^This person is legitimately foreign btw.
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Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22
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Stevieatlasblue
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Some of our support reminds me a hell of a lot like Liverpool fans . Always the victims, always whiny and whinging. Fast turning into that lot. Then we have Parker at the helm. Good god. Parker fronting Pep all played out in the media. I absolutely despair. I’ve also played the game and still playing now twice a week. I totally get Pep. The players will be tired. After playing twice in a week I have to recover and limit my running times and work other parts of my body instead.these players are well paid but also human. These guys are next level with the pace of the high intensity premThey have listened but chosen to interpret them in their own way. Wrongly, in most cases but there's many posters on here who are using this incident as an excuse to vent at him in general because he apparently threw the CL final, he's just a Barcelona fan boy, he doesn't get the club, he's part of the Spanish mafia (whatever the fuck that means) and he gives other clubs too much respect.
All absolutely bollocks but I've read all of those accusations against him over the last few days.
We've some fucking odduns following this club.
GortonBlue62
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So is Pep.^This person is legitimately foreign btw.
Foreign or not if you're taking the piss expect some consequences.
Looking forward to the next question.So is Pep.
Foreign or not if you're taking the piss expect some consequences.
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I don’t mind people being critical of the manager if there was something to criticise.If posters don't like other posters being critical of the manager every now and then I don't think the bluemoon forum is for them. Time they went and got another social media site that won't offend there big blue love in.
Easy this shit:-)
It's a legit question from someone who clearly doesn't understand things the way we do. Play nice or find a new thread.So is Pep.
Foreign or not if you're taking the piss expect some consequences.
Phil Mitchell Foden
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To me this whole situation with the crowds ties directly into how much the club have aggressively pursued the commercialisation of the club over the past ten years. With rapid ticket price increases and the annual extensions of corporate hospitality offerings etc.
It's harmed the growth of the matchday support. Our core support has always been strong, but they've chipped away at it with relentless price increases trying to exploit the excitement of the Mancini era to begin with and now to the present day with Pep.
The growth of our tourist contingent and bandwagoners hasn't been what they thought it would be, so when the core support cut their cloth to save and skip a cup game/s the attendances suffer. It's all good and well pursuing the tourist/bandwagoner £, but in the low demand/glamour ties they're not the ones turning up in their numbers. It's the core support, and they have to cut their cloth accordingly to be able to attend over the course of a season. If you've turned a lot of them off then attendances will suffer, and trying to chuck the occasional cheap ticket for a cup tie at them when demand is low won't matter. If someone's lost the bug they rarely come back. The damage is done.
We don't have generations of bandwagoners that the other top sides in this country have. Our core support are a loyal working class fanbase, if you mismanage them we won't have the casual attendees from all over turning up like a Liverpool would. It doesn't matter to Liverpool if they price out most ordinary scousers, the slack will just be picked up elsewhere.
For me there's just a broader disconnect a lot of people feel with City that has grown for a while. That's the trend. The mobile ticketing bollocks is it in microcosm. The club pays lip service to the core support, and has been pursuing commercialisation above all else. And we've all felt that for a while.
Pep clearly isn't aware of all this, he's just aware that things are going great on the pitch. And they are. But there's a bigger picture.
His embarrassing back and forth with Parker is a symptom of this disconnect, and it's the club's responsibility IMO.
I genuinely think we'd have already been building the North Stand extension had things been managed better. Had the club not prioritised balance sheets and squeezing the absolute maximum they could out of the existing core support financially over the last ten years. They had an opportunity to organically develop the match going support at a time of unprecedented excitement around the club. They had an opportunity to turn more families into regulars in our attendances. To draw more people in who'd like to attend regularly, but can't due to cost. To make blues feel more engaged and in touch with the club, valued. To feel some kind of authenticity about that relationship between the club and it's support.
Instead we get hastags and renewal increases every year, and we're all here arguing about embarrassing and tone deaf comments the manager made about attendances in a botched rallying cry.
All on the club.
It's harmed the growth of the matchday support. Our core support has always been strong, but they've chipped away at it with relentless price increases trying to exploit the excitement of the Mancini era to begin with and now to the present day with Pep.
The growth of our tourist contingent and bandwagoners hasn't been what they thought it would be, so when the core support cut their cloth to save and skip a cup game/s the attendances suffer. It's all good and well pursuing the tourist/bandwagoner £, but in the low demand/glamour ties they're not the ones turning up in their numbers. It's the core support, and they have to cut their cloth accordingly to be able to attend over the course of a season. If you've turned a lot of them off then attendances will suffer, and trying to chuck the occasional cheap ticket for a cup tie at them when demand is low won't matter. If someone's lost the bug they rarely come back. The damage is done.
We don't have generations of bandwagoners that the other top sides in this country have. Our core support are a loyal working class fanbase, if you mismanage them we won't have the casual attendees from all over turning up like a Liverpool would. It doesn't matter to Liverpool if they price out most ordinary scousers, the slack will just be picked up elsewhere.
For me there's just a broader disconnect a lot of people feel with City that has grown for a while. That's the trend. The mobile ticketing bollocks is it in microcosm. The club pays lip service to the core support, and has been pursuing commercialisation above all else. And we've all felt that for a while.
Pep clearly isn't aware of all this, he's just aware that things are going great on the pitch. And they are. But there's a bigger picture.
His embarrassing back and forth with Parker is a symptom of this disconnect, and it's the club's responsibility IMO.
I genuinely think we'd have already been building the North Stand extension had things been managed better. Had the club not prioritised balance sheets and squeezing the absolute maximum they could out of the existing core support financially over the last ten years. They had an opportunity to organically develop the match going support at a time of unprecedented excitement around the club. They had an opportunity to turn more families into regulars in our attendances. To draw more people in who'd like to attend regularly, but can't due to cost. To make blues feel more engaged and in touch with the club, valued. To feel some kind of authenticity about that relationship between the club and it's support.
Instead we get hastags and renewal increases every year, and we're all here arguing about embarrassing and tone deaf comments the manager made about attendances in a botched rallying cry.
All on the club.
bigstanhibbert
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I hope this is heard today
andyhinch
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Boooooo, it’s the only one I know :-)That's more admin, feel free to message Ric with some of the new songs when you get the chance.
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I hope this is heard today
We should sing it loud and long from the start of the game. Forget about what’s been said this week by him and by our fans. It was something and nothing, complete overreactions all round.