"Disappointing" attendances

[jrb]

Thank you.

Thorough as ever.

Looks like a small premium for City and, given that we have been champions for the last two seasons, that is not unreasonable.

I do think they should increase season card prices by less than inflation this summer.

Increase!?

That's what the fans really want to hear isn't it?

 

[Mike Cledford]

It has hit a nerve due to constant jibes about the emptihad from others outside of the club

For our manager to, as you point out simply agree it was not full is not too bad but I would prefer if he had said something better.

Perhaps ask the reporter what she had paid to get in the ground. Turn it around.

Yes quite a few questions are ripe for a good return of service but they become 'aces'.

 

[Roachy]

I sit on the very back row so have a great view of the people, and I've come to the conclusion that the exoduses are in 3 distinct categories:

80 mins or the stoppage closest to.
85 mins or the stoppage closest to.
and
every stoppage in play after 85 mins.

It was crazy how precisely people got up to go at those 2 times.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Increase!?

That's what the fans really want to hear isn't?

I've just checked Arsenal's prices for the equivalent to 109 and it's a staggering difference. Their category prices are A - £65.50 (5 games) compared to our £65, B - £37.50 (9 games) compared to our £53 and C - £27 (5 games) compared to our £45.

So on a like-for-like basis on the category of games, that's £700 versus £1,027 or nearly 50% more expensive. Alright it's Arsenal but even so.

 

[Mike Cledford]

The Derby is not sold out because Danny Wilson & co fooked up the ticket criteria. If season card holders on the Cup scheme were allowed 4 tickets and other season card holders 3, the game would be sold out. Even without this, the game would be a virtual sellout if Utd had been allocated the number of tickets they were entitled to (just like the swamp would have been sold out if we had been allocated 8k plus).

Do you know the actual attendance at the swamp and how many we look like getting?

 

[ctid1894]

would you rather we were shit again>

What a pathetic, childish, thoughtless stupid fucking question. I don't know why I'm even dignifying it with an answer but just on the off chance you're not a complete cock, I will.

I want less games for the first team squad, so they can actually get the rest and recovery to be able to compete against the likes of Real Madrid in the Champions League with players who aren't fucked physically and mentally due to the scheduling of fixtures and the quantity of fixtures. We're a better team in my opinion but players like Sterling are burnt out, he's played constantly for 3-4 years without a sustained period of rest, just like De Bruyne, it's only a matter of time before he gets an injury. At best it's clearly beginning to have an impact on his form.

On the other side of that, I want competition in the domestic cups, ideally with other teams getting better so we don't have to resort to making it competitive ourselves. Livarpool throw the towel in at the first opportunity, outside of them, I don't think anybody else can compete at the moment. Competition (internal or external) is the only way anyone can ever improve, whether it's the young academy lads or squad players. If we get beat, we learn and develop, if we win 5-0, no one is learning anything.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Tickets in the lower and middle tiers have now gone and tickets are selling in ES3 and CB3. This game is likely to be close to a sellout.

Do you know the actual attendance at the swamp and how many we look like getting?

The attendance at the Swamp was 67k. They let in between 73k and 74k for midweek games these days I think. The game at OT was a bit over 6k short of capacity but I’m not sure every rag who bought a ticket turned up.

We look to have shifted approximately 52k tickets (based on the planner) and have 2k or a bit more to sell.

 

[jrb]

I've just checked Arsenal's prices for the equivalent to 109 and it's a staggering difference. Their category prices are A - £65.50 (5 games) compared to our £65, B - £37.50 (9 games) compared to our £53 and C - £27 (5 games) compared to our £45.

So on a like-for-like basis on the category of games, that's £700 versus £1,027 or nearly 50% more expensive. Alright it's Arsenal but even so.

TBF PB, Arsenal have always had the most expensive season tickets and match tickets.

Didn't they use to charge away fans £65?

Can you imagine any away fan paying that now after a few seasons of paying £30? Not a chance in hell! If that price for an away ticket was ever reintroduced, away ends would be half empty or empty.

I for one would never pay £65 again for an away ticket.

 

[stonerblue]

I think the difference this time is that Pep himself brought the topic up. In the past it's been the media trying to set him up but he's given them the ammo this time round.

I'm far from outraged but I don't think he's done himself (or us) any favours on this. Despite that, however, I don't buy this thing from some posters that he doesn't have any connection with the fans. I think he does and the way he orchestrated the Guardiola chant at Leicester away that time proves it. He's also on record as saying that Barca and Bayern fans didn't have a song for him, whereas City fans do.

Did he? Was it a post match interview, a piece in a paper or somewhere else where he brought it up?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

TBF PB, Arsenal have always had the most expensive season tickets and match tickets.

Didn't they use to charge away fans £65?

Can you imagine any away fan paying that now after a few seasons of paying £30? Not a chance in hell! If that price for an away ticket was ever reintroduced, away ends would be half empty or empty.

