Protest?

Prices going up is a fact of life. All businesses raise prices I'm not sure why anybody would expect football to not do the same. If you want to buy top tier players to win trophies the revenue has to come from somewhere.
The club's wage bill is circa £420m (if this is incorrect I am sure someone will correct me. The proposed ticket increases I read will bring in the club around an extra £1.5m if that. Just imagine if the entire staff bill was cut by just 1% then we could all have a discount. The club wouldn't be receiving all this appalling PR and everyone would be happy. For someone like KDB that would mean a weekly wage of just £346,500 instead of £350k. I think he could survive and even at the bottom end of the scale someone like Rico would earn £24,750 per week instead of £25k. Businesses do increase costs but the difference between a players wage and the average supporter is world's apart. I reckon if you ask the players to have a 1% wage decrease (not bonuses) so that the supporters weren't priced out they all would. Tourists are not going to follow the club when we aren't winning things (and it will happen) but we will.
 
Before I start, I want to say that on the field this has been the best few years I've witnessed as a blue. But off the field, I'm finding myself feeling angrier and angrier at the decisions being made by the club.

Recently we've seen:
  • Ticket Prices that completely price out our core support
  • More expensive Season Tickets than ever before
  • Far too many away tickets are being siphoned away from the loyalty points scheme
  • Home tickets for big games are being sold via Hospitality Packages and Third Party Websites, with very few being made available to Matchday members
  • Plans to put "Premium Seating" in the new north stand, despite constant calls from WeAre1894 and City Matters NOT to do this
  • Failure to acknowledge, let alone condemn, the trouble that our own fans faced in Istanbul

Not only are all of these a betrayal of the very supporters who've supported this club through thick and thin, but show a clear lack of long-term business understanding. Which tells me that our current business strategy is to make as much money as possible right now, and then 10 years from now it'll be someone else's problem anyway so who cares right?

The reason I believe we need to organise some kind of protest is that the club simply won't listen unless we make a fuss. They've proven time and time again that they won't listen to City Matters, and as individuals, we have absolutely no voice. If we make a fuss and the Media catch on, then we could finally start to see some change for the better.

Just a suggestion, would be interested to hear how others feel?

The club have moved on. Success on the field for the last fifteen years, culminating in the champions league victory has generated massive worldwide interest. The netflix documentary will probably accentuate that further. The club doesn't need legacy fans anymore. The charity shield game when we sold out, in spite of a boycott by many legacy fans, proved that. We are now just all customers and easily replaceable. Many knew this would happen if we were successful and so it has proved.

The alternative is we stayed as an also ran. Pottering around in mid table or lower. If we were lucky a good cup run, maybe getting into the Europa league. If unlucky relegation. The highlight of our season would have been beating the rags as it used to be. The banner would still be up at the swamp and now reading 46 years. Tickets would be cheaper but we'd be watching the modern equivalent of Joey Barton, who'd be our star player, Corrardi who'd be our experienced striker backed up by an up and coming prospect Samaras. A raw diamond as Pearce said. On that subject the modern equivalent of Pearce would be our manager. The tactics? Keep it tight and hit it into the channels. Celebrate the odd victory over a big club and dream of the glory days of Bell, Lee and Summerbee. This is the reality. Sadly we can't have it all, or can we?
 
There won’t be any protests, but I do think there is a growing disconnect between the core fanbase and the club. I think a lot of people are on the edge of having to give up going and quite a few already have. Without that core fanbase it’s not the same club for me.

A lot of the things mentioned I think would be massively helped by independent supporters trust. We as fans have no voice and we can’t stand up to the club on pretty much any issue. The 1894 group are the closest thing to that right now.

It’s the same at a lot of clubs and I think in about 15/20 years there will be major issues as the next generation of fans aren’t attending football matches now.
 
Football as we know it is dying, nothing we can do about it. Do you really think they don't know they are pricing us out? That's what they want

Todays match is from Baltimore where Manchester City play at home against Seattle Sounders. AND IT'S LIVE!!
 
Before I start, I want to say that on the field this has been the best few years I've witnessed as a blue. But off the field, I'm finding myself feeling angrier and angrier at the decisions being made by the club.

Recently we've seen:
  • Ticket Prices that completely price out our core support
  • More expensive Season Tickets than ever before
  • Far too many away tickets are being siphoned away from the loyalty points scheme
  • Home tickets for big games are being sold via Hospitality Packages and Third Party Websites, with very few being made available to Matchday members
  • Plans to put "Premium Seating" in the new north stand, despite constant calls from WeAre1894 and City Matters NOT to do this
  • Failure to acknowledge, let alone condemn, the trouble that our own fans faced in Istanbul

Not only are all of these a betrayal of the very supporters who've supported this club through thick and thin, but show a clear lack of long-term business understanding. Which tells me that our current business strategy is to make as much money as possible right now, and then 10 years from now it'll be someone else's problem anyway so who cares right?

