Email from City about ticket frustrations

An absolute cockup which has obviously got senior figures at the club concerned cause they will have noticed we have lost 3000 supporters at every home game so far.

Whether it’s down to Covid or the ticket fiasco the home attendances for our first 5 games ( up to Wycombe ) are very concerning.

Somebody at City should be getting strung up by their balls over it !
Shit, I've missed 2 home games, how did we get on.

And what was the crowd for the Wycombe game, you know, the one we haven't played yet!

A cock up yes and the Club have admitted it but the lower crowds are easily offset by the number of deferred season tickets!
 
As anyone contacted https://enterprise.seatgeek.com/uk to tell them how shit the implementation their system has been at the Uk champions? Apologies if i have got it wrong but i noticed their banner on my ticketing page, never heard of them before and i think it may well be the company administrating the shambles
 
It is an awful system... my son has his eTickets in his wallet on his phone, he recently upgraded his phone to a new handset and now the tickets aren't updating (it still showing the Southampton game for this weekend). Try to redownload to the wallet on the website and we get an error - truly shambolic

Will update Bluemoon when we find the solution
 
If you think Danny is sat there, blissfully ignorant of all the issues currently affecting fans, then you're completely wrong. They're well aware of all this stuff.

And we (City Matters reps) are picking up and dealing with the most serious problems so they're definitely landing on Danny's desk regularly.

They've largely got their own lack of planning and forethought to blame for where we currently are but what's of more concern is how they're going to address all these problems.
I didnt ask if he was aware as I am sure he must have been
I was wondering if he replieyd to people's concerns or emails as the email he sent didn't adress individual concerned
Lots of angry & disappointed fans are still having problems
 
Emailed him directly and text messaged him as i was so annoyed at the free flights for Porto quite a few times and no response at all whereas he all ways replied in the past
 
The question was
Have people on here complained to Danny Wilson or others and if so what was the reply ?
The email sent by Danny was just a general apology
Well I've raised quite a few specific problems with him and he's sorted them out or ensured they're dealt with by the right person. I know others have had responses from him.

Whatever the generic failings, he's usually brilliant at sorting out stuff.
 
Emailed him directly and text messaged him as i was so annoyed at the free flights for Porto quite a few times and no response at all whereas he all ways replied in the past
Can't tell if this is sarcasm or what? Please elaborate!
 
Well I've raised quite a few specific problems with him and he's sorted them out or ensured they're dealt with by the right person. I know others have had responses from him.

Whatever the generic failings, he's usually brilliant at sorting out stuff.
Yes Danny is good but it the system & lack of trained staff that is at fault & that is not a quick fix
 
Well I've raised quite a few specific problems with him and he's sorted them out or ensured they're dealt with by the right person. I know others have had responses from him.

Whatever the generic failings, he's usually brilliant at sorting out stuff.

But, and I may be wrong here, as Director of operations, isn't Danny directly responsible for sorting out and possibly preempting these problems??
 
I think the e-mail was sent on the back / reflection of ticket sales.

No game so far has sold out this season, I doubt we will get 30,000 tonight if we are lucky.

Fans have been left frustrated on how we been treated and now they on trying damage limitation
 
I didnt ask if he was aware as I am sure he must have been
I was wondering if he replieyd to people's concerns or emails as the email he sent didn't adress individual concerned
Lots of angry & disappointed fans are still having problems
As far as I am aware Danny Wilson does respond to emails. Whether to every one or not I am of course, not privy to that information, and I don't think that every City fans is. As @prestwich blue has said the CM people have put lots of concerns on his desk, and as most of the concerns were extremely similar i.e. can't download ticket to Android/iPhone, can't get through on the phone etc. then an email addressed to all fans is much less time consuming for a senior figure in the organisation than trying to respond individually wouldn't you think?
 
But, and I may be wrong here, as Director of operations, isn't Danny directly responsible for sorting out and possibly preempting these problems??
There's been a host of failures leading up to where we are now. Too much complex change at once. Not enough planning and scenario analysis. Not enough system testing. Wrong approach to implementation. Failure to fully understand the impacts of decisions. Failure to resource up to meet customer needs. Too many issues that need manual intervention rather than being capable of being resolved online by users. And that's just part of the problems.

The question is how much latitude Danny really has. He reports to the new-ish CFG COO, Roel de Vries. Roel reports to Soriano. I doubt Danny took decisions unilaterally. So I don't think he should carry the can for any failures. Perhaps he just had to do what he was told, despite any doubts or misgivings he may have had. It's more important we learn lessons from this and that Roel de Vries builds an operational organisation that matches the football one. He's starting from a pretty low base so any improvement would be welcome.

My concern, as I've said before, is that there should be two separate organisation units. One specifically for City and another for the rest of CFG.
 

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