City Matters thread

A few months ago, the Club advertised for applications to City Matters. As I understand it, the voting window will be opening soon. Despite my own public reservations around the governance of City Matters, the group is constituted by the Premier League Fan Engagement Standard and it's important that we elect strong candidates.

One of my own reflections from previous City Matters elections, including my own in late 2020, is that there is only a limited amount of information on offer to voting supporters. As such, I have organised a hustings session with this year's candidates. My hope is that this will both give the candidates a platform to speak with a broad audience, and also allow the wider supporter base to get to know them a little better before casting their ballot.

The session is scheduled to take place from 5:30pm on Monday. There are ten candidates in total, and each will have about twenty minutes to speak. That means that the session may go on for some time. There should be some time for audience questions. I've included the MS Teams link below for those interested.

By way of reminder, this year there are five categories up for election: Under 25, Families, Women's, Asian and Minority Ethnic, and Black and Minority Ethnic.

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Alex - City Matters said:
A few months ago, the Club advertised for applications to City Matters. As I understand it, the voting window will be opening soon. Despite my own public reservations around the governance of City Matters, the group is constituted by the Premier League Fan Engagement Standard and it's important that we elect strong candidates.

One of my own reflections from previous City Matters elections, including my own in late 2020, is that there is only a limited amount of information on offer to voting supporters. As such, I have organised a hustings session with this year's candidates. My hope is that this will both give the candidates a platform to speak with a broad audience, and also allow the wider supporter base to get to know them a little better before casting their ballot.

The session is scheduled to take place from 5:30pm on Monday. There are ten candidates in total, and each will have about twenty minutes to speak. That means that the session may go on for some time. There should be some time for audience questions. I've included the MS Teams link below for those interested.

By way of reminder, this year there are five categories up for election: Under 25, Families, Women's, Asian and Minority Ethnic, and Black and Minority Ethnic.

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What a good idea Alex. When I stood for election to City Matters, I would have loved to take part in a hustings and get my points across. I do think 20 mins each is way too long - maybe 5 mins on how and why the candidates became City fans and then another 5 on how they would approach the role?
Good luck anyway
 
Good work Alex!

Thankless task but you've always been there and put your head above the parapet

As an aside, none of those categories fit my demographic (60+ season ticket holder for five decades) which I'm guessing covers a significant proportion of City regulars and high points legacy supporters

Do we already have an elected representative for that demographic?
 
Alex - City Matters said:
A few months ago, the Club advertised for applications to City Matters. As I understand it, the voting window will be opening soon. Despite my own public reservations around the governance of City Matters, the group is constituted by the Premier League Fan Engagement Standard and it's important that we elect strong candidates.

One of my own reflections from previous City Matters elections, including my own in late 2020, is that there is only a limited amount of information on offer to voting supporters. As such, I have organised a hustings session with this year's candidates. My hope is that this will both give the candidates a platform to speak with a broad audience, and also allow the wider supporter base to get to know them a little better before casting their ballot.

The session is scheduled to take place from 5:30pm on Monday. There are ten candidates in total, and each will have about twenty minutes to speak. That means that the session may go on for some time. There should be some time for audience questions. I've included the MS Teams link below for those interested.

By way of reminder, this year there are five categories up for election: Under 25, Families, Women's, Asian and Minority Ethnic, and Black and Minority Ethnic.

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Hi Alex- will you still be on City Matters or will someone else be replacing you?
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
Good work Alex!

Thankless task but you've always been there and put your head above the parapet

As an aside, none of those categories fit my demographic (60+ season ticket holder for five decades) which I'm guessing covers a significant proportion of City regulars and high points legacy supporters

Do we already have an elected representative for that demographic?
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Yes.
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jrb said:
Voting is now open.

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2025 City Matters election - vote now!

Voting is officially open for the 2025 City Matters election
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I was going to try and spoil my paper as a protest vote but, there's nobody there who'd represent me anyway under those headings.

Alex has done a fantastic job and mentions to for a couple of others (Danny? and someone else whose name I can't remember) but, the rest of them seem treat it as a private club or are anonymous....yes ST rep I'm pointing at where you should be stood.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
Good work Alex!

Thankless task but you've always been there and put your head above the parapet

As an aside, none of those categories fit my demographic (60+ season ticket holder for five decades) which I'm guessing covers a significant proportion of City regulars and high points legacy supporters

Do we already have an elected representative for that demographic?
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Why would we, we're the ones the club can't make money out of.
 
I’ve cast my votes. I’m a bit surprised so many people want to be on City Matters given it seems a pretty thankless task.

At least City Matters stock has risen a bit lately with the deal on season cards / flexi-golds, cheaper tickets for Bournemouth as well at Alex’s good work representing fans.

I know a lot of good casework goes on by fans reps behind the scenes.
 
I have absolutely no clue who to vote for, no idea what they stand for and can't even find any write up on them?
 
One thing I noticed reading through the bios - and it might just have been my take - is we are running out of candidates who have done things to help fellow fans. There are exceptions to that
 
I just had a look through the bios and picked up on a comment from one of tbe black and mixed heritage candidates that she had been told black people should not support city. (Presumably by other black people)
I thought if anything it would be the opposite with Moss Side etc.
Interested whether anyone else has come across this.
 
Norman kneejerk said:
I just had a look through the bios and picked up on a comment from one of tbe black and mixed heritage candidates that she had been told black people should not support city. (Presumably by other black people)
I thought if anything it would be the opposite with Moss Side etc.
Interested whether anyone else has come across this.
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I saw that and thought it very odd given the history we have and how the NF never took root at City. I know Jahmal the other candidate and he is a top bloke and will be brilliant if he gets elected. His journalistic contacts might also help.
 
Norman kneejerk said:
I just had a look through the bios and picked up on a comment from one of tbe black and mixed heritage candidates that she had been told black people should not support city. (Presumably by other black people)
I thought if anything it would be the opposite with Moss Side etc.
Interested whether anyone else has come
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I think the rags seem to target areas with sizeable ethnic minorities for soccer camps etc. They do very little in their home town of Stretford.
Maybe that has an impact.

At the start of the current campaigning, racists tried to link themselves to the protests by posting pics of Blues on line, purely because of their ethnicity. To their credit the Foodbank, 1894, Trade Union Blues and Alex / City Matters made it clear that they didn’t want racists anywhere near the protests and all ethnicities were welcome.

People watching social media might not know this and mud can stick.

I’m not really a fan of more ethnicity groups on City Matters but I guess CM identified a need.
 
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