Roll call for 9 minute protest

If it was about ticket-pricing I'd join in. It isn't, therefore I will ignore it.
 
Sheikh rattle and roll said:
I’m not protesting at the moment
Someone else will have to answer that
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That made me laugh out loud. Sorry, I've just had some good news when I was expecting bad news about a friend so I am on a high....... I don't need drugs for that sort of thing.... just my daft self. :-) :-)
 
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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We won the league, and very almost a treble, during the lockdown season when no fans were there at all. There have been games where the atmosphere has been terrible and we’ve won games easily.

The team will be perfectly alright without us for 9 minutes.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
We won the league, and very almost a treble, during the lockdown season when no fans were there at all. There have been games where the atmosphere has been terrible and we’ve won games easily.

The team will be perfectly alright without us for 9 minutes.
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I worry that the team might sink to their knees and sob....... oh heckle meckle I'm in trouble now..... dark corner here I come again. ;-) :-)
 
East Level 2 said:
Come on Eccles, you've been on hear long enough to know guesswork triumphs over facts. Though it doesn't help that the club say nothing too often.
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I have but I guess I am being a rebel in a different way? Actually I am having a bit of a daft half hour. It was getting a tad angsty around this thread. Sorry. Is that really really bad of me? :-)
 
Eccles Blue said:
Then why are we protesting at an increase if we don’t know what or if there will be one?
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It’s a protest around ticketing in general, not just a potential price rise again for next season.

12 price rises in 15 years.
Over two dozen of my friends+family have been priced out in that time.
More expensive for my Season Ticket at City than the equivalent seats at Anfield or Old Trafford.
£9 for juniors in 3 of the 4 stands at Anfield for every PL game, [until Christmas it was] £15 for juniors at Old Trafford for every PL game (changed now), yet at City tickets for children are priced for many games from £42-58… FOR KIDS!
No range of prices for matchday tickets unlike other clubs, at other clubs prices can start at £35 and go up to £65 yet at City they can start at £61 and go up to £82. No range of prices to accommodate anyone they can’t rip off, just expensive or very expensive.
The club not communicating with fans over ticket prices when other clubs have been with theirs.
City Matters reps going on strike over poor communication and dismissive ignorance from the club.
Fans who’ve had enough with the amount of tourists and away fans there are in the City home ends.
Situations where worldwide ticket tout sites have huge amounts of our tickets for home and away games and them freely being available for big home games with no membership (CL semifinals or title deciders, for example) or away games with limited availability of tickets, when proper core supporters who try and get them through the proper club channels with their Supporter Number, membership or Season Ticket can’t get them. Many Blues who’d been going to City for decades couldn’t get a ticket for the Madrid CL semifinal a few years ago yet the ground was swarming with tourists and Madrid fans.
Those who can get tickets, can rarely ever get seats next to each other, yet tourists and away fans get a full row together.
No new season tickets for future generations of young Blues… who’s going to support the club when we’re all dead?
Season Ticket holders who give up their seat, they are not re-listed as a Season Ticket and are put on the worldwide ticket tout sites (I’ve had a different foreigner next to me for two years, half the time they aren’t even City fans).
Fans who’ve had enough of seeing rows of fans of random clubs at away games, bringing into question how many tickets the club just give away to nobodies who aren’t there for City.
City away ends swarming with tourists at Anfield and Old Trafford.
A Season Ticket holder of many decades becoming so unwell he had to give his ST up for a few years, when he thankfully got back to full health the club didn’t want to fucking know the bloke and dismissed his requests to get a season ticket back, yet goes to games for individual matches now and sees the ground full of tourists and away fans so it’s not like they’re struggling for seats to give to him.
Many many fans have complained to City Matters reps, 1894, even our City fan YouTubers like Big Steve, about the tourists and away fans situation being utterly fucking wank to be part of in the ground and it not being a good ‘Matchday Experience’, with City Matters being ignored when they ask for a meeting about it, yet in the meantime, the club come out and announce a new worldwide ticket tout partner (which is an organisation embroiled in constant scandals over their operations) which will increase tourists with no memberships and away fans even further in the ground next season.

…and they’re just the reasons I can think of off the top of my head now. Someone else might be able to add as many points again.
 
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jrb said:
Neither Barcelona nor Real Madrid have any issues with away fans sitting in their home ends, bar the Ultra sections behind the goal.

