Wembley Thread (merged)

Re: How are ticket sales going?

Interstate 5 said:
The club needs to know it can sell as many season tickets as possible, so it needs incentives. There is no use adding 15,000 seats because we have 30,000 extra Citycard holders who may or may not turn up on a wet Monday night when the game is live on telly.

The club needs to sell as many Cup tickets as it can, so again it needs incentives to fill the ground.

It doesn't really care how many part-timers turn up for ten games, whether they come to more Cup games, whether they are crying now because they can't go to Wembley, or what the reasons are for their sporadic attendance. They certainly won't give them precedence over someone who committed hundreds of pounds to the club in advance, and risk losing regular business and guaranteed income.

It does care that it has a large number of ST holders who will renew, a growing waiting list and probable large increases in people registering for Cup Direct next season.

I can understand why someone with thousands of points on a Citycard is disappointed, but, and sorry to be so blunt, you're lower on the club's priority list than 31,500 other supporters.
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^^^^ This x 10

I'm sorry.... but everyone bleating about "loyalty" this and "fairness" that is sort of missing the point .

In an ideal world...everyone with a soft spot for City would get a ticket for wembley.
In the real world...the club needs to encourage take up of both season cards for next season and increase membership of the Cup Scheme (because both will help us in terms of revenue streams for next season that help us towards fulfilling financial fair play etc).

Don't be fooled by the label "loyalty points" ....the issue about rewarding attendance has always been about encouraging renewal / take up of season-cards more than about trying to identify "deserving" fans.
 
Just booked a ticket coming back on the 9pm. The blurb says no seats available so I've paid £35 to stand on a train all the way from London to Manchester ?!
 
Santiago Street . said:
Just booked a ticket coming back on the 9pm. The blurb says no seats available so I've paid £35 to stand on a train all the way from London to Manchester ?!
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Why are you not doing a coach? £30-£40 quid return and a seat.
 
Re: 'Blue' and 'Red' Route to Wembley Confirmed

mainestand said:
Royaloak said:
You are talking out of your arse - I suggest that you put a call into any of the coach companies taking fans to the game and ask them what the police have informed them. They will not want a coach full of City fans pulling into services with 20 Utd coaches there and vice versa, hence the designated routes. But don't take my word for it, speak to the coach firms.
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The stuff being written on here about designated routes is getting rather pathetic, along with a lot of other threads about the semi final.
There has been no designated routes or service stations that you have to stick to. The police have advised coach companies the routes to take to ease congestion, as when coaches arrive at wembley they all go in the same way to the car parks, and leave the same way. So should be fun and games like there was against Spurs and Chelsea after the game.
If you have people on a coach/mini bus without toilet when you need a piss stop, and the shout of 'next services please driver', goes up, he wont be telling you to hang on for another 30 miles as he can't stop at this one a mile away. Again police have advised coach companies that all service stations are going to be well policed, and can stop where they want. If anything does happen with people on your coach, your coach will probably be allowed to leave the service area, but expect to be pulled before you get to the next junction where a marked police car will escort you off the motorway, search you and the coach, taking as long as possible, before saying, 'sorry you're going to be late for the game so we might as well send you on your way home'.
As for having beer on the bus, we have done it for every away game for the last 12 seasons. The rule being you ditch everything, empties or full ones a good few miles before the stadium.
So everyone who is making their first away trip on a coach, chill the fuk out use a bit of common, and enjoy the day.
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The Traffic Commissioners can stipulate which route travel firms take as part of their licence, so, if they are advised to go a certain route then they should or their licence can be revoked. In fact coaches shouldn't stop for a drink on route but they do. Again drink on board is banned but gets on.. So everything can be as you please if the driver wants to risk his job and the companies licence.
 
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