Lost a bit of interest this season

[jma]

I'd rather sing and cheer for a Ged Brennan playing his heart out for City than an unmotivated player just strolling about picking up 200k a week. Call me old fashioned but what's wrong with a player who is class AND motivated? They're the real world class players, players who are always up for it no matter who they're playing against.If we had a full team like that we'd have no reason to grumble.

What by winning the league you mean?

the chippy is better £7 quid for a hot dog is a sign of mental illness if you buy one nothing to do with motivation just a desire to end it all

Want to lose your appetite for hot dogs? Then visit a frankfurter factory. It’s an unpleasant business.
In vast metal vats, tons of pork trimmings are mixed with the pink slurry formed when chicken carcasses are squeezed through metal grates and blasted with water.
The mush is mixed with powdered preservatives, flavourings, red colouring and drenched in water before being squeezed into plastic tubes to be cooked and packaged.
It is a disgusting process, for the hot dog is arguably the ultimate in processed, industrial food.

Fucks sake, mate. I've just had my tea.

 

[nobody can eat fifty eggs]

Food has always been crap expensive.....what's new seriously, as for unmotivated players....do me a favour....let's go back to Ged Brannan eh....

I'd rather sing and cheer for a Ged Brennan playing his heart out for City than an unmotivated player just strolling about picking up 200k a week. Call me old fashioned but what's wrong with a player who is class AND motivated? They're the real world class players, players who are always up for it no matter who they're playing against.If we had a full team like that we'd have no reason to grumble.

What by winning the league you mean?

We won't be winning the league this season.

 

[Ducado]

I'd rather sing and cheer for a Ged Brennan playing his heart out for City than an unmotivated player just strolling about picking up 200k a week. Call me old fashioned but what's wrong with a player who is class AND motivated? They're the real world class players, players who are always up for it no matter who they're playing against.If we had a full team like that we'd have no reason to grumble.

What by winning the league you mean?

We won't be winning the league this season.

Have you got tomorrow nights lottery numbers as well?

A couple of good wins and we will be in fine fettle (as they say in Yorkshire I beleive)

 

[jma]

My love for City will never diminish. But my love of the ''match day experience'' has certainly diminished and my desire to go to the game has declined with it.

i think there is an element of 'wow we finally did it' which finally capped off all the support given through the dark days. But for me the main reasons for this are:

1/ Cost. The total cost of going to games that is not just the ticket price. I simply cannot justify this anymore. OK when the lad was £99 but now he's full price and he doesn't earn a penny so I have to wear the ever increasing above inflation cost rises when my disposable income is ever decreasing. i simply can no longer justifying putting such a large percentage of my after-tax income into City. Sorry and all that..

2/ Atmosphere. Again sorry but this has got worse. All the moaning twats around me don't help who just sit there whinging rather than supporting City. I know this is personal choice and you are entitled to sit there quietly if you like, but that's not for me. Nor do i want to stand up the whole game when i've paid for a seat. When i go to derby matches or to see us play flipping Real Madrid and the atmosphere is flat i despair. This is a major negative for me.

3/ TV. I hate all the stupid kick off times that may suit $ky/ESPN but do not suit me. 4pm on a Sunday? Fuck off. Likewise Monday night.

4/ TV. it is easier not to go when the game is probably live on TV anyway as the empty seats too often testify.

5/ Refs. i am sick of seeing refs so frequently changing the outcome of results through incompetence or seeming bias.

So. i gave up my/our ST after many years figuring I would still go to a good few games. I have not been yet this season as it turns out. Firstly you have to pay for a membership that doesn't actually give you anything that I can see and I object to paying for the right to buy already over-priced match tickets so I will take my chance on general sale. I tried to buy tickets for the Hull game on Viagogo but after seemingly buying twice and then being informed that the transaction had failed by email the only two tickets I could find online on the club site were in the gods and still cost the best part of a hundred quid and adding up all my costs for going to the game was over a hundred quid. Once again I can't justify a hundred quid for me and the lad to watch 90 minutes of football. Good Luck to those of you that can. So it looks like we will go to the ''unattractive'' home games that many aren't arsed about in the League Cup or whatever and some aways that go to general sale and that will have to do us for the time being. I'll probably try and get one of these cheaper ST's in the expanded sections of the ground if that happens and the tickets are genuinely cheaper. (No doubt they will be to start with and then they'll gradually rise to match the rest).

Not going though is proving to be habit forming in the same way that going is!

Yours sincerely

A new part-timer armchair supporter (with his tin hat firmly on)
xx

It's criminal that the club don't really care about the increasing number of proper fans like this (because they are easily replaced - or so the figures tell them).

For all those who say, "they do care, what about x, y, z etc", the club could make City the first fair (to the long suffering fans) English club and opt out of the bullshit cartel that is designed to screw every football fan in the land into thinking "well, that's what decent football cost" whilst making barely a dent in the profit/loss or even showing up on the idiotic excuse for everything 'FFP'.

