Away fans / tourists in home sections

[jrb]

Yet across Europe atmospheres at football matches are remaining stable, thriving, and improving.

 

[Whether or not]

I gave up on the club caring about us after their total silence after the Istanbul car park debacle.

I can’t fucking stand Liverpool but their club would have stuck up for their fans in that situation, massively!

If I could like that comment ten times I would. My view of our club (or is executives) changed significantly off the back of that cover up. I still go, I will always be a blue, but I am under no illusions as to way match going supporters are viewed.

 

[Cellarite]

Someone needs to do something. It's about time proper fans stood together .
Clubs need to realise without fans football is shite

They had months of it with Covid and look where we are. The only way to make the point is to hit them in the pocket and stay away.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Not sure that’s fair

There are problems with ticketing. People getting tickets ahead of ‘real fans’ - though when we were shit (the last time:-) how many people took in a European game on holiday to experience something we couldn’t get at home? We’re box office and an event now and so demand is a different challenge. It’s going to happen and arguably with expansions, happen more and be encouraged more. That’s in pursuit of more fans. The debate about local fans is a different argument but many could have gone on Tuesday and didn’t. Nothing wrong with that, but we can’t have empty stadiums either - which is why owners and directors are paid to make decisions, not people on forums, however much fun and good debate they are. Take a thread, use ‘consensus’ to make a decision and watch c50%immediately disagree. Depends where you’ve worked but the top directors do listen, take stock, prioritise and make employee and customer based decisions with a balanced lens. That’s why City have won everything while we debate our way through 10,000s of pages. That and people too close become too entitled, too opinionated and become blockers of progress. We mock ‘It Means More’ and refer to cults. Mainly spelt as cults. Those people can’t make the same decisions as directors

There wasn’t the same demand for Tuesday as a league game. It was a relatively cheap offer. So inviting schools seemed a good idea. It’s more on them to be respectful. But that’s a societal issue. One our owners have invested unbelievably in, considering local community improvement and CITC

Top players, managers, staff and facilities need paying for. The match day experience overall is fine. Queues could be reduced at the bars but they try different things, especially for families. I grew up at Maine Road, it was amazing. But it was a different kind of amazing where I stood with 19k blues with passion and connection with a team that won nothing bar a Shamrock Trophy. Hindsight gets filtered through a romantic sepia lens but our recent past has offered a better fan experience. It will become more remote and connection will be lost but we’re global now and not looking forward to a crunch match with Bury at Gigg Lane.

That isn’t not listening - making City great, winning things and delivering experiences most fans have never known would be top of most responses to that letter. Of course it can improve and sense check on if we’re drifting from what made us City. But it feels like he’s delivering overall to me.

That's a really good point regarding attending European games when we were shite.

I saw Barca v AC Milan, Real Madrid v Dortmund and Werder Bremen v Barca

It was easy to get tickets and I remember meeting other English football fans.
I certainly don't recall any hassle because I'd taken a regular home fan's ticket.

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

They had months of it with Covid and look where we are. The only way to make the point is to hit them in the pocket and stay away.

I am doing

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

The point people are making is that bigger isn't necessarily better, the club IMHO seems a lot more distant from the fans right now.

People saying that's the way it is are just capitulating, it needs to change.

I agree completely but equally I think our rivals have exactly the same problem

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

Fair comment. The crowds and atmosphere was very poor for most of the 1980s with half empty stadiums. It was still a great excuse for an all-day piss-up with your mates though. Football has become more sanitised and global but so has the rest of the Western World. For me watching City is still a great pleasure. Funnily enough I think the fanbase has got younger in recent years though obviously not as fanatical. I don't blame those fans who don't enjoy the modern-day reality of PL football. But the truth is there are still plenty of new fans who will fill their seats when they quit. I am not sure what the long-term solution is but I support the campaign on ticket prices for starters.

Oh yes I definitely agree about any scheme that makes it cheaper and more accessible for our younger fans.

I just feel that away fans in our end (the subject for this thread) is usually more visible in the CL which for whatever reason, isn't a popular competition amongst our traditional hardcore fanbase

 

[fathellensbellend]

Just had an email from City about my daughters concession ticker for the game against Forest, how i must bring ID, what the actual fuck, what happened to the days of free upgrades for hard sell midweekers.

 

[levets]

What was the official attendance? The upper south stand was half empty!!!

47,011

 

[manclad]

Just had an email from City about my daughters concession ticker for the game against Forest, how i must bring ID, what the actual fuck, what happened to the days of free upgrades for hard sell midweekers.

