Seasoncard Renewals 2017/18

blumoon said:
Dunno what to do. Never been so fooked around with fixture changes like I've been this year. Sitting at home now in Dublin missing the Derby as work commitments and a poxy Thursday night fixture have ruined it. I've lost shitloads by taking chances on cheap flights before the games get changed so I might just let it go and try get over once a month with a ticket off the supporters branch here. Decisions decisions.
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I'm the same I'm missing tonight's game.
Then next two home games I'm on nights in fucking London finish at 8 in the morning so be pushed to get to ground for dinner time it's bollocks getting
 
Otamendi's Beard said:
Just noticed this job role that's gone up, Campaign Co-ordinator. Can a blue on here please get it to sort out club/fan relations? Cheers

We are recruiting an experienced Campaigns Coordinator to join the Group’s Fan Relationship Management team, based at the City Football Academy HQ, Manchester, UK.

The Campaigns Coordinator will be responsible for planning, supporting, delivering and analysing the club’s multi-channel marketing campaigns including email, SMS and Facebook advertising. The role will involve identifying new opportunities to increase fan engagement. This is a new role in the FRM team, reporting to the eCRM Campaign Manager.

The ideal candidate will be a proactive team player, used to working with groups of internal and external stakeholders in a fast-paced environment. They will be creative and innovative in their approach.

This is a new role in the FRM team, giving the successful candidate the chance to make it their own.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Supporting the execution and creative development of personalised campaigns across email, social, digital and mobile
  • Analysis of campaign KPIs, testing of new initiatives and providing of recommendations
  • Coordination of the campaign calendar
  • Selection of appropriate audiences based on engagement, behaviours and attributes
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The typical unintelligble twaddle of the modern world.

A new way to screw as much money out of us I suppose.
 
Am I alone in feeling this way?

I still feel a desire to support City, historically it has been "my" club, as it was past family members.
Now it just seems a "Toy" that is used by corporations to promote their main businesses.
This isn't just us, it's most (if not all) top level football businesses.
I don't even like using the word "club" anymore as, well, I don't own any part of man' City.
I just rent a seat for the football season.

The cost of this product is expensive, and the product itself has now become different.
If this was a restaurant we used to eat homemade food, now we are eating corporate synthetic McDonalds.

Atmosphere is still a bit there, but don't you feel uncomfortable knowing you are being watched regularly and if you show any form of passion ShowShit are onto you like flies around shit.

As I said, what's keeping me there is habit really... Like an addiction.... And if things don't change I won't be renewing.

Still feel positive and happy with your product from city?
Please tell me why, show your optimism, as mine is trickling away due to the amount of money that's involved in this business, and how I feel these businesses exploit the working classes.
 
If the rumoured 5% increases are true I'm binning it off.

I dont want to be doom lord but we need to make a stand. Surely they dont need that extra revenue?

Also, the elephant in the room for me is we could be playing Europa League which fucks the fixtures up ridiculously.
 
A 5% increase would put my L2 South Stand pensioners ticket up by £15.50.

My Government pension has recently gone up by £3.69 per week so I personally can live with the increase.

However I fully sympathise with people who have mortgages to pay, children to bring up and a lack of pay rises in recent times.

The people running the premier league and the clubs within it have lost touch with reality. The obscene transfer fees and wages are disgusting and a slap in the face to the ordinary football fan.

My love for MCFC runs deep having been first kindled in the mid 50's by my late Father and two FA Cup Finals. I would find it hard to forsake them now, but even I did not bother to attend last nights match partly because of the bloody awful Metrolink but mainly because of the product on offer.
 
C'mon City. Freeze prices AND give 5% back (credit towards the following season) if the card is used (or put up for sale on the exchange). Get us back on side and deal with empty seats at the same time.
 
More than likley a increase as away tickets are frozen next year Got to get the money back some how
 
Just been on the phone to City and although they advised me to wait until next Tuesday (2nd may) to either renew or cancel for next season, they seemed pretty happy with me wanting to cancel the automatic renewal.
There was no attempt by the staff to keep me active as a matchgoer.
Could be coincidental but maybe the club don't want the regulars who don't spend at the club shop, stay in hotels, fly to the matches and so on.
They might want us out, creating spaces for the tourists who will fly with Etihad airways to MCR and stay in an hotel in the city centre for a match.... Guarantee ADUG will own a few hotels in the area soon.
 
Why Always Ste said:
Am I alone in feeling this way?

I still feel a desire to support City, historically it has been "my" club, as it was past family members.
Now it just seems a "Toy" that is used by corporations to promote their main businesses.
This isn't just us, it's most (if not all) top level football businesses.
I don't even like using the word "club" anymore as, well, I don't own any part of man' City.
I just rent a seat for the football season.

The cost of this product is expensive, and the product itself has now become different.
If this was a restaurant we used to eat homemade food, now we are eating corporate synthetic McDonalds.

Atmosphere is still a bit there, but don't you feel uncomfortable knowing you are being watched regularly and if you show any form of passion ShowShit are onto you like flies around shit.

