Improving CCFC Support

Lower ticket prices, football is still too exspensive. Allow fans to leave the stadium for food at half time. Or are the club afraid of competition?
Most importantly, Move the Canton Stand to either the ninian 117/116 or behind the goal near away fans.

Fair do's, that suggestion of letting fans leave the stadium at half time to get food etc. has to be the most ridiculous suggestion of all time in a thread half full of some ridiculous suggestions.

Work for the catering contractors do you?

Now you're just being ridiculous again if that's the best you've got. If you don't like it or the price then don't buy it, or are you incapable of going a couple of hours without drinking? I have no doubt the food & drink are both expensive & not worthy of the name but your suggestion would be ridiculous even if there was nothing available.

How are you going to get lets say 5,000 people out of the ground, go somewhere to buy food/drink and back into the ground in 15 minutes ? Or are you advocating 2 hour half times?

You clearly don't attend games or you'd know that smokers are allowed out of the ground for half time. Muppet

If you want City fans fleeced by crap catering that's your ridiculous stance but don't expect many to agree with you. A simple solution would be to let the free market resolve the issue by allowing fans to visit lidl and McDonald's at half time. Oh nooo we can't have fans having an actual choice in their food choice at half time

I'm all for the free market, I've said already that the food & drink are a ripoff but you can't expect 5,000 people to leave the ground & go eat and then return all in 15 minutes. If smokers are allowed to leave then so is anyone but they don't for obvious reasons.

Just because I don't agree with your viewpoint on this doesn't doesn't give you the right to call me a muppet and you can go fk yourself if you're going to be so childish and unable to debate your point.

Your tone on the original message was more than a bit off. If you object to being called a muppet don't act like one.

As someone else has said, you can leave the ground to smoke but you aren't allowed to walk 100 yards to buy reasonably priced food because the club want to fleece you. Yet i'm "ridiculous" for objecting to this

Smokers are kept in a small area with metal barriers and stewards, if we leave them then we aren't allowed back in.
Gone are the days of a stamp on your hand lol

Lots of good ideas on here and also good on the club for inviting them.

Just to settle the going outside for food at half time thing, I tried it once to Maccies from the Ninian and it's virtually impossible to walk there, get served and walk back in time as there's always a queue. You could just about so it from the Family Stand but the logistics of letting a sizeable amount of people out and then have to do security checks letting them back in again would be a big issue and logistically impossible.

I always buy outside from one of the burger vans (Tims on Sloper Rd is the best of the bunch BTW) or grab something from ASDA or LIDL if we're in a rush. I'm not tight but the food in the ground is ridiculously expensive and not really great, I used to buy it when my lad was young as their into it but now don't as he's grown up and he prefers what you outside as it's better value and pretty good in terms of your typical football fare.

What does need addressing is the booze situation. If we're not driving and having a beer, that's outside too and never in the ground because again, it's too expensive for what it is and frankly tastes awful plus as a few have pointed out, of you want a HT pint, and many do, the queue is crazy ans you have to leave your seat very early, so that needs sorting as does the quality and price.

Some grounds get this right and I was impressed my places like MK Dons and Ashton Gate amongst a few others. They were selling quality local beers/ciders and also locally produced decent pies & pasties etc at good prices, so with a bit of thought it is entirely possible and also supporting quality local independent producers and I think people like that sort of choice today.

The youngsters today would be horrified at the stale cheese sarnies and polystyrene cups of piss weak tea we had at NP back in the day!

Can't really comment too much on standard of in-house food offering as refuse to buy it as its overpriced.

I reneged on that last Saturday though as I fancied a coffee so went down just after McGuinness netted.

£3 for an hotel style sachet of Kenco instant coffee, - it was absolutely dire and an incredible rip-off. I would say it was taking the piss and I was drinking it.

I also ordered a Twix - a pathetic fun size bar for am eye watering £1.50.

I vow to not get mugged off again. Pisspoor offering from the club and treating fans with disdain.

Can't really comment too much on standard of in-house food offering as refuse to buy it as its overpriced.

I reneged on that last Saturday though as I fancied a coffee so went down just after McGuinness netted.

£3 for an hotel style sachet of Kenco instant coffee, - it was absolutely dire and an incredible rip-off. I would say it was taking the piss and I was drinking it.

I also ordered a Twix - a pathetic fun size bar for am eye watering £1.50.

I vow to not get mugged off again. Pisspoor offering from the club and treating fans with disdain.

My feeling exactly on this subject.

Its not just our place but others as well. Last time I ate in a stadium was at Birmingham. I usually eat outside before going in. This night I had trouble getting a parking place and got to the stadium 5 minutes before KO feeling hungry. I had one of their Cheeseburgers, took 2 bites of it and had to throw it in the bin. Will I ever learn?

The perplexing thing is, most of these suggestions have been brought up time and time again, so what’s the point of having meetings .The same fans are asking for suggestions which have already been raised. I could do the same job for free and save the club some money and probably get some changes in place.

The perplexing thing is, most of these suggestions have been brought up time and time again, so what’s the point of having meetings .The same fans are asking for suggestions which have already been raised. I could do the same job for free and save the club some money and probably get some changes in place.

The club has some very capable people in sales and marketing and from the outside it may look like nobody is doing anything to increase support, that's far from true. It can be very complex and any offers have to go by the EFL rules and its more complicated than you might think. However its great to see the response from you all and I have sent all the ideas on to head of departments.

The perplexing thing is, most of these suggestions have been brought up time and time again, so what’s the point of having meetings .The same fans are asking for suggestions which have already been raised. I could do the same job for free and save the club some money and probably get some changes in place.

The club has some very capable people in sales and marketing and from the outside it may look like nobody is doing anything to increase support, that's far from true. It can be very complex and any offers have to go by the EFL rules and its more complicated than you might think. However its great to see the response from you all and I have sent all the ideas on to head of departments.

I appreciate that but some of the suggestions are far from complex, the £2.00 booking fee is scandalous.

Another thing that’s come into my mind is that for a diverse city our crowds don’t seem to match up demographics wise. I know some will dismiss this as woke nonsense etc but we do have a large community of minority football fans, especially kids, who largely follow the big 6 Premier League teams and not the City.

I remember a few years back we had the “My City, My Shirt” mural on the wall which I thought was a sign of great progress, but was then dismayed to read that the club wanted nothing to do with it as it didn’t want to be accused of “reverse racism”? Mural has since been painted over I believe, unfortunately, which again the lack of any fight to keep it up from the club I’m sure did no favours in its image to our city’s diverse communities.

Maybe getting the club involved in more “inner-city” kids football could help?

Used to get flex-tickets often as I can’t make every game. If I have to pay match day prices I won’t bother, too expensive.
To top it off, the club then charge the very irritating £2 booking fee. It’s a racket.