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Shame on city fans when rovers fans are on their site offering to support their club by paying over the top prices per game next season to help with new ground 

2 minutes ago, lenred said:

Man City Season ticket holders got to watch them against Arsenal in the FA Cup, current league leaders, for £22.50 in their family stand and £25 in their South Stand.  So the top two in the country for ‘Lidl prices’. 

And we’ve had tickets for £5 ?

Makes me laugh a lot of these moaning so say supporters wanted Tottenham away in draw :laugh: ticket prices up there £60 plus your travel get real 

2 minutes ago, forbespm said:

Watched editors last night at the motion factory.£31 for a 2 hour set.

Excellent value

WHO THE F ARE THEY 

Look it’s like I said earlier if you can show me west end show or a top live band where the tickets are under £50 let alone watching the English champions the let I know , people choose their seats because it’s the best they can afford well if your centre of lansdown and it’s £35 a game to watch Rotherham then surely you expect to pay £15 more for Manchester City it’s a bit like watching the Wurzels or oasis ? 

Everyone wants Prem football but at Lidl prices ain’t going to happen plenty will want to see this so either support your team and wake up or go watch local football and fake off , it’s £22 to go and watch gas and that cheap 

On 02/02/2023 at 14:33, Dollymarie said:

 

4 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

Likewise the majority of Champ games tbf

I can’t see what difference it makes , easier to get to ground plenty of time after to get on it personally I think it’s ok breakfast in cafe straight in boozer at 9 lovely jubilee 

Buy a membership and your one step ahead of general sale + a fiver off league games SIMPLE

I hope it is Tuesday night then my son whose a season ticket holder can go otherwise Wednesday night he misses the match as flying to Benidorm 

On 31/01/2023 at 11:27, RedLionLad said:

I’d love to hear this played on the night

Brilliant got to be played start a new thread

Shop is shit always has been ever since we lost Beryl 

Easy answer but a season ticket for as little as £6 per week end off 

4 minutes ago, spudski said:

I'm not sure what that has to do with it...sounds like ' my dad is bigger than your dad' mentality

You might as well bring back wooden rattles if you're going down that route

All I’m saying cock is back then atmosphere was good and air horns were the thing 

I really hope this went well I did read about it yesterday so was aware BUT I entered through dolman entrance and never seen anyone so it passed me by so I’m hoping something is set up for a ongoing collection at ground , maybe 3 lions and rising sun WELL DONE TO ALL CONCERED 

2 hours ago, spudski said:

Mate...I've been following City since the 70s. 

Air horns have never been seen as something that enhance an atmosphere.

I've sat in stadiums where air horns were used all the time, Speedway and Moto X...it's just noise. 

Exactly why everyone hated the 2010 world cup in South Africa...with the vuvuzelas...inate white noise. 

It's brain dead, not boring.

An atmosphere is the crowd singing and chanting. 

Not a freaking air horn

Well great for you I’ve followed city since England won the World Cup and airborne were part of football atmosphere back then kid 

23 hours ago, spudski said:

Seriously...it's the worst thing for creating an atmosphere . It's just brain dead innate noise, for the sake of noise.

It's like sitting in front of a radio with white noise and saying...wow what an atmosphere. 

Seriously I couldn't think of anything worse. 

I'm honestly intrigued...why would anyone think noise from a high pressurised air container, would make for a good atmosphere? 

Just for you...10 hours of it.

