Football Tourists

[ancoats]

They're fucking lieing pal, explain hoe whole rows of away fans or whole blocks of tourists get tickets for high profile games where the tickets are in high demand ? Doesn't sound like mass sales by individual city fans to me, the odd one maybe but City are selling to agencies long before we get near em. That's another way City are showing contempt for long standing fans, carry on City & you can shove the club up your fucking arse.

matey your right but i think its not just the club and maybe the premier league itself have tickets for games but like you say if there is rows of glory hunters then something is going on and somebody must have the answers and even if the club comes out and says we are trying to promote the club to everybody then fine i can understand the reason behind it. but like somebody said why have the loyalty points system in place

if we are talking about 200 tickets to glory hunters then somebody is creaming of the top at the club and its wrong. does the club know and its part of what i said (promotion) then why not just out with it

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

matey your right but i think its not just the club and maybe the premier league itself have tickets for games but like you say if there is rows of glory hunters then something is going on and somebody must have the answers and even if the club comes out and says we are trying to promote the club to everybody then fine i can understand the reason behind it. but like somebody said why have the loyalty points system in place

if we are talking about 200 tickets to glory hunters then somebody is creaming of the top at the club and its wrong. does the club know and its part of what i said (promotion) then why not just out with it

Why are you so keen to absolve the club itself from any blame over this? Can you not accept that when we're talking about 20 tickets we could well be talking about a well-placed individual but when we're talking about 200 then the chances are it's a club action?

 

[ancoats]

Why are you so keen to absolve the club itself from any blame over this? Can you not accept that when we're talking about 20 tickets we could well be talking about a well-placed individual but when we're talking about 200 then the chances are it's a club action?

without any proof the club can not be blamed for any wrong doing the small print on the ticket says manchester city hold all the rights so am going on that rule if somebody gets rock solid info on any wrong doings how can the club be blamed

 

[Wilmslow Road]

without any proof the club can not be blamed for any wrong doing the small print on the ticket says manchester city hold all the rights so am going on that rule if somebody gets rock solid info on any wrong doings how can the club be blamed

Well you tell me how blocks of tickets are made available to people with no purchase history.
To me it is Crystal clear.
The City in the City scam surely points you in the right direction.

 

[Bill]

they go to the fans , the players and our partners. all people who contribute to the coffers in one way or another. what they do with their tickets and what they charge (if anything) is entirely up to them. if we want to buy players like we now have we best get used to it. that's football these days.

 

[Norbiton]

Tickets for Chelsea sold out before coming down to our points level but we grabbed a couple when a few more were released last week. Upper Tier, Row 16, pretty much in the middle of the City fans (about two blocks left and right of us). Both the two rows in front and quite a few seats to our left clearly occupied by tourists, stayed seated when everybody else was standing and no particular reaction to any incidents in the game (apart from all taking pictures of Hazard taking the penalty). Perfectly inoffensive people and I don't blame them for buying tickets for a high profile game, probably didn't even know they were in the away end. But it was quite obvious that the tickets that went back on sale were from a large allocation given to some agency or tour company which hadn't all shifted.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

they go to the fans , the players and our partners. all people who contribute to the coffers in one way or another. what they do with their tickets and what they charge (if anything) is entirely up to them. if we want to buy players like we now have we best get used to it. that's football these days.[/QUOTE]

what a load of rubbish.

 

[ancoats]

they go to the fans , the players and our partners. all people who contribute to the coffers in one way or another. what they do with their tickets and what they charge (if anything) is entirely up to them. if we want to buy players like we now have we best get used to it. that's football these days.

correct and spot on matey

my first response was bring them on everybody should be made welcome and if people don't like it well they will have to lump it manchester city hold full responsibility for ticket sales and sometimes it gets my goat up when somebody thinks they have a right to a ticket no you don't

know matter how well or bad the club is being run somebody will not be happy the days of swales and franny people was never happy and now we are in the best place the club has ever been in its history and people are still not happy i shake my head really

 

[Barcon]

Are the people that pay for the private boxes able to buy blocks of tickets for away games?

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

correct and spot on matey

my first response was bring them on everybody should be made welcome and if people don't like it well they will have to lump it manchester city hold full responsibility for ticket sales and sometimes it gets my goat up when somebody thinks they have a right to a ticket no you don't

know matter how well or bad the club is being run somebody will not be happy the days of swales and franny people was never happy and now we are in the best place the club has ever been in its history and people are still not happy i shake my head really

but whats happening now is people with the most money are getting tickets. it doesnt seem to matter about points anymore, which makes a mockery of the whole system. do you honestly think its fair that people who clearly aren't city fans, (cases of people in there other teams tops) get tickets before actual fans ?

i have no idea why you are mentioning swales or franny lee, what has that got to do with this discussion ?. the club is in a good place now, but you dont have to bend over and accept everything the club do or think its a good idea. hundreds of away tickets being given to tourists and non city fans is not a good idea.

