Poor Home Attendances

Doesn't help that we're on telly every other week.
Had to wait 'til the Arsenal game for our first Saturday 3pm.. pathetic.
 
The poor attendances I mentioned were aimed primarily at the Uefa cup games. We have waited ages to get into Europe and away from home it has been fantastic yet we can't seem to generate the support even with the club offering good deals on the ticket prices.

MCFC Season Ticket Prices are still excellent value for money and their £100 policy for kids season tickets is an excellent way to bring the new blood through.

I still feel City are a bigger club than Newcastle and even with their run of form their attendances beat ours.

Lets hope one big buy in this window maybe Arshavin and some solid players will have the desired affect and the team will climb the table.

Joe90
 
withingtonmcfc said:
Our attendances are generally good. Everton, who I always think of as a similar sized club to us, got just 37,527 yesterday and they are 6th at the moment.

I do think though that our UEFA Cup attendances have been poor and hope we get a decent crowd in for FC Copenhagen.
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your right on the uefa cup attendences. last season, city fans were pleeding to go into europe and how much we deserved it, but when we do, only 16,000 turn up.
 
There's absolutely no doubt that we lost fans durin' Stuart Pearces reign , but things were also beginnin' to go on a downward spiral towards the turbulent tail end of Keegans time here too ....... Pearce was merely seen as the easily available 'messiah' who could hopefully lift the club up , and also one expected to do it by spendin' peanuts too!

And it didn';t help when the club seemed to be askin' for season ticket money earlier each season , somethin' that i know pissed quite a few blues off judgin' by letters i've read in the last few years ......... but the nucleus of support is still there as we saw against United , Chelsea and Liverpool ....... we have fans just waiting for a reason to return , or come a bit more ...... we just have to give them one!

But it hardly helps that almost every time we see COMS full , we capitualte on the pitch!
 
i think people are only starting to realise that Stuart Pearce actually did a decent job of keeping us up, especially as we have what we do now because we're palying top flight football.

He put the football club before himself, his popularity and his reputation and just made sure we did what we could with the resources we hd to try and stay in the premier league.
 
A star name does not fill a stadium. It did not work with Rodney Marsh and it has not worked with Robinho. Looking like we might be competitive enough to win a friggin trophy again at last will fill it.
 
coz all fans are on here streaming city games thanks to shadygiz... then submit all their anger on here once were beaten.. shut bluemoon down and eastlands will hit capacity..
 
Balti said:
A star name does not fill a stadium. It did not work with Rodney Marsh and it has not worked with Robinho. Looking like we might be competitive enough to win a friggin trophy again at last will fill it.
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Have to agree ...... positive results will make all the difference ....... people want to come to watch City at home feeeling that they'll see a City win nine times out of ten , but most of us hardly expect to see it , even against sides who are assumably inferior to ourselves!

As for Rodney Marsh the difference was that he walked into a city side that were looking like they were gonna win the league , indeed some blame his arrival for not finishing top in the end ........ that was a far more balanced , and potent , city side than what we're seein' today ....... and they could hang on to leads!
 
black mamba said:
Balti said:
A star name does not fill a stadium. It did not work with Rodney Marsh and it has not worked with Robinho. Looking like we might be competitive enough to win a friggin trophy again at last will fill it.
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As for Rodney Marsh the difference was that he walked into a city side that were looking like they were gonna win the league , indeed some blame his arrival for not finishing top in the end ........ that was a far more balanced , and potent , city side than what we're seein' today ....... and they could hang on to leads!
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Even then we weren't filling the stadium and Swales only sanctioned buying him cos Allison told him that he'd fill the ground every week. But yes, buying him damaged the fantastic team spirit that we had till then and meant that someone who didn't deserve to be dropped had to be dropped to make way for Marsh. If it aint broke don't fix it. The current team is broke though and does need fixing!!
 
GStar said:
i think people are only starting to realise that Stuart Pearce actually did a decent job of keeping us up, especially as we have what we do now because we're palying top flight football.

He put the football club before himself, his popularity and his reputation and just made sure we did what we could with the resources we hd to try and stay in the premier league.
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this


he was given nothin and in the end his signing of mpenza was whatkept him up
 
Balti said:
black mamba said:
As for Rodney Marsh the difference was that he walked into a city side that were looking like they were gonna win the league , indeed some blame his arrival for not finishing top in the end ........ that was a far more balanced , and potent , city side than what we're seein' today ....... and they could hang on to leads!
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Even then we weren't filling the stadium and Swales only sanctioned buying him cos Allison told him that he'd fill the ground every week. But yes, buying him damaged the fantastic team spirit that we had till then and meant that someone who didn't deserve to be dropped had to be dropped to make way for Marsh. If it aint broke don't fix it. The current team is broke though and does need fixing!!
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I thought that Swales became Chaiman in 1973,a year after Rodders was signed from QPR.We can't blame the sheet music man for losing us the 1st division title in 1972.
 
fathellensbellend said:
stuart pearce was the lowest point in my city following life.

abysmal.
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I bet you carried on going though didn't you FHBE? Pisses me off when people are still using it as an excuse for not going.

Valid reasons for not going:
Being skint, change of circumstances, simply can't be arsed any more, etc

Shite excuse for not going:
The brand of football we played two managers ago.
 
The 'poor' home Cup Attendances go back to City resting 6 players v Arsenal resting 11 in the League Cup.

This was charged at £25 and casued many toi drop out of the direct cup scheme.
 
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