"Disappointing" attendances

citymad said:
I expect we're going to get a few cheeky chants from away fans from now.
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We won't get that many. As despite what the media reports, it's pretty much full the majority of games. You can't really be in the away end at the Etihad surrounded by 50k + City fans and sing "You're ground's too big for you". Fulham have done it this season, but other than that I can't remember any other fans singing about it in the ground. A few sing it on the way to the game, but not in the ground itself as it's not far off capacity.
 
Rochdale Blue said:
Any mention of why the Villa game wasn't sold out last night?
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Only by 1500 though.
Actually less than that according to my son in law who has been a ST for donkeys.The Leicester fans were congregated behind the goal and there were segregational seats obviously unused.
However the stadium holds 42,785 and their largest home attendance this season has been 42,010 v WHU.
 
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oakiecokie said:
No ! I said that they did NOT sell out by less than 1500.As a ratio it was a very good attendance.
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I wouldn't disagree on that point, but why are we the only club who get criticised for empty seats when most clubs would get nowhere near 39,000 against Fulham in a fourth round tie?
 
Rochdale Blue said:
I wouldn't disagree on that point, but why are we the only club who get criticised for empty seats when most clubs would get nowhere near 39,000 against Fulham in a fourth round tie?
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Look no further than swamp HQ, that's where the media attack is being directed from.
 
maurizio said:
Talksport shows just now how these comments have affected the general football base. Alan Brazil sports breakfast, dumb co-presenter, if they can't sell out for the derby what can they sell out for? Dumb ex-football "Jamie" - "nothing! They might have a billionaire owner but they haven't got the fan base of United or Liverpool.". No mention of Old Trafford not selling out for the derby of course .
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When was the last time that bloated pig paid for admssion for a football match yet he thinks it's ok to sneer at working-class matchgoing fans who are the lifeblood of the game. This is one reason why sports media is struggling financially. So many of these organisations from tabloid radio stations to broadsheet newspapers seem to think it's fine to just mock their paying customers. That's one way to kill your business. Few football fans buy papers like the Sun these days (not just in Merseyside) because they have lost touch with their audience.
 
Groke said:
we had a larger attendance on Sunday than there was at villa park last night (not capacity) - despite only a handful of Fulham fans and Sunday lunchtime KO etc and it being Villa's biggest game for years. Where's the media outrage???
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Wasn’t Villa v City in the FA cup 2016 a 23,000 crowd with 5,000 blues? And yet they are a proper historic big club with fantastic fans? The criticism we get is ridiculous.
 
Pep has really opened a can of worms hasn't he with his latest attendance dig. It doesn't take much for the snipers and empty seat knicker wetter watchers to take the bait and mock. Some ex failed pro called Jamie O' hara the latest **** to say how small we are, no fans etc. In future don't bother mentioning the crowd Pep unless it's to say how good we are.
 
Fordyboy46 said:
Pep has really opened a can of worms hasn't he with his latest attendance dig. It doesn't take much for the snipers and empty seat knicker wetter watchers to take the bait and mock. Some ex failed pro called Jamie O' hara the latest **** to say how small we are, no fans etc. In future don't bother mentioning the crowd Pep unless it's to say how good we are.
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I tell you what, if he doesn't praise how many are there tonight I am round to his restaurant in my bell bottoms and I am going to give him some grief.
 
The media hypocrisy is beyond belief. On one hand it's still the 'working class' game but with us it seems not to be the case? Incredible how we get snidey comments from clubs whose attendances we have p**ssed over for years and years. We're not perfect but we're better than most
 
philiph20 said:
Not content with turning the Etihad into the ‘Theatre of Cheese’ the way they are with the media just shows them up for what they are, spineless.
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The media this week have all been fuelled by Pep and his comments on Sunday.

Why, when asked about the strength of the squad, did he mention why he didn’t know why the fans didn’t show up and support the team?

I just don’t get it, or him when it comes to this.
 
TV scheduling/moving kick off times/dates of matches/making no allowance for away travel etc etc has all been negatively impacting on attendances.

TV companies have not given a toss about the match going fans for years and it is getting worse. It is only now that it is starting to affect the 'product' they are trying to sell abroad that they are taking notice.

They also seem to believe that match going fans have unlimited funds. Teams like City go a long way in all four competitions, that is a lot of matches to find the money for.

Teams like Spurs, Arsenal and West Ham only have a hardcore of 35k (Chelsea less than that) but can make up the difference with tourists and day trippers.
 
Yes - loads to be proud of in our attendances ... 50k+ is actually a really high league average when you look round Europe, only surpassed by a few clubs.

Yes, it's awkward that we happen to be in the same city as the club with the highest attendances, but that's not our fault. No one compares favourably with Utd's (published) attendances (unfortunately).

But I'm afraid that Pep - fantastic football though he brings us every week - is not great at bigging-up the club. He's said a number of daft things now which have been seized-upon by our detractors. They aren't necessary to say, and they aren't even objectively true.

Please stop, Pep !
 
If any interviewer is crass enough to bring up attendance for tonights game with Pep hope he is savvy enough to mention the first game was 6k short of a full house and not whine about not being a complete full house!
 
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