Roll call for 9 minute protest

paulchapo said:
Yes they can. The game has kicked off, they start moving amongst the crowd asking people to leave the concourse and take their seats. After a few minutes of non compliance they threaten you with expulsion if you don't go to your seat. Am I saying this will happen? I don't know but you're very niave to think they might not try and pressure people to do so.
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They possibly can force the odd individual but if there are numbers of fans it’s an impossible task.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
4 home games left to try and and climb a mountain and get a champions league place. Yet some think it a really good idea to have protests that will obviously reflect in the atmosphere at all remaining home games where this stunt is pulled.

Why not do the demos before and after the game where the support for the team is not affected.

And anybody repeating Pep’s comments seem to miss out the bit where he says he needs our support - I’m sure he’s buzzing that the support will come from the concourse for 10 minutes then another 10 minutes for everybody trying to get to their seats.

Genius.
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Don’t take it out on the supporters who care about something???

And want to make a proper statement to the Management to address??

The club existed before Champions League Football, and hopefully,if the right people listen to the supporters, rather than caring about the customers, the supporters will still be able to afford to attend in the future!!

Champions League or no Champions League?

MCFC is more than just about the Chumps League :0)
 
Shirley said:
They possibly can force the odd individual but if there are numbers of fans it’s an impossible task.
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Difficult sure but not impossible. They could give a directive that if you don't take your seats you will have to leave. They then block the small areas used to enter the seating area, open the doors and with police help force fans out of the stadium and lock the doors.
Due to health and safety concerns this probably won't happen. It will be easier to let the protest peter out as it will.
 
WNRH said:
So sad to see so many ‘I’m alright jacks’ in this thread.

What hope have you got?
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Try reading my comments and make an effort to understand where I am coming from. I'm not an alright Jack. I don't like the focus of this protest. I do not like the underlying theme which is identifying non-core fans as an issue in the ground. That's a big mistake.

I've had enough of this. It's turning into trolling now and abuse.
 
WNRH said:
So sad to see so many ‘I’m alright jacks’ in this thread.

What hope have you got?
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Human nature I'm afraid. They'll give a fuck when all season tickets are cancelled and what once cost them £20 a game will then cost them £120 on viagogo or some other agency site.
 
Marvin. said:
I haven't seen that. It was a flyer put out in a tweet by Trade Union Blues. I am not on Twitter so can't access it now. I read it over the weekend when I was at another address.

And if you look at the text. Read the last line. Become outnumbered in our own ground. This is the same argument I objected to about atmosphere and tourists. I don't know whose putting this out but this is a problem

City fan groups should be very careful about the tourist argument. The fan who was on the Overlap said it was a Liverpool fan who was attacked. I thought it was a City fan from America. This feeling of Become outnumbered in our own ground sounds very familiar to me. I am alert to this. I don't think other people see it because they are subsumed with other issues.
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Any excuse you can find plus another segway to your racist accusations again. You're worse on this thread than Gone for a Burton on the 115 thread
 
Superace said:
Not to me it isn't and I say it isn't to most.
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Thank you for your opinion

But it is not mine!!!

And as this thread has repeated on many occasions, it also not everyone’s :0)

Let the people decide for themselves!!!

We don’t need you to decide for us, thank you very much!!! :0)
 
I am genuinely dead confused at the reactions from so many posters here about what they think the action should or shouldn't be, or what it should've been instead.

Some saying "9 minutes is not enough", some saying it's too much. Some saying "why don't they do banners", "they should do something outside the ground that doesn't obstruct the team", "this is the wrong time/match", "I'm waiting to see if my seasonticket goes up", or "it's only about viagogo there are bigger issues" etc.

From the very start of the season, groups like 1894 and the fans' foodbank have been fighting for better treatment of the City family as a whole. Before the first game of the season we had the atrocious disabled parking charges, that they fought against and made the club U-Turn.

Throughout the season we've seen things like Manchester based fans being called "1%" by the chief marketing officer, groups of people in Barca shirts at Anfield and then a week after the club promise it'll never happen again, we see a group of men in Real Mallorca colours at Ipswich! All this at a time when it's never been harder to get away tickets.