 

[Always Ali]

City (at the last count) have 22 Sponsor Partnerships, 2 International and 20 Regional, I think part of the problem could well be this. How many tickets are allocated to these partners? Either way, it sucks and unfortunately will only get worse as we increase our footballing status.

 

[ancoats]

but whats happening now is people with the most money are getting tickets. it doesnt seem to matter about points anymore, which makes a mockery of the whole system. do you honestly think its fair that people who clearly aren't city fans, (cases of people in there other teams tops) get tickets before actual fans ?

i have no idea why you are mentioning swales or franny lee, what has that got to do with this discussion ?. the club is in a good place now, but you dont have to bend over and accept everything the club do or think its a good idea. hundreds of away tickets being given to tourists and non city fans is not a good idea.

people with money will always come first at any football club its the way football is right now
i quoted swales and franny and fans was not happy back then with tickets for the new parts of the ground and new corporate boxes at maine road even back then on many away days i went on i seen ticket for big games was going to touts and had complimentary on them and touts was openly selling them they was coming from the club to the market

today is no different and like i say every other club are doing it so manchester city are just no better why should anybody feel they are being done over you don't own any rights to away tickets only the club can control them and if there is a market the club will cash in

 

[ancoats]

 

[mancityvstoke]

people with money will always come first at any football club its the way football is right now
i quoted swales and franny and fans was not happy back then with tickets for the new parts of the ground and new corporate boxes at maine road even back then on many away days i went on i seen ticket for big games was going to touts and had complimentary on them and touts was openly selling them they was coming from the club to the market

today is no different and like i say every other club are doing it so manchester city are just no better why should anybody feel they are being done over you don't own any rights to away tickets only the club can control them and if there is a market the club will cash in

This is true.....they were always COMP tickets being sold by the LADS on the forecourts

 

[ballinio]

they go to the fans , the players and our partners. all people who contribute to the coffers in one way or another. what they do with their tickets and what they charge (if anything) is entirely up to them. if we want to buy players like we now have we best get used to it. that's football these days.

Until you can't get a ticket

 

[Bill]

but whats happening now is people with the most money are getting tickets. it doesnt seem to matter about points anymore, which makes a mockery of the whole system. do you honestly think its fair that people who clearly aren't city fans, (cases of people in there other teams tops) get tickets before actual fans ?

i have no idea why you are mentioning swales or franny lee, what has that got to do with this discussion ?. the club is in a good place now, but you dont have to bend over and accept everything the club do or think its a good idea. hundreds of away tickets being given to tourists and non city fans is not a good idea.

lets pick a sponsor. call it de niro's pizza shop chain. mr D will ask for and get say 30 tickets. it will offer them to friends and family and clients, they never have been near a game let alone be city fans but that's irrelevant we took mr D's money in the first place so we have little or no say. on his tickets will say things like "no colours" but either way they will not be blues. they will be in our end at times but once again if sponsor is putting miillions in to the club he'll get his tickets, and rightly so.
times that by 10 sponsors and our stand will be full of "tourists".


football and in particular city has moved on.

ps. its not bollocks. its fact.

 

[Bill]

Until you can't get a ticket

it is what it is, can't see me or any of the older guys missing out but if we do we do. its now a juggernaut and it aint for stopping.

 

[ballinio]

it is what it is, can't see me or any of the older guys missing out but if we do we do. its now a juggernaut and it aint for stopping.

What about the young guys , what we used to call our future regulars, can't get a ticket because City have creamed em off for tourists from China, Middle East , anywhere ? Everything we used to despise in a nutshell , it's not the City I knew & it's not the City I want to know , trophies or not.The principle is far mor important .

 

[desperatedon]

lets pick a sponsor. call it de niro's pizza shop chain. mr D will ask for and get say 30 tickets. it will offer them to friends and family and clients, they never have been near a game let alone be city fans but that's irrelevant we took mr D's money in the first place so we have little or no say. on his tickets will say things like "no colours" but either way they will not be blues. they will be in our end at times but once again if sponsor is putting miillions in to the club he'll get his tickets, and rightly so.
times that by 10 sponsors and our stand will be full of "tourists".


football and in particular city has moved on.

ps. its not bollocks. its fact.

I agree with you Bill and for home games we can accommodate them, but for away games when tickets are already limited the distribution to sponsors should also be very limited. I'm not saying completely withheld but very limited.

 

[Bill]

I agree with you Bill and for home games we can accommodate them, but for away games when tickets are already limited the distribution to sponsors should also be very limited. I'm not saying completely withheld but very limited.

they are reduced for away games. the London games though carry the most interest to all and sundry, poor city fans can't compete with them financially when you factor in travel and maybe digs. hence seemingly more tourists in the city end.