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Really struggled at times today and clearly not fit. Was on the periphery all game, therefore hard to judge whether he’d be an effective addition.

That’s why I included part time too. Not suggesting we have many tourist fans, but plenty who may attend 1-2 matches a season and when combined they’ll spend more than the likes of us on average for that match. Again, not saying I agree with favouring them as the atmosphere suffers massively.

Does anyone know if this will be shown anywhere please?

Because we have a crap Head of Marketing who seemingly makes a sh*tshow of everything he touches from ticketing and rewards to the website and app.

Sorry, this is simply not true due to the reasons many others have said. Part time or tourist fans spend far more on average per visit which is why many clubs consciously choose not to solely sell season tickets.

Completely agree. I do business with Spurs and was told that they regularly have 4-5,000 South Korean fans attend a home match and they spend on average £600-700 per fan. I travelled to Milan with them in the Champions League and they had fans camped out in every restaurant on the off chance of meeting even the non-playing staff at night. 12 million of their 50 million population consider themselves Spurs fans. Not saying I agree with the clubs deliberately leaving tickets open in favour of these international fans, but this is why the notion of “tourist” fans is so attractive to many large clubs and as many others have said, I would hazard a guess that our own more part time fans spend far more in the club shop and bars than us regular fans.

We have an absolute amateur Head of Marketing who is only there because he’s a mate of JL. Anything associated to fan engagement is doomed to fail. He’s the same individual responsible for the recent website data breach and would be laughed out the door at any other club. It’s the same from top to bottom, the average supporter would be shocked to peel back the curtain and see how lacking we are across all key functions.

Would like to burn the ****er! and that flag…

Fantastic post and I’d love someone of Twentyman’s calibre to hold the owners to account and ask them these questions. Sadly, those days seem long gone and they’re able to operate in a complete vacuum of accountability. It will be left to the fans to make the owners feel so uncomfortable that they ultimately sell. I’m not holding out any hope looking at the passiveness shown to date though.

The fact that none of the fans view it like that is evidence itself of what a mess we are in. We are all effectively calling for a hire or a new role when the club think there's already one in place.

Said the same at the ground, best referee I’ve seen in nearly 40 years of watching City.

Can anyone please confirm what Sean Gilhespy career path has looked like to date? What are his credentials and qualifications for this role? What experience does he previously have in football? Hard to find anything at all on the internet.

I agree with many others. This isn’t a personal attack, but the guy will naturally only come across at best a novice, or worst, a pretender at this level and in front of our players. How can he be expected to gain respect from the players when he’s had no playing career of note or any managerial success at this level to date? He’s simply not qualified for the job and completely out of his depth which is clear in his communication to date. He’s never managed in this division and yet, he’s been asked to stand up in front of the players and pretend he’s the same calibre as Nigel Pearson, a manager whose team not only gained promotion, but went on to win a historic Premier League title based on the quality and foundations he built. Understandably, he can’t look the players or any interviewer in the eye by the looks of the content we’ve seen so far. He knows he can’t possibly expect to garner anyone’s respect yet and sadly, he’s been set up to fail and it’s only ever going to end one way. Again, I don’t blame him for taking the job and hopefully goes on to have a very successful career, but he’s been given an impossible task by the idiots that run this club. It’s not fair on him, the players, or the fans for him to be expected to take this club on anything other than a downward trajectory. He’s nowhere near Pearson’s class and everyone knows it. This could prove to be a very difficult end of season.

VAR sadly turning football into a better armchair/ at home viewing experience compared to watching in person. How shit must that have been for the fans in the ground? Not knowing whether to celebrate the goals or not and a min of 10mins not knowing what’s going on, texting mates at home asking for the heads up as they all wait in ignorance, whilst the viewers at home get all the commentary and replays.

Me too