Weve then seen the disgraceful way the club has ignored open letters from all the fan groups on pricing, and left City Matters hanging for 7 weeks for a ticketing meeting they'd promised in 7 days. A meeting that only materialised after Thursday's viagogo announcement and the immediate backlash to that, caused or not.

So then the comments about the tactics of the protest. People saying why not banners? We did banners a year ago! 1894 put up a "RECORD PROFITS, RECORD PRICES, STOP EXPLOITING OUR LOYALTY" at home vs Arsenal after yet another price increase, what did the club do? Tear down the banner, chase the 1894 members down the concourse and took their accreditation. We've tried banners, the club control what gets in or out of the ground and they'll just get us banned.

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Some people have also said that it should be done outside the ground. Well the foodbank group have been doing banners outside the ground multiple times this season, and 1894 have held banners at away games, in solidarity with fans from across the country, in the #StopExploitingLoyalty campaign which has two main aims - reduce/freeze the cost of tickets, and protect Junior? OAP concession rates. We're any of you who are saying this protest needs to be outside at any of these displays? They were all shared on socials.

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In fact, the foodbank lot even went to Anfield with a banner and held it across the away end, for a solid 10minutes. The scousers have been supportive from the start, and they recently won a brilliant freeze in both STs and general admission. Liverpool also won a reduction in ticket prices back in 2016 when they did a concourse boycott, so who is to say these things don't work?

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City fans even got one up during the return fixture the other month, but the upstanding gentlemen at GMP tore it down for no apparent reason.

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And let's be honest, City fans haven't exactly got a big track record of protesting anything this millenium, so it makes sense to do something a bit smaller before we try anything like a walkout, which some people have called for here. If people are complaining about 9mins at kickoff, what makes you think we're ready to try a walkout when a match will already be underway?

The discontent this season has been massive, multifaceted, and really disappointing to experience. Knowing our own club doesn't listen, and largely doesn't even care, is depressing. I grew up with Junior Blues, thinking that it was one big family. That has eroded badly in recent years when it became clear that the ruthless chase of the profit margin came above all else. This protest is obviously not just about viagogo, it was clearly just the last straw for many supporters. Everyone can see it.

There are two options for protesting tomorrow. If you can't bear to miss 9mins of a game tomorrow (even to protect being able to afford to watch 90mins next season), then come and join us at 7pm by the Colin Bell stand. If you're not sure about it then come and talk to the organisers - who are just regular blues like all of us, who deeply care about this club.

We all have the option here to make a bit of a stand and make our voices heard, even if it may seem to no avail. I don't want to live in a world where we don't believe we can change it for the better. City fans boycotting the Community Shield in 2023 made the FA change a kickoff time for the first time in history. City fans doing a fundraiser for disabled fans this year made the club U-Turn on malicious parking charges. Football supporters united across the country in 2017 got the £30 away cap introduced. We can do things if we just try.

Please try and support in some way tomorrow, we're all doing this for the next generation of Blues who can't even get in the ground anymore.

Keep the faith. CTID.
 
Marvin. said:
I haven't seen that. It was a flyer put out in a tweet by Trade Union Blues. I am not on Twitter so can't access it now. I read it over the weekend when I was at another address.

And if you look at the text. Read the last line. Become outnumbered in our own ground. This is the same argument I objected to about atmosphere and tourists. I don't know whose putting this out but this is a problem

City fan groups should be very careful about the tourist argument. The fan who was on the Overlap said it was a Liverpool fan who was attacked. I thought it was a City fan from America. This feeling of Become outnumbered in our own ground sounds very familiar to me. I am alert to this. I don't think other people see it because they are subsumed with other issues.
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I understand these concerns mate.

I would hope that you can read it with the intention it was written, and not that it was harking for fascist great replacement theory shite. I know for a fact that it is talking about away fans and daytrippers (not City fans local/overseas) in our stadium. Think of the 30,000 eintracht fans at Barca that time, a club that is experiencing the long-term fallout of Soriano's business strategy.

But i understand your fears.
 
CC1 said:
Agree totally mate. Many on here have forgotten that THEY also have a part to play - and that part is to SUPPORT the team on match days
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I think those that wish to protest know they part and have known their part for many years.

The protest is not against the team, but not being able to do they part in the future!!!

