"Disappointing" attendances

[Deleted member 77198]

I can see why people might decide not to attend etc, but it is an affliction that doesn’t seem to affect Liverpool Utd, or Chelsea. I accept that Chelsea have a much smaller stadium, but those clubs that, like us, have a history of regular trophies, would not in my opinion suffer from the type of piss poor turnout that City endured last night.

When the Icelandic Ash Cloud hit Northern Europe ten years ago, Liverpool played West Ham in front of 37,697.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8620335.stm

When there was a bomb threat at Old Trafford and they had to rearrange their fixture against Bournemouth, there were no more than about 45,000 there.

I’m disappointed with our turn-out last night, I thought it was piss poor. But never forget that the same thing happens at clubs with hundreds of millions of fans!

The proper core local support of any big club falls around 35-45,000. The rest is made up of out-of-towners and nobodies.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

The lack of numbers didn’t stop the players doing their job. I have always thought the link between atmosphere and results was overstated.

Disagree, it has a huge impact - hence why teams generally have much more wins at home, than away....

 

[cleavers]

Half term and a rearranged game

...with 7 days notice, a lot probably working and would find it hard to change in that time frame. I've travelled nearly 800 miles to watch that game, was up for the weekend for the original game, and still managed last night as I luckily wasn't working. A weekend game with 6+ months notice is easy to sell out, a weekday game with 7 days notice nigh on impossible, I don't understand why people can't work that out for themselves.

I'll bet the biggest moaners are the ones who weren't there, and didn't like how it looked on TV.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

When the Icelandic Ash Cloud hit Northern Europe ten years ago, Liverpool played West Ham in front of 37,697.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8620335.stm

When there was a bomb threat at Old Trafford and they had to rearrange their fixture against Bournemouth, there were no mor than about 45,000 there

I’m disappointed with our turn-out last night, I thought it was piss poor. But never forget that the same thing happens at clubs with hundreds of millions of fans!

Pulling out random examples from 10 years ago, does not necessarily correlate in my opinion. We do have an issue with attendances on a more regular basis than I would like.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Pulling out random examples from 10 years ago, does not necessarily correlate in my opinion. We do have an issue with attendances on a more regular basis than I would like.

They aren’t random examples. They are exact examples at the very clubs mentioned in the post I replied to. One being just four years ago.

I agree that we have a problem with the way the club have gone about ticketing over the last decade and we could have done it much better. But it’s that which is the outlier here rather than my examples in comparison to last night.

 

[Manchester33]

I just wanted to make the point on here that now, more than ever our fans need to be sticking together rather than pointing the finger at each other.

The attendance last night was disappointing, but let's not pretend like it wasn't a quickly rearranged fixture and there were no factors leading to people not being able to make it.

If you can, get to the games, get behind the lads and lets show our owners that we stand by them, regardless of the mud being flung in our direction.

 

[Whether or not]

People criticising the attendance are missing the fact that the game was rearranged in the break. The other 2 City season ticket holders I work with were both on holiday, as were the family of five I sit next to. Even the lads who run the car park were away, with their mates doing it for them. I agree that we need to stop being so sensitive to rags and victims mocking the empty seats, they would have been just the same in the circumstances.

 

[Gary James]

Attendances - it's time for all of us at MCFC to start boasting of our support and looking for the positives. Obviously, the club needs to look at factors such as pricing, timing of games, transport etc. but what none of us should do is lose sight of what we are and what we demonstrate every time we attend a game. MCFC are not, nor have they ever been a poorly supported club. For example, we have never been the worst supported club in our division (both MUFC and AFC have for example!) and for most of the last 17 years more people have paid to watch our home league games on average each season than have watched LFC's PL home games. ALL clubs have occasional blips, or poorly attended games and so there's nothing to see there. Any club that gets 50,000 average (or even 40,000 average!) is a success. When clubs had 55,000 capacity stadia and attracted 39,000 no one jibed about empty terraces/empty seats, so why do we let them do that to us today?

