Ade Durham on Talksport

[Didsbury Dave]

I’m going to disagree.

I’ve never seen so many youngsters with City shirts on particularly with Haaland on the back.

I heard a lad call a little girl wearing a City top a cheat a while ago. She said yeah well your team is just crap and the lad had no comeback as the rest of her mates laughed at him.

Kids don’t care about court cases. Winners are always unpopular with rival fans in the UK. United were the team with no Mancunians…so what? Kids choose winners when they pick their team round about the age of 7. It’s ages since I’ve seen a rag shirt on a kid and they used to be everywhere.

Thats just in the UK. As you know the UK is a tiny part of the global market. As a recent example @Ric posted how City are the most watched team in the USA.

Our fan base is increasing faster than just about any other club in the World.

Don't believe the lies. It’s jealousy and it isn’t working.

It’s difficult to know the truth of the true impact. I don’t live in Manchester any more, I live in West Yorkshire, and while there are more City shirts around I’m not convinced it’s as many as a team as dominant as ours should be getting. Globally I agree with you but I know my lads are hit with a barrage of shit on social media, a lot of it is outright lies. I also read today that Spurs are selling more shirts than us.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Really.... so how does it work then?
I do believe we have the fastest growing fan base worldwide, is that down to recruitment policy.?

I have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[Blueboy73]

A bit difficult while that permanent smirk is nailed onto his face.

Probably pissed afrer refusing another breath test It's a prerequisite for working on that shitstain of a station.

 

[Mike N]

I don't get all this suckholing of Durham. He's a ****, albeit a lesser one than most in the media.

Sort of how I feel. Not listened to TS for years.

‘Suckholing’ made me laugh, not heard it in years!

 

[Tim of the Oak]

It’s difficult to know the truth of the true impact. I don’t live in Manchester any more, I live in West Yorkshire, and while there are more City shirts around I’m not convinced it’s as many as a team as dominant as ours should be getting. Globally I agree with you but I know my lads are hit with a barrage of shit on social media, a lot of it is outright lies. I also read today that Spurs are selling more shirts than us.

It might be different in West Yorkshire Dave, where Leeds are still on a popularity and high and the bin dippers have convinced Asian communities that Liverpool is some sort of anti racism utopia. That said, our fitness in the West Yorks OSC Branch are seeing strong membership growth.

In North Yorkshire, City support is booming:

City mania hits Harrogate as hundreds queue to see trophies - The Stray Ferret

Hundreds of mainly Manchester City fans flocked to Starbeck last night to see the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cp trophies.

thestrayferret.co.uk

 

[Tim of the Oak]

It’s difficult to know the truth of the true impact. I don’t live in Manchester any more, I live in West Yorkshire, and while there are more City shirts around I’m not convinced it’s as many as a team as dominant as ours should be getting. Globally I agree with you but I know my lads are hit with a barrage of shit on social media, a lot of it is outright lies. I also read today that Spurs are selling more shirts than us.

There’s been a table printed where Spurs are in the top for shirt sales and merchandising and Coty aren’t. Knowledgable people have questioned whether the information is out there to
Produce such a table and what time period is it for. I don’t know enough about the availability of merchandising sales to say whether comparable info between clubs is available.

IIRC, City shirt sales doubled in Haaland’s first season. Match day membership sales have doubled in the last 18 months. OSC membership has risen by about 70% in the last 18 months and we now have 398 Branches. We are going in the right direction.

 

[mayo31]

There’s been a table printed where Spurs are in the top for shirt sales and merchandising and Coty aren’t. Knowledgable people have questioned whether the information is out there to
Produce such a table and what time period is it for. I don’t know enough about the availability of merchandising sales to say whether comparable info between clubs is available.

IIRC, City shirt sales doubled in Haaland’s first season. Match day membership sales have doubled in the last 18 months. OSC membership has risen by about 70% in the last 18 months and we now have 398 Branches. We are going in the right direction.

These branches outside of the UK should only get access to home match tickets in my very humble opinion

No way should someone from Arkansas get access to an away ticket but they do

That is one thing that pisses me off

 

[Tim of the Oak]

These branches outside of the UK should only get access to home match tickets in my very humble opinion

No way should someone from Arkansas get access to an away ticket but they do

That is one thing that pisses me off

That’s the view of most of the U.K. Branches lol That said, we were selling out Copenhagen when Utd couldn’t sell out Young Boys because of long standing Blues in the Scandinavian Branch. Many of them have been going for 50 years. They deserve their share as long as there is an OSc allocation.

This topic is about Durham’s comments on Talkshite btw. I know tickets are hard to come by for Liverpool away so like the Derby Bkues get focussed on tickets. I just use my points so I’ve missed out on Liverpool away when I normally got one if the game moved to a Sunday. I don’t begrudge all the pull through tickets and 18-25 allocation who are the future of the Club

 

[Didsbury Dave]

There’s been a table printed where Spurs are in the top for shirt sales and merchandising and Coty aren’t. Knowledgable people have questioned whether the information is out there to
Produce such a table and what time period is it for. I don’t know enough about the availability of merchandising sales to say whether comparable info between clubs is available.

IIRC, City shirt sales doubled in Haaland’s first season. Match day membership sales have doubled in the last 18 months. OSC membership has risen by about 70% in the last 18 months and we now have 398 Branches. We are going in the right direction.

WE are definitely going in the right direction, I know that. Great to see that turnout in Harrogate.

 

[VOOMER]

How do you know it's affecting our recruitment of young fans.?
Wasn't aware we had a recruitment policy...

It will have some affect, we have some excellent interaction with the community. Its a bit off a hearts and minds and the vast majority of kids are decent and kind natured when given the chance.