 

What a boring bastard you sound obviously never about in old days these were the toy for the boys but as I said not for the prawn sandwich brigade 

1 hour ago, ExiledAjax said:

I'm posting this as a bit of a passion project, somehting I have worked on and been involved with over the last year or so. I know we are all excited by the financial situation of the club, and we're also all watching closely to see if £10m(ish) of Premier League money flows down Bournemouth's dirty drain pipe and into our little Championship coffers. Well, this project is aimed at demonstrating an innovative and forward-looking method of distributing football's riches across all 92 professional clubs that contribute to the ecosystem of the EFL and Premier League. What if we could spread the money around using something other than league position, convoluted rules, predatory transfers and market forces? What if clubs like ours, like Plymouth, Oxford, Preston North End and even yoyo clubs like Fulham and Norwich no longer had to rely on the scraps from the table above, but instead could invest effort and time into being truly sustainable clubs, that cared for their local communities, safe in the knowledge that there would be a tangible financial reward for doing that, and only that? Perhaps we'd enjoy a player like Antoine for a little longer? Perhaps we'd see more Antoine's coming through, perhaps we'd have a better club for Bristol and for our children and grand children.

I therefore present the Fair Game Sustainability Index. The Sustainability Index is a project that seeks to rate each club in the Premier League and the Championship a score, which is a combination of the factors that Fair Game believes are the essential building blocks of a sustainable club: Financial Solvency, Good Governance, Fan Engagement and Equality Standards. This first publication is a proof of concept and provides clubs, and the game’s administrators, with a baseline and a benchmark, that can be used to measure football’s progress for years to come. It is with this intended longevity in mind that Fair Game engaged some of the very best academic minds in the country (and yours truly) to help develop it. We have put in months of research and analysis to provide a robust and realistic index.

Bristol City are ranked ok. We get a score of 46.6 out of 100, which places us 11th in the Championship. Of clubs not in receipt of parachute payments I think* we are 6th in the division. Our score of 46.6 is also actually higher than Newcastle, Bournemouth and Forest, so were this to be the basis of financial distribution we'd be looking at getting more than them - how about that for levelling the playing field a little?

I know a lot of people think we cannot change football. I disagree. Football has always changed and I refuse to let the Premier League, the owners of the big clubs, and sovereign wealth funds tell us that it cannot change. It's our game, it's your game. The club we follow may be legally owned by one family but its soul is owned by us. We have to try and protect that as much as we can, and to do that we have to show those with power that we have ideas and that we're willing to put in the leg work - because we cannot put in the dollars.

The full report is available here. Currently it covers just the top two divisions as below the Championship there is less publicly available data. Included in the full report is a description of the methodology and reasoning behind the Sustainability Index.

You can read the press release here. There has been some national media coverage as well in The Guardian, The Athletic (may be paywalled), and The Mirror.

Then at the Fair Game website is the full breakdown of the Premier League and Championship, plus details of our own club's ranking.

You can follow Fair Game on Twitter as well if you'd like to do that - https://twitter.com/fairgameuk

PS. I pondered putting this into the existing Fan Review thread. However I hope it's ok to have it as a standalone thread for a few days, and then perhaps @phantom could kindly merge it into the Fan Review thread so that everything is there for ease of reference.

 

*assuming I've got it right regarding who has them.

Good post

What ever happened to fans taking in air horns , great for atmosphere 

I’d like city to give some sort of priority to fans that purchase ticket Saturday should we go through and get a plum draw next round  , I know not everyone can attend all of the time but those who do should be rewarded with first dibs on next round 

Come on lads get up that stand 

30 minutes ago, Taunton_BCFC said:

They’re already doing Preston for £11

I think all clubs doing that this weekend part of the green something or other weekend 

1 hour ago, frenchred said:

A coach to Sunderland? Are you mad!?

:laugh:

Be nice if club did free coaches as a 1 off for a thanks to great away support this season 10 coaches not a lot to shell out 

13 hours ago, Davefevs said:

I was just about to go and search for the Fans Forum transcript

Yeh went back through it Dave :laugh: old age don’t come alone 

2 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

Tallies with what I heard last week - that the club are far more amenable to this than some would think and expect. The club just want it done safely and fairly and within the rules and regulations.

I've heard differently and separately from the Club that we have numbers as below.

Sorry again folks I checked my notes it was 4000 under 12-19s 1000 under 22-25s and 6500 adult so totally wrong but hold my hands up I thought it was 25s down 9000 ? :laugh: