Seasoncard Renewals 2017/18

[lee_wsm]

Ahh that's good news then I thought I would be waiting for a few seasons to possibly get one

 

[gingerprince]

Does anyone know if city have a higher proportion

of adult renewals moving thru to adult concessions

meaning that for for a period of years the season

ticket revenue falls before then again rising as the

proportion of standard to concession realigns to a

more standard rate or are all clubs the same?

 

[halfmist]

I think the price rise alone is not going to make many people give up but I get the feeling an accumulation of negative aspects of the club and the direction it is going is making people question wheather to carry on. This price rise is disasterous pr & makes you wonder if it was designed to clear a few out, the new parking restrictions , the awfull tram/bus service, the harassment of fans by Showsec, que's & searches all add up but the big one for me is the corrupt officials that City say & do nothing about make me wonder wheather to join him .

That is the big one for me, we see it week in week out. Not just at City, but favouring one team over another; the big and important decisions go the way of those in favour, the other team get the none match defining decisions. We can all list them, week in week out; the media defend and smoke screen as they are part of the 'Band wagon/cash cow'[/QUOTE]
These are the reasons I prefer to watch the games on tele

 

[blueste41]

This club is a fucking shambles.
All the years of trawling everywhere watching shit... To be treated like I just have.

I don't think I'll ever be back there, nevermind having a seasoncard again.

This club couldn't give a fuck about the lifetime supporters, the local people.... They care about the green £££ and that's it.

Been going all your life?
Whoppy fucking Doo.

York away?
Wow wee.

Work for Nissan, your friend went to school with Kevin De Bruyne?
Or you appear in Coronation Street sometimes?

You'll have the carpet rolled out for you, free meals, no charge on the ticket and free parking right outside the stadium.

Put many years into forming a supporters club, generations of family were all blues.
And I was spoken to by City ticket staff like I had just shoplifted at Poundland.

Cheerio

What dis you contact them about and what did they say?

 

[Marvin]

I never said you did. Read what I wrote. I was replying to you in general.(mate)

Running costs can be factored in for next season. Cost savings can be made.

Any additional running costs don't have to be passed on to the fans.

What additional costs have United incurred over the last 6 seasons? Yet they haven't increased their season ticket prices in the last 6 seasons. Their security measures, etc, have had to be stepped up as well. Other PL clubs are the same.

Come on Marvin, smell the coffee.

A club with a £500mill+ turnover, and a £20mill profit, I stand corrected on those figures, doesn't need to get it's fans to constribute 2% extra towards the cost of inflation and running costs. And here's me thinking City had an army of the best financial managers and accountants working for the club.

Penny pinching, with the fans paying those pennies.

Night.

I agree with every point you make which is why I am surprised you keep saying smell the coffee etc

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

My lads has gone up £130,turned 18 in November.Expected it to go up but that's a bit steep IMO.
Mine gone up £30....not too bad.

The age band increases are a killer. I'm paying for my eldest's as he's at uni, but most of the time my 15 yo uses it or it's empty. Probably cheaper to buy match by match but not enough points for the big games!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Hopefully there are enough on it to pick up the slack from those not renewing.

If there were, the North Stand extension would be viable. As it's been postponed that suggests the demand simply isn't there.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

If there were, the North Stand extension would be viable. As it's been postponed that suggests the demand simply isn't there.

possibly, though people on the waiting list can sit and wait until cheap seats come free, which in itself is cruel on the long-term supporters who can't afford to keep their seat and then get dumped behind tourists in the queue for the cheap seats, which should be on offer to them anyway.

 

[PragueBlue]

If there were, the North Stand extension would be viable. As it's been postponed that suggests the demand simply isn't there.

Perhaps not enough for the North Stand extension but possibly enough to replace those not renewing. If not, I guess it means more match day tickets available which may result in more income for the club in the long run.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Perhaps not enough for the North Stand extension but possibly enough to replace those not renewing. If not, I guess it means more match day tickets available which may result in more income for the club in the long run.

If there were 13,000 on the list prior to the SS3 extension, then that will have taken care of at least 8,000 presumably (as capacity was down to 44k the season before it opened). So let's say there are 5 or 6,000 now on the list. I reckon most would prefer the cheapest tickets so maybe there are 2,000 or so prepared to take anything and they'll be covered by the standard annual wastage of people not renewing. Although some on the list may be families who want 3 or 4 together but can't get them. However I'd say we were pretty well in equilibrium overall.

 

[stella6yew]

Anyone interested in possible Seasoncard share next season ? I have renewed in East Stand Level 1, aisle seat block 106, far enough back so you never get wet whatever weather is like. I will not be able to attend all games for a number of reasons but did not want to give up my Seasoncard. I would not be 'cherry picking' so called top fixtures, they would be shared throughout the season. I have enough loyalty points to cover all away ticket sales on first day of sale & again we could arrange to share those by mutual agreement. Pm if interested.

 

[waspish]

Might be no 13,000 but I can't see there being 13,000 people on it at the moment. Maybe 13,000 people have been on it since it was introduced. I doubt there's many more than a couple of thousand or so on it, and many will be waiting for £299 tickets in an expanded North Stand.

I reckon the 2% rise is possibly to cover the stewarding costs with all the turnstile checks but if so they should just have absorbed the costs - or better still gone back to what they did before.

Dont know think the list will be pretty accurate. match goers who buy a citizen card then have to fork out £36 to £60 per game plus possibility of missing out on the top games, ask yourself this why wouldn't they put there name down for a season ticket?

 

[Marvin]

The football side of City seems to me to be run very well. Academy, women and for most of the time the 1st team at or near the top of the tree. However the vision City have, has somewhere been lost. We were the club that smashed the mould of English football. Aguero dealt a hammer blow to Man Utd and the top 4 and City were set to become a new force in football. The Etihad Campus was under development. Tramway, new stand, training ground, colleges and more. A signpost for the future, but somehow this vision has got lost and we look more and more like a club heading for Arsenal.com than a football club set to displace Barcelona and Real Madrid at the pyramid of world football.

If you look in our league today, the club with hope, vision, and identity is Spurs. They have a new stadium, a young team, and their supporters, and players are buying into it. Somewhere down the line, City's fans began to lose belief in where we are going and that is entirely down to the incompetence of the executives at MCFC who think that communciation is all about the MBA giving a speech at the end of the season. I don't want to hear much from the boardroom, but I do want to see some evidence that City are determined to move forward as a football club, and that we are not settling for top 4, and maximising cash flow. We could make a start by announcing what intentions we have with the ground expansion. That can be a tremendous galvanising forward thinking effect. Stop pandering to corporate clients, and put your fans first. Ticketing. Regular supporters should get priority. Ticket pricing: I don't think the pricing is that bad in regards to season tickets, but adding £10 to season tickets was a silly move.

Three or four years ago City looked like an unstoppable train, but through our own incompetence we have managed to throw away the momentum we had. If I were Sheik Mansour, I'd be making some changes in the boardroom. They don't have much to do, but almost everything they do has been very poorly done.

 

[Marvin]

Dont know think the list will be pretty accurate. match goers who buy a citizen card then have to fork out £36 to £60 per game plus possibility of missing out on the top games, ask yourself this why wouldn't they put there name down for a season ticket?

There's obviously not 13,000 on the waiting list now. You could buy a seasoncard last Summer until City decided to cap the sales. There have probably been a total of 13,000 or so who have been on it and one time or another but I doubt there's more than several hundred or a couple of thousand at the most who are going to buy in the Summer. If City decided to extend the North Stand and there was an affordable ticket deals in place then I am sure you'd get 5,000 fans out of nowhere who'd want a piece of it, but City have gone into their shells now, and are in reverse.

 

[CC1]

The football side of City seems to me to be run very well. Academy, women and for most of the time the 1st team at or near the top of the tree. However the vision City have, has somewhere been lost. We were the club that smashed the mould of English football. Aguero dealt a hammer blow to Man Utd and the top 4 and City were set to become a new force in football. The Etihad Campus was under development. Tramway, new stand, training ground, colleges and more. A signpost for the future, but somehow this vision has got lost and we look more and more like a club heading for Arsenal.com than a football club set to displace Barcelona and Real Madrid at the pyramid of world football.

If you look in our league today, the club with hope, vision, and identity is Spurs. They have a new stadium, a young team, and their supporters, and players are buying into it. Somewhere down the line, City's fans began to lose belief in where we are going and that is entirely down to the incompetence of the executives at MCFC who think that communciation is all about the MBA giving a speech at the end of the season. I don't want to hear much from the boardroom, but I do want to see some evidence that City are determined to move forward as a football club, and that we are not settling for top 4, and maximising cash flow. We could make a start by announcing what intentions we have with the ground expansion. That can be a tremendous galvanising forward thinking effect. Stop pandering to corporate clients, and put your fans first. Ticketing. Regular supporters should get priority. Ticket pricing: I don't think the pricing is that bad in regards to season tickets, but adding £10 to season tickets was a silly move.

