Love of City, love of footy, prestige, sense of community, tax breaks, publicity, business promotion, fun, entertainment, vanity, boredom, innocence, too much money to spend, charity, hope of making money, spur of the moment, prestige, power, control, altruism, leaving a legacy, leaving a legacy and not bothered about cash, wishful thinking, positive nature, seeing the business opportunities, building a Footy village/hotel etc whilst working with local authorities, to make City a club owned by fans, etc. Hope this helps.
Well I disagree with you I don't think that most of the people that sing at City are single people in their 20s I also think that plenty of people singing loudly in protest will sign up anyway. Whether you like that or not is irrelevant
I have no problem with people renewing if it is cheaper for them, but I do think they are being short sighted. The atmosphere at games is already pretty ****, so imagine a few thousand people less next year and it will become more like a morgue than now. As the years pass this will put more people off and it will become more noticeable as no young vocal supporters growing up to replace those that grow up/calm down or leave. Even if it is withdrawn the year after that how many would rejoin? by then they would have lost seats/friendships and the habit of going and got used to doing other things on a weekend. I was checking out the blocks in zone 1 and 2 on Tuesday night, and even taking into account fewer people going to a midweek game they looked fairly full. Still not sure how they are going to move all the fans who want to move into these areas. On the subject of moves, who goes first - is it west upper then concessions moving to cheaper seats or is it a general free for all and first-come first served? Last thought - if we do go up are we really going to fill the stadium with new fans - we didn't have a full stadium the last time we were in the Premier league. Any new season ticket holders should have to pay the joining fee and pay for the more expensive seats (even for kids/concessions) so like many current fans this will put them off; and how many single game people will we have to the minor games - prices will have to be higher than the membership scheme and without concessions?
I don't think fans combining 'Allam Out' with 'Scheme Out' as was on a banner this afternoon is helpful towards getting the scheme scrapped as it divides focus. Doing this as a combination is more likely to make the owners dig in and continue with the scheme. The club is up for sale anyway. For the moment stay focussed on scrapping the scheme would be my advice, especially going into play-offs.
Is it actually for sale? Who says? All we've got is Allam Senior's word, which is worth absolutely **** all, and when we do hear from the Allams they're always saying they won't sell to just anyone etc etc. Even if we get promoted, they're not going to get people offering then megamoney for it and taking on the debt, which is what they seem to want.
The 2 current priorities are getting the scheme scrapped and getting back to the Premier League. Allam out protests are diversionary from these twin objectives and not helpful at this moment and risk affecting players heads as well.
I don't understand the idea that any protests affect the players. How?! How does a bedsheet with Allam Out written on it affect the players? Does it only affect our players or both. It's such a ridiculous cliché.
Sort of agree. The protests should neither encourage or discourage the players. Just a mild distraction I suppose. Background noise. But footballers are like racehorses it seems. They need to be cosseted, stroked and not upset.
I don't even think it's a distraction. If anything protests bring with them more vocal support. Booing or jeering players will definitely be distracting, but a bit of singing and some banners? Does anyone really think the players will perform worse because of that? And only our players, not the opposition?
I don't think they are mostly in 20s or 30s I do think that teens and 40 plus would be a majority But I could be wrong And so could you
