City Fans Leaving Early/Empty seats

franksinatra said:
I can see the headline now 'family member fighting cancer/heart disease/suffers stroke has loyalty points deducted by heartless City.

Sounds a great idea.
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Some of the suggestions on here are ridiculous, penalise season card holders for not attending, what the actual fuck!

The ticket exchange should be pushed harder though as it's a great way for passing the tickets on to other fans when you can't attend.

I travel down from North of Scotland and some games are impossible to attend, like WBA at the end of the season, scheduled midweek and no holidays left.
Fortunately was able to sell the tickets on the ticket exchange which was win win for me and the club!

Early leavers are by far the biggest issue, I never leave early but I left early in the Monaco home game as I was losing the plot when we got the pen given against us as I was about to have a heart attack. I was the dickhead who left early and missed a great match, I can't understand why people leave the match early every game especially when the outcome is still not decided
 
MadchesterCity said:
Some of the suggestions on here are ridiculous, penalise season card holders for not attending, what the actual fuck!

The ticket exchange should be pushed harder though as it's a great way for passing the tickets on to other fans when you can't attend.

I travel down from North of Scotland and some games are impossible to attend, like WBA at the end of the season, scheduled midweek and no holidays left.
Fortunately was able to sell the tickets on the ticket exchange which was win win for me and the club!

Early leavers are by far the biggest issue, I never leave early but I left early in the Monaco home game as I was losing the plot when we got the pen given against us as I was about to have a heart attack. I was the dickhead who left early and missed a great match, I can't understand why people leave the match early every game especially when the outcome is still not decided
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Same here I have a long commute to home matches from the South West and some home matches are just not viable to attend as more and more matches become midweek/rearranged etc without even consideting the cost.

I agree about the ticket exchange and its unfortunate for a lot of the games where people wish to get rid of their ticket, the demand is not always there but the club cannot help that and hopefully that is just a time issue. But yes it could be pushed better.
 
the thing is with the ticket exchange is when you put your ticket up for grabs, the club gives you the ticket price you paid for your season card, the club then puts a bigger price on to your seat to try to sell it, now that might work with a few teams, but not most teams. the best way is for the club gives you your money back and put say a £10 on to your seat, so say Chelsea for my seat would be 30 then it wouldn't be left empty. but I could also see problems with this way, so I will do as I have mostly done and sold it to a mate
 
franksinatra said:
The flip side of the £299 season ticket price is its a lifeline for fans who do a 400/500 mile round trip for home matches. It makes it just affordable when you chuck in travel costs etc

No system is perfect though.
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I'm happy with that but on games they don't attend I think city should re-sell the ticket rather than leave it empty.. fans are buying up all tickets sent back by low travelling away fans.. city could sell that ticket for season ticket cost and the points could still build up
 
Maybe the season ticket holders that don't turn up to games, could just try a little harder to give the seat to a mate, or family member, or some bugger else they know and can trust, then maybe we will see less empty seats. 8 of us, family and friends sit in a row, my lad shares with my mates nephew so the seat is always used and if anybody else can't go for whatever reason, then their seat is more often than not used by somebody we know. How hard is that....................
 
MadchesterCity said:
Some of the suggestions on here are ridiculous, penalise season card holders for not attending, what the actual fuck!

The ticket exchange should be pushed harder though as it's a great way for passing the tickets on to other fans when you can't attend.

I travel down from North of Scotland and some games are impossible to attend, like WBA at the end of the season, scheduled midweek and no holidays left.
Fortunately was able to sell the tickets on the ticket exchange which was win win for me and the club!

Early leavers are by far the biggest issue, I never leave early but I left early in the Monaco home game as I was losing the plot when we got the pen given against us as I was about to have a heart attack. I was the dickhead who left early and missed a great match, I can't understand why people leave the match early every game especially when the outcome is still not decided
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You shouldn't bother with a season ticket living so far away. Many like you miss midweek night games.
 
franksinatra said:
Ridiculous comment
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Explain why it's ridiculous. Some people move on and away in life but can't give up the season ticket even if they don't get to half the games, seems more used for securing cup final tickets and away games (points)........ younger locals can't get a look in. Just my point of view.
 
Brendan110_0 said:
Explain why it's ridiculous. Some people move on and away in life but can't give up the season ticket even if they don't get to half the games, seems more used for securing cup final tickets and away games (points)........ younger locals can't get a look in. Just my point of view.
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I have to explain it?

You know completely nothing about the blokes circumstances, how many games he attends but state, due to how far he lives away, he should give up his season ticket.

Younger local lads cannot get a look in? For home match every ticket goes on sale at the start of the season so they can get more than a look in they can to go every match.

Also any young fan can also join the Season tickets waiting list before the 5th june and then have the opportunity to purchase a ticket on the 7th of June according to the website.Even if that was not the case there are always tickets available for home matches, its just being arsed and showing a bit of commitment like the lad who travels from the North of Scotland who you think should give up his ticket. So I see no reason why the bloke should give up his season ticket and none of your reasons hold any water.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mancity.com/news/tickets-and-travel/2017/06/01/man-city-seasoncards-waiting-list/1496137361445/amp-on?amp=1
 
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Brendan110_0 said:
Explain why it's ridiculous. Some people move on and away in life but can't give up the season ticket even if they don't get to half the games, seems more used for securing cup final tickets and away games (points)........ younger locals can't get a look in. Just my point of view.
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You should try living away for a couple of games. Maybe then you'd understand the commitment, money and time it takes to get to matches when you don't live right on the doorstep.

As for "younger locals" not getting a look in, when was the last time someone with half an ounce of organisational ability, who didn't leave it until last minute couldn't get a ticket? When did West Brom sell out?

Almost anyone who wanted to go and had even the most basic purchase history could even get a ticket for our most recent match at Wembley.

"Couldn't get a ticket" is a lazy excuse.
 
Interstate 5 said:
You should try living away for a couple of games. Maybe then you'd understand the commitment, money and time it takes to get to matches when you don't live right on the doorstep.

As for "younger locals" not getting a look in, when was the last time someone with half an ounce of organisational ability, who didn't leave it until last minute couldn't get a ticket? When did West Brom sell out?

Almost anyone who wanted to go and had even the most basic purchase history could even get a ticket for our most recent match at Wembley.

"Couldn't get a ticket" is a lazy excuse.
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I'm talking about season tickets, not single "rip off" match day tickets (average £50 = £900 over a season). If I lived over 40 miles away I wouldn't bother because I know it would be very hard work to attend. There will be the odd super fan that will do regular 300 mile trips, but for everyone of them there's 10 that don't turn up. It's a problem and denial doesn't fix it.
 
Brendan110_0 said:
I'm talking about season tickets, not single "rip off" match day tickets (average £50 = £900 over a season). If I lived over 40 miles away I wouldn't bother because I know it would be very hard work to attend. There will be the odd super fan that will do regular 300 mile trips, but for everyone of them there's 10 that don't turn up. It's a problem and denial doesn't fix it.
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Brendan you are talking fucking bollocks son. I am 58 and have lived all over the place, but the one constant in my life has been Manchester CITY, wherever I have lived, and I have had a season ticket for 46 years and would never give it up, and always attend, it's in the fucking blood, so don't be fucking lecturing on my fucking passion, and the passion of like minded people.
 
Brendan110_0 said:
I'm talking about season tickets, not single "rip off" match day tickets (average £50 = £900 over a season). If I lived over 40 miles away I wouldn't bother because I know it would be very hard work to attend. There will be the odd super fan that will do regular 300 mile trips, but for everyone of them there's 10 that don't turn up. It's a problem and denial doesn't fix it.
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Hard work to attend........tell that to the rag fans who live all over the country and four corners of the globe.
 
Interstate 5 said:
You should try living away for a couple of games. Maybe then you'd understand the commitment, money and time it takes to get to matches when you don't live right on the doorstep.

As for "younger locals" not getting a look in, when was the last time someone with half an ounce of organisational ability, who didn't leave it until last minute couldn't get a ticket? When did West Brom sell out?

Almost anyone who wanted to go and had even the most basic purchase history could even get a ticket for our most recent match at Wembley.

"Couldn't get a ticket" is a lazy excuse.
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Young locals can't afford £40 plus a for league games, that is exactly why West Brom does not sell out. City charge too much, and the younger fans are priced out.
 
Brendan110_0 said:
I'm talking about season tickets, not single "rip off" match day tickets (average £50 = £900 over a season). If I lived over 40 miles away I wouldn't bother because I know it would be very hard work to attend. There will be the odd super fan that will do regular 300 mile trips, but for everyone of them there's 10 that don't turn up. It's a problem and denial doesn't fix it.
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Spot on that actually, it is true the club need to do better with pricing so there's less reason for the people who know they won't be able to attend many games to cling on to their season card

All the billy big bollocks posturing aside(some need to grow up a little and stop with the pathetic overreactions), if the club make it so they'd be saving money for the games they can actually attend then what's to cry about? Not having their favourite seat? Talk about unjustified entitlement... what's best for the club comes before any fan for me and it should do for all blues with an ounce common sense. Didn't I read that you can actually book tickets for individual games at the start of the season also?

Early leavers might be even harder to persuade, what can the club do about it? Should the club have to pay for more train carriages and trams on match days? There's still those who drive who will want to "beat the traffic".

Maybe in the end there is no easy solution, it's just a shame you can't even discuss things on bluemoon at times without the over defensive kneejerkers having a wobble... it's the same in the atmosphere thread nothing will ever change or improve the way some go about things, it's one of the reason some don't like Pep IMO they just don't like change and he is going to change us for the better.
 
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