I for one would never pay £65 again for an away ticket.

I never would. Wouldn't pay over 50 back in the day. But that's match day prices for home fans. Much more sensible pricing in my view.

 

[GortonBlue62]

TBF PB, Arsenal have always had the most expensive season tickets and match tickets.

Didn't they use to charge away fans £65?

Can you imagine any away fan paying that now after a few seasons of paying £30? Not a chance in hell! If that price for an away ticket was ever reintroduced, away ends would be half empty or empty.

I for one would never pay £65 again for an away ticket.

Had that very discussion on the way back from Sheffield United.

The £30 cap has saved away fans a fortune over the last few years and I'm not sure I'd go back to paying full whack.

In the season before the cap was introduced Arsenal at £64 was the most expensive for a PL game.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Tickets in the lower and middle tiers have now gone and tickets are selling in ES3 and CB3. This game is likely to be close to a sellout.



The attendance at the Swamp was 67k. They let in between 73k and 74k for midweek games these days I think. The game at OT was a bit over 6k short of capacity but I’m not sure every rag who bought a ticket turned up.

We look to have shifted approximately 52k tickets (based on the planner) and have 2k or a bit more to sell.

Thanks Tim.73 k seem a bit imaginative
We will get flak

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Thanks Tim.73 k seem a bit imaginative
We will get flak

They didn’t get that many. That was the capacity

 

[M18CTID]

Did he? Was it a post match interview, a piece in a paper or somewhere else where he brought it up?

I'm going off what many have said on here - that Pep brought it up first in the post match presser. I could be wrong of course as it's not always wise to believe what others say on here but the sheer numbers backing that up gave me the impression that that's what happened

 

[Rolee]

I'm going off what many have said on here - that Pep brought it up first in the post match presser. I could be wrong of course as it's not always wise to believe what others say on here but the sheer numbers backing that up gave me the impression that that's what happened

It's based on this edited piece. The interview had obviously already started but we don't get to hear the interviewer's first question.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51258522

It seemed rather convenient to me that Pep should bring up exactly what the commentators had been discussing with around 5 minutes left in the game.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Flicked through an old programme today from 1978, and there couldn't have been a more apt piece by Bernard Halford titled " never knock the fans". This paragraph sums it up for me:

I believe that in no way can a club ever have a go at it's supporters. It is their sole right to either come and watch you... or stay at home if they prefer. It's their money and they can do what they like with it. That is why you have to cultivate your fans... never knock them.

This was after we'd been slated for only having 27'000 for a home European game against Standard Liege.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

What a pathetic, childish, thoughtless stupid fucking question. I don't know why I'm even dignifying it with an answer but just on the off chance you're not a complete cock, I will.

I want less games for the first team squad, so they can actually get the rest and recovery to be able to compete against the likes of Real Madrid in the Champions League with players who aren't fucked physically and mentally due to the scheduling of fixtures and the quantity of fixtures. We're a better team in my opinion but players like Sterling are burnt out, he's played constantly for 3-4 years without a sustained period of rest, just like De Bruyne, it's only a matter of time before he gets an injury. At best it's clearly beginning to have an impact on his form.

On the other side of that, I want competition in the domestic cups, ideally with other teams getting better so we don't have to resort to making it competitive ourselves. Livarpool throw the towel in at the first opportunity, outside of them, I don't think anybody else can compete at the moment. Competition (internal or external) is the only way anyone can ever improve, whether it's the young academy lads or squad players. If we get beat, we learn and develop, if we win 5-0, no one is learning anything.

the fact you've resulted to swearing, and trying to throw a few digs in there rests my case with morons like you.

A keyboard warrior I See?

 

[stonerblue]

It's based on this edited piece. The interview had obviously already started but we don't get to hear the interviewer's first question.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51258522

It seemed rather convenient to me that Pep should bring up exactly what the commentators had been discussing with around 5 minutes left in the game.

Thanks.
So going off that, he's asked a question we don't get to hear and replies honestly. WTF is wrong with that?

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

TBF PB, Arsenal have always had the most expensive season tickets and match tickets.

Didn't they use to charge away fans £65?

Can you imagine any away fan paying that now after a few seasons of paying £30? Not a chance in hell! If that price for an away ticket was ever reintroduced, away ends would be half empty or empty.

I for one would never pay £65 again for an away ticket.

its all well away fans having tickets capped at £30. We should have home tickets capped aswell.

The clubs no longer need the ticket revenue as their main income source

 

[stonerblue]

I'm going off what many have said on here - that Pep brought it up first in the post match presser. I could be wrong of course as it's not always wise to believe what others say on here but the sheer numbers backing that up gave me the impression that that's what happened

Then i'm sorry too say but you back up my original post. You and others seem to have half a story and run with it to slag off the manager (not sure you have but plenty are).