Seat Counters - 2024/25

Beaker said:
I’m sure they’re around for the long term but their strategy is poor.

We’ve seen recently on the pitch how lack of foresight is costing us, it’s clear now that decision making in terms of incomings and outgoings hasn’t been good, and it’s Pep that has been holding everything together until recently.

Off the pitch the strategy seems equally short sighted and poor. That lack of foresight is beginning to show, and is only going to get worse with the expansion.

I genuinely don’t think we’re as well run as we thought we were. The execs running the place need Pep to keep delivering.
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Rubbish mate.
 
Beaker said:
Look at Berrada. United supporters thought they’d got a right coup when they poached him from us. Now without the safety net that Pep’s provided, he’s looking a bit clueless. I suspect the same could be said of the majority of our executives.
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Berrada was a nobody at City until Utd recruited "The Resurrection".

Compared to Khaldoon, Txiki, Soriano, Pep etc he was the invisble man.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Berrada was a nobody at City until Utd recruited "The Resurrection".

Compared to Khaldoon, Txiki, Soriano, Pep etc he was the invisble man.
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I just think that Pep and the teams brilliance has papered over a lot of cracks at the club. We’re not just talking about a good team, we’re talking about arguably the best team ever in English football, and yet supporter engagement is at an all time low. We’re about to add 8,000 seats to a stadium we’re struggling to sell out now, due to their ticketing pricing and policies. They should be worrying about how they’ll fit them into the expansion, not how will they sell the tickets. They can point to record profits etc, but without the success on the pitch none of that would be there.
The suits have clung on to his coattails. Berrada was clearly highly thought of at City, now he’s a laughing stock.
 
Beaker said:
I just think that Pep and the teams brilliance has papered over a lot of cracks at the club. We’re not just talking about a good team, we’re talking about arguably the best team ever in English football, and yet supporter engagement is at an all time low. We’re about to add 8,000 seats to a stadium we’re struggling to sell out now, due to their ticketing pricing and policies. They should be worrying about how they’ll fit them into the expansion, not how will they sell the tickets. They can point to record profits etc, but without the success on the pitch none of that would be there.
The suits have clung on to his coattails. Berrada was clearly highly thought of at City, now he’s a laughing stock.
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Yes there's a lot of dissatisfaction amongst Blues. One day many of us will be priced out. Until that time, I am going to enjoy the ride.

Yes engagement could be better but it was shite under Swales and Franny Lee. FWIW, I got invited to an on-line chat with Jack Grealish last week but I had too much on. The real camaraderie is with the people I sit with in the Etihad and Blues I go to away games with. I also value being part of the Official Supporters Club, led by City legends Alan Galley and Sir Kevin Parker. I don't want to meet any of City's top brass.

Growing up in Stretford, I fought our corner on a regular basis. I stated watching our first team early in the 76/77 season. For most of my City supporting life I would have been content with a League Cup. Sheikh Mansour has transformed our football club and our lives.

Yes it's unpleasant fans are monetised. Scarce tickets for crunch games being sold via ticket agencies is very wrong. I put in hours each week helping fans to get affordable tickets. Yes not all tickets for Forest were sold but tickets for the Derby and Chelsea at home are like rocking horse shit.

I refuse to let the run of poor results affect me. I try to sign throughout most of our games and I'm not in any signing section. I was part of the Swales out protests (for excitement). I think fans have every right to complain about ticket prices and City should have shown more restraint. Anyone wishing to boycott the Derby should go fir it but I don't expect Blues to do that. Just boycott City's Ticket Exchange for starters.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Yes there's a lot of dissatisfaction amongst Blues. One day many of us will be priced out. Until that time, I am going to enjoy the ride.

Yes engagement could be better but it was shite under Swales and Franny Lee. FWIW, I got invited to an on-line chat with Jack Grealish last week but I had too much on. The real camaraderie is with the people I sit with in the Etihad and Blues I go to away games with. I also value being part of the Official Supporters Club, led by City legends Alan Galley and Sir Kevin Parker. I don't want to meet any of City's top brass.

Growing up in Stretford, I fought our corner on a regular basis. I stated watching our first team early in the 76/77 season. For most of my City supporting life I would have been content with a League Cup. Sheikh Mansour has transformed our football club and our lives.

Yes it's unpleasant fans are monetised. Scarce tickets for crunch games being sold via ticket agencies is very wrong. I put in hours each week helping fans to get affordable tickets. Yes not all tickets for Forest were sold but tickets for the Derby and Chelsea at home are like rocking horse shit.

I refuse to let the run of poor results affect me. I try to sign throughout most of our games and I'm not in any signing section. I was part of the Swales out protests (for excitement). I think fans have every right to complain about ticket prices and City should have shown more restraint. Anyone wishing to boycott the Derby should go fir it but I don't expect Blues to do that. Just boycott City's Ticket Exchange for starters.
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I’m in much the same boat, although slightly younger. I started watching City in the mid nineties, we soon went into our lowest period just as them lot were going into their best, I had to take it on the chin at school but stuck with it because I loved it.

I too am in a supporters club, we travel together and I, like many others pass my season ticket on to others on occasions I can’t go, to ease the financial burden. Blues sticking together and helping people out is a sense of community that I love, and I see on here that you try your best to help blues out, even people you don’t personally know. It’s a sense of community that Soriano in particular is desperately trying to erode and I can’t abide that.

The journey we have been on the past 15 years has been beyond my wildest dreams, but I worry about our future. I do not believe that he is going to leave a positive lasting legacy, look at Barcelona now, I know all of their ills can’t be blamed on him, but I look at them in terms of what has happened to their support and I don’t want that to become of us.

I will be at the derby on Sunday and Everton on Boxing Day, I will sing my heart out, I will continue to enter my OSC branch ballots for the odd away ticket, I will continue to play my very small part in the local City supporting community, but I will not stay silent whilst people who care nothing for our club play fast and loose with our values and community.
 
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