Outside the ground where the food stalls are, make them queue up 90° to the way they queue up now where they just jut right in the bloody way of everyone walking around the stadium.
Have a track on the floor in the concourse areas that is only for people walking round so that you don’t have to slalom through people eating and drinking when making your way to your block.
Resurface around the outside of the stadium with proper drainage so these giant puddles that occur when it rains don’t happen.
Stop making the content on the screens like it’s a TV show. Listening to randoms talk a load of small talk before the game or at half time doesn’t build the atmosphere. We don’t need presenters, we don’t need interviews, we don’t need anything but some tunes through the speakers and goals on the screens.
Bin off DJs playing pre-recorded dance mixes, pretending they’re actually mixing the tracks live, twiddling knobs and pressing buttons that are doing nowt, putting their headphones to one ear for no reason… it’s the equivalent of someone miming a song at a live performance.
If we insist on having light shows, always have them City related. Don’t have wolves howling and some demon with an evil laugh on Hallowe’en, they have nowt to do with Ciry or football.
Do not allow fans of the away team anywhere other than the away stand.
Ban all colours of other teams no matter who it is, even if it’s not the team we’re playing that day. No shirts, coats, hats, scarves etc. of anyone in the home stands other than City.
Ban half’n’half scarves.
Put netting up around the away stand on CL nights.
Get more local people in the ground. I’m sure Chad from Chesapeake, Bruce from Brisbane and Vlodimir from Vilnius who supported Arsenal 15 years ago or even still do now, really enjoy their days out at the Etihad, but I want more locals in the ground. Open up ticket windows first to people with an ‘0161’ area code, have price initiatives for ‘0161’ area codes.
Get more youngsters in the stadium at affordable prices. I say this about once a month, but it should be taken on board at the club; at Anfield it’s £9 for juniors for every PL game in every stand and has been for years, for 10 years at Old Trafford it was £13 for juniors for every PL game in every stand… at City it was £30.50 for kids against Villa in the new Guardiola Stand, our kids paid more to attend than Villa adults did. How are low income local families going to afford it time and time again? When our next generation of fans are all armchair fans because they have no history of attending games and are used to not doing so, who’s going to attend the games when I’m dead?
Get more fans into CL League Phase games. We never asked for extra games to pay for, that was forced on us, so stop charging semifinal prices for League Phase games just because it’s Inter or PSG when there is an extra game to pay for in that phase of the competition. People are going to pick and choose games and overall attendances will be down. Introduce CL Value Gold STs for non-ST holders. For existing ST holders, up the price of our STs slightly (not by much) and include CL League Phase games as part of it (this happens at Real Madrid, Dortmund, both Milan clubs and many more big clubs in Europe). For matchday ticket buyers, set the price in August so it’s not a surprise to anyone two weeks before the game that they have to pay £58 for what is essentially just the early round of the competition.
It’s 18 months too late now but the Pep Guardiola Stand should have been driven and driven and driven as the atmosphere end of the stadium by the club to create a buzz about it being exactly that. It’s been very poor planning to leave it as late as two weeks ago to drive it like that. But even so, let’s drive it now, not one press release, let’s get out on the socials and on NW Tonight and Granada Tonight and drive it as an atmosphere stand. Get people exited about it and want to be part of a proper atmosphere stand at City that we’ve not had since 1994.
Increase Safe Standing in the Guardiola Stand to half way down the tier. Have an block that is unreserved so mates can stand together, same in SSL1.
Stop kicking Blues out of the stadium, banning them from the stadium and upholding their bans even after the Police have told City they’ve wasted their time because the Blue who has been kicked out and banned has actually done absolutely fuck all!
If they keep treating our fanbase like they do sometimes, like we are cunts who should be treated like shit, dismissed and ignored, and they’ll lose fans forever; treat our fanbase like we should be, like we are the heart+soul of the club, like we are precious to the culture of this club, and they will have fans who never stop attending.
Put NFC scanners all around the outside of the stadium so people who stay to the end of the game can scan out and earn extra loyalty points.
