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Yes you do. The colour of our kit for starters. Put us back in red-and-white if you want to be seen as "a stand-alone club."

In what world do you think we can build a stadium for $10m?!

Wales keeps playing when the opposition has the ball.

Wales was good on the weekend, especially first half. No brainer to start him

A terrifying and strange place no doubt

I'd drop Wales to the bench, give Najjar another run up top with Noone on the other wing. Give Genreau the license to drift in towards the centre (like Broich) then sub Wales and and the youth striker on towards the end to run at tiring defenders.

I believe this is the first time Najjar has been played centrally for us, which is the position he's played in mostly when he's played for the NPL team, he'll be fine.

Although I agree that big name marquees would only act as a short term sugar hit i think we really do need a few hits to get back on track. also just bring back red and white, I was able to convince 8 friends to come along Friday night which hasn’t happened since we all went to heart games!

I think you're grossly overstating the impact Ibrahimovic would have on attendances tbh, but then again its a hypothetical so there's no way really to prove that. That's not to say it might not be a worthwhile exercise, but i do think those numbers are a bit pie in the sky tbh.

Some of you people are crazy Building a new stadium won't solve the problem. Sure, a smaller stadium will cost the club less to run in the long run but won't solve the problem of attracting more fans. FWIW too aami park is a great stadium, I see no reasons to move from their. The only way to attract more fans is through success. Anytime that this club has had a continued run of wins or some success during the regular season, we manage to fuck it up somehow. A demoralising loss or an underwhelming performance, book one of the two in anytime this club gets on some type of good run of form. Even though a club like Sydney may not be selling out every game with all the success they have had, they have still been getting more than reasonable crowds due to their success. Big money marquees will add a temporary boost to attendances, but the only long term sustainable option to crowd success is to build a successful football club. Hopefully the club is now turning the corner with mombarts as our coach but oh boy, have I been sucked in before by this lot This club has either fucked up/ had so much change to it since it's inception (Forarali saga, running the club on a shoestring budget, colour changes, tying the longest record in Australian sports without winning a game) that the only identity with been able to consistently have is the identity of always disappointing when any type of expectation is put on us. As much as I hate the vistors they have been constantly successful as a club throughout most of their history and a large fan base has also followed (them also being the only team in Melbourne for a while may have also helped them corner the market but continued success has brought back their fans constantly) ATM on the field we are doing well, but we need to put together more consistency to bring more fans to our games.The FFA can also take some responsibility because any cunt who thought it would be a good idea to schedule games late on a sunday is a muppet. 4 and 6pm kick offs before a work day? Get outta here. TL:DR: Win more games=more fans

Slaves, lots and lots of slaves. Dodgy concrete, cardboard and some of the lads in-charge of Sydney's apartment buildings. Oh, and a hint of neglect for human rights.

Almost by definition I see a football club supporter as someone with a long memory. You don't change what CFG has done using an airbrush - although you will remember that CFG even tried to do just that.

Active support is very, very high on the list of "what makes a great game day experience". With this in mind I sent the following email to the club after our first home game on 20th October that contained the following "..... what a great game experience it was. This was certainly better than what I have suffered for the last two years. It was helped by the win of course but was also due to the much more attacking style of football. The entertainment was also a credit to the City Terrace boys. I do not belong to them (a little past that sort of thing) but they are an asset that should be nurtured and I would hope that the club does all they can to embrace them - maybe a regular meeting with them at Bundoora. From what it would seem the new club Western United are very committed to their supporter group and have visibly engaged with them." Guess what - no response However, keep it up Terrace. We love you.

Najjarines final touch hasn’t been much better IMO

The Westpac logo makes it 100% better. 🤤

Comes down to perception and time. There was a time when there were things about Manchester City on our website. Now there isn't. Supporters memories are long. There were a number of other things that were painfully Manchester. Now, not so much. The club had learnt. The home kit? Depends if your perception can classify that now as Manchester being' rammed' down or throats. It's a reminder that we are a CFG club. But in this moment is it much more than that?

To understand that you have to live in @Imtellingyou world

For me what we've seen over the past few seasons is that putting blokes in positions that they might not be suited but done because they are better players overall than the current rarely works. (Brillante last week was more because of how weak the nix were rather than being a masterstroke). So putting Genreau out on a wing probably won't work even though Genreau is a better player than Wales(IMO) I would probably try Najarine again out wide first or even look at Atkinson instead of Wales. I think you also need to look at the LB in Jamieson and his ability to overlap or cut inside in who is best as the left sided attacking option. It's a position that is definitely open to a few possibilities but the sooner we get it right that more balanced we will look.

+ Oasis

@mjake1234 My experience is that an e-mail sent to the "general" address (info@....) is a hit or a miss - a response is not always forthcoming. I have found that the most reliable contact there is the membership section, and Ryan in particular. Never met him in person, but he seems to go out of his way to relate to individual members. His response to me after the loss of my wife was sympathetic and understanding. I do wish that as an entity the club could find that personal touch and embrace its supporters. A reply to your communication was the very least it should do.

So the stats show that attendances peak with signing bigger name players and drop when they leave. Isn’t that a good enough reason to consistently have one or two on the books? If than the results are going our way I can see the numbers go up. Tells me that that’s what the general public wants to see.

Run buses from the nearest station on match days? But I still believe that all these things will make only a marginal difference. We are still seen as the Antipodean Branch Office of a Manchester-based football club. Only when people identify us with Melbourne do I believe that we will reconnect with the fans. Not one of our four directors is Melbourne-based. They make decisions based on CFG corporate interests, not specific Melbourne City interests. Doesn't mean that I don't support the club - I've missed only a handful of home matches in 9+ seasons, as did my wife until she became seriously ill, but I see this as the major stumbling block in our development.

Oath we will be. Might even dig out the Heart era sash kit. And loud chants of we are red and white I hope...