Simple question, are you walking out during West Brom? YES or NO?

Are you going to walk out during West Brom game in protest at ticket prices?

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jimmygrimblesboots said:
No , our owners could have chosen any of the 91 league clubs , but they chose us , and don't forget it , they have taken us from a top ten side , hoping for a cup run , to a team that regularly wins trophies , titles and plays champs league every season , unfortunately there is a price to pay , admission prices and camera wielding tourists with half and half scarfs.
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Well said. I'm still basking in the changes. We can now be proud to support our team for the right reasons. Lets not pretend that we enjoyed being the 'loyal' fans that supported City through thick and thin; the fans that the media pitied and patronisingly praised. We wore that 'badge of honour' because we had no choice. Be honest everyone...we hated being so far behind the scum. Now that we have overtaken them, some people want the same conditions we had at old Maine Road but with the best players in the world. The two can't happen.

I'm still proud to have supported our team when we had to travel to Huddersfield, Macclesfield & revelled in winning a Div 2 play off final etc but I much prefer the current situation and am still grateful for what our owners have done and are doing. WE are going to be global and I want to be part of it.. I deserve it, don't we all!!
 
jrb said:
Let's be honest. the majority of our fanbase is like an old People's Home, old, Liberal, and set in it's way's. We aren't young ferral MIB's intent on threatening our owners and players.
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Now listen here , young man. If we were as you have said, ............................shit, I've forgotten what I was going to say.
Oh yes. I've never been ferral in my life. Feral maybe, but that was a long time ago.... when it was £sd and not this new decimal stuff.
 
crazyg said:
Now listen here , young man. If we were as you have said, ............................shit, I've forgotten what I was going to say.
Oh yes. I've never been ferral in my life. Feral maybe, but that was a long time ago.... when it was £sd and not this new decimal stuff.
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Guess my age.

It doesn't take a genius, not even you, to work out the average of our support. Any older and our support would be nodding off, just like the privileged few in the House of Lords.

That aside, just like me I'd like to think our support is now pretty Liberal and stable, and long gone are the Days of a Peter Swales protest, with fans hanging of the metal gates protecting the main stand entrance, along with bricks and bottles flying towards the Police as they charged the City fans that night. I take it you were there, or if not, I take it you still remember that night?
 
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No, definitely not walking out against WBA.
Pricing is a football wide issue in the PL and should be tackled collectively by fans at every club in a concerted way for maximum impact and publicity. A national protest would be more effective rather than individual, ad hoc responses.
Not all is perfect at CITY but the club is an exemplar in many aspects and there is much more good for us Blues than bad - just take a look at most other clubs.
Now lets roar CITY on to victory against PSG.
The Future`s Bright, The Future`s Blue.
 
Keith Moon said:
No.
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Unfortunately it was the sign of the times. It was different then. The campaign to oust Swales was relentless. On the terraces and outside the main stand. It went on for weeks and months. Eventually it worked, but sadly it took it's toll on Swales, who at the end of the day was a City fan through and through, regardless of what your feelings and thoughts towards him were at the time.
 
cheshirecheese said:
Not me. 45 pounds for my ticket and I think that's a fair price for champs league qf especially when you see what's being charged for the first leg.
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as i couple of posters have pointed out 45 quid is not really over the top ,its when they have to subsidise a couple of under 21 year olds ,your then looking at 100 pound plus , it would be good for those people to have more help
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
No , our owners could have chosen any of the 91 league clubs , but they chose us , and don't forget it , they have taken us from a top ten side , hoping for a cup run , to a team that regularly wins trophies , titles and plays champs league every season , unfortunately there is a price to pay , admission prices and camera wielding tourists with half and half scarfs.
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it is a nice thought but they could not really have chosen any of the league clubs.

not all had the stadium, the fan base, the potential. Others were already taken or would have cost a whole lot more. Others were not even worth considering.

