But i feel like the club doesn't care about their fans at all like does Manchester city do things differently?

Speaking of Manchester City...... 

It's an interesting conversation.
Comparisons with Man City are kind of irrelevant as Man City has over a century of history with fans being passed down each generation.
Heart/MC was always going to be a slow burn when it came to fan growth. IMO the name/branding wasn't quite right from the get go. People didn't mind the red/white, but the name meant nothing. They may as well called themselves Not Victory FC as that was the only real reason for people to jump on board.
Although CFG brought in success through investment and professionalism, they also brought with them a tonne of baggage. Anyone that supports Liverpool, Man U, Chelsea, Tottenham, etc, are very unlikely to get on board with a club owned by CFG. That cuts out a big chunk of the potential fan base in Melbourne. That's a fan base that MV had already been grazing on for a while, so it was already diminished. I know a young family (English migrants), who were members of Heart, but dumped them as soon as CFG took over as they are Liverpool supporters. They are now MV members. Then there is the issue of CFG being UAE owned, which is a whole other kettle of fish all together.
As for the low crowd numbers, some of it has to do with the league itself and Australian football issues in general. Also as you know, it's been a bit weird in Melbourne post lock downs. Many people just haven't returned as a result of not being able to watch their team live for so long. Not entirely sure of the reasons, but things have definitely changed in Melbourne.
The on-field results are interesting. The squad is obviously good and the points are flowing nicely. However that's not always enough, weirdly. Sometimes you need personalities to put bums on seats.
I'll ask you this question, MCG. What was more exciting as a MC fan?
Less consistent points, yet still competitive, and Fornaroli was scoring great goals and frustrating defenders.
Or.
Consistent wins and JMac tapping in goals every week.

Would actually prefer 2 teams outside Sydney make the final and no bastard turned up to stick it right up those APL pricks.

Of course, but they would also lose supporters from the West and probably North.
I live in the inner northern suburbs and have a few friends who support MC. The ones that live west have already said they will abandon the club once it moves east. The ones that live in the North have said, they'll wait and see, but aren't too happy about it. I also have a group of friends that have said will just return to supporting Knights in the NSD if they get a spot.

New supporters from Dandenong, derr.

They don't have that many current supporters to lose though, will hardly impact them in that way. MC need a whole new area to embrace them..

So you reckon Melbourne City's future is to focus on getting support from Dandenong?
Riiiight.....

Not entirely true. They have quite a large supporter base. Problem is they don't seem to go regularly.

yer, could have fooled me.
So this quite large supporter base, they go to AFL instead I suppose ? or couldn't be bothered attending ?
All I see most home games is empty seats and pigeons.
Not even a qrtr stad full, always looks pretty sad barring the few big games,  being Champs and how they've played last few years you wonder where this quite large supporter base is being Melb is always quoted as the sporting mad State compared to the rest.
Nothing adds up tbh and with all the resource which is great and time to establish I can't see this mob having a high attendance for yonks and yonks.
Something is not right for seriously, its only looks a shade better in support since the Heart days ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6-rRqr21_k

Who is this "Simon Pierce" that appears implicated in all of the dodgy emails??? His name sounds familiar?

Everyone is rightly angry at Danny Townsend for the APL GF decision, but IMO, the biggest threat to the future of the is A-League is Simon Pearce.  

The short version is that Simon Pearce is on the board of the APL, Melbourne City and Silver Lake. ADP rightly quit the APL board due to a conflict of interest, but this guy takes the cake.  He is a very dangerous man that is a cancer on Football. And if you delve deeper, he doesn’t exactly have a great reputation in England.

Pearce is basically the reason why Melbourne City screwed over its own fanbase in favour of holding the GF in Sydney. He needs to be pushed out of the game. 

Maybe we will get luckly and this Manchester City investigation implicates him. We can only hope. 

I'm sorry for good guy MCG and the few true support base but its all just too fake sorry to say.
someguyfc as mentioned, all these free ticks, yes all clubs do this but they would be having to have thrown out the most for sure, well WU/Bulls wouldn't be far behind but its buying/begging for support.

ah the true lines why MV's support got bigger, freebies even to members season in season out.
Played.

Everyone is rightly angry at Danny Townsend for the APL GF decision, but IMO, the biggest threat to the future of the is A-League is Simon Pearce.  

The short version is that Simon Pearce is on the board of the APL, Melbourne City and Silver Lake. ADP rightly quit the APL board due to a conflict of interest, but this guy takes the cake.  He is a very dangerous man that is a cancer on Football. And if you delve deeper, he doesn’t exactly have a great reputation in England.

Pearce is basically the reason why Melbourne City screwed over its own fanbase in favour of holding the GF in Sydney. He needs to be pushed out of the game. 

Maybe we will get luckly and this Manchester City investigation implicates him. We can only hope. 

They only really did it at the beginning of the AL. Once AAMI was completed, the freebies completely stopped. That was 12 years ago.
As for the colour it goes way beyond the SFC rivalry. Everyone just associates that colour with NSW.