Bah, humbug!

The in-laws dragged us around Hull yesterday, and I have never seen so many people wearing City shirts in my life.

**** off you plastic cnuts! I hope the club have something in place to determine who gets tickets to the bigger matches next season.

That is all

 

Sad, so very sad

 

I wonder how many of them wouldve been wearing something Liverpool, Man Utd, Leeds related if we were had not gone up...

 

I walked past a couple of gents wearing City tops (this seasons, I might add - probably bought on Saturday for a tenner), talking about City.
One of them; "Yeah, their manager, er...Steve...er..."
The other one: "Bruce?"
First one: "Yeah, that's it, he's done a real good job this season"

Cringe-worthy.

 

Does it really matter? Would you have a club with the minimum "real" fans, or a club who is supported by the full city?

 

I want a club where I can get to away games as easily as I currently can Not have to battle with morons who go to Old Trafford to see the likes of RVP and Rooney, and need to try their hardest to remember to cheer when City score.

Too much to ask, I know.

 

How do you know those people aren't regular fans who are just wearing their shirts outside of matchdays at the moment because they are celebrating promotion.


I don't like this "Our Club" attitude. We were all new to supporting City at one time. Yes, there will be the Glory-hunters and hangers on, but if we are going to grow the Club and establish it as a Premiership regular then we also have to grow the support, especially the kids.

 

Firstly, people are more likely to wear their shirts a) After promotion b) in warm weather c) after the club just did a 'shirts for a tenner' promotion.

But even if it is 'plastic supporters' - who cares? Reactions like this implies a jealously, and i'm not remotely jealous - I follow City because I like following City, and I think that makes success even sweeter.

 

Most of them still had the tags on.

 

Every body has to start some where. Pretty neat if that was your first match. If your not a fan for life after that well there's just no hope

 

.....and your point is?

 

3000 extra tickets sold per game, 19 home games, average of £25 per ticket makes us £1.4 million extra next season.
Plastics might be annoying but I'm sure the club would rather have the above that the standard 18k die-hards.

 

If you must know I left the tags on so I can get my tenner back if we get relegated next season.

 

I agree, although 18k die-hards is a bit of an over-estimate!

 

**** off you plastic ****s!!! how dare you bandwagon jumpers buy shirts and give the club money/ more popularity utter ****s the lots of you!!!! they may very well be bandwagon glory hunting twats, but every club needs these types of fans to grow in stature. these fans only come along if the clubs doing well such is the way life works mate get used to it.... personally i would rather see the club grow as much as possible than call them all ****s etc

 

Those that moan at this really want to shake their heads. A lot.

How do you know that they're all plastic?

First time in years (and I've been going for years) that a) I bought one on saturday for a tenner because I begrudge paying £40 or £50 quid at the start of the season knowing that they'll reduce at the end b) because I got carried away with events on saturday c) that it was abit warm and sunny and seemed a good idea to wear it cos I'm proud of my club.

And whats better than seeing the city centre full of amber and black, especially for anyone from out of town passing through?

Those 'plastics' that do wear the shirts - we need them to bring more money into the club.

Agree about the tickets issue though - the club needs to get that sorted over the summer. Trawl their database and reward those with 'history'

 

Except that we have 4 less home games which would have had say 17,000 fans, average of £20 a ticket at NPC level (I'm probably being kind there) and overall that loses us just over £1.35m so ticket revenue doesn't really work out much better.

 

Those that moan at this really want to shake their heads. A lot.

How do you know that they're all plastic?

First time in years (and I've been going for years) that a) I bought one on saturday for a tenner because I begrudge paying £40 or £50 quid at the start of the season knowing that they'll reduce at the end b) because I got carried away with events on saturday c) that it was abit warm and sunny and seemed a good idea to wear it cos I'm proud of my club.

And whats better than seeing the city centre full of amber and black, especially for anyone from out of town passing through?

Those 'plastics' that do wear the shirts - we need them to bring more money into the club.

Agree about the tickets issue though - the club needs to get that sorted over the summer. Trawl their database and reward those with 'history'

 

In which case the additional fans will prevent us from losing £1.4m on the previous season income.