The story is that it was one of three. Us, Everton and Newcastle.

Everton ground or lack of opportunity to build another cost them and I believe Ashley asked too much for the toon.

Having said that we were lucky but we also had a lot to offer. One major factor being the fans. Lose that and what's the point in a club?
 
I've not decided if I'm going to the West Brom game yet. If you were organising a walkout to get Pellegrini out, I would be leading it.

I disagree with the prices and in particular the 16-21 group and think that in other categories, the tickets are £10 overpriced but should I bother showing up for West Brom, I won't be walking out over prices. I think a longer dialogue is needed with the club to get them to start taking some notice.

I will however be cancelling the CL scheme next season (although with Pellegrini screwing things up, we more than likely won't be in it anyway.)
 
jrb said:
Guess my age.

It doesn't take a genius, not even you, to work out the average of our support. Any older and our support would be nodding off, just like the privileged few in the House of Lords.

That aside, just like me I'd like to think our support is now pretty Liberal and stable, and long gone are the Days of a Peter Swales protest, with fans hanging of the metal gates protecting the main stand entrance, along with bricks and bottles flying towards the Police as they charged the City fans that night. I take it you were there, or if not, I take it you still remember that night?
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Loads of young people supporting us - in towns, in other countries & in the East Stand. Not to mention the family stand. All clubs have attendances that comprise many older adults because kids can't come on their own. Old toilet audience is the same
 
Absolutely Not. It's as stupid an idea as trying to protest against a Supermarket's prices by buying their food but halfway through eating it stopping and putting the remainder in the bin!
 
jrb said:
Guess my age.

It doesn't take a genius, not even you, to work out the average of our support. Any older and our support would be nodding off, just like the privileged few in the House of Lords.

That aside, just like me I'd like to think our support is now pretty Liberal and stable, and long gone are the Days of a Peter Swales protest, with fans hanging of the metal gates protecting the main stand entrance, along with bricks and bottles flying towards the Police as they charged the City fans that night. I take it you were there, or if not, I take it you still remember that night?
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I'm offended. the only time I have nodded off at a city game was v Kiev recently. not a bad record wouldn't you say.
 
jrb said:
Unfortunately it was the sign of the times. It was different then. The campaign to oust Swales was relentless. On the terraces and outside the main stand. It went on for weeks and months. Eventually it worked, but sadly it took it's toll on Swales, who at the end of the day was a City fan through and through, regardless of what your feelings and thoughts towards him were at the time.
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I was just answering the original poster, I do think its expensive and I do think its right to protest,
but walking out during a game while we're fighting for a CL spot is not my tomato soup.
 
FootballSense said:
No, definitely not walking out against WBA.
Pricing is a football wide issue in the PL and should be tackled collectively by fans at every club in a concerted way for maximum impact and publicity. A national protest would be more effective rather than individual, ad hoc responses.
Not all is perfect at CITY but the club is an exemplar in many aspects and there is much more good for us Blues than bad - just take a look at most other clubs.
Now lets roar CITY on to victory against PSG.
The Future`s Bright, The Future`s Blue.
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A national protest is a great idea. A weekend of empty grounds would do it. The executives, agents and players of PL clubs would wake up in a sweat having had nightmares about their fat contracts disappearing.
 
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But only cos they moved it to 5.30pm kick off.Me and the lad are going watching Muse at the MEN so we'll be walking into Piccadilly instead of going back to ashton on the 216.

Up the blues
 
I hope the WBA fans will walk out at the 60th minutes after goal number six, Kun's third whistles as the old City are back.

Weekends without City are so tedious as are England international without a City player to provide interest.
 
CC1 said:
Loads of young people supporting us - in towns, in other countries & in the East Stand. Not to mention the family stand. All clubs have attendances that comprise many older adults because kids can't come on their own. Old toilet audience is the same
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I think JRB knows that the MIBs are mainly angry pensioners!
 
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