Champions League Final | Tickets - City Official Package + UEFA Tickets | 2022 Final (pg 1033)

TedofChume said:
That really doesn't surprise me at all. I heard a while ago that of our 3,000 premier away tickets, only 500 went to people on points. The rest went to corporate, comps and supporters clubs. When you hear this it makes you think ticket points, platinum membership etc is all just one big con.

I'm going off topic here a bit.

To qualify for a ticket on the points scheme for one of these games, you need to have been going for at least 20 years.

Whenever I go, it's always the same faces. Most (like me) are well over 50 years, who simply don't have the same youthful exuberance of people in their 20s.

So where is the incentive/opportunity for newer and younger fans to get involved?

When I started going in the 80s to away games, they were noisy and raucous, with lots of singing and a much younger crowd. Now City fans are quiet compared to most other clubs. This has a knock on effect at the Etihad too, where unless it's an important match, the atmosphere is poor.

I'm not knocking the loyalty of those that go to these games week in week out, and have been going for years. They deserve it.

I just think the club should do more to enable people with fewer points to have the opportunity to go on an away trip occasionally. I know they introduced 150 tickets for younger away fans, but seriously will 5% change anything?

I thought the loyalty scheme was a dreadful idea when it was first introduced, it just created a closed shop, and prevented the club from growing its fan base and therefore its ability to compete financially. Seating the Kippax was the start.

Loyalty/ tickets points should only get you priority for key games where there is huge demand and very limited supply. Not for every run of the mill match.

At the end of the day, we're all City fans, and should get treated equally. A ballot system with a bit of a weighting to those with more points would be better.

Anyhow rant over.
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Reckon I could post this every other day at the moment:

Most seasons there is about 8 games which go to general sale. It's not a closed shop. It is very difficult to get a game for Old Trafford and Anfield but then there's much more interest in those games than there is say for Palace or Southampton away.

City fans at away games are far louder than they were in 2006 when I started regularly going to away games.

If we had a ballot we wouldn't sell out games.
 
dancity19 said:
Right? Are people seriously saying, if you are linked to someone on the account who has higher points than you, you can also get a ticket as soon as they qualify?
So if I have 14000, but my Dad has 16000 I can get one as soon as he does.

surely that’s nonsense.
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It's usually the other way around.. The person with more points can buy once the level reaches the lower qualification band
 
TedofChume said:
That really doesn't surprise me at all. I heard a while ago that of our 3,000 premier away tickets, only 500 went to people on points. The rest went to corporate, comps and supporters clubs. When you hear this it makes you think ticket points, platinum membership etc is all just one big con.

I'm going off topic here a bit.

To qualify for a ticket on the points scheme for one of these games, you need to have been going for at least 20 years.

Whenever I go, it's always the same faces. Most (like me) are well over 50 years, who simply don't have the same youthful exuberance of people in their 20s.

So where is the incentive/opportunity for newer and younger fans to get involved?

When I started going in the 80s to away games, they were noisy and raucous, with lots of singing and a much younger crowd. Now City fans are quiet compared to most other clubs. This has a knock on effect at the Etihad too, where unless it's an important match, the atmosphere is poor.

I'm not knocking the loyalty of those that go to these games week in week out, and have been going for years. They deserve it.

I just think the club should do more to enable people with fewer points to have the opportunity to go on an away trip occasionally. I know they introduced 150 tickets for younger away fans, but seriously will 5% change anything?

I thought the loyalty scheme was a dreadful idea when it was first introduced, it just created a closed shop, and prevented the club from growing its fan base and therefore its ability to compete financially. Seating the Kippax was the start.

Loyalty/ tickets points should only get you priority for key games where there is huge demand and very limited supply. Not for every run of the mill match.

At the end of the day, we're all City fans, and should get treated equally. A ballot system with a bit of a weighting to those with more points would be better.

Anyhow rant over.
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We would have 1,500 in the ballot for Newcastle in a league cup game on a Tuesday and 300,000 for united away wanting a ticket.

Fans who only want to go to the big aways should not be treated equally.
 
g180aj said:
I only have 14,340 points unfortunately matey mate has around 23,000 so he tried his luck and it’s looking like it worked
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How old are you if you don’t mind? If you’re junior/under 18 it’s more understandable
 
TedofChume said:
That really doesn't surprise me at all. I heard a while ago that of our 3,000 premier away tickets, only 500 went to people on points. The rest went to corporate, comps and supporters clubs. When you hear this it makes you think ticket points, platinum membership etc is all just one big con.

I'm going off topic here a bit.

To qualify for a ticket on the points scheme for one of these games, you need to have been going for at least 20 years.

Whenever I go, it's always the same faces. Most (like me) are well over 50 years, who simply don't have the same youthful exuberance of people in their 20s.

So where is the incentive/opportunity for newer and younger fans to get involved?

When I started going in the 80s to away games, they were noisy and raucous, with lots of singing and a much younger crowd. Now City fans are quiet compared to most other clubs. This has a knock on effect at the Etihad too, where unless it's an important match, the atmosphere is poor.

I'm not knocking the loyalty of those that go to these games week in week out, and have been going for years. They deserve it.

I just think the club should do more to enable people with fewer points to have the opportunity to go on an away trip occasionally. I know they introduced 150 tickets for younger away fans, but seriously will 5% change anything?

I thought the loyalty scheme was a dreadful idea when it was first introduced, it just created a closed shop, and prevented the club from growing its fan base and therefore its ability to compete financially. Seating the Kippax was the start.

Loyalty/ tickets points should only get you priority for key games where there is huge demand and very limited supply. Not for every run of the mill match.

At the end of the day, we're all City fans, and should get treated equally. A ballot system with a bit of a weighting to those with more points would be better.

Anyhow rant over.
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Younger fans just need to pull their finger out and start building their points up. Both my lads are in their early 20's and are on just a shade under 15k points. They qualify tomorrow in the last group in the criteria so fingers crossed there's still some reasonably priced tickets available at 5pm Friday
 
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