Here we go again. Let me try and explain this one more time in easy terms in the increasingly forlorn hope that you might understand. There is no such thing as a group of executives who work for the club but don't represent the view of the club or that of the owners. The club works as a collective from Khaldoon down and Khaldoon represents and works with full oversight from Sheikh Mansour. To suggest that there is some 'rogue' group of executives within the club acting on their own agenda is one of the most stupid things I've ever heard. You've clearly never worked in a professional organisation. If you protest then you protest against the club and Shiekh Mansour. You don't protest against these fictitious rogue group who don't exist.
As for criticising fans who demonstrated against Swales if you read back I have never said that. My only reference to Swales was in a discussion to point out that we have never owned the club, not now and not then, not even in the mythical good old days I pointed out it was owned by Peter Swales and his friends. As for not criticising Swales I was one of the idiots protesting against him at the time.
You my friend are like pork. You can bake it, you can boil it and you can roast it; but you can't educate it!
Let's try an analogy.
Don't know if you're married or not mate but have you ever had an argument with your wife/partner? Maybe she's done something that annoyed you, like arrange a social event when you've told her you're going somewhere else or made something for your tea that you've told her you don't like. So you have a row about it, one or both of you says sorry and you sort it out. She checks with you before making arrangements or doesn't make you whatever it is you don't like again. Unless it's the final straw after you haven't been getting on for a while, you don't decide to get divorced because she made you Shepherd's Pie, Quiche or whatever. She just realises she's made a mistake, doesn't repeat it and you put it to one side and get on with your life.
Get the picture?
You're sounding like one of those people who seriously believes that the people you see as your betters always get it right, even if what they're telling you sounds completely stupid or plain wrong. Sometimes, people paid fortunes get things wrong because they only see things from one angle without thinking of the impact that will have on the people impacted by the decision.
I'm not even sure what you're saying. Is it that the club hasn't made a mistake or that it has but we should just keep quiet and not mention it in case we upset them?
Sheikh Mansour does not set the ticket prices, he's not involved in the day to day running of the club, he delegates that to the people he employs.
Soriano and Glick for example. That's who the criticism of a protest would be aimed at, it's their pricing policies that are harming the support.
I've made this point previously, but for all we know Sheikh Mansour might be unaware of the discontent these two are causing among the support, they might give him the impression everything is rosy leaving him none the wiser. You could look at a protest as a direct appeal to Sheikh Mansour above their heads, given he's made direct promises to us about always doing right by the support in his open letter to us when he first took over. He might be as unhappy as we are if he learnt the people he employed are not honouring those promises. And besides, he's a smart business man, he'll know it makes no sense to alienate the support for insignificant sums of money to the overall revenue. It's not even smart business sense.
But it's all by the by, you're not really interested in examining this topic sincerely or in any real depth, you're just scraping the barrel for more crap to tar anyone who believes a protest in opposition to ticket prices at City is necessary, the narrative that we're all entitled ingrates is just another snide straw to clutch at.
As said in the other thread, I'm reserving judgement of the club, our owners and the execs until the season ticket prices are issued. A couple of CL cup games for which the tickets have been priced at more or less the same as every other club in the CL, is not enough to make me turn against the club in the way that some on here seem to have done.
And as I just said to this exact same comment:
That's the thing the mate, you're treating this as if it's a knee jerk reaction to an isolated incident.
This is a much broader trend at City, and this game has represented a wake up call for a lot of people who were in denial as to where we were headed. The club statement to the discontent capturing it in microcosm.
No one has turned on the club, a lot of blues are very angry with the likes of Soriano however, and rightly so.
This is getting repetitive. See other thread
Would help if you didn't respond to a different comment with a verbatim copy and pasted comment mate, then I wouldn't be inclined to do likewise.
you sound very angry with those who don't agree with you.
Ha. Pathetic response. Do you have anything whatsoever to add to this discussion or are you just trolling now?