The reason I believe we need to organise some kind of protest is that the club simply won't listen unless we make a fuss. They've proven time and time again that they won't listen to City Matters, and as individuals, we have absolutely no voice. If we make a fuss and the Media catch on, then we could finally start to see some change for the better.

Just a suggestion, would be interested to hear how others feel?
I think you’re right but you’re also probably going to get a load of pelters for saying it.

Before the takeover we were the only fabric of the club. Without our special fanbase we wouldn’t be here now. However the club now is a lot bigger than us but I do think they have disenfranchised us, especially over the last 2 or 3 years.

The away support is stupendous but it is being eroded by the leaking off of so many tickets. At home we are seeing season tickets not replaced as older Blues die or stop going. More and more day trippers.

Pep sometimes bollocks us for the apathy of our home support, but does he know why that’s happening? He knows our loyal working class history, he has said as much, but I doubt he realises how much his top exec pals are putting a big strain on that.

I don’t know how we do it. I certainly wouldn’t rely on Kevin Parker and I don’t advocate leaving early - I enjoy the football too much for that. Maybe we could all flash the torches on our phones - oh wait!

I spent decades protesting against Swales, I detested the man, then a few years wanting Franny out. This is a different sort of problem but it is one that should be aired. What really pissed me off was the shambles of Istanbul and the misery that thousands faced due to the deliberate ineptitude of UEFA and not one word in support of us from the club. I had my 2 teenage kids with me that night and the difficulties before and after the match were shocking and the lack of acknowledgement from the club has irreparably tarnished my opinion of the senior execs at the club.

So yes I’d protest but not a clue how.
 
The club's wage bill is circa £420m (if this is incorrect I am sure someone will correct me. The proposed ticket increases I read will bring in the club around an extra £1.5m if that. Just imagine if the entire staff bill was cut by just 1% then we could all have a discount. The club wouldn't be receiving all this appalling PR and everyone would be happy. For someone like KDB that would mean a weekly wage of just £346,500 instead of £350k. I think he could survive and even at the bottom end of the scale someone like Rico would earn £24,750 per week instead of £25k. Businesses do increase costs but the difference between a players wage and the average supporter is world's apart. I reckon if you ask the players to have a 1% wage decrease (not bonuses) so that the supporters weren't priced out they all would. Tourists are not going to follow the club when we aren't winning things (and it will happen) but we will.
"I reckon if you ask the players to have a 1% wage decrease (not bonuses) so that the supporters weren't priced out they all would." I highly doubt players would be interested in wage cuts. Pro athletes are used to their wages continuing to rise at an exorbitant clip. I can't see them doing anything to curtail the gravy train. Most people aren't going to sign off on their pay being cut.

The cold hard reality of pro sport is wages will continue to go up and ticket prices will continue to go up. It has been happening for ages.
 
Before I start, I want to say that on the field this has been the best few years I've witnessed as a blue. But off the field, I'm finding myself feeling angrier and angrier at the decisions being made by the club.

Recently we've seen:
  • Ticket Prices that completely price out our core support
  • More expensive Season Tickets than ever before
  • Far too many away tickets are being siphoned away from the loyalty points scheme
  • Home tickets for big games are being sold via Hospitality Packages and Third Party Websites, with very few being made available to Matchday members
  • Plans to put "Premium Seating" in the new north stand, despite constant calls from WeAre1894 and City Matters NOT to do this
  • Failure to acknowledge, let alone condemn, the trouble that our own fans faced in Istanbul

Not only are all of these a betrayal of the very supporters who've supported this club through thick and thin, but show a clear lack of long-term business understanding. Which tells me that our current business strategy is to make as much money as possible right now, and then 10 years from now it'll be someone else's problem anyway so who cares right?

The reason I believe we need to organise some kind of protest is that the club simply won't listen unless we make a fuss. They've proven time and time again that they won't listen to City Matters, and as individuals, we have absolutely no voice. If we make a fuss and the Media catch on, then we could finally start to see some change for the better.

Just a suggestion, would be interested to hear how others feel?
Excellent post blue. We could learn a lot from the German fan base. City Matters time to shut up shop. Kevin Parker looks after himself only, get rid…. 1894 are a great bunch and actually have the balls to speak up for all us blues. Protest is a great idea. You’ll get some missing the bigger picture, with comments of, but look what the club has done for us etc… It’s our club, Let’s have it right.
 

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