian.

The Why Always Us’ podcast this week was a tedious listen. Basically just him going on about getting pissed in Argentina and going to a Harry Styles gig.

 

[Dodgy Gangster]

City Matters is obviously an ineffectual joke, well meaning narcissists with too much time on their hands trying to pretend they’re important being indulged by the club who can thereby pretend to be consulting the fans.

The piper calls the tune and the club will do what they want, everything else is a waste of time and danish pastries

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Turns out the ill fated meeting between the club and City Matters was all his idea
Absolutely fucking mind boggling

Why the hell would City agree to something that he suggests ? Has he ever written anything supportive or complentary of the club ? I don't remember seeing anything I would class as balanced in his pieces regarding us, so the mind indeed boggles.

Mis-judgement of epic proportions on behalf of our managent imo. Truly staggered by that

 

[mancityvstoke]

Looks like City Matters is now a Toxic brand

Time to get rid probably and get back to the old ways of listening to fans. Points of blue for example and attending supporters clubs meetings.

The disconnect between fans and the club widens every year.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Why the hell would City agree to something that he suggests ? Has he ever written anything supportive or complentary of the club ? I don't remember seeing anything I would class as balanced in his pieces regarding us, so the mind indeed boggles.

Mis-judgement of epic proportions on behalf of our managent imo. Truly staggered by that

The only two reasons I can possibly think of, is that they’re so out of touch with the fan base they don’t realise he’s not particularly popular with City fans, or, they realised had we not cooperated, then it would have given him/them Carte Blanche to report it negatively with us having no input, maybe we’re ‘keeping our enemies closer’ ?

 

[jrb]

Looks like City Matters is now a Toxic brand

Time to get rid probably and get back to the old ways of listening to fans. Points of blue for example and attending supporters clubs meetings.

The disconnect between fans and the club widens every year.

Those meetings were stopped by the club.

I remember going to one of the last ones.

TBH it was nothing more than City fans complaining about issues.

You could see by the faces and the body language of the City officials and directors listening to the constant complaints and answering the same questions that it was taking a toll on them. (not this same sh*t again, etc)

Once the meetings were stopped by the club, there was just silence from the club and no interaction between the club and the fans at all, which went down really badly with the fans. Then City came up with City Matters group. The rest is history.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Once the meetings were stopped by the club, there was just silence from the club and no interaction between the club and the fans at all, which went down really badly with the fans. Then City came up with City Matters group. The rest is history.

City came up with the City Matters group because the FA had said that all clubs should have direct contact with ALL supporters, not just official supporters groups, as I understood it at the time.

So basically City had to comply and their idea of compliance, which was actually a good idea at the time, was to come up with a City Matters group with representatives from all groups of supporters, or as many as possible.
What then seemed to happen was that the club did all the deciding and the fixing of agendas and what could be discussed from the way I heard it.
Monthly meetings with the minutes printed a week after the meeting was also promised and the minutes rarely seemed to happen. Or if they were they were hidden on the OS or somewhere that took forever to find. By the time you found them you had lost the will to live. ;-)

As for the points of view meetings, I also attended them and when I first started attending them they were interesting and varied. Plus most times we had either a player or the manager attending as well.
I attended the famous (or infamous depending on point of view) meeting where Mancini was asked about what he would do about the Stretford lot and their banner, he promised to drive the bus over the Mancunian way himself to tear it down!! :-)
(I have a photo of me with Mancini, as we arrived at the venue at the same time. The then Eccles branch secretary asked him if he would mind, I would never have asked. Not cheeky enough. Same as when VK was standing right next to me on his last match and everyone was asking and I was too 'shy'!)

The last couple of them did start to get tedious but a lot of that seemed to be down to the fact that people took their complaints there instead of to their supporter branches if I read it correctly. Most of the 'problems' could have been sorted by the OSC. My humble reading of the situation at the time. :-)

Therefore it wasn't really City's idea but the FA diktat surely?

 

[Corky]

City came up with the City Matters group because the FA had said that all clubs should have direct contact with ALL supporters, not just official supporters groups, as I understood it at the time.

So basically City had to comply and their idea of compliance, which was actually a good idea at the time, was to come up with a City Matters group with representatives from all groups of supporters, or as many as possible.
What then seemed to happen was that the club did all the deciding and the fixing of agendas and what could be discussed from the way I heard it.
Monthly meetings with the minutes printed a week after the meeting was also promised and the minutes rarely seemed to happen. Or if they were they were hidden on the OS or somewhere that took forever to find. By the time you found them you had lost the will to live. ;-)

As for the points of view meetings, I also attended them and when I first started attending them they were interesting and varied. Plus most times we had either a player or the manager attending as well.
I attended the famous (or infamous depending on point of view) meeting where Mancini was asked about what he would do about the Stretford lot and their banner, he promised to drive the bus over the Mancunian way himself to tear it down!! :-)
(I have a photo of me with Mancini, as we arrived at the venue at the same time. The then Eccles branch secretary asked him if he would mind, I would never have asked. Not cheeky enough. Same as when VK was standing right next to me on his last match and everyone was asking and I was too 'shy'!)

The last couple of them did start to get tedious but a lot of that seemed to be down to the fact that people took their complaints there instead of to their supporter branches if I read it correctly. Most of the 'problems' could have been sorted by the OSC. My humble reading of the situation at the time. :-)

Therefore it wasn't really City's idea but the FA diktat surely?

UEFA made SLOs mandatory in 2012 for clubs in their comps, but they have different roles at different clubs. Not much is heard from our SLO.

All supporters isn't just 10 people with their own interests and ideas.

 

[Eccles Blue]

UEFA made SLOs mandatory in 2012 for clubs in their comps, but they have different roles at different clubs. Not much is heard from our SLO.

All supporters isn't just 10 people with their own interests and ideas.

I realise that it isn't just 10 people but they were elected by the fans, those fans who voted anyway.