Sportswash! - Let’s oil stare at Manchester City!

[The_Steve]

I love those butthurt fans are probably the same who welcomes the ESL. 

[YouUnastanFren]

It's weird that a supporters group would be against a call to get more support in the ground for the team they supposedly support. Seems like they're more of a Man City Supporters support group than a Man City Supporters group. Support.

[Wainy316]

2 hours ago, tomav84 said:

did have a nosey on bluemoon, was curious to know what the feeling was because it just doesn't make sense how all other club is packed out for CL games but they aren't. the number of posters that simply said they can't be arsed was shocking. it wasn't a million years ago that they were a nothing club, now the most prestigious club competition in the world is just not good enough

i hope they never win it. they don't deserve it. say what you want about liverpool fans, they really relish those european nights

Blue Moon is hilarious.  They genuinely believe there's a media conspiracy against them that is constantly pedalling falsities about them and all their business is in actual fact whiter than white and above board.

[desensitized43]

1 hour ago, villa89 said:

What are they upset about, pep is right. There'll be thousands of empty seats on Saturday and zero atmosphere.

Because the banter that cuts the deepest is always the one with the ring of truth to it.

[Zatman]

15 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

Blue Moon is hilarious.  They genuinely believe there's a media conspiracy against them that is constantly pedalling falsities about them and all their business is in actual fact whiter than white and above board.

You would wonder how many are actually going to games or live locally

[Xela]

What happened to the genuine Citeh fans? The ones that used to support them in the third tier, not so long ago?

[NoelVilla]

16 minutes ago, Xela said:

What happened to the genuine Citeh fans? The ones that used to support them in the third tier, not so long ago?

Can't afford it at all or that often or they got old and can't be bothered. My two guesses.

[blandy]

26 minutes ago, Xela said:

What happened to the genuine Citeh fans? The ones that used to support them in the third tier, not so long ago?

They still go - I know a few.

The thing is they've gone in maybe 15 years from a 30+K sort of club to regularly getting 50+k people in the ground. That's a hell of an increase, really. It's not like Spurs or Arsenal where their grounds were always too small for them, they've genuinely grown their supporter base by a lot. It's a bit more like West Ham, where the lure of cheap tickets will attract people to games at their bigger stadium, but it won't take much for them to drift away, either.

Another thing is the regularity of winning - they're basically spoilt and the "meaning" of the games is less. And then a lot of them hate UEFA and the Champions League for going after them for FFP breaches but leaving UEFA's "favoured" clubs alone.

[Davkaus]

I think it's remarkabl;e they don't even sell out after 18 months with no chance to go to a game. They're just not a particularly well supported club, maybe they can buy some more fans.

[blandy]

1 minute ago, Davkaus said:

They're just not a particularly well supported club

They’re not in the same bracket as the likes of Liverpool, United, Bayern etc. but they’re currently one of the better supported clubs in this country aren’t they? Top 6 in terms of gates, I’d wager.

[villa4europe]

I smell a conspiracy theory...

Theyve signed the most exciting English player, failed to get the best English player

They've let other fans mock them on social media, the likes of lad bible, even us on here, we've circulated the notion that anyone can get man City tickets, they go on general sale every game, they're not expensive either, if you're in Manchester and want to go watch some world class football you can, I can, anyone can, pep himself has told the world that anyone can go watch city vs Southampton this weekend 

But the ticket sales aren't that bad... Not selling out but not disgracing themselves, the idea that it's bad generates the idea that it's easy 

How many people with absolutely no association with city will try and buy tickets vs psg on the back of this weeks attendance and how it's made the news? 

This is a ploy not to necessarily immediately grow their fanbase but get enough day trippers in to fill the place while they slowly continue to get bigger 

[Xela]

Sad news

 

[Genie]

20 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

I smell a conspiracy theory...

Theyve signed the most exciting English player, failed to get the best English player

They've let other fans mock them on social media, the likes of lad bible, even us on here, we've circulated the notion that anyone can get man City tickets, they go on general sale every game, they're not expensive either, if you're in Manchester and want to go watch some world class football you can, I can, anyone can, pep himself has told the world that anyone can go watch city vs Southampton this weekend 

But the ticket sales aren't that bad... Not selling out but not disgracing themselves, the idea that it's bad generates the idea that it's easy 

How many people with absolutely no association with city will try and buy tickets vs psg on the back of this weeks attendance and how it's made the news? 

This is a ploy not to necessarily immediately grow their fanbase but get enough day trippers in to fill the place while they slowly continue to get bigger 

No, I’m not having it.

The traditional fans don’t feel connected to the club. There’s not enough plastics / tourists. The atmosphere is well known to be shit so there’s the repeat customer gone.

Their squad is so good they are expect to beat everyone, so there’s no excitement when they do. They also struggle to sell out the trips to Wembley so it’s not even as if they need to go to the league games to build the history up (like Liverpool, United, Chelsea fans will have to).

[Brumstopdogs]

 

[Phil Silvers]

Good one 

 

[Wainy316]

I love how ridiculed they're getting from all quarters but best of all their fans really can't take it.

Enjoy all your lonely soulless trophies that nobody even cares about it 

Edited September 17, 2021 by Wainy316

[Zatman]

Surely that Athletic "journo" who threw a tantrum against the Villa fans should be out supporting the City fans

Edited September 17, 2021 by Zatman

[Wainy316]

42 minutes ago, Zatman said:

Surely that Athletic "journo" who threw a tantrum against the Villa fans should be out supporting the City fans

Apparently he's not actually a City fan himself.  A big like Greg the Baggie Evans that we have.

[bannedfromHandV]

Shit club, shit fans.

[turvontour]

17 hours ago, blandy said:

They still go - I know a few.

The thing is they've gone in maybe 15 years from a 30+K sort of club to regularly getting 50+k people in the ground. That's a hell of an increase, really. It's not like Spurs or Arsenal where their grounds were always too small for them, they've genuinely grown their supporter base by a lot. It's a bit more like West Ham, where the lure of cheap tickets will attract people to games at their bigger stadium, but it won't take much for them to drift away, either.

Another thing is the regularity of winning - they're basically spoilt and the "meaning" of the games is less. And then a lot of them hate UEFA and the Champions League for going after them for FFP breaches but leaving UEFA's "favoured" clubs alone.

Thanks for posting this. Pretty much what I wanted to say. Overnight, they added more than 50% of seats by switching grounds. Would be like us increasing to 60k plus this season and wondering why theres 15 to 20k empty seats. It's better that it's not filled by glory hunters, but it will do increasingly if they sustain their current position.