Everton (home) Semi Final Tickets

[Prestwich_Blue]

Vicky is not really at the coal face these days, she has far bigger fish to fry. Simon Heggie is the PR...

I think Txiki would be decent. Kiddo is also someone who is a great speaker. Marwood took that step back.

Hopefully, someone like Vinny will take up this kind of role in the years to come.

But where is Soriano, the 'Invisible Man'. He's the Chief Exec, the man the buck should stop with. Why isn't he at press conferences or saying more? That's my main beef with him. He should be out there promoting the club and what it stands for.

 

[worsleyweb]

If anyone asks the club for an exclusive interview (with a player for example) they are told that the price of that is a positive piece about what we're doing in the community or for East Manchester. Most aren't interested which is why you see so few genuine City exclusives. No PR person, however good, can force a paper to carry a positive story or to withdraw a negative one, unless it's legally actionable. And at the moment, the numbers of clicks for negative City stories are generally higher that those for positive stories. And at most of the red-tops, journalists are judged by the number of clicks they attract so if they've a choice between a story that paints us in a good light that might only get 1m hits or one that paints us in a negative light, which gets 10m hits, which one do you think they'll go for?

How do you suggest we stop that? Because banning people won't stop that, unless you're someone like the rags where you can actually hurt that paper or journalist by banning them. We can't do that and there's no point in thinking that we can.

Attack the press box tonight?

 

[marco]

the best way to shut the fukers up is to simply go out and stuff everton tonight,then anything about tickets will be forgotten they will then move on to report other pieces of meaningless shit

 

[IanBishopsHaircut]

the best way to shut the fukers up is to simply go out and stuff everton tonight,then anything about tickets will be forgotten they will then move on to report other pieces of meaningless shit

Exactly

 

[Shaelumstash]

Vicky is not really at the coal face these days, she has far bigger fish to fry. Simon Heggie is the PR...

I think Txiki would be decent. Kiddo is also someone who is a great speaker. Marwood took that step back.

Hopefully, someone like Vinny will take up this kind of role in the years to come.

I assume Vicky is responsible for the overall strategy though mate, and for me it's simply not working.

The idea that we can give the press absolutely nothing of note, and then expect them to write nice pieces about our care in the community projects every few months, it's a PR strategy reminiscent of Skynet in the Terminator movies!

Kiddo is great in front of the camera, I love his passion for the game. I'm not sure if he's forceful enough to deal with journalists who have crossed the line though.

Marwood for me is a disaster in front of the camera, he sounds like an insurance underwriter speaking on the in house corporate video.

Txiki could possibly do it, but has he got time?

I agree Vinnie would be excellent, Vieira too if he had taken a different path.

I guess it's easier for Bayern as they have a whole host of club legends to call on. Most of ours are in their 70s and are perhaps not media savvy enough for the modern age.

As much as he has become unpopular with a lot of people around the club, I think Franny Lee has the intelligence and presence to do the job if he wanted to, but that's never going to happen.

 

[mekonmcfc]

What was it then?

considering every stand was open, and reasonably full i'd say 65k

 

[Shaelumstash]

Buzzer would sort the fuckers out mate..

I love Buzzer! Did you see him on the Old Trafford derby? He was really dishing it out, funny how they never asked him back!

 

[mekonmcfc]

Something upset you, mate?

what you mean ?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Well said PB. The media obsession on here is boring at best and embarrassing at worst. We should have grace and dignity about everything we do. The GPC had a style with the media that made him look petty and juvenile yet many on here think the whole club should adopt that approach. Let them take their cheap shots, it’s the bigger picture that counts.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

But where is Soriano, the 'Invisible Man'. He's the Chief Exec, the man the buck should stop with. Why isn't he at press conferences or saying more? That's my main beef with him. He should be out there promoting the club and what it stands for.

Living in New York quite a bit of the time.

He's a busy guy and doesn't need to give them the steam off his shit.

It's average PR people, simple as that. No knowledge of print media.

Can't agree with you saying we can't do anything. It's got nothing to do with clicks, either. It's about reversing 40 years perception of City as now a relevant and huge club. Lazy narrative and journalism, sprinkled with the personal allegiances of the reporter, nothing more.

As for hurting those people who wish to deploy and perpetuate myths, you hurt the patch journos, culpable or not, most of them are BTW.

Ban them. Half of these cunts never had the bollocks to challenge Ferguson, because he never showed weakness and knew more than them. Which is why twats like Custis are taking liberties with van Gaal, because they know he's a dead man walking.

With Pep at the helm, it will be in media's interests to stay the right side of invitations to the Etihad.

And that's without him putting the fear of God into them.