Away fans / tourists in home sections

fathellensbellend said:
I see people are saying the stewards did fuck all, well the steward on my block is usually a student, 10 stone wet through, probably on minimum wage, anyone who expects these kids to step in the line of fire are naive, I am with you, it’s on the club
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They are capable of calling for assistance aren't they?
 
If things go tits up in Turin then prices for Bruges will need to be down to the minimum to get a decent crowd in. I'm sure a lot who aren't on the CL scheme will watch on telly anyway.
Expect loads of cheap, multi-ticket offers to be available if we also mess up in Paris.
I'm confident we'll sort out our problems on the pitch, but I'm not confident we'll do it this season. Missing out on a top four place will impact our finances next season especially as we'll have some ridiculously low attendances for Thursday League games. I can't see us failing to get top six so we'll be in the TL if one of the top four wins either domestic cup.
 
mayo31 said:
For all the social media presence City fans have no one seems willing to call this out on those platforms

Cheeseman, Steven Mcwhatever, Big Steve, the McfcLads etc

They should be mentioning it more
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I don't think they want to draw attention to the fact that we have so many fans who won't attend CL games for whatever reason.
 
East Level 2 said:
They are capable of calling for assistance aren't they?
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what a group of 10 stone wet throughs dealing with it. The club don't give a fuck, Soriano has turned our ground into a theme park, so much so the experience is monumentally shite, but not content with that, they have also turned our peak away games into a theme park, our identity has been eroded to the point of no return. Season tickets unavailable for the next generation, tickets prices that are comparable to London, add in the fact there seems to be a game every 4 days the whole thing is unsustainable. From 2012 City had the opportunity to grab the lions share of the local support and secure the clubs future support for generations, instead their eyes lit up and saw pound signs and they target everyone except whom they should, the biggest irony is ticketing makes up about 10% of our revenue
 
fathellensbellend said:
what a group of 10 stone wet throughs dealing with it. The club don't give a fuck, Soriano has turned our ground into a theme park, so much so the experience is monumentally shite, but not content with that, they have also turned our peak away games into a theme park, our identity has been eroded to the point of no return. Season tickets unavailable for the next generation, tickets prices that are comparable to London, add in the fact there seems to be a game every 4 days the whole thing is unsustainable. From 2012 City had the opportunity to grab the lions share of the local support and secure the clubs future support for generations, instead their eyes lit up and saw pound signs and they target everyone except whom they should, the biggest irony is ticketing makes up about 10% of our revenue
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People forget where Soriano comes from.

Barcelona have been doing this for years. Anyone can get a ticket in that ground for any match. They do not care who is sat where and with who.

The other year some German club literally took over the Nou Camp.

I am surprised more that people did not see this coming years ago.

As for away tickets, the same mindset is there. They see it as a day out, not like we do. We see it as getting behind the team
 
fathellensbellend said:
what a group of 10 stone wet throughs dealing with it. The club don't give a fuck, Soriano has turned our ground into a theme park, so much so the experience is monumentally shite, but not content with that, they have also turned our peak away games into a theme park, our identity has been eroded to the point of no return. Season tickets unavailable for the next generation, tickets prices that are comparable to London, add in the fact there seems to be a game every 4 days the whole thing is unsustainable. From 2012 City had the opportunity to grab the lions share of the local support and secure the clubs future support for generations, instead their eyes lit up and saw pound signs and they target everyone except whom they should, the biggest irony is ticketing makes up about 10% of our revenue
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Perhaps they should get some of the bigger fuckers involved. Or are they only used outside.
 
mayo31 said:
Why would those guys be bothered

The club might be
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Because it highlights that plenty of City fans are watching on the telly, something we used to have a song about.
There will be rags, dippers and Tarquins laughing at our empty seats even though they themselves hardly ever go to watch their teams. The empty seats jibes upsets a lot of City fans and links with the piss taking about extending the ground when we can't fill the current capacity. We all know a lot of that criticism is bollocks, but fans don't want to draw attention to it.
The club knows what is going on and won't really care about alienating regular supporters until it impacts on revenue.
 
mayo31 said:
People forget where Soriano comes from.