As I said, what's keeping me there is habit really... Like an addiction.... And if things don't change I won't be renewing.

Still feel positive and happy with your product from city?
Please tell me why, show your optimism, as mine is trickling away due to the amount of money that's involved in this business, and how I feel these businesses exploit the working classes.
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I feel the same pal. I'm seriously thinking about packing in my season card. I might just stick to doing away games next season, I pretty much always enjoy away games but I'm finding the home game experience less & less enticing. With the away games I think you still usually have a laugh & a decent atmosphere & it's closer to what it used to be like, as you can usually stand with your pals. I'm finding the home game "experience" more and more like some kind of corporate, souless event.
 
Why Always Ste said:
Just been on the phone to City and although they advised me to wait until next Tuesday (2nd may) to either renew or cancel for next season, they seemed pretty happy with me wanting to cancel the automatic renewal.
There was no attempt by the staff to keep me active as a matchgoer.
Could be coincidental but maybe the club don't want the regulars who don't spend at the club shop, stay in hotels, fly to the matches and so on.
They might want us out, creating spaces for the tourists who will fly with Etihad airways to MCR and stay in an hotel in the city centre for a match.... Guarantee ADUG will own a few hotels in the area soon.
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Exactly this.
A good percentage of season ticket holders are 50+ year old blokes like myself.
The club make nothing from me. Never go in the shop, never go to city square, never buy a pint in the ground cos i go to the pub.
I do stand and sing.
They don't want any of that. I'm afraid the end is nigh
 
JPAMCR said:
Could see the club doing something like this to increase attendances at cup games. IF - a big if - they are going down this route I think it would be fairer if there was the option of paying a little bit more for a cup games package. Obviously this is a gamble for the club and fans depending on the draws. I think the take up would be good and it wouldn't alienate fans who didn't want to pay extra.

Anyway you never know, they could be planning a big surprise for us all with reductions in a blaze of publicity on Tuesday.
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Trouble is, people like me, season ticket holder for 30 years but family and work have taken me 200 miles away. I've lived here since 1990 and have missed less than 10 home league games. (Most of them are in the last 3/4 years, with TV changes coming too late to take a day off work). I rarely go to European or cup games, due to travel so putting me in a compulsory cup scheme is a total waste of time.
 
M18CTID said:
Yes, against Sunderland last season. Think it was the 77th minute as they were proposing a top priced ticket of £77 in that new stand of theirs. I would add that the walkout was the culmination of around 12 months of discussions they'd been having with the club about pricing in the new stand so wasn't just something that was decided a couple of days before. The group that organised it were as surprised as anyone that Liverpool backed down so swiftly after the walkout and were in the process of planning their next course of action.
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City fans walking out on 77 minutes has been going on for ages.......
 
Why Always Ste said:
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There was no attempt by the staff to keep me active as a matchgoer.
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I'd love to see the stats on lapsed ST holders, and how they compare to industry standard. Also how they compare to previous years when we didnt see the quality of football on the pitch but felt more a part of it.

Gut feeling but I don't think it would compare well. I've never known a time when more long time blues have walked, or are considering walking.

We should all be buzzing but theres a feeling of negativity about the club that they really need to address.

I also wonder if the club are do anything to try to stop these people from leaving, or even attract them back.
 
I'd guestimate Seasoncard attrition at 7.5% each time. Unless they relocated then faces around me disappeared. Also, I was with a large OSC for years and regular travellers would come and go. You'd hear on the grapevine that they'd not renewed their Seasoncard.

I've been a regular since 1998 but have had spells without one.
 
moomba said:
I'd love to see the stats on lapsed ST holders, and how they compare to industry standard. Also how they compare to previous years when we didnt see the quality of football on the pitch but felt more a part of it.

Gut feeling but I don't think it would compare well. I've never known a time when more long time blues have walked, or are considering walking.

We should all be buzzing but theres a feeling of negativity about the club that they really need to address.

I also wonder if the club are do anything to try to stop these people from leaving, or even attract them back.
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What I'm Wondering though is... Do they even want this type of supporter?
The plan could've been to piss us off, we wave goodbye, and wallah.... Loads of seats for the tourists who spend more per match.

I'm unsure.
As are many Blues who've been going long before I was even born.

I'm Going to see what's offered next Tuesday, and taking into account the price reduction I'll get from selling one or two tickets on the exchange this season, I'll wait and see the total price for next season.

But right now it could be Free... I'm still feeling detached from this business and with the clubs increased security measures... I doubt I'll ever be allowed to show passion again in the Etihad stadium (without being banned)
 
BlueHugo said:
More than likley a increase as away tickets are frozen next year Got to get the money back some how
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If they do put the prices up then I'm ditching the platinum ticket, had to ensure me and the grandson had enough points for big away games and semis and finals. Not prepared to pay anymore for season cards when the new tv deal guarantees so much extra revenue, however the 1894 group representatives seem to think they'll be frozen again, here's hoping.
 
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