It is none of my business mate, I was just being sarcastic nosy ****. Jerky chicken,wow! Must be delicious for 3/4 of 93:20 to miss a good 10 mins of 2nd half football every game. I hope it was served in an aesthetically pleasing posh basket? ; )And what is it for you to ask me to justify where we sit?
What business is it of yours?
Jerk Chicken actually, you should try it.
Jerk being the name lol
Anyways isn’t this about City matters?
Not whats on the menu in 93:30...
It is none of my business mate, I was just being sarcastic nosy ****. Jerky chicken,wow! Must be delicious for 3/4 of 93:20 to miss a good 10 mins of 2nd half football every game. I hope it was served in an aesthetically pleasing posh basket? ; )
I'm sorry if I melted your snowflake by pissing on your posh chips mate, I was being facetious on something you have clearly taken offence to. Ah well.What other people do is none of my business, each to their own.
All the counts is what I do, in my World.
Crack on everyone else I say.
Maybe you should take it up with City matters on here? Tell them they must be in their seats at a certain time? before ko and back for half time?
Otherwise no away tickets for them?
there’s a good idea.
Im not insinuating you are one of the early leavers but it's just that the fantastic football on offer doesn't really seem appreciated when players are leaving the pitch to a stadium that is sometimes only a third full when the full time whistle blows. What Sheikh Mansour thinks I don't know, I bet he's shaking his head when watching on TV.
No disrespect mate but this is not UAE or india. Manchester has now become the hotbed of world football. We are big box office where every first team game is screened live in different continents around the world. Sheikh Mansour didn't buy us to hire a thousand Indian props told where to sit and when to cheer. Full stadiums will help boost our revenue further with more lucrative sponsorship deals paying big money. We already have the fanbase but there are several reasons, the main one is probably the cost of non SC holders attending games having to buy expensive match tickets, especially if bought from the various online ticket agencies advertising them. We are still in the hunt for 4 trophies. PL football on the whole is becoming too expensive for paying supporters to attend games, and our success is stretching a budget many cannot afford unfortunately. Football match day costs need to come down. PL stadiums with gaps dotted around are not what sponsors and TV advertisers want to see.As he is more used to UAE football one would imagine he is impressed that the stadium is more than a 3rd full for the first 80 mins. I've been to football games in the middle east where there were less than 50 people who had paid to watch the game. There would be a further 1000 who are paid to attend usually from India, and they have to be told when to cheer as they dont know the rules.
One contradicts the other here if you are stopping points for attending away games ,why do you need id checks to stop points whoring ?I support the view that tickets should be bought by people who use them, rather than those who sell them on to keep their points total up. I also support reasonable methods to enforce that. I suspect that's very much a majority view.
Thatchers Britain !I stand corrected.
Why should a Tunnel Club member get an away ticket if they don’t have enough loyalty away points? *Money should not be the deciding factor*.
Essentially these free away tickets may run into 100’s?
Did the club not introduce this as an incentive to sell Tunnel Club packages?
Has this been brought up at the meetings?
Away tickets are hard enough to come by as it is, without another layer of away tickets being syphoned off for players, staff, sponsors, and corporates.
As for ID. Football has become more and more regulated by the authorities and by the clubs. ID checks will just add to that. Celtic away was the prime example of how it can go wrong. And having to traipse across cities like Paris, Madrid, etc, to pick up your ticket, was and is a chore, which wasted time, and added additional expense.
If ID checks are going to introduced, then fans inside Gtr Manchester should be able to pick up their away tickets up at the club, with a ticket office window being open from early Morning to late Evening. For those fans living outside Gtr Mamchester, or elsewhere in the country, some other arrangements needs to be made.
It’s time the club added photo ID on to season ticket cards. It’s very easy to do. It takes seconds. Fans can get their picture’s taken and printed on to their season tickets during pre-season. They can then be shown on entry at the stadium on match days, and to pick up away tickets.
One contradicts the other here if you are stopping points for attending away games ,why do you need id checks to stop points whoring ?
If there are no points to whore ?
