Get behind Pep and City for the last 9 league games.

Marvin. said:
Today was dispiriting. The crowd was as quiet as I can remember in a long time.

I watched Pep's press conference after the game. He looked really nervous. He sounded emotional and anxious. I feel we are near the end of an era but that it is not yet gone. It's now time for us to play our part and return the favour to Pep and the team for all the joy they have given us over the last few years.

The next home game is Leicester at home. How we feel about that will depend on the FA Cup game but let's stop feeling entitled to a Premier League title winning team, and behave as Manchester City supporters. Let's intervene in our season and make the Etihad a fortress for the last 2 months of this season. Our football club has been under attack for years. The fans have looked helplessly on but now I think it's time that we make our voices heard for Pep and for City.

We need to do something now because this season is in the balance and we have 50 thousand voices who are currently neutered. They needn't be.
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Well put and very appropriate
 
buckshot said:
I've been LAX, I got a great new job and haven't been giffing Haaland's goals so I blame myself for this bad stretch. I'm ready to prioritize and give the boys my full attention. Let's get behind the boys and ride them back to the CL where they belong!

Oh and let's go all out for the FA Cup too since it's there for the taking and they don't have Europe to deal with. Imagine the worst season EV-AH including qualifying for CL and the FA Cup. Blessed to be this bad we are.
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None of those things are close to be achieved.

We have gone backwards from a low point anyway over the last week.

From potentially going above and clear of Forest 8 days ago we are now 6 points behind them!
 
wattle said:
Absolutely 100% this. Its unrecognisable at the moment
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Many of our fans chose not to go yesterday. I wouldn’t be surprised if between 15k and 20k of our season card holders listed their tickets on the exchange or transferred them to friends and family. Each to their own. Especially when the “holy grail” of a season card encourages this.
 
Can somebody email this thread to 50,000 match going City fans, but it will only reach a tiny fraction of that amount who read Blue Moon. And some of them won’t be arsed.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
It is called readjusting your mentality based on the clubs position. If you are small time and just happy to be here then go for it. Each to their own.

We are the team with the reported highest wage bill, the current champions, we have the best manager in the game and have just spent 180m more in January because that best manager cannot work with what he had. We aren't dealing with a badly run club anymore without a pot to piss in. We are a powerhouse of the game and bad spells or an off season can come around, it is football. The level of drop off is completely and utterly unacceptable. We had gallows humour when we had nothing else and we had to smile and laugh at ourselves otherwise we would cry. I still feel that amongst match going fans. I just don't understand why people think Pep cannot be questioned and fans can't be worried with the drop off, without being entitled demanding we win everything.
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"Small time"?

Was it small time to be supporting City in the lower divisions? Was it small time to endure Pearce and Beanie the Horse? Is it small time to support the club no matter wlhow well City are doing?

As I said, there are some in our 'fanbase' that I don't recognise anymore.
 
waspish said:
It's what happens to fans when we win it all we get spoiled and expect to win expect to dominate expect to play well! If you been listening to pep last month or so him talking about we might not get champs league place and then talk about liverpool not making it after being so good, also how many times we have qualified, he sees the players in training maybe he feels it's touch and go for us to get top five!

Anyone thinking a new manager will change anything are wrong because we get a new manager performances improve a bit then we drop back to being average the new manager will be under even more pressure! Pep has so much credit in the bank he needs to get the team competing again before any new manager talk!
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ysmsa said:
None of those things are close to be achieved.

We have gone backwards from a low point anyway over the last week.

From potentially going above and clear of Forest 8 days ago we are now 6 points behind them!
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Part of me enjoys unpredictability, part of me is thinking we are on our way to becoming a mid table side and that the winning ways we started to take for granted are fading. Fully behind Pep but need to make some big game changing buys in the summer, not rough diamonds, not the next big thing we’ve never heard of, not someone who is good but knocking 30 as we’ve largely done for the last few seasons. Otherwise we are looking at perfect storm of ST holders getting fed up, ST holders of the future priced out and shut out, 8,000 extra seats and half and halves and influencers taking up seats because being at City is some sort of viral overseas trend that has nothing to do with football. And we can only hope Rodri is himself when he gets back.
 
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urban genie said:
Half???


maybe about 10 numpties, and the usual ones tbf who cry if we aren't top.

This forum has never fully represented opinions I hear on a matchday from fans and at aways, I take any nonsense on here with a pitch of salt
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That's why I was being critical of the forum fanbase.

You read into things way too literally.
 
I have a feeling that City will have a very good club world cup campaign...partly because of the £780 million deal recently signed for the participants. Why bother with the prize money for the Premier league for playing 38 games when winning the cwc brings in twice as much for winning 7 games?
 
Our home support has been as bad as our team this season. Nothing to do with tourists, I watched seasoned blues slumped back in their seats all year.

I really don’t know why people bother to go and not try to get an atmosphere going.
Sadly, City ‘supporters’ mostly don’t support.
 
Marvin. said:
Today was dispiriting. The crowd was as quiet as I can remember in a long time.

I watched Pep's press conference after the game. He looked really nervous. He sounded emotional and anxious. I feel we are near the end of an era but that it is not yet gone. It's now time for us to play our part and return the favour to Pep and the team for all the joy they have given us over the last few years.

The next home game is Leicester at home. How we feel about that will depend on the FA Cup game but let's stop feeling entitled to a Premier League title winning team, and behave as Manchester City supporters. Let's intervene in our season and make the Etihad a fortress for the last 2 months of this season. Our football club has been under attack for years. The fans have looked helplessly on but now I think it's time that we make our voices heard for Pep and for City.

We need to do something now because this season is in the balance and we have 50 thousand voices who are currently neutered. They needn't be.
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We have a massive, wide open stadium. And many of our seats are sold to interested spectators, but not fanatics.

So our home games are not extremely noisy in support of City. In fact, the away side often seems noisier.

Ironically, our away fixtures are full of die-hard fans. On numerous occasions, the live video feeds are full of our fans loudly supporting City, often drowning out the home side.
 
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I used to love going to home games. Just cannot afford it now. But the glum faced blues who sit their quietly, expecting to be entertained before they will get behind the team, used to annoy me, annoys me even more now because I can't get a ticket or afford it and bejesus I screamed at the players when they needed it. I really miss that involvement, and seeing some fans almost looking bored wtf.
 
East Level 2 said:
I agree with the sentiment, but are we going to see a new "get behind Pep and City" thread every time we drop points?
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It's a moment in the season, and in Pep's era where a lot is a stake. This season, City fans have been depressed onlookers. Now I hope the fans are going to make an conscious effort to really get behind the team.

This season, Pep and this City era is at stake, but also City's support is eroding. We need to remind ourselves what Manchester City is all about.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
I used to love going to home games. Just cannot afford it now. But the glum faced blues who sit their quietly, expecting to be entertained before they will get behind the team, used to annoy me, annoys me even more now because I can't get a ticket or afford it and bejesus I screamed at the players when they needed it. I really miss that involvement, and seeing some fans almost looking bored wtf.
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Well we still have 37,000 season ticket holder. We haven't been selling new tickets, so that is a huge part of the crowd and they can still make their voices heard. If they do, others will join in. We can try.
 
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