And then the penny dropped for Barcelona

Barcelona President Joan Laporta said he was "embarrassed and ashamed" after a reported 30,000 Eintracht Frankfurt fans made it into the Camp Nou for Thursday's Europa League quarter-final despite away fans only being allocated 5,000 tickets.

"Frankly what happened today makes me feel embarrassed and ashamed. There were many fans of the other team and not many of ours," Laporta told Barca TV.

"What we can avoid are certain situations but as of now, we will have to be much more strict. We can't allow these situations to happen."

Coach Xavi Hernandez called the situation a "miscalculation" and said it did not help his side, who suffered their first defeat in 16 matches in all competitions.

"I've tried to tell the players that the important thing is what happens on the pitch, but logically this could have affected us. It's very clear," Xavi told a news conference.
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The entire Barcelona atmosphere section left the ground at half time and didn’t return in protest to that night’s debacle.

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Why do people think the protest isn’t about season ticket and match day ticket prices as well as other issues that effect the fans?

Wait a minute, I can hear a thread song…..

 
Psychedelic Casual said:
It’s a protest around ticketing in general, not just a potential price rise again for next season.

12 price rises in 15 years.
Over two dozen of my friends+family have been priced out in that time.
More expensive for my ST at City than the equivalent seats at Anfield or Old Trafford.
The club not communicating with fans over ticket prices when other clubs have been with theirs.
City Matters reps going on strike over poor communication and dismissive ignorance from the club.
Fans who’ve had enough with the amount of tourists and away fans there are in the City home ends.
Situations where worldwide ticket tout sites have huge amounts of our tickets for home and away games and them freely being able to get tickets for big home games with no membership (CL semifinals or title deciders, for example) or away games with limited availability of tickets, when proper core supporters who try and get them through the proper club channels with their Supporter Number, membership or Season Ticket can’t get them. Many Blues who’d been going to City for decades couldn’t get a ticket for the Madrid CL semifinal a few years ago yet the ground was swarming with tourists and Madrid fans.
Those who can get tickets, can rarely ever get seats next to each other, yet tourists and away fans get a full row together.
No new season tickets for future generations of young Blues… who’s going to support the club when we’re all dead?
Season Ticket holders who give up their seat, they are not re-listed as a Season Ticket and are put on the worldwide ticket tout sites (I’ve had a different foreigner next to me for two years, half the time they aren’t even City fans).
Fans who’ve had enough of seeing rows of fans of random clubs at away games, bringing into question how many tickets the club just give away to nobodies who aren’t there for City.
City away ends swarming with tourists at Anfield and Old Trafford.
A Season Ticket holder of many decades becoming so unwell he had to give his ST up for a few years, when he thankfully got back to full health the club didn’t want to fucking know the bloke and dismissed his requests to get a season ticket back, yet goes to games for individual matches now and sees the ground full of tourists and away fans so it’s not like they’re struggling for seats to give to him.
Many many fans have complained to City Matters reps, 1894, even our City fan YouTubers like Big Steve, about the tourists and away fans situation being utterly fucking wank to be part of in the ground and it not being a good ‘Matchday Experience’, with City Matters being ignored when they ask for a meeting about it, yet in thr meantime, the club come out and announce a new worldwide ticket tout partner (which is an organisation embroiled in constant scandals over their operations) which will increase tourists with no memberships and away fans even further in the ground next season.

…and they’re just the reasons I can think of off the top of my head now. Someone else might be able to add as many points again.
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The most used 4 letters by the Directors.

NDA’d.
 
jrb said:
Pep has given the protest his endorsement. He didn't duck the question. What more do the fans against the protest want?
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Just because I'm not taking part in the protest doesn't mean I'm against it.
In my honest opinion I think boycotting buying food beer and anything from the club shop on match days would have a more profound effect.
I totally agree that match day ticket prices are ridiculous and I've said it many times before that if I didn't have a season ticket I couldn't and wouldn't pay what they are asking.
I'm going to ask a question that to all those that are going to stay on the concourse ( not that I have a problem with any fans that choose to do so )
If we were joint top of the league with Liverpool and were playing them tomorrow night would you all honestly miss the first 9 minutes?.
I honestly hope the protest works and the club see sense and reduce match day prices but I really think hitting them financially by not buying food and drinks would be more effective.
 
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