Taking our Owners for Granted!

[BillyShears]

We've a right to criticise and we've barely uttered a word of it since the takeover. The bloke isn't God, he's just wedged and luckily he chose us. If he fucks off tomorrow (obviously he won't as they themselves get plenty out of owning us and they've got a longterm plan) we'll still be here no matter what as it's our club and always will be. We as fans have been very grateful and it's nonsense to try to suggest otherwise just because as fans we've started to find our voice about a few things this season.

I think there'd be more credibility in the idea of the fans "finding their voice" if it wasn't so closely linked to a season of relative underachievement on the pitch. There's plenty of things the club do get wrong or can improve but it seems this season whilst some of us thought a walk out to specifically protest at ticket pricing was worthy most seemingly saved their walk out to protest about Pellegrini. That probably isn't a "voice" that will travel particularly far in terms of its impact on the owners/directors.

 

[moomba]

As a football supporter you've got to be able to have a say in how your club is run. If we don't tell the club what we think is right and what's wrong how can we expect them to make the right decisions?

Lose that right to a say, and that's when you become the sort of club outsiders always said we would become.

I don't think anyone takes the owner for granted. We all know how lucky we've been. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to voice our opinion and sometimes dissent when they get things wrong. IMO that sort of relationship with your supporters is a hugely positive thing for a football club, and something thaat should be encouraged.

 

[Marvin]

I'm grateful for everything mansour has done for us. I've criticised us this season and rightly so, but we are about to enter the finest era of our history, more than likely. Thank you sheik mansour.

It's fantastic to be supporting MCFC at this moment. About to step into an era where we can hope and dream for the best, with a realistic chance of getting there without reality of waking up on a Sunday morning to remember that Stoke beat us 1-0 the day before. The Premiership is a lot lot more competitive than German or Spanish football where a few clubs are so massively dominant. It was easy to build them. It will be much harder to build City. But much of the hard work is done. It would be good to rely a lot on what we already have rather than taking it all apart in the Summer.

 

[BrianW]

I don't think anyone is taking Sheikh Mansour for granted, but a lot of people are pissed off that many of his employees (who are not exactly on minimum wage!) have let him down, and that some appear to be taking the piss.

 

[paulchapo]

I think there'd be more credibility in the idea of the fans "finding their voice" if it wasn't so closely linked to a season of relative underachievement on the pitch. There's plenty of things the club do get wrong or can improve but it seems this season whilst some of us thought a walk out to specifically protest at ticket pricing was worthy most seemingly saved their walk out to protest about Pellegrini. That probably isn't a "voice" that will travel particularly far in terms of its impact on the owners/directors.

I am not so sure Billy. Judging by some of our pre match entertainment around the stadium and such I think our owner and his staff,of whom most are fairly new to football,probably thought we were an all singing and dancing happy clappy mob. If he was watching that at home he has now realised we are not and probably never will be,well at least until us old grizzly ''Swales out!'' crowd have pegged out lol!

 

[Craig]

I think there'd be more credibility in the idea of the fans "finding their voice" if it wasn't so closely linked to a season of relative underachievement on the pitch. There's plenty of things the club do get wrong or can improve but it seems this season whilst some of us thought a walk out to specifically protest at ticket pricing was worthy most seemingly saved their walk out to protest about Pellegrini. That probably isn't a "voice" that will travel particularly far in terms of its impact on the owners/directors.

I wasn't meaning specifically that I meant more in general. There have been a few things the club has started to do that have made lots of the hardcore support feel quite alienated. As for walking out at the end against Arsenal though I think it was perfectly understandable. After watching a gutless effort in one of our biggest ever games a few days earlier whilst our manager stood there motionless with his hands in his pockets. Plus after the game the manager and 80% of the players couldn't be arsed to even come over to the fans did it for me. It's a 2 way Street and we give plenty.

 

[BillyShears]

I wasn't meaning specifically that I meant more in general. There have been a few things the club has started to do that have made lots of the hardcore support feel quite alienated. As for walking out at the end against Arsenal though I think it was perfectly understandable. After watching a gutless effort in one of our biggest ever games a few days earlier whilst our manager stood there motionless with his hands in his pockets. Plus after the game the manager and 80% of the players couldn't be arsed to even come over to the fans did it for me. It's a 2 way Street and we give plenty.

Sure people are entitled to vote with their feet but in that instance it won't have made a blind but if difference to the owners or board because they'll just look at it and go "okay they don't like Pellegrini. We've already sacked him. What's next on today's agenda? New sponsorship deal in China."

 

[Bentheblue]

Sure people are entitled to vote with their feet but in that instance it won't have made a blind but if difference to the owners or board because they'll just look at it and go "okay they don't like Pellegrini. We've already sacked him. What's next on today's agenda? New sponsorship deal in China."

You are not taking into account that they wanted us to stay after the Arsenal game not just the say farewell to Pelli but also to watch the players doing their walk round the pitch. I think our owners are savvy enough to realise our walk out was not just about our dislike of Pelli.

 

[BillyShears]

You are not taking into account that they wanted us to stay after the Arsenal game not just the say farewell to Pelli but also to watch the players doing their walk round the pitch. I think our owners are savvy enough to realise our walk out was not just about our dislike of Pelli.

I suspect that for the people who walked out it was the culmination of many things. The problem is that for the board and the owners they will view it primarily through the prism of the supporters being unsatisfied with the players + team management - which is already being changed this summer.

 

[paulchapo]

I also think our owners are savvy enough to have someone monitoring this forum to gauge fans opinion.