It’s a protest against the Management, if the team can’t survive against Leicester for 9 minutes, without a few supporters, then God help us, if we make Champions League football next year!!!!
 
BertM19 said:
I am genuinely dead confused at the reactions from so many posters here about what they think the action should or shouldn't be, or what it should've been instead.

Some saying "9 minutes is not enough", some saying it's too much. Some saying "why don't they do banners", "they should do something outside the ground that doesn't obstruct the team", "this is the wrong time/match", "I'm waiting to see if my seasonticket goes up", or "it's only about viagogo there are bigger issues" etc.

From the very start of the season, groups like 1894 and the fans' foodbank have been fighting for better treatment of the City family as a whole. Before the first game of the season we had the atrocious disabled parking charges, that they fought against and made the club U-Turn.

Throughout the season we've seen things like Manchester based fans being called "1%" by the chief marketing officer, groups of people in Barca shirts at Anfield and then a week after the club promise it'll never happen again, we see a group of men in Real Mallorca colours at Ipswich! All this at a time when it's never been harder to get away tickets.

Weve then seen the disgraceful way the club has ignored open letters from all the fan groups on pricing, and left City Matters hanging for 7 weeks for a ticketing meeting they'd promised in 7 days. A meeting that only materialised after Thursday's viagogo announcement and the immediate backlash to that, caused or not.

So then the comments about the tactics of the protest. People saying why not banners? We did banners a year ago! 1894 put up a "RECORD PROFITS, RECORD PRICES, STOP EXPLOITING OUR LOYALTY" at home vs Arsenal after yet another price increase, what did the club do? Tear down the banner, chase the 1894 members down the concourse and took their accreditation. We've tried banners, the club control what gets in or out of the ground and they'll just get us banned.

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Some people have also said that it should be done outside the ground. Well the foodbank group have been doing banners outside the ground multiple times this season, and 1894 have held banners at away games, in solidarity with fans from across the country, in the #StopExploitingLoyalty campaign which has two main aims - reduce/freeze the cost of tickets, and protect Junior? OAP concession rates. We're any of you who are saying this protest needs to be outside at any of these displays? They were all shared on socials.

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In fact, the foodbank lot even went to Anfield with a banner and held it across the away end, for a solid 10minutes. The scousers have been supportive from the start, and they recently won a brilliant freeze in both STs and general admission. Liverpool also won a reduction in ticket prices back in 2016 when they did a concourse boycott, so who is to say these things don't work?

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City fans even got one up during the return fixture the other month, but the upstanding gentlemen at GMP tore it down for no apparent reason.

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And let's be honest, City fans haven't exactly got a big track record of protesting anything this millenium, so it makes sense to do something a bit smaller before we try anything like a walkout, which some people have called for here. If people are complaining about 9mins at kickoff, what makes you think we're ready to try a walkout when a match will already be underway?

The discontent this season has been massive, multifaceted, and really disappointing to experience. Knowing our own club doesn't listen, and largely doesn't even care, is depressing. I grew up with Junior Blues, thinking that it was one big family. That has eroded badly in recent years when it became clear that the ruthless chase of the profit margin came above all else. This protest is obviously not just about viagogo, it was clearly just the last straw for many supporters. Everyone can see it.

There are two options for protesting tomorrow. If you can't bear to miss 9mins of a game tomorrow (even to protect being able to afford to watch 90mins next season), then come and join us at 7pm by the Colin Bell stand. If you're not sure about it then come and talk to the organisers - who are just regular blues like all of us, who deeply care about this club.

We all have the option here to make a bit of a stand and make our voices heard, even if it may seem to no avail. I don't want to live in a world where we don't believe we can change it for the better. City fans boycotting the Community Shield in 2023 made the FA change a kickoff time for the first time in history. City fans doing a fundraiser for disabled fans this year made the club U-Turn on malicious parking charges. Football supporters united across the country in 2017 got the £30 away cap introduced. We can do things if we just try.

Please try and support in some way tomorrow, we're all doing this for the next generation of Blues who can't even get in the ground anymore.