Bloody hell don’t give them any more ideas hahaThatchers Britain !
Why not bring in an id card scheme we can pay for ffs
To stop people buying them on behalf of their mates and to ensure that those buying the tickets actually intend to attend the game themselves.[/QUOTE
So continue with the away points (so those putting the time & money going to the games benefit) but do id checks as well to stop points whores?
Whats wrong with that?
Mayo organises a coach. The coach will park up near the ground. What’s the problem? At some point everyone has to go to the ground. If you’ve got nothing to hide it won’t be a problem but it’s an indisputable fact there’s quite a few games that mayo31 is offering spares for on here. So how does he come by these?
I know for sure there’s more than a few hypocrites on here who regularly buy tickets on cards belonging to family or friends for mates who don’t have the points. I’ve personally witnessed a conversation between 4 people who had 10 tickets between them deciding who gets the other 6. It’s people like that you want to blame for this, not the CM committee, me or the club.
I like the way you phrase this PB as if I have something to hide.
I do get to know about tickets which I offer on here if necessary.
Perhaps Ric needs to close that page down as you and others must have an issue with that.
I am not a member of a supporters club or am I in corporate. What I really am is quite well known, people know me and come to me to help, source or at times sell.
They come from fans who cannot attend, usually for a good reason, not that I care really, that's their business, or after the 7 day return policy the club has.
Running a coach has meant I now have a contact list of 500 plus who do contact me with spares. I also have met others who run similar coaches and we have to react at times.
My issue is really the fact I would or could have to rearrange a whole day out to cater for one fan who has to collect a ticket.
It's a pain in the arse for me, you want to try and keep a full group in line. Especially with the rules we already have to adhere to.
And we still don’t know who’s going to be ID’d and checked.One thing I don’t understand is that an id scheme is being suggested so that fans with the loyalty points get the chance to purchase tickets instead of passing them onto others that don’t qualify in there own right ?
Yet on the other hand there is a motion to give Thomas Cook a plane load of tickets to be sold to anyone that is on the champions league scheme regardless of the points they have. ( yes I do understand why this has been suggested)
This is a bit of a contradiction, in one breath we want to ensure only those who have the required points get tickets and in another it’s ok as long as you travel with us any cup scheme member can have 1 ?
I am afraid you would be 100% wrong then. I am sure in a number of cases you are correct - the hospitality would have been bought anyway, but categorically not always the case. I say that on the basis i am buying hospitality purely to guarantee away tickets. Otherwise wouldn’t have bothered - free parking is irrelevant as I get train/fly and drinks not a big selling point either. It means going forward rather than waiting until 10 days to go to book expensive flights and hotels to Wales going forward with hosp I would book much quicker saving significant money (and I have been to over 1000 City games so not someone with no points - just someone who had to stop aways just when loyalty scheme started so “fell down the pecking order” and can’t get them now for the main games)If it is true about Tunnel Club members getting away tickets, that isn’t down to money.
That is down to the club using free away ticket/s as an incentive to sell more Tunnel Club packages.
I’m 100% sure those people or companies would have bought Tunnel Club packages if away tickets weren’t included in the package.
Either the Tunnel Club packages weren’t selling as well as the club hoped and they decided to include away tickets to try and shift more Tunnel Club packages, or some bod at the top came up with the idea?
And let’s be honest, bar the United, Liverpool, and perhaps other important away games, I’m guessing those away tickets are never used, and are either sold or passed on?
And we still don’t know who’s going to be ID’d and checked.
Is it just going to be those who get their own tickets or not? The response last night was very non commital. In that they ‘hope’ others will be checked?
And to say it’ll only be an extra fifteen minutes is a piss take, this is our ticket office they’re talking about!
Even so, at Bournemouth I got to the ground at 2:15pm and got in at 2:45pm due to the extensive searches by two men. Imagine having to add in a ticket collection as well?
We’ll need to get there the day before.
As I said last night it’s highly disturbing that our own fan reps think so little of the people they represent they’d have us queuing to be ID’d. Even Thatcher didn’t get that one through.