City Fans Leaving Early/Empty seats

You all know why everyone talks about empty seats in the media and it’s always us any other team evening the scum who closed stands and have 30k less in games different is those clubs never get on constantly talked about on the radio and in the papers.
 
EddieR said:
Really; where to start?
Firstly, let me address the matter of singing; Much of the away-fan singing, as it is when we are the away-fans, is almost choreographed, because we/they are a (relatively) small group gathered together. That gives the singing more impact and is easier to pick up on microphone than several disparate singing groups. I find that, when watching a tense game, mindless singing is a distraction. Most singing and chanting is initiated either by an urge to motivate the team or as a response to actions on the pitch. When the game is being played out in the careful, patient-approach way that we play most of the time then singing seems an irrelevance. The 'oohs' and 'ahhs' and shouts of encouragement when we attack at speed are loud and clear. You can only sing for 90 minutes, regardless of the state of the game, when you are totally canned up, and what else do travelling fans have to do?

Empty seats: The core of City fans are Manchester people who attend every game they can; season ticket holders attending the home league games and subscribing for the cup schemes. On top of this, with our success as a team, we are still in every competition going and games are coming thick and fast. Believe me, the time will come when, just like the plastics at the swamp, we will be a larger global entity and be inundated with wealthy-enough tourists paying homage to the brand 'City'. After all, a great proportion of the swamp-attendees are first-timers and once-in-a-lifetimers. If we remain a club supported significantly by a loyal, life-long, local fan-base, then we must accept that we will struggle to fill the stadium for the umpteenth home game in a fortnight, on a Tuesday evening. Some of you would also complain if the stadium was topped-up with tourists watching the action through the rear view of their I-phones.

Leaving early: If people want to leave early then what the hell? Personally I would never leave early, and that's not because I have an easy journey home. I would never leave early because I would have missed some of the most breath-taking and exhilarating moments in our season, or even our history. (I got home at 1.15 this morning, by the way, and I know others who had at least a further hour to add to their journeys).

A previous poster nailed it; Why are we concerned by what others might write or vocalise? We know how much we love City, that the fans in the stadium are 'proper fans' not supplemented by voyeuristic tourists, that we always sell our away ticket allocation, and that we have the best, most loyal fans in the league. Be strong Blues!
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Nobody mentions the empty stand at the Swamp in the FA Cup. The rags do their best to ensure the cameras don’t show it. They have empty seats at all Cup games. Also - the media avoid mentioning the fact that the poor rag fans HAVE to buy home tickets for FA & European games.

Our attendances for cup games are voluntary and, as such, are are good & on the increase but don’t let facts get in the way of rag biased reporting. It was the only thing talhshite’s Goldstein’s has to hit us with last night.
 
I'm not sure what the issue is but regular seasoncard holders don't tend to go to the League Cup games.
I sat in block 128 for 15 years and rarely saw the regulars near me at a LC match. The guy in front hardly ever missed and he lives in Worcester. I was lucky that I had a well paid job that finished at a reasonable time so that I could get to the game.
Why didn't they go? I always thought it was apathy.

Now we have been moved into the corporate-lite of 93:20. On our row the regulars are there week in week out but last night our row and the one in front was empty of about 20 seats blocked together. Why weren't they there?
Cost I hear some of you say, well it wasn't cost as the ticket for last night was included in the price.
Distance maybe? I don't know them well enough to know where they're from, except the lad next to me is from Warrington.

So if it's not cost and it isn't distance it can only be apathy.
And it got to me as well, sat there on an empty row. Went down for a pint at half time and didn't bother coming back up, so stayed in the bar.
 
CC1 said:
Nobody mentions the empty stand at the Swamp in the FA Cup. The rags do their best to ensure the cameras don’t show it. They have empty seats at all Cup games. Also - the media avoid mentioning the fact that the poor rag fans HAVE to buy home tickets for FA & European games.

Our attendances for cup games are voluntary and, as such, are are good & on the increase but don’t let facts get in the way of rag biased reporting. It was the only thing talhshite’s Goldstein’s has to hit us with last night.
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The Dipper derby had an empty top-tier, Tottenham barely half-filled Wembley for their league derby last week too.
 
whatever way we dress it up last night was embarrassing, we are getting laughed at in the media, slaughtered all over social media. This is our best ever team, we are playing in a cup semi final and there were swathes of empty seats everywhere, our support was far better when we were in Div 2, I'm fucking ill with the way our support is being portrayed these days.
 
squirtyflower said:
I'm not sure what the issue is but regular seasoncard holders don't tend to go to the League Cup games.
I sat in block 128 for 15 years and rarely saw the regulars near me at a LC match. The guy in front hardly ever missed and he lives in Worcester. I was lucky that I had a well paid job that finished at a reasonable time so that I could get to the game.
Why didn't they go? I always thought it was apathy.

Now we have been moved into the corporate-lite of 93:20. On our row the regulars are there week in week out but last night our row and the one in front was empty of about 20 seats blocked together. Why weren't they there?
Cost I hear some of you say, well it wasn't cost as the ticket for last night was included in the price.
Distance maybe? I don't know them well enough to know where they're from, except the lad next to me is from Warrington.

So if it's not cost and it isn't distance it can only be apathy.
And it got to me as well, sat there on an empty row. Went down for a pint at half time and didn't bother coming back up, so stayed in the bar.
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The League Cup used to be the only thing we could win. Now, as Pep's selection last night suggests, if we happen to win it then fine but in the eyes of the club and plenty of fans now, winning a PL and CL double is more important than winning a quadruple including the League Cup. It doesn't appear to matter to the club or the manager so why should it matter to the fans?
 
BurnageBob said:
whatever way we dress it up last night was embarrassing, we are getting laughed at in the media, slaughtered all over social media. This is our best ever team, we are playing in a cup semi final and there were swathes of empty seats everywhere, our support was far better when we were in Div 2, I'm fucking ill with the way our support is being portrayed these days.
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It’s the only thing the media can “ laugh” at but our attendances are on the increase & are no worse than any other team’s - indeed, better than most
 
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