Fulham (H) - FA Cup Round 4 Post-Match Thread

[inchy14]

Well I’ve come away from that thinking “that’s 5 hours of my life I won’t get back”. It was utterly boring!

The good thing was García was great and looks the best young prospect at the club by a mile, and the best prospect we’ve had come into our team for a very long time!

Foden was poor today. Why is he playing as a winger? He’s a fucking midfielder!

The crowd was really poor but that’s what you get when we have a boardroom who don’t understand our support and that extra tickets on top of seasoncard payments for Fulham, United, Madrid, a possible FA Cup 5th round home tie and a possible trip to Wembley (as well as away Prem games and if anyone is going away to Madrid) will have an affect on attendances if some are priced too high. People will pick and choose because they can’t afford to go to them all and today was the bottom of the pile.

But we won and that’s the most important thing!

Priced too high?? It was £15 wasn’t it?

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Makes me feel a little bit sick when someone on millions of pounds a year suggests working class people and families should be spending even more money
Wake up and think about real issues. It’s not the first time he’s mentioned it either and it’s starting to annoy me.
Quite frankly I couldn’t care less about how many are there. You go for the love of football/city.

I’d never thought of Jacob Rees Mogg as a potential City manager

 

[give it to gordon]

Priced too high?? It was £15 wasn’t it?

£15 if I lived around the corner I would be there but not all of us live round the corner

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

When the club make the decision to close areas of the ground, it instantly sends the wrong message. Where's the creative marketing, family of four tickets for 25 quid, kids for a quid in more areas of the ground. Guaranteed cheaper tickets for cup scheme members. Free parking etc. No one expects it all the time but a low key game, live on TV, shit kick off time, amongst a number of expensive game after Christmas the club need to be more aware of the fans circumstances

Unfortunatly mate the club giving a flying fuck about us “working class” fans disappeared years ago :-/

 

[ancoats]

Facts are
Its January still and people waiting to be paid from Christmas and Rags on Wednesday. Something has to give.
People simply cant afford to go every game.
Stupid kick off time.
None sensical for BBC to screen this game which thus drove the attendance down further.

just did a quick look at all the attendances for the fa cup 4th round and city was the 3rd highest of the weekend and its was live on BBC

so fuck the media and the moaners ?? manchester city fans are the loyalest in football, and like you said matey maybe city fans have not got deep pockets and football has to come 2nd to living cost and bills and with a big derby game in midweek and a category A game meaning no cheap tickets and i have just got my ticket and i mean just thanks son

 

[give it to gordon]

just did a quick look at all the attendances for the fa cup 4th round and city was the 3rd highest of the weekend and its was live on BBC

so fuck the media and the moaners ?? manchester city fans are the loyalest in football, and like you said matey maybe city fans have not got deep pockets and football has to come 2nd to living cost and bills and with a big derby game in midweek and a category A game meaning no cheap tickets and i have just got my ticket and i mean just thanks son

This

 

[ancoats]

£15 if I lived around the corner I would be there but not all of us live round the corner

simple thing is £15 is sometimes a lot of money if you have none

 

[paulchapo]

£15 if I lived around the corner I would be there but not all of us live round the corner

This is what is often not taken into account. The ticket is only part of it. You have to add on the travel costs, logistics getting to and from the game, especially on a Sunday and due to the early kick off possibly some food at some point. Almost 40 thousand is a great gate given all the circumstances.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Pep has previously had a pop at our attendances and atmosphere without being asked.
I know he never had a bad word to say about his club.
I know he has been fantastic for us but he should never have a go at our fan base.
We were here long before he came and I am sure most will be there long after he has gone.

Not least because the atmosphere at the Camp Nou was pretty poor the three times I have been there. One of the most plastic fanbases in Europe and virtually never sold out and certainly not for Cup matches. Not a patch on the atmosphere in Seville or Bilbao for example. Barca have no significant away following either. i think his words were twisted by the press as usual but he should know better than to be sucked in. I am sick of our fanbase being slagged. It was very quiet today but not surprising for a 1pm Sunday kick-off and 40,000 was a decent turn-out.

 

[franksinatra]

Fair enough, Frank.

I think we just disagree about how much of a global managerial prestige boost Mancini received from building on his achievements in Serie A — which I do recall were downplayed by quite a few people in media outside of Italy when he came to City in the same way Ligue 1 and Bundesliga player/management achievements are these days, rightly or wrongly — by winning the Premier League with City in the incredibly dramatic, historic, globally televised/talked-about manner that he did, and how that had (and will continue to have) a knock on effect on his career. Many see his managing a still developing team to triumph over, however narrowly, someone who is seen as one of the best managers of all time (and their historically hated rival club) as Mancini’s greatest challenge overcome to date and I personally do think it does and will help his career generally.

That is possibly true with regards his reputation over here but that is probably due to the insular nature of the British Press and this belief, like with Guardiola and his methods, that football over here is some how unique and much more difficult to conquer.

No doubting his achievements over here but I think, again because of the role of the press over here, his achievements elsewhere have not been celebrated but I think if you spoke to people in Italy, where I think his future income generation will come from, he was highly regarded prior to managing City.

Anyway either way I think we can agree he was a fantastic manager.