New v Old supporters

jjeangi said:
didactic said:
The owners have been operating at a loss close to half a billion pounds. Infact with the amount of money they invested it could have gone and turned around ANY team in the Premiership. So they are not being paid they are doing it because they have taken an interest "though recent" in the club. Its like anything else you cannot have you cake and eat it.

Either you stay a local club with a small amount of die hard supporters with local ownership or you get investment from someone else who due to that investment increases the brand. I know it is a tough pill to swallow but none of us own the club, infact the club is owned by someone who has only ever been to Manchester a handful of times.

Its like the local players argument (which is not what I think you are saying, I am just using it as an example) they say lets play only home grown talent but that drags down the quality of the league. Like it or not the best players from from elsewhere Tevez, Fake Ronaldo, Torres, Drogba and its the same with club ownership the richest owners come from elsewhere and bring with them a new fan base.

Do you genuinely feel you have the right to tell the Sheikhs son that he is not welcome as a supporter because he is not local when his father owns the team? What about the millions in the middle east who now support the club and come to games because their oil money is buying those shiny new players? Where does the distinction start and where does it end? What qualifies you more than someone else in America who has been watching and following the team for the same amount of time? A birth right?
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Owned. +1
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What is the definition of an old supporter? ten years? 4 years?

everyone has been a new supporter! and everyone will someday be an old supporter!
 
didactic said:
Grand Master Ram Rod said:
I'm not saying they can't support us, they can do what they want. I just don't understand why they do and unless they have a really good reason, I don't think I ever will. I'm basically saying I just won't respect them as much as I do true hardcore supporters. It's probably wrong but it's how I feel.

When I see a Malaysian/Irish/Cockney United fan on TV, I always have a little chuckle to myself and it makes me even more proud to be a blue. If we start getting all that, it'll proved we've finally made it but I will also feel a little bit sick inside. Especially considering the majority just sit at home watching it on TV.
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We have already have all that.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=167024481132" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=167024481132</a> (group full of Malaysian fans).

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=167024481132#!/group.php?gid=174174884226" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=1 ... 4174884226</a> (The Tokyo & Japan Manchester City Football Club (MCFC) Supporters Group).

Welcome to the big leagues.
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Not that big - the Japan group only has 12 members.
 
didactic said:
whp.blue said:
I've supported City all my life I have seen us win the league and fa cup etc I have also seen several owners come and go and whilst the current owner is fantastic when he eventually moves on I will still be a blue

I am a mancunian and City is a part of my life I don't care where anyone comes from or how long they have been a blue but if I am totally honest I always think blues should be Mancunians

I don't care if they have been to every game for the last twenty years but they were born in say kent or Ireland the one question that will always nag me is why don't you support your local team like I do ?

this may be very unpopular view but I am being honest and I can't be a hypocrite I have slagged of the rags for years about this and I don't see any difference just because they picked City instead of the rags

the Manchester is in our name for a reason
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Fair enough. But you do realise the owner has the right to call the club anything he wants and lets say he moved it to new bigger ground outside Manchester? What then?
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mk dons = wimbledon fc

it wouldn't be manchester City anymore and I am sure we would get a new man city from manchester in the lower leagues

or god forbid Maine rd would have to be my new local club
 
whp.blue said:
didactic said:
Fair enough. But you do realise the owner has the right to call the club anything he wants and lets say he moved it to new bigger ground outside Manchester? What then?
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mk dons = wimbledon fc

it wouldn't be manchester City anymore and I am sure we would get a new man city from manchester in the lower leagues

or god forbid Maine rd would have to be my new local club
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or god forbid Maine rd would have to be my new local club...Nearest name /location to MCFC would be Manchester central....anyone remember the Belle Vue speedway on Hyde road..it had MCFC over the entrance..
 
Longsight-memories said:
whp.blue said:
mk dons = wimbledon fc

it wouldn't be manchester City anymore and I am sure we would get a new man city from manchester in the lower leagues

or god forbid Maine rd would have to be my new local club
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or god forbid Maine rd would have to be my new local club...Nearest name /location to MCFC would be Manchester central....anyone remember the Belle Vue speedway on Hyde road..it had MCFC over the entrance..
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Manchester Central FC ahh that always confused me as a kid ;-)
 
I being American admittedly started following them in 2003 when Claudio Reyna came aboard. Great player, sorry he didn't pan out at City, however, since 2003 it has since become an addiction. In the US, it seems everyone likes, the Rags, Chelsea or Liverpool and when picking a team I didn't want any part of those teams. I now go and watch games on Saturdays and am happily the only City fan in my town/bar. Everyone wants to root on for anyone who plays us now, and I love it, because all that means is everyone is scared of us.

Just last week I got into a debate with 3 Liverpool fans about how Luis Suarez will be trash in this league and lauged how they paid 35 for Carroll. I may not be from Manchester, but I am as crazy about City as the next guy. CTID.
 
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