But they are happy to escalate cost every year until the spreadsheet tells them that they have gone too far.

It's a sad state of affairs when we are probably the foremost club in the country that could say "no" to the culture of "squeeze every penny out of every fan" that is a cancer in English football. But rather than have the balls to do something a bit different, City are right on that same bandwagon - with gusto too.

Cue all the apologists who think that not going along with the "squeeze every single fan til they squeek" mantra would suddenly make the club uncompetitive and some sort of charity/liquidation candidate.

 

[Cheesy]

Want to lose your appetite for hot dogs? Then visit a frankfurter factory. It’s an unpleasant business.
In vast metal vats, tons of pork trimmings are mixed with the pink slurry formed when chicken carcasses are squeezed through metal grates and blasted with water.
The mush is mixed with powdered preservatives, flavourings, red colouring and drenched in water before being squeezed into plastic tubes to be cooked and packaged.
It is a disgusting process, for the hot dog is arguably the ultimate in processed, industrial food.

Mmmmm.... sounds fucking ace :)

Seriously.

 

[jake28]

My love for City will never diminish. But my love of the ''match day experience'' has certainly diminished and my desire to go to the game has declined with it.

i think there is an element of 'wow we finally did it' which finally capped off all the support given through the dark days. But for me the main reasons for this are:

1/ Cost. The total cost of going to games that is not just the ticket price. I simply cannot justify this anymore. OK when the lad was £99 but now he's full price and he doesn't earn a penny so I have to wear the ever increasing above inflation cost rises when my disposable income is ever decreasing. i simply can no longer justifying putting such a large percentage of my after-tax income into City. Sorry and all that..

2/ Atmosphere. Again sorry but this has got worse. All the moaning twats around me don't help who just sit there whinging rather than supporting City. I know this is personal choice and you are entitled to sit there quietly if you like, but that's not for me. Nor do i want to stand up the whole game when i've paid for a seat. When i go to derby matches or to see us play flipping Real Madrid and the atmosphere is flat i despair. This is a major negative for me.

3/ TV. I hate all the stupid kick off times that may suit $ky/ESPN but do not suit me. 4pm on a Sunday? Fuck off. Likewise Monday night.

4/ TV. it is easier not to go when the game is probably live on TV anyway as the empty seats too often testify.

5/ Refs. i am sick of seeing refs so frequently changing the outcome of results through incompetence or seeming bias.

So. i gave up my/our ST after many years figuring I would still go to a good few games. I have not been yet this season as it turns out. Firstly you have to pay for a membership that doesn't actually give you anything that I can see and I object to paying for the right to buy already over-priced match tickets so I will take my chance on general sale. I tried to buy tickets for the Hull game on Viagogo but after seemingly buying twice and then being informed that the transaction had failed by email the only two tickets I could find online on the club site were in the gods and still cost the best part of a hundred quid and adding up all my costs for going to the game was over a hundred quid. Once again I can't justify a hundred quid for me and the lad to watch 90 minutes of football. Good Luck to those of you that can. So it looks like we will go to the ''unattractive'' home games that many aren't arsed about in the League Cup or whatever and some aways that go to general sale and that will have to do us for the time being. I'll probably try and get one of these cheaper ST's in the expanded sections of the ground if that happens and the tickets are genuinely cheaper. (No doubt they will be to start with and then they'll gradually rise to match the rest).

Not going though is proving to be habit forming in the same way that going is!

Yours sincerely

A new part-timer armchair supporter (with his tin hat firmly on)
xx

It's criminal that the club don't really care about the increasing number of proper fans like this (because they are easily replaced - or so the figures tell them).

For all those who say, "they do care, what about x, y, z etc", the club could make City the first fair (to the long suffering fans) English club and opt out of the bullshit cartel that is designed to screw every football fan in the land into thinking "well, that's what decent football cost" whilst making barely a dent in the profit/loss or even showing up on the idiotic excuse for everything 'FFP'.

But they are happy to escalate cost every year until the spreadsheet tells them that they have gone too far.

It's a sad state of affairs when we are probably the foremost club in the country that could say "no" to the culture of "squeeze every penny out of every fan" that is a cancer in English football. But rather than have the balls to do something a bit different, City are right on that same bandwagon - with gusto too.

Cue all the apologists who think that not going along with the "squeeze every single fan til they squeek" mantra would suddenly make the club uncompetitive and some sort of charity/liquidation candidate.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[alib]

Fully concur

Despite everything they've done I'm still disappointed that they didn't make a stand and say we are going to make watching football cheap and affordable to the average Manchester person and reduce ticket prices rather than increase them?

 

[Ducado]

Fully concur

Despite everything they've done I'm still disappointed that they didn't make a stand and say we are going to make watching football cheap and affordable to the average Manchester person and reduce ticket prices rather than increase them?

What is the average Manchester person?

 

[blinkblue]

It's been boring watching us this season so that probably doesn't help.

 

[SaddleworthBlueRhino]

Good win in Europe and the derby tomorrow. Got to be up for this.