The City Of Manchester, The revolution will be televised.

[Deleted member 14625]

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Aye mate agree with you!

Earnings: im just over the £20k/yr mark but until 2 years ago i was on £11-14k for about 5 years! plus i know very few mates who earn over £20k a year! my one mate who is doing well for himself as a car salesman is a red!

Onto amount of fans: my mother+father sacked off their seasoncards after the last season with Pearce and now go on holiday each year with the money (and yes they are proper blues, they've been City regulars since the 60's and only in the last 3 years stopped going!)! and literally about 15 of my mates are City fans, and proper City fans at that, but dont have seasoncards (and they are all as mad about City as i am so saying they arent proper blues is wrong!) about 7 of them have had seasoncards in the past! They have ALL said that if we get a team together and get the stadium looking nice (me Dad hates the CoMS) they would get seasoncards again!

i could say i know 12-15 people who would get seasoncards who havent at the mo! if just 10,000 of the 30,000 seasoncard holders at City said the same as me we could fill a stadium of 120,000!

There are LOADS of us out there who have been lost along the way! but they are still out there and just need enticing back!

 

[BlueT]

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In the future I would like to see a 60k 65k stadium with the away fans in the corner, and a bigger and better family area with entertainment and a few little freebies for the kids.
Obviously a Bigger and Better singing section to roar the lads on.

 

[mancitymick]

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Two very good post. For those who aint read the first one
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[kippax88]

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theres about 30 ppl i know who cant afford it but would go if they could.

i tihnk we could get tickets down to something like £15 i reckon we would easily sell out week in week out. just look at the hamburg game.....


but i think they NEED TO LOWER THE PRICES OF BEER & FOOD AT THE GROUND AS IT IS A COMLETE RIP OFF

 

[Deleted member 14625]

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Let's not get this out of proportion.

Every club has lots of fans who do not attend.

I would suggest we probably have a smaller proportion than most, actually.

We all said that the SWP and Robinho signings would get us 48K week in week out. It didn't happen, it put about 2K on the gate. I looked at season ticket sales earlier and they look about the same as last year's.

One of our problems as a club, in my opinion, is that United's success has robbed us of generations of young fans coming through.

If we get to the top 4 in the next year or so, we might get close to that 48K capacity figure every week. But we are miles away from getting many more than that, and will be for a while. I know there was big demand for the cheap Hamberg tickets, but it wouldn't be the same for Pompey on a Monday night, even if we were a team full of stars.

You make some good points! Im 27 and i was the only City fan in my form class at school, 1 out of 25 or so! And i work at a school in Salford now and it is approximately 90% United, 3% City, 3% rugby league and 4% dont like sport!

However, i have met many blues over the years and became mates with them mainly due to the fact that we are all blues! i know for a fact that there are big blue areas around the area i live! Im from Timperley and in Timperley itself the Broomwood estate has a massive blue contingent! even more so is the Oldfield Brow area of Altrincham and Wythenshaw has loads of blues!

Oh and i missed off my uncle and his son, who is 5 and is talking about City loads and i know that they'd both go regularly if they could afford to and we had a team worth going to see regularly!

That brings my total up to about 17!

 

[Deleted member 14625]

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In the future I would like to see a 60k 65k stadium with the away fans in the corner, and a bigger and better family area with entertainment and a few little freebies for the kids.
Obviously a Bigger and Better singing section to roar the lads on.

Abso-fucking-lutely! When the Commonwealth Games was on we should have made that end where there were 3 mini-stands into one giant City end! It would have been immense! We missed out big time there but we have a chance in the future because i know for a fact that demend for seeing City, not by new fans, but by the old ones coming back, will force the club to make the stadium bigger and it needs to be done properly this time!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

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The lapsed fans I know are all lapsed because they hate COMS and the atmosphere. These are all your tranditional, working class, drinking "hardcore" Blues. I think we've lost about 10,000 of those and gained about 5000 more middle class, "nu-football" type fans over the last few years.

 

[city are coming]

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I think it has started already. I know about 6 blues who went in the eighties and early nineties but lost interest and just picked the odd big game since. These same lads have got seasoncards for the first time this year and i know more who are thinking about it.
We will sell the 36000 season cards this season as soon as we announce the signing of Tevez.
There are still a few bliues with cityitus and expect this all to blow up in our faces anytime soon. Once we sign Tevez it will prove we are serious.

Roll on August 15th

 

[bluemanc]

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I have said for years at countless meetings with fellow blues and even officials of Manchester City in the past. If this club lowered the prices of attending football match's and started winning trophies we would attract over 70,000 week in week out.

Many fellow City fans will not believe in my words and i fully understand so let me give you some foundation on my theory.

Manchester City still hold the record attendence for a domestic game in this country. It was a long time ago that game against Stoke City but we pulled in 83,000 fans at Maine Road.
In the 1980's we played Charlton in the old division 2 and the attendance was 50,000. If you ask anyone who was their they will bear witness it was nearly 60,000 with about 500 Charlton fans. This was the time when jibbing in the kippax was as easy as taking toffee off a baby. Peter Swales was legendary for blagging attendances in those days and blues would laugh week in week out at the attendence registered in Pink Final when they returned home.

Manchester City is and always will be a working class club with working class fans. In 1998 a survey was carried out amongst MCFC fans that found the average income was £15,000 a year compared to MUFC fans whose was £28,000.
Over the years since the 60's MCFC have been trophyless with little to cheer about yet the fans still stagger the world of football with their faithfull loyalty rising over the last 10 years.

Like all blues i can name over 5 City fans i know who no longer attend due to family commitments and the fact that they cannot afford to take their kids. The potential of this market for the club is absoloutley huge and something i believe the club are aware of.

Manchester City have over 300,000 registered members on their records. These include fans of all ages from all over the place.
If... or should i say when we start being succesfull and we extend the stadium and lower the prices i believe within the next 10 years Gods own club will be competing with every club in Europe for the highest attendance.

I have been led to believe that the club have discussed the purchase of the ground within the next 24 months with MCR City Council and if this does not happen i am led to believe they are prepared to build a new stadium on the Clayton Analine Site.
I personally belief this is a game of call my bluff that the council cannot afford to take a gamble on.

If the purchase does come threw i am led to believe that MCFC will look at extending the stadiums capacity to 75,000 within 5 years.

Just like the move to Maine Road people doubted we would fill 48,000. Well with Kevin Keegan we did, and as you only know to well gates dropped when Pearce and the nazi Stewards got involved at coms.

Do your own little survey and write down how many blues you know who do not attend and why. If we have 40,000 blues with the same answers as you then we can all see the potential clear as day.

Many of you may think this is a load of tosh but you only have to see the way our new owners work to see they are building an empire and they want to be the kings. They want a stadium that holds big crowds and fits the bill, and be rest assured you will see this develop right before your very eyes soon.

CTID.

We got crowds over 76,000 in the 20's & our breakaway club Manchester Central got bigger crowds than the rags in the late 20's early 30's.
It will take time but as this Blue says reducing prices will get people in,we need the FA cup & the league cup to be £5 a ticket.

 

[Balti]

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Cheap tickets will help fill the stadium (and attract new/returning fans) while we are waiting but only success on the pitch is going to fill a bigger stadium. A successful trophy winning side full of quality would attract big game crowds of c55K imo. Perhaps not so many for the mighty Mansfield in the Auto Windshield.....(yes of course I went).