We need to stand firm and challenge those who criticise and we need to do all we can to improve the atmosphere. No one can tell City fans what they must do or what they should do - we have so many opinions and backgrounds that no one will ever unify us all - but what we do have is a history of fan power; of supporters demonstrating all that is positive about being a City supporter. We've been bombarded and abused far too much and we know it's taking its toll, but it's time we started to fight back. Time we started to remind everyone of our loyalty, banter, achievements and humour as fans.

For as long as I can remember fans have whinged about the mood/atmosphere in certain areas of the ground (the Kippax dubbed the Maine Rd Main Stand the 'Moan Stand' for example) - let's not fool ourselves into thinking the atmosphere was always brilliant in the past. I've started to ramble but the point is we need to start boasting of what makes our fans unique; of our loyalty; of our humour and so on.

 

[aguerooooo]

Attendances - it's time for all of us at MCFC to start boasting of our support and looking for the positives. Obviously, the club needs to look at factors such as pricing, timing of games, transport etc. but what none of us should do is lose sight of what we are and what we demonstrate every time we attend a game. MCFC are not, nor have they ever been a poorly supported club. For example, we have never been the worst supported club in our division (both MUFC and AFC have for example!) and for most of the last 17 years more people have paid to watch our home league games on average each season than have watched LFC's PL home games. ALL clubs have occasional blips, or poorly attended games and so there's nothing to see there. Any club that gets 50,000 average (or even 40,000 average!) is a success. When clubs had 55,000 capacity stadia and attracted 39,000 no one jibed about empty terraces/empty seats, so why do we let them do that to us today?

We need to stand firm and challenge those who criticise and we need to do all we can to improve the atmosphere. No one can tell City fans what they must do or what they should do - we have so many opinions and backgrounds that no one will ever unify us all - but what we do have is a history of fan power; of supporters demonstrating all that is positive about being a City supporter. We've been bombarded and abused far too much and we know it's taking its toll, but it's time we started to fight back. Time we started to remind everyone of our loyalty, banter, achievements and humour as fans.

For as long as I can remember fans have whinged about the mood/atmosphere in certain areas of the ground (the Kippax dubbed the Maine Rd Main Stand the 'Moan Stand' for example) - let's not fool ourselves into thinking the atmosphere was always brilliant in the past. I've started to ramble but the point is we need to start boasting of what makes our fans unique; of our loyalty; of our humour and so on.

The ability to do a disappearing act

 

[Blue Maverick]

Attendances - it's time for all of us at MCFC to start boasting of our support and looking for the positives. Obviously, the club needs to look at factors such as pricing, timing of games, transport etc. but what none of us should do is lose sight of what we are and what we demonstrate every time we attend a game. MCFC are not, nor have they ever been a poorly supported club. For example, we have never been the worst supported club in our division (both MUFC and AFC have for example!) and for most of the last 17 years more people have paid to watch our home league games on average each season than have watched LFC's PL home games. ALL clubs have occasional blips, or poorly attended games and so there's nothing to see there. Any club that gets 50,000 average (or even 40,000 average!) is a success. When clubs had 55,000 capacity stadia and attracted 39,000 no one jibed about empty terraces/empty seats, so why do we let them do that to us today?

We need to stand firm and challenge those who criticise and we need to do all we can to improve the atmosphere. No one can tell City fans what they must do or what they should do - we have so many opinions and backgrounds that no one will ever unify us all - but what we do have is a history of fan power; of supporters demonstrating all that is positive about being a City supporter. We've been bombarded and abused far too much and we know it's taking its toll, but it's time we started to fight back. Time we started to remind everyone of our loyalty, banter, achievements and humour as fans.

For as long as I can remember fans have whinged about the mood/atmosphere in certain areas of the ground (the Kippax dubbed the Maine Rd Main Stand the 'Moan Stand' for example) - let's not fool ourselves into thinking the atmosphere was always brilliant in the past. I've started to ramble but the point is we need to start boasting of what makes our fans unique; of our loyalty; of our humour and so on.

Gary can you show me where our attendances are better than Liverpool I’d love to throw that back into a few faces