Is City getting the balance right?

hihosilva said:
Metaverse will change armchair viewing for UK & abroad fans in the next 5 to 10 years. I expect any future tv deal will allow clubs to sell a metaverse experience allowing customers to watch the game from their armchair & watch the game through the headsets. This reality will allow the customer to watch the game from any seat in the stadium.

City are the first club to sign up to this so can you imagine how much income they will generate through this.
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I actually think this will happen. My only hope is that clubs will recognise that match-going fans are a critical part of the broadcast content and use some of the huge income generated to subsidise tickets for local fans. The technology is there now for clubs to broadcast their own content in 3D to millions of people across the world on a pay-per-view model. They will cut out the middle men like SKY and BT and pocket all the cash. This is what the Super League plans are all about. Clubs will be able to increase their broadcast income hugely (perhaps getting £100m per match). They can sell away match season tickets and lots of technological add-ons. This is why the big US franchises want a piece of the PL and why Sheikh Mansour bought City in the first place.
 
Lauz9888 said:
I think the stuff the club does for the local community suggests an interest and understanding of the area and the people who make up the bulk of the fan base and history of the club.

No football club is perfect but I don't get the impression that the club's attempts to grow its profile internationally comes at the expense of anything it could or should be doing for local fans.
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Agreed, I do think they could do more though Maybe do some research and implement solutions to entice more fans stay to the end of the game. Try to look at transport issues and the car park situation.Then again perhaps they've seen a trend getting worse and they think it's something that's in grained in us and it's not going to change (thats what I think). Wouldn't blame them if their thoughts drifted to a more larger fanbase internationally.
 
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Corky said:
Based on social media following and never going to a game. They are not fans, just people who watch foreign football on telly.
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Great point. true City fans are the ones who turn up week after week, no matter how good or bad we were/are, or the fans now priced out who would be back in an instant if the prices were reduced.

I'd like to think a fair few of our 'global fanbase' would stick around if things go pear shaped (and they will at some point), but wonder how many else will go follow whoever Pep is managing, or Erling is playing for in the future?
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
I actually think this will happen. My only hope is that clubs will recognise that match-going fans are a critical part of the broadcast content and use some of the huge income generated to subsidise tickets for local fans. The technology is there now for clubs to broadcast their own content in 3D to millions of people across the world on a pay-per-view model. They will cut out the middle men like SKY and BT and pocket all the cash. This is what the Super League plans are all about. Clubs will be able to increase their broadcast income hugely (perhaps getting £100m per match). They can sell away match season tickets and lots of technological add-ons. This is why the big US franchises want a piece of the PL and why Sheikh Mansour bought City in the first place.
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Yeah i hope so. The amount the club will receive from match-going-fans will be minimal so like you say subsidise the tickets for local fans & fill out the stadium.
 
Jazzyblue said:
Definitely agree on the community stuff. City has always been strong on that. The most obvious thing you can do for local fans though is meet them with pricing. Is that realistic in these days where players expect more than a three-bed semi and a retirement spent running a pub...I dunno.
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Pricing (and ticketing) is the single most important area where the club falls down. If that is due to attention being paid to online supporters at the expense of match goers, then it needs rebalancing. I have no objection to efforts to monetise online foreign fans, provided mancs get a fair crack.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
The club would improve its image and attract more domestic and foreign fans if it bit the bullet and made big, radical even, changes to improve the atmosphere.
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Rock bottom prices for a section dedicated to people aged 13 to 25 would be a start.
It used to cost me 1/3d when I first went. (6p).
 
unicorn said:
In the virtual experience do fans get the visceral thrill of standing up and sitting down 12 times a half for the latecomers and weak bladdered ?

And how will they censor the anti Liverpool rants that makes up 99% of my support ?
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Or the joy of finding a free car parking space within three miles of the ground
That pint that's all froth but tastes great anyway
Watching United get tonked on the screens on the concourse when their kick off is earlier than ours
Getting splashed with someone else's piss in the halftime rush to the bog
Chatting, greeting or just nodding to a Blue you've never met in your life before at the Etihad
Wondering how the touts are getting by without paper tickets
Being on a tram where everyone is wearing sky blue
 
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