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.