Three or four years ago City looked like an unstoppable train, but through our own incompetence we have managed to throw away the momentum we had. If I were Sheik Mansour, I'd be making some changes in the boardroom. They don't have much to do, but almost everything they do has been very poorly done.

Very well written & persuasive but it is only your opinion. One season without a trophy & we're all doomed. I think not.

Remind me - what have mighty Spurs won this year to get such a glowing report? When we were the "team with the momentum" we won things as well as smashing the scum into second place in all levels.

 

[Centurions]

Two wrongs don't make a right though.

Football in this country at the top level is a total piss take in pricing.
Many Blues, far more loyal and time served than me have turned their backs in recent years due to the cost of regular attendance.

It isn't just the cost of a season ticket, but the Travel, Food, going to Away games, it's quite a big financial commitment.
Yes you can be a fan and not do any if this... But this is where I'm at - I've done this since I was a kid. Going to the match.
Seems everything has to end.
Nothing is permanent.

Guess I'll have to put up with the TV and not going to Wembley finals and so on (as tx are snapped up by Heineken/Nissan/Aabar employees)

K sa ra sa ra
Whatever will be will be
You can only go to Wembley
If you have the right money.

Sorry but all of your recent posts are coming across as bitter & twisted, I'm sorry that you're struggling financially but I'm fairly certain that that is not down to City or football in general. Do you want free season tickets from the government for all those on JSA or benefits?

 

[br88]

Very well written & persuasive but it is only your opinion. One season without a trophy & we're all doomed. I think not.

Remind me - what have mighty Spurs won this year to get such a glowing report? When we were the "team with the momentum" we won things as well as smashing the scum into second place in all levels.

Very good post.

People seem so eager on here to criticise everything about City as a club....and some reactions are way over the top. The main talking point with my City mates right now is just who might come in during the next transfer window and a cautious excitement as to what City might do in Pep's second season....it makes you feel quite upbeat about the future.

Then I'll drop in to see what's being discussed on BM and get totally depressed.....haha!!...not quite....with all the doom and gloom to be found on here.

I'm not sure now which is worse.....the rag media attack on everything at City or the Bluemoon attack on City....LOL!!!!!!.

 

[1894southstander]

The football side of City seems to me to be run very well. Academy, women and for most of the time the 1st team at or near the top of the tree. However the vision City have, has somewhere been lost. We were the club that smashed the mould of English football. Aguero dealt a hammer blow to Man Utd and the top 4 and City were set to become a new force in football. The Etihad Campus was under development. Tramway, new stand, training ground, colleges and more. A signpost for the future, but somehow this vision has got lost and we look more and more like a club heading for Arsenal.com than a football club set to displace Barcelona and Real Madrid at the pyramid of world football.

If you look in our league today, the club with hope, vision, and identity is Spurs. They have a new stadium, a young team, and their supporters, and players are buying into it. Somewhere down the line, City's fans began to lose belief in where we are going and that is entirely down to the incompetence of the executives at MCFC who think that communciation is all about the MBA giving a speech at the end of the season. I don't want to hear much from the boardroom, but I do want to see some evidence that City are determined to move forward as a football club, and that we are not settling for top 4, and maximising cash flow. We could make a start by announcing what intentions we have with the ground expansion. That can be a tremendous galvanising forward thinking effect. Stop pandering to corporate clients, and put your fans first. Ticketing. Regular supporters should get priority. Ticket pricing: I don't think the pricing is that bad in regards to season tickets, but adding £10 to season tickets was a silly move.

Three or four years ago City looked like an unstoppable train, but through our own incompetence we have managed to throw away the momentum we had. If I were Sheik Mansour, I'd be making some changes in the boardroom. They don't have much to do, but almost everything they do has been very poorly done.

Great post and totally agree. It's not even about not winning anything this season or next, it is the fact that the club have made so much progress in some parts however in others are going totally the wrong way and backwards

 

[Marvin]

Very well written & persuasive but it is only your opinion. One season without a trophy & we're all doomed. I think not.

Remind me - what have mighty Spurs won this year to get such a glowing report? When we were the "team with the momentum" we won things as well as smashing the scum into second place in all levels.

I didn't say we were doomed, but we were in a great position, and we've become derailed. In part due to FFP, but in part due to errors in recruitment of players, and it would be a good idea to demonstrate to fans that we are still a forward thinking club who are implementing plans.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Very well written & persuasive but it is only your opinion. One season without a trophy & we're all doomed. I think not.

Remind me - what have mighty Spurs won this year to get such a glowing report? When we were the "team with the momentum" we won things as well as smashing the scum into second place in all levels.

Like most of the "I'm alright Jack" brigade, you've paid no attention to what Marvin has actually written.