Barcelona have been doing this for years. Anyone can get a ticket in that ground for any match. They do not care who is sat where and with who.

The other year some German club literally took over the Nou Camp.

I am surprised more that people did not see this coming years ago.

As for away tickets, the same mindset is there. They see it as a day out, not like we do. We see it as getting behind the team
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100% correct. Maybe the dynamic has completely changed, you have the dwindling old guard pining for the old experience and continually being marginalised and eventually walking away, while the new crap experience has become the norm. Not to worry though we are all getting a £10 food and drink voucher, problem solved.
 
Fan helpfully helped to find a new seat by being launched 3 rows onto my head in 304. not the most fun part of the game tbh
 
Tbilisi said:
Can see a lot more trouble in future as we will have a capacity we cant fill and more people from other clubs in home areas.

Liverpool and united will be carnage in the new stadium.
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Always dipper fans at the back of CBL3.
mayo31 said:
People forget where Soriano comes from.

Barcelona have been doing this for years. Anyone can get a ticket in that ground for any match. They do not care who is sat where and with who.

The other year some German club literally took over the Nou Camp.

I am surprised more that people did not see this coming years ago.

As for away tickets, the same mindset is there. They see it as a day out, not like we do. We see it as getting behind the team
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I think that was Eintract Frankfurt, they took about 30,000, mental.
 
Those old enough to remember before segregation may remember the ritual of "taking" their end - like at Coventry until the Coventry fans arrived for the 3.15 kick-off. Or walking round the pitch at half-time to the end we were attacking. Or Newcastle in 68. Or even post-segregation at Blackburn in 2000. One of my best experiences was in 69 at Atletico Bilbao (a 3-3 as it happens) with Bilbao fans offering wine (from a porro) to me at half-time.

The good old days. I've tried to give up being angry but I couldn't give two figs about Feyenoord fans in our "end" - what happened on the pitch was quite enough for the blood pressure.
 
I came back a bit late after half time and there were half a dozen Feyenord fans blocking my way to 209, singing their songs. I walked through them chanting City. No big deal

The stewards must have been aware of this and many other issues.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Least they will have enjoyed it then unlike the actual city fans there.

The club don’t give a fuck. The danger is all this nonsense with ticket prices and expanded stadium is there with the idea that they will be watching a team that is dining at the very top table. This season we are dining in a local cafe and unless that changes quickly, all these extras will drop off and won’t be replaced. You can’t keep raising revenue and not spending enough of it on players.

The club got complacent after the Haaland signing. They thought it was job done.
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I agree. We will have only grow with consistent success and that is not guaranteed at all.
 
Even throwing away a 3 goal lead didn’t make me that angry. The whole European Cup malarkey has lost its initial pizzazz for me. Think we’ve qualified for nearly 15 consecutive years now and there’s very little / no jeopardy until February. Even now, we’ll almost certainly make the play off thing. I go to every home game because I absolutely love going to the match and all that it entails- bevvy, laughs, piss taking, City, seeing mates etc.
I’m also very fortunate that I can afford my season ticket and all the cup games.
But increasingly more fans will sack off matches like last night due to the cost and the general ennui around such games.
Were it priced correctly (or even absurdly low) I’m still not certain we’d fill the place for games like last night.
There were a few away fans dotted around us last night. I’m too old to be arsed for a game like last night’s.
 
Vic said:
Those old enough to remember before segregation may remember the ritual of "taking" their end - like at Coventry until the Coventry fans arrived for the 3.15 kick-off. Or walking round the pitch at half-time to the end we were attacking. Or Newcastle in 68. Or even post-segregation at Blackburn in 2000. One of my best experiences was in 69 at Atletico Bilbao (a 3-3 as it happens) with Bilbao fans offering wine (from a porro) to me at half-time.

The good old days. I've tried to give up being angry but I couldn't give two figs about Feyenoord fans in our "end" - what happened on the pitch was quite enough for the blood pressure.
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Blood pressure being the main consideration these days :-)
 
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