Everton (home) Semi Final Tickets

[schfc6]

Regards the whole empty seats thing. Are we supposed to be ashamed we've not attracted a load of plastic day trippers? Are they indirectly suggesting that we are the same fans we've always been? 30,000 weekly in Div 2, now 50,000 + in the PL, so fucking what if we haven't got some day tripper in a seat every week. Are they suggesting we haven't attracted a sufficient amount of glory hunters? Do we want glory hunters. The sort fans who've "had enough" of being 5th.... United have a self proclaimed 600,000,000 fans yet regularly fail to sell 70,000 tickets.
Liverpool may sell 100,000 seats in Melbourne but they can't sell 38,000 seats for a cup semi vs Stoke in fucking Liverpool.
Everton have empty seats every week. They can't even sell out that little old shithole.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

fuck me, just looked at the independent match preview and it's all 'tickets tickets tickets'

Ogden. I wouldn't expect more from him.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

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

She isn't. That comes from higher up. And (without being funny) the fact it's not working for you is not their primary objective. It's all tied up with bigger stuff. They've got a lot of the more respected journalists on-side since the Hughes/Mancini debacle. The red-tops are a different story though and we'll have to put up with it until the positive stories generate more interest than the negative ones.

But I'm pretty sure, as tolmie's hairdoo says, that we will have a reaction of some sort to that shite in the Mirror, although we may not be aware of it. I do agree that there are times though when we should put our foot down. My solution would be to charge them for a ticket to come in and then put them in a room with just water and stale biscuits, rather than the splendid hospitality they usually enjoy.

 

[mcfcdave80]

Every time I see the ladies team on CityTV, those seats make it look like it's full.

Remember that Ipswich game (and also second time it happened v them) watching the groundstaff trying to use rollers!

I've always thought that the fact that the seats in our stadium have more legroom than you usually get, particularly than at places like Old Trafford, one empty seat always looks more pronounced.

 

[worsleyweb]

She isn't. That comes from higher up. And (without being funny) the fact it's not working for you is not their primary objective. It's all tied up with bigger stuff. They've got a lot of the more respected journalists on-side since the Hughes/Mancini debacle. The red-tops are a different story though and we'll have to put up with it until the positive stories generate more interest than the negative ones.

But I'm pretty sure, as tolmie's hairdoo says, that we will have a reaction of some sort to that shite in the Mirror, although we may not be aware of it. I do agree that there are times though when we should put our foot down. My solution would be to charge them for a ticket to come in and then put them in a room with just water and stale biscuits, rather than the splendid hospitality they usually enjoy.

Just seen you post on the mirror website with that Rag goon spouting his shit. Good response

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Much a do about nothing.

Tonight will see the biggest attendance of either semi final. Bigger even than the world famous never to be repeated or beaten famous Anfield on one of their ever so special nights under the lights.

If some fucking idiot feels its a stick to beat us with so be it as it just rubber stamps them being fucking grade A idiots!

I've said it before, but it absolutely deserves repeating. The last time Anfield had a crowd of over 50,000 for a game of football, John Lennon was alive.

 

[cibaman]

That was the original idea for the stadium - with grey, yellow, white and blue seats. I still have the drawings at home. I met with some people at city to tell them and they went ballistic claiming the stadium was grey enough. Hence the blue seats - officially know as kippax blue - decided upon the night the game with Ipswich got called off when it pissed down. I went on the piss with Mike Pickering that night too.

A couple of mates went to watch the GB v Aus RL match a few years ago. "Nice stadium, but very blue"!

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

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.

All good points. I suppose if we are looking for fairness, we shouldn't really have had the temerity to become one of the most high-profile clubs in the world!

I really don't see how much more we, as a club, can curry good faith, having spent £200m on redeveloping a deprived area of Manchester, sending our kids to grammar school regardless of whether they make the grade with us?

It's done little for the wider narrative and we have seen with FFP how much some things count for.

As you rightly state, the PR strategy is flawed. It's all well and good wanting to be liked, although if they lack respect for you in the first place...

Just keep winning trophies, it hurts more than anything else.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

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.

I'll buy that but with one exception. If your main brand is being attacked and denigrated constantly, your CEO should be there defending it robustly. That's his job (or at least part of it). People say it doesn't matter what the media says but it does as, rightly or wrongly, that fuels the perception of the brand by people not close to it. And this empty seats thing is getting boring now. We need to go on the attack more. We should treat journalists like dogs - give them a treat when they perform a nice trick but a (proverbial) slap when they do something naughty.

 

[Slashman X]

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.

This is a good point. If we are planning on banning a few while Pellegrini is in charge and giving them nothing of note to work with, they won't think they're missing much. Then Pep rolls in and they'll be begging to be let back in