Keep the faith. CTID.
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A brilliant post that clearly explains everything and highlights the potential future dangers of doing nothing in the here and now. The selfish, the ones who can soak up yet another price increase and the meek will of course do nothing, either out of fear, apathy or selfish interest. That of course won't buy them any favours when the club eventually price them out. It will be too late then because those who tried to do something about it will be gone. They'll then be told, "Can't afford £150 for Liverpool at home on viagogo? That's modern football unfortunately mate."
 
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From a tweet by Trade Union Blues. 28 Mar 2025.
 
CC1 said:
I don't go on Liverpools fans social media - I come on BlueMoon and see constant moaning and criticism

The general negativity on TV is highlighted in the joyful way they report our difficult season: the constant sniping about Phil; Jack etc and now the only story is Haaland being out for 7 weeks

Your only way of dealing with fans with different views is to be sarcastic. I don't live in a cave mate - but i don't keep going on other fan's social media sites to see if they are hammering their club. Regrettably, I come on to Blue Moon every day only to find our fans hammering our club.

Well I'm not part of it - I want to support the players and enjoy the matches .
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Solution to avoid some City negativity/ realisation of some City fans real opinions,possibly alternatives to your own, , is maybe to avoid BM altogether?
or certain threads on BM ?
And don’t keep responding to negative feedback or comments on BM threads?

As it’s just a vicious circle of negativity???

IMO ? :0)

I try to remain positive and see the best in everyone and everything :0)
 
CC1 said:
Don't try guilt tripping me - and get your facts straight. The trouble with posts like this is that they are based on what YOU think are facts. For example,
you have decided I have a concessionary ticket (and so have a biased view) - WRONG
you have decided I can't spare 9 minutes to "demonstrate" - WRONG I obviously am not allowed a different view to you

all I have heard today on the media is:
the apparent 'joy' that Haaland is out and we are unlikely to qualify for CL
that the fans are planning a protest about prices (& there is no balance here by stating that other fans are doing the same)

We are the club the media love to slate and in my opinion - if I'm allowed to to have one - is that just now is the time to support the team
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We do support the team!!!

The protest is against the Management!!!

9 minutes of Supporters protesting against the MANAGEMENT, should not make or break our whole season’s results and our capabilities or capacity to make the Top Five or Champions League, if it does???

Bring on the Europa League!! :0)
 
CC1 said:
I don't go on Liverpools fans social media - I come on BlueMoon and see constant moaning and criticism

The general negativity on TV is highlighted in the joyful way they report our difficult season: the constant sniping about Phil; Jack etc and now the only story is Haaland being out for 7 weeks

Your only way of dealing with fans with different views is to be sarcastic. I don't live in a cave mate - but i don't keep going on other fan's social media sites to see if they are hammering their club. Regrettably, I come on to Blue Moon every day only to find our fans hammering our club.

Well I'm not part of it - I want to support the players and enjoy the matches .
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Unfortunately for you football is like anything else in life it gets discussed and disectected to death. Watching it, in particular if you support a team, is also very emotional which will lead to more heated discussions due to the passion involved.

If you want to just enjoy the matches and support the players then do just that. Buy your ticket, go the the game, enjoy it, support the team and go home. Don't go onto any social media including here. Of course I can't guarantee you won't hear plenty of moaning and slagging off of certain players at the game......
 
Prophet of Doom said:
Ermmmm how about protesting before and after the game or in any way that doesn’t affect support for the team.

You seem to think this 9 minute stunt is the only way to protest. The organisers had 2 choices - one which affects the team and one that doesn’t. They have chosen both.

It’s not the teams fault so why do something that affects support.

And if you think not qualifying for champs league is a consequence worth paying - then good luck getting cheaper tickets when there is a £125m non CL money black hole in the accounts with a squad with the highest wage bill that needs about 6 new players in the Summer !
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I think that’s another sign of poor management, thinking that you are entitled to Champions League football every season!!!

When failing to invest properly in the Squad every year???

Need to have a contingency plan for rainy days and choppy weather ahead, it can’t be Blue Sky all the time or guaranteed Champions League ?


The supporters deserve better and that’s what we are protesting about, not against the team!!!

Which if they can’t survive without a few supporters for 9 minutes, doesn’t give me a lot of hope for the last 9 games of the season??

And there has been numerous times this season, with a full stadium,where they haven’t been able to hold onto a lead!!

Now that has been worthy of protest!!

LOL :0)
 
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