CITY: SHOWSEC, Atmosphere, & Blatant Bullying.

[Shirley]

A simple but effective protest would be for the full block to get up and go and stand on the concourse at kick off.
It would get the attention of the club and certainly showsec.

For clarity I mean when the whistle blows to start the game, not kick off as in aggro!!

 

[paulchapo]

Can't see a billionaire businessman who is the right hand man for sheikh mansour and heads up multiple multi-national businesses wanting to speak to fans of probably the least profitable of all of the businesses because a few dozen of them are pissed off.

Then he is not as clever as he is made out to be. Football without emotion and fans is nothing. Would millions around the globe watch it if it was played to empty stadiums? The club keep on hammering out the # together motto, let him show it!

 

[mancityvstoke]

They backed off last time....not sure why they are at it again.
http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/trouble-in-the-east-stand.236394/


Wardle stopped the showsec shit in the Key 103 stand (sth Stand) in the early days....that was after I gate crashed a POB meeting to tell him I'd been arrested

 

[jrb]

You said it was because of a minority but it wasn't. It was the feeling of the majority, not just within our club but generally.

No, I said the minority were the start of the discontent. Once that discontent spread through word of mouth, social media, media platforms, etc, then it became a majority shit storm.

At first the club didn't listen to the minority, but when the minority became the majority, the club had no choice but to listen.

What the minority want on here, and a growing minority want inside the stadium, is for the club to change it's current heavy handed policy towards City fans who are standing, and to make Showsec step down.

And your problem with that is what?

I can stomach a £4+ pint. I can stomach going to queue up 10 minutes before half-time to get a pint because the service is poor. I can stomach being searched, frisked, and scanned, even though I'm never going to blow myself up, along with other city fans. I can stomach the contrived matchday experience. I can stomached continual season ticket price rises to a point. I can stomach the 'matchday experience'. I can stomach everything investment and success has brought City. And to Sheikh Mansour I will be forever grateful. But what I can't and won't stomach is City, our club, sending in Showsec, to pick on, to bully, to harass, to intimidate, to drag out, and to ban individual and selected City fans for standing, regardless of their age, while all around them hundreds of other City fans are also standing, and aren't' suffering the same fate. If you are happy with that, and with the current and on-going situation, then..........

 

[80s Shorts]

No, I said the minority were the start of the discontent. Once that discontent spread through word of mouth, social media, media platforms, etc, then it became a majority shit storm.

At first the club didn't listen to the minority, but when the minority became the majority, the club had no choice but to listen.

What the minority want on here, and a growing minority want inside the stadium, is for the club to change it's current heavy handed policy towards City fans who are standing, and to make Showsec step down.

And your problem with that is what?

I can stomach a £4+ pint. I can stomach going to queue up 10 minutes before half-time to get a pint because the service is poor. I can stomach being searched, frisked, and scanned, even though I'm never going to blow myself up, along with other city fans. I can stomach the contrived matchday experience. I can stomached continual season ticket price rises to a point. I can stomached the 'matchday experience'. I can stomach everything investment and success has brought City. And to Sheikh Mansour I will be forever grateful. But what I can't and won't stomach is City, our club, sending in Showsec, to pick on, to bully, to harass, to intimidate, to drag out, and to ban individual and selected City fans for standing, regardless of their age, while all around them hundreds of other City fans are also standing, and aren't' suffering the same fate. If you are happy with that, and with the current and on-going situation, then..........

If this is happening as regularly and as ostensibly as you imply, where are all these bullied and banned individuals. Do they simply vanish into the night ?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

If this is happening as regularly and as ostensibly as you imply, where are all these bullied and banned individuals. Do they simply vanish into the night ?

One's been posting on here. In fact it's the first post in the thread.

I'm not sure why you're trying to make people out as liars but you can stop now. Log off and go to bed.

 

[Why Always Ste]

I don't even think Safe Standing would have a big impact on the atmosphere if it where to be introduced tomorrow as I feel its gone past this stage now and its more of a cultural issue.
Fans at away games will tend to do drink/drugs more and being amongst friends will relax and sing.

Whereas the same faces at an home game will be more sober, sat beside their Mrs with the kids on tow.
Nothing wrong with this, I just feel it has a significant role in the atmosphere for most home fans at matches throughout the country.

Safe standing combined with the ability to congregate with likeminded/friends would improve atmosphere but this is where Health & Safety jobsworths object.

The stadium is ever slightly increasing in more daytrippers and families.
This is what the club wants as a business.
Single blokes pissed up having a party with their mates?
No thanks as its a policing nightmare.

I'd much rather be in a stadium full of genuine football supporters all creating atmosphere but like I said the club and H&S Depts. Don't want to deal with that.

Just have to wait for Mansour to build a time machine and then I can go back to the 60's/70's/80's and enjoy the atmosphere

 

[andyhinch]

One's been posting on here. In fact it's the first post in the thread.

I'm not sure why you're trying to make people out as liars but you can stop now. Log off and go to bed.

I think part of the problem is people feeling intimidated into not standing and supporting the club as the they're used to, no wonder the atmosphere isn't all it could be

 

[jrb]

If this is happening as regularly and as ostensibly as you imply, where are all these bullied and banned individuals. Do they simply vanish into the night ?

Haven't you been reading the thread?

Haven't you seen it with your own eyes inside the stadium, especially in 109?

As long as you're blissfully happy with everything that's going on at City ATM, then I won't waste your or my time any further. Obviously you're exactly the type of City fan the people running the club want.

Night.

 

[80s Shorts]

One's been posting on here. In fact it's the first post in the thread.

I'm not sure why you're trying to make people out as liars but you can stop now. Log off and go to bed.

You have accused me of trolling and calling people liars. I have done neither. You used to do regularly both. I have been trying to say that this seems to me to be being blown out of all proportion.

You log off and go to bed, I have done nothing but give my opinion in a reasonable manner.