"Disappointing" attendances

[Manchester33]

Nearly 40,000 crowd for a game against lower league opposition, when fans are still skint because of Christmas & with upcoming games against United and Real Madrid to shell out for.
What's the fcuking problem ????

That's a good point.

Especially when you consider Fulham only brought 1k. If they'd have sold out 8k like Port Vale managed, we'd be talking about a 47k+ attendance....

 

[Tb1981]

It is part and parcel of the media arsenal that they will use when they have nothing else.

Its on tv in the hope that Fulham beat us and when that doesnt happen its find something else to have a go about.

Fuck em!

Then use Newcastle as the example of how to do it
Bearing in mind the fans hate the board and team haven’t won a thing in my lifetime

 

[Marvin]

You can find historic cases of Man Utd and Liverpool getting poor gates but generally Man Utd and Liverpool and national if not globally supported clubs both attracting significant match-going numbers from abroad and nationwide whilst City are transitioning from a very loyal generally locally based team to an national football club and we don't have the numbers that they do yet because supporting a football club is a life decision. Fans may stop supporting a club but they never ever switch clubs. City's success over a decade helps sustain our existing fans, brings old ones back to the fray and brings loads of kids to the club - who rely on their parents to take them - but City need another decade, and most of all a ground expansion to catch up to Man Utd and Liverpool. The whole of the Republic of Ireland seems to be split three ways between Celtic, Man Utd and Liverpool. This is repeated to smaller extent in Scandinavia with Liverpool. We might outnumber Utd in Manchester now but not nationally and not globally.

 

[M18CTID]

Not read the whole thread but did any interviewer ask OGS about the thousands of empty seats v Burnley last week?
Peps response to a loaded question wasnt the best but this could have been taken out of his hands if the club would have adopted the £10 adult and £1 for kids approach for a game broadcast live on terrestrial TV.

It was kids for a quid in the lower tier of the North Stand but that was it. They should've extended it all round the ground.

 

[BlueSkyBlue]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I note recent media led comments about the attendance at the Etihad yesterday.

The attendance was the third highest in the fourth round, and coming on the back of games v Leics, SheffU, Everton, Port Vale and Crystal Palace and comments from various managers that there is too mugh football for the players - what about too much football for the ordinary man?

To take a child to all five games would cost £50+30 for Leics and Everton, £40+25 for SheffU and Palace and then £15+5 for each of the cup games. To attend all 6 games with one child would cost approx £330 - a weeks salary for a lot of people in Manchester.

With a Manchester derby semi final coming up in a few days and Real Madrid on the horizon and add to that the Fulham game being televised at an utterly garbage kick off time on a Sunday, I think it is fair to say fans reacted with their wallets on this one.

The press are happy to allow manageers such as Klopp say there is too much football - only today they lead with a story that his club won't be getting a winter break due to a replay, yet you are more than happy to publish stories about fans not attending when perhaps the answer is...too much football at too much cost.

Kind regards

 

[Marvin]

That's a good point.

Especially when you consider Fulham only brought 1k. If they'd have sold out 8k like Port Vale managed, we'd be talking about a 47k+ attendance....

City's own fans were only down about 5k on Port vale which is probably due to the amount of football and costs as you say.

We are still short of Man Utd and Liverpool though and Pep is managing a team competing with these clubs so it comes up. There are no quick answers other than to keep winning and it will sort itself out.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

There's so much wrong with it. 115 is the most vocal part of the stadium. If you dilute it with children and tourists who're not going to sing you're killing the atmosphere! You're always going to get one or two, but I'd say half the block was families yesterday. Good that they're turning up and supporting the team, credit to them. But club should do more to entice singers to congregate.

Fair point I suppose. Would it have sold enough if they banned U18s in there, though? Were they a kid for a quid also or was that just the NS?

 

[wahablue]

Why when money is tight after Christmas and New Year,would you skint yourself when you have already purchased a seat through your TV License,no problem at a bar or getting a brew, won,t miss minutes before and after HT no traffic to fight your way through,only major drawback are the commentators,always mute.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Not read the whole thread but did any interviewer ask OGS about the thousands of empty seats v Burnley last week?
Peps response to a loaded question wasnt the best but this could have been taken out of his hands if the club would have adopted the £10 adult and £1 for kids approach for a game broadcast live on terrestrial TV.

A couple of points here.

Tickets for that game should have been rock bottom price, they were cheap but could have been cheaper.

We should have a system in place to give away tickets to local families with kids for free, it has been done for years by all clubs yet I don't see any evidence we do it on any scale. Equivalent games at Main rd were like a school day out at times. Our ground is surrounded by housing estates and schools. It would not be hard to set something up where we have the names of families who live within 2 or 3 miles of the ground who would want to go last minute. You just have them all on a list and fire out the offer on the morning of the game by text. We put masses of effort and resource in to all sorts of initiatives, we could do a lot more with this at minimal cost.

Other clubs are just the same. Lets see how many Liverpool get in for the Shrewsbury replay on a Wednesday night? Will they get 40k?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

There's so much wrong with it. 115 is the most vocal part of the stadium. If you dilute it with children and tourists who're not going to sing you're killing the atmosphere! You're always going to get one or two, but I'd say half the block was families yesterday. Good that they're turning up and supporting the team, credit to them. But club should do more to entice singers to congregate.

115 should have some special arrangements for the special people that go in there. Maybe collection only from Mary D's bar.