ok. some background here :
44,729 people viewed the statement on 1894 facebook in 24 hours alone. tons of comments afterwards and mails ito 1894. 156 shares of the article. also article went round the world, evening news, goal.com (55m worldwide followers), mailonline (biggest audience for an online paper), journos like henry winter tweeting about it. various surveys on facebook about it. guess what, the bluemoon clique isn't the only forum out there - there's actually life outside this bubble. w've had chats with the official supporters club, king of rthe kippax, city watch forum, mcfc forum, spirit of shankly and sought the inside track of what we have to do to move things along.
support for a walk out maybe 10% tops and even then that doesn't mean 10% would walk out. the media coverage we are getting for this is huge and we know it has reached the top of the club. by the top we mean ferran soriano, simon pearce. that's where the decisions on ticket prices are made. to get guys like this to change their minds and reverse the trends of constant rises you have to make them take notice. 200-300 people tops walking out at various bocks of the ground can't be noticed. 5-10,000 would and if the City fans were gonna do that we would definitely say let's do it.
we may get one chance to do a walk out and it cannot fail. you have to represent a majority not a minority.
but look what's been said. we have said some people will want to walk out. so rather than dismiss them we have said Blues, show some understanding, they want to do it.
we've won the moral argument. media is putting club under pressure. we have had no contact from club. our point of contact is away skiing til Tuesday and there are various levels of hierarchy above that person.
if they did try and put pressure on us, we would go public with that and that would then play into our hands and opinion would then allow us to go further. we are saying don't raise prices any more or people will walk away from this club. that's the message people want us to deliver to the club. if they fall into the trap and ignore the fans, then we know more people will back stronger action.
fans are more likely to not go to the psg game than walk out half an hour early v west brom. what we want is the solution that actually delivers what we want. Pearce and Soriano won't budge if 200 walk out but they will if 20,000 walk out and if/when City fans are seriously ready to do that we can make that happen. what we can't have is threads like this ending up 200 300 pages of bluster an chit chat and then at the end of it nothing happens. we said in statement one SOME FANS WANT A WALK OUT. We put that in 1) to guarantee media attention and 2) to gauge response from fans on it. so we've done your job for you. we have ever promised a walk out. we seek opinion first.
Liverpool walk out was culmination of 13 months of anger over various issues, £77 tickets for league games the tipping point
