"Disappointing" attendances

Gingers Dad said:
There was a car on fire on the slip road from the M60 to the 62 after the match. Horrendous traffic but managed to get round it. But again that's nothing to do with transport links to and from the Etihad. Shit happens every day with Britain's shit transport network
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Stuck in same traffic. Passed the rather disgruntled driver and his barbequed car. Don't think he was driving that home
 
Gingers Dad said:
Don't know mate I used the A roads to get there. I have the same sympathys for drivers and I'm glad I don't drive very often to the match. I much prefer using public transport and having a few beers. The way people on here go on about it you'd think the Etihad was in the middle of nowhere when it's a brisk walk into town
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Those brisk walkers you mention are an absolute pain when they use Ashton Road as their own private footpath and block the buses into town.
 
saleblue67 said:
Understand that you can't make it from Exeter and others from afar. My experience: Took me 1 hour 15 mins from Sale; arrived outside Stadium at kick-off; no queue to get in (and at no turnstile did I see a queue of more than a few - from N to Z); I was in a large jam on M60 from Cheadle to Denton and then again on Hyde Road to the ground but at no point did I think of giving up and I have to say I don't know anyone who would sack it off (ended up missing only 50 secs as parking off Ashton Old Road was a piece-of-piss due to low turnout); left work early; took daughter (school night); was in pain throughout having sustained a nasty injury on Tuesday evening. All that despite, as some are saying, "season is pointless" now. Point I'm making is that I had many excuses not to go but to me that would be unthinkable. As Pep said last night we've won the last 5 trophies that we've entered and we're going for the sixth - I just want to drink it all in. Can't wait for Wembley. CTID
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I went myself but know plenty of regulars who did sack it off last night who a few years ago would always be there. It’s right what you say about all the trophies we’ve won lately and Pep etc. I can’t really put my finger on what’s changed (obviously we’re out of the title race but still) but I was sat there last night bored shitless and thinking anyone who didn’t come won’t be regretting it and probably made the right choice.
 
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.
 
Hung said:
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.
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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.
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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.
 
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mancityvstoke said:
Half term and a rearranged game
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...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.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
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
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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!
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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.
 
Bazzmand Show said:
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.
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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.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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 James said:
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.
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The ability to do a disappearing act
 
Gary James said:
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.
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Gary can you show me where our attendances are better than Liverpool I’d love to throw that back into a few faces
 
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