Enough is enough

[Marvin]

That's the angle the Guardian northwest hack Jamie Jackson has taken too splashed across the online back page. It isn't until 5 paragraphs down that he starts explaining the context in which Pep actually said he may not being good enough - and why it was actually a good thing.
And then I have a constant pop up message begging for money to keep the Guardian 'fearless and free from interference - For less than the price of a coffee' LOL! Free from interference? I wouldn't give them the steam off my boiling piss right now. What a complete lack of awareness treating people like mugs.

I watched the whole press conference. If you weren't a City fan and you were a journalist, the self-doubt is exactly what you would report. We cant complain about that.

We know what Guardiola was trying to do: deflect attention from his players and carry the can, but we can't really complain about the headlines because we practically wrote them.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Well the club has tried the nicey nice touchy feely approach and let the media , UEFA ,the FA shit all over us for years ,and this season it has peaked into an all out hate campaign , so what have we got to lose ? The club should ban the media , the after match interviews and a total news blackout on our club , we have the money to pay the fines that we will be given for the indiscretions , and if the media do attack our club get the bastards in court . Not sure why the club put up with the current situation , they want global growth so how does the media screwing our club at every opportunity help our image , the PR dept needs a total overhaul and employ individuals who will defend our reputation to the hilt , Harold Shipman got a better press than us.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Well the club has tried the nicey nice touchy feely approach and let the media , UEFA ,the FA shit all over us for years ,and this season it has peaked into an all out hate campaign , so what have we got to lose ? The club should ban the media , the after match interviews and a total news blackout on our club , we have the money to pay the fines that we will be given for the indiscretions , and if the media do attack our club get the bastards in court . Not sure why the club put up with the current situation , they want global growth so how does the media screwing our club at every opportunity help our image , the PR dept needs a total overhaul and employ individuals who will defend our reputation to the hilt , Harold Shipman got a better press than us.

JRB hit the nail on the head. I think all decisions are made at the top. I guess if that's true we should do away with our PR team.

 

[jrb]

To be honest.
We don't fill our ground.
And we don't sing any songs especially at home.
Apart from that it's a good point

I looked at the remaining seats on the OS seat planner last night. All seats remaining, even in level 1 were £58.( Arsenal away, £65, remember the outrage) There's your empty seats. Yes, it's a big match, and Jesus may play, so that has boosted ticket sales.

We used to sell out every seat. We have got the fanbase. But not the wealthy tourist fanbase that United, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Chelsea have got. Khaldoon and Soriano know this, but they are still pushing prices, corporate sections, tunnel clubs, and the like. While 1000's of City fans want to watch a PL match, but are priced out.

Expand the NS, bring in more affordable season tickets and match tickets, and we will fill every seat. Not to mention dropping membership charges, and allowing fans to pay on the day via collecting tickets from kiosks outside the ground. It can all be done and more, but the will, and more importantly, the figures aren't there and don't stack up. That's the real issue.

 

[YaYa's Left Peg]

Hundred percent agree with the OP (first time for everything as they say).

People say ignore it, but when it's pushed into your face day in day out, it becomes almost impossible to. For example, the piss take of a feature last night on BBC local news about Pep going to see Lala Land, was simply beyond belief. Even the Mrs (a red dipper) had to acknowledge that perhaps it was slightly disrespectful towards Pep.

And when you get twats like Jackson, Custis, Ashton, Savage, Owen, McManaman, et al, setting the agenda, we haven't got a hope in hell. I mean when you get a mongrel like Savage, whose only claim to fame appears to have been earning a load of money whilst being shit in his profession, taking the piss and disrespecting a man who should be lauded as one the icons of the game, then where else is there to go from there?

As a previous poster said, grow some balls City. We need to be more Rottweiler than poodle.

 

[Eaglechief]

Quite frankly, the only way this constant negative press will get turned around, is when Man City as a team on the pitch, starts challenging and winning trophies consistently over 4 or 5 years continuously.

Otherwise we will forever be seen as the interlopers, who gate crashed the English cosy cartel, with lots of "arab oil money" yada, yada, yada.

The onus is on us to shut the press up by winning things and not giving a fuck what anyone thinks of us, the bastards will have to move onto other easier targets then.

At the moment our team's performances is making it easy to criticize Man City as a whole.

 

[flb]

It is seriously getting me down the constant negative media witchhunt and the idiots that fall for it. I have probably watched city live about 800 times and I had some twat at work in his 50s who has been to old Trafford less than ten times in his life talking about how empty it will be against spurs. It is simply boring.

It's not just about the few empty seats though is it ?

 

[PaulMoulden'sRecord]

See the "keep completely quiet until Pep arrives and then the press will be eating out of our hands" strategy has been an absolute clusterfuck then! The press we've had this season has probably been the worst we've had since the takeover.

We had the opportunity to create a narrative with the press of being the jack the lad club that done good. The lovable losers who ended up winning. The underdog who took on the big boys and won. The Trotters Independent Trailblazers. We could have been the example to every club that no matter how bad it gets, there's always hope. There's always the chance of a miracle. We could still have been everyone's second team. The friendly, self-depricating, family club.

Instead we're the mercenary upstarts. The spoilt brats who can't fill our stadium or bother to sing any songs. The plastic club. The fans who weren't there when we were shit. The highly paid, greedy, underachieving disgrace who is ruining football.

And our club and more specifically the PR department has sat on it's fucking arse and let it happen. Played radio silent. Arrogantly thinking we'll adopt a hostile approach to the press. Give them absolutely fuck all. Treat them with disdain and wait for them to fawn over us when Guardiola becomes manager because he's the biggest show in town.

It's been an absolute fucking omnishambles and unfortunately the damage to our reputation is going to take a generation to fix. The PR strategy the club has taken since Gary Cook left has been an absolute and utter fucking disgrace and I'm sick of reading negative story after negative story about the club I love while no one that works there does a fucking thing about it.

Every other week there's a fucking negative story about our attendances. It would be very simple for the club to brief the press that in fact we're currently averaging more than Liverpool have in their entire history. But instead they sit on their arse with their finger on their lips and say fuck all.

It's not worked and they need a clean sweep of the PR department and get some professionals in who know what they're doing and start repairing the reputation that has been so severely damaged.

I know it's highly unlikely but I really hope someone within this department reads this, has some kind of epiphany and employs you!

 

[YaYa's Left Peg]

And yet we are averaging 54,000. The atmosphere thing is nationwide. part changing demographics as to who goes to football, and high expectations at city which are currently not being met.

Anfield is like a morgue if the dippers don't score in the first 10. But the narrative is always about that famous Anfield atmosphere!

 

[schfc6]

Such a good post you should email it to Vicky Kloss.

Can we not email her the entire thread?