We had an average of 19,841 2005/6 when we finished 18th. An average of 18,758 when we finished 21st in 2006/2007. We didn't have as many not finding a reason not to go despite being a lot poorer than we are now. The squad didn't bear comparison then. And we hadn't had a taste of top flight or FA Cup glory then. The first season after our first relegation from the PL was 21,169 when we finished 11th.
Stop wriggling you know perfectly well. 2012. Same Chairman, same manager. What was our average last season with that same **** chairman and manager?
Yet in our 2007/2008 promotion season our average home attendance was less than all those figures you've quoted.
The first season Assem took over, we got 20,535 against Ipswich, but that's obviously well before he started pissing people off. We also had Pearson in charge, playing boring football, allegedly.
Well I don't, I'm up out of my seat, celebrating with the ****er next to me, on occasion even when I've never met them before!
So, you are comparing crowds under Assam in the PL, with larger away attendances and people turning up to see the PL stars rather than watch City with crowds when we finished 18th and 21st in the Championship? .
I know you dont like it when you get challenged but as i've shown, similar attendance in 2012 and 2015 against the same team with the same Chairman and same manager. Thats a direct comparison, plucking other years as you and Castro keep trying isnt. So in answer to Has increasing ticket prices resulted in reduced attendances and was it actually a really poor business decision? Same crowd but charging them £156 on top is a pretty good business decision i would say. Doesnt mean I agree with high prices.
Good for you. Unfortunately not many follow your fine example.Someone telling a fan to quieten down as his daughter was trying to listen to her phone to follow what Manchester United were doing and couldn't hear it and you just wonder about some of our "fans". And that was in the middle of the East Stand, our stand where the most fanatical City fans supposedly sat at the time.
Who is wriggling? You said fans find a reason not to go. If you don't like it being shown that it seems that happens more than at a time we were doing very poorly in comparison, then tough.
If I can be arsed, I'll check all the comparisons for you tomorrow, though as you completely ignored me pointing out the stupidity of your season ticket price increase claim, I might not bother.
I was at that game, Tabb screaming like a girl is my abiding memory, and then the subsequent piss taking from the east stand.
Each to their own I guess, they no not what they do, however if they're sat next to me they'd best be ready to celebrate when we score, it's not ****ing optional either.
You'd have loved this scenario LB ......... the 3-2 away win at Newcastle; I was stood next to a mid/late 40's guy - he was with a couple of early 20's young lasses, their first job was to freshen their make-up, they then played computer games, watched clips on their mobile phones and never once (that I saw) raised their eyes towards the pitch. The mind boggles, probably my favourite away game since the 4-2 at Hillsborough, when the winner went in everyone was going mental apart from these two brain-dead beauties.
A poster on here went to the Emirates in our first season in the PL on his own as he was the only one of his circle who used to travel all over the country watching City in the darker days who got a ticket. Two women with a kid apiece were sat in the next seats. One leant across and asked if he would tell the kids who was who as it was the first game any of them had been to. No wonder football, and the atmosphere at it, is going down the pan.
Total waste of two tickets. Why do they even bother going? My daughter used to be a steward when she was 18 at Boothferry Park, it was there that City got under her skin. She was with me at Wembley for the play off win, right by my side, she went ****ing barmy with me when Deano scored, it was one of the happiest moments of my life, and hers too. My long term memory has never been brilliant, unless it involves numbers strangely enough, but I'll never ever forget the emotion of that day.
