It’s only half 10 here in Florida where I’m spending my price increase up front, but last word, probably not, to all you selfish ****s who think fans should be grateful to pay more just because we have a new owner, you can get ****ed, we’ve been down this route many times before, Robbo, play on the moon, massive amphitheatre on North stand for concerts, Lloyd/Wilby promising the Earth at City Hall, the Stealers, yes robbing us blind, Bartlett and Duffen, Bartlett blindfolded to let Duffen buy his Aston and flash house, but they did get us up, but that allowed the Allams to **** us up. Be careful what you wish for City fans, because rich people are never rich enough, they always want more, I along with thousands of you kept paying our memberships for 18 months without seeing a match, this helped keep the club afloat and solvent enough to allow Acun to buy it at a reasonable price for him and the Allams to do a deal, to kick in a price increase after we/me spent hundreds of pounds when we didn’t have to, is a bit off. That’s why I’m vocal and disappointed that the new owner saw fit to shove prices up when he virtually said prices would come down.
My memory’s a bit ****e but didn’t the Allams let us have a vote about home fans been in north and the vote went to returning to east stand??
It was part of the vote on pricing. https://www.not606.com/threads/membership-scheme-vote-concessions-to-return.374269/page-3
I don't agree with this, the club will be losing money with the new pricing structure base on last season, the increase only affects around 2-3K supporters, yet a price drop has been put in place for 4-6K supporters and losing money on the kids ticket prices. So the increase will not cover the shortfall of the adults in the stadium. As mentioned before, a premium must be paid for the prime location seats and at the end of the day it's not an extra £5 per game it's per month, if this is too much with the rate of inflation then there are two options, 1. move to cheaper seats to keep going or 2. with live football being a massive luxury in todays climate, stop going! Noone has mentioned the fact that the club are having to find an extra £1m on top of what they're already paying to cover the fuel and power costs per season, as with everywhere these costs get passed onto the consumers, but the club hasn't done this.
I did, as you might imagine, express a view to that question! Almost everything going very well, but weirdly, taken in complete isolation, the Allams did this part better when they admitted they were wrong initially and moved us back. (maybe they didn’t say they admitted it but the action they took did) I’ll probably move to North Stand but if I do I’m going to watch every game in silence with my arms folded to show Acun he’s wrong.
No !! come and sit near us in E7 where the great majority still sit like that !! Mind you a lot came from West Upper and bloody stayed I think !!
ffs - it's £5 a month - can't believe anyone is having a pop - the Allams (****s) have gone, tick, new owner investing in club, tick, says all the right things about getting promotion, tick, feel good factor back, tick, attendances starting to improve, tick - come on, give a bit of slack, it's a fiver for ****'s sake
I’d happily pay an extra £10 if they’d guarantee they’d stop ****ing evicting me from my seat every time I get used the new one!
and I agree with that - as soon as you get used to the small clan around you it's time to start again
Precisely A whole new generation of fans will need to get used to the fact that we’ll leave pub late, therefore get into the ground late, therefore the space and empty seats they thought they had next to them will get filled late…so they’ll have to squash the **** up again! first spell in East the people behind us used to explain that to random people who thought they could stand there
I think it's brilliant that people in the UK seem to get to know people around them. It's just such a foreign concept over here where you sit in a different seat each week and just chat to whoever you go to the game with. I wonder if it's something Acun's not used to either?
I've been reading the negative comments about the move again, and I get the apprehension. But I think we have to take into account the change in reasoning for it. Last time if I remember correctly, the move was done with the feeling the Allams were doing it out of bloodymindedness, whereas this time they are genuinely trying to encourage a better atmosphere and increase it around the ground. Under the Allams the actual attendance figures were roughly around 9K, after their 20% adjustment, there could well be an extra 5000/7000 more attending home games next season. The new owners with their new pricing are trying to get more youngsters in, who generally are the ones that make the most noise. So, I guess they are hoping that at least a good proposition of new or returning fans may well go for the cheaper tickets behind the goals. What I have found is that people will start to sing when others around them are doing it. I was in the West stand and virtually no one started a chant, so no one else joined in. When I went to away games I would enjoy joining in with the songs as everyone else was doing it. Maybe with the increased attendance, and some staying in the East, whereas some will go to the north, maybe in time a culture of a singing section in the East and the north with grow. Of cause TWT, but with the increased positivity around the place now, maybe this time it will work.
Shota will be relieved, not getting berated for waving. Maybe he too should keep his arms folded though. I'm currently laid,on a sunbed in Ibiza. So as I understand it, we're getting evicted again, but a fiver cheaper a month? Sod it I'm going straight to reception to book a late summer room. If he'd knock a bit more off, Mrs A could come too. On a serious not, this has to be because of the perceived crowd problems in E1-3? As I rmentioned on here before, The only trouble I've actually seen this season was caused by police/ stewards holding up a drunk to check his pass. He couldn't find it and got shirty with someone protesting. It escalated while police did **** all to calm it and continued checking passes.
Agree with this, it’s too quiet in the south , but on the odd occasion a chant goes full way down the east and reaches us, lots of people do join in , just not enough song starters , maybe the singers getting split up should spread around the stadium and get the different stands going for the shy ones, ha
I think the club believe they’re doing it for the right reasons John, although I dread to think who has been in their ear telling them it’s a good idea. I understand your point about the increased attendance in general, but the problem is the East stand section the singers area being split from (E4-E7 ish) has been pretty much sold out all the time anyway so that area won’t get manymore fans to make a difference in there, and as you say people tend to join in when singing is started. That area has been joining in recently because the songs have been started in E1-3. That’s been because the general feeling round the club is better as well, but it’s happened exactly as you say. When those same singers were moved last time the rest of East was still full but from where I was it sounded really quiet, and because the fans are split with the exception of a quick ‘we’re the North stand / East stand’ songs didn’t spread sadly (or not from what I could hear)
Have no fear Dennis. Our ‘Ultras’ will no doubt regroup and swell their ranks as a new dawn settles over the North stand. Our top lads will be plotting this very minute on how to invade the enemy from either side in a well practiced pincer movement including sever finger pointing and hand gestures every time we score. The likes of the Blunts and hopefully Weeds won’t know what’s hit ‘em come Saturday’s.