I wouldn't worry too much about ID for your daughter pal.
I get an email before every home game warning me that I may get asked to proof my age ( to confirm that I am entitled to an over 65 ticket) and i haven't been asked to show my driving licence or pensioners bus pass yet.

 

[chaddblue]

Just had an email from City about my daughters concession ticker for the game against Forest, how i must bring ID, what the actual fuck, what happened to the days of free upgrades for hard sell midweekers.

Ignore it. They never ask

 

[JGL07]

Just had an email from City about my daughters concession ticker for the game against Forest, how i must bring ID, what the actual fuck, what happened to the days of free upgrades for hard sell midweekers.

It goes out for every match to those on Senior Season Tickets. They never check. The queues would be unsustainable if they did.

 

[Stephen230]

Yes, it’s a standard email for all concessions. I get one every game for my junior tickets.

They clearly can’t even be arsed having a different template for different categories of concessions. As the junior ones state that a driving licence is fine.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

This is what makes me laugh when people bang on here about getting lapsed blues to come back. Once you pack in the routine it’s gone forever.

Some good posts above about supporting City at Maine Road as kids. The buzz that got us all hooked. Very different for kids these days.

The simple fact is the people running the club have fucked up growing the club in this country. 4 in a row should see us sold out every game - we might be growing overseas but we have shrunk in the UK.

It’s a textbook example on how disengaging completely with the local supporters results in where we are now.

Shame on everybody involved - monumental fuck up.

shrunk in the UK? nahhh

Restricted newer fans or local fans coming to the games due to cost of tickets? YES sir

 

[Prophet of Doom]

Yes, it’s a standard email for all concessions. I get one every game for my junior tickets.

They clearly can’t even be arsed having a different template for different categories of concessions. As the junior ones state that a driving licence is fine.

Good to see our new ticket compliance officer is busy getting to the crux of the biggest ticket problems.

No doubt he will be missing in action on Sunday when there will loads of complaints about how the fuck were there loads of non City supporters and even LFC fans in the away end at Anfield.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Good to see our new ticket compliance officer is busy getting to the crux of the biggest ticket problems.

No doubt he will be missing in action on Sunday when there will loads of complaints about how the fuck were there loads of non City supporters and even LFC fans in the away end at Anfield.

Like lots of these non-jobs, just a box ticking exercise in the main, catch a few innocent & easy targets, don't look at where we all know the real issue is etc.

Trouble is our view of what the real issue is isn't what the clubs is.

At the end of the day if he/she does fuck all else their appraisal will show the target of informing all concessional tickets holders to bring proof, just in case will be enough to satisfy a major objective on the job spec.

So £xx per year salary to improve fuck all basically but, as I say plenty of boxes ticked all round.

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

Good to see our new ticket compliance officer is busy getting to the crux of the biggest ticket problems.

No doubt he will be missing in action on Sunday when there will loads of complaints about how the fuck were there loads of non City supporters and even LFC fans in the away end at Anfield.

Maybe he should ask himself why staff members regardless of who they support can go into a ballot for away tickets. They can use them themselves or give them to whoever they want. Now let's hypothetically assume a dipper works for us but hasn't declared that as there is no reason to do so and enters the ballot for tomorrow's game and gets two tickets. As long as they behave themselves then the club will do nothing.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Some Serious trouble at West Ham. Arsenal fans/ tourists buying up lots of tickets and openly celebrating goals.

This is going to lead to something bad

 

[.db.]

Some Serious trouble at West Ham. Arsenal fans/ tourists buying up lots of tickets and openly celebrating goals.

This is going to lead to something bad

Very nearly happened in 106 in the Arsenal game earlier this season when four Arsenal fans jumped up for their first goal.

It actually did happen in the Family Stand of all places in the same game, with reports of an Arsenal fan getting in the face of a City supporting kid when he celebrated so his Dad lamped the ****.

 

[Matty M24blue]

Some Serious trouble at West Ham. Arsenal fans/ tourists buying up lots of tickets and openly celebrating goals.

This is going to lead to something bad

The tribal aspect of football hasn’t gone away it’s been very tightly policed. Sitting and celebrating in the home end shouldn’t even constitute an investigation. You run the gauntlet and if your caught expect to pay the price.

It’s quite literally one of the only things in English football we have that differs us from Europe that the home end is for home fans only. These YouTube clips etc don’t show these glory chasing fans this.

Just wait for that feral mob from today to come to ours if they are on for the title just like rats they get everywhere…