I agree about the pricing to a large degree but those empty seats, or at least the majority, will have been sold. It's mainly people who have tickets and don't turn up. If anyone has any ideas about how we solve that problem then me & the club will be glad to hear them.When there’s 1000’s of empty seats it’s obviously going to sap any energy the crowd might have.
There genuinely needs to be something done about pricing of matchday tickets.
12:30 Sat games and midweek games that aren’t cat A should be capped at £25.
Get the thing packed out every week create demand that way.
Good for you.i bought mine at the start of the season, if you go to about 7 games you have your money back, and if you go to another 3 -4 games you get 20 back well in price of tickets
You are correct about prices, but prices are spiralling at the moment at all football clubs (in real life as well). City could and should definitely do more for the match going fan.That's a pathetic response to a perfectly reasonable post.
Not everything in the garden is rosy for all City fans, so it's unfair of you to criticise anyone who doesn't have your seemingly perfect view of the club.
The atmosphere is shit. The prices are too high. The club aims to attract wealthier fans and pays lip-service to those who aren't.
The football we play is wonderful but the 'quality' of opposition makes City look like the Harlem Globetrotters in the great majority of games. Like the HGs, this entertainment eventually wears thin for regular watchers, but continues to attract high spending tourists/day trippers.
A bit of an extreme example perhaps, but that is the ideal scenario for the club hierarchy, and I suspect is precisely what they are aiming for, along with their fellow Super League conspirators.
The CFG is no more than a circus.
Not many City fans I know agree with the poisonous narrative (spread by our enemies) that our owner bought City just to "promote Abu Dhabi" and has been involved in "dodgy land deals." I know those claims are totally false (at least as far as the Manchester investments are concerned). As I have said our club has enough enemies already without enabling their views on our fans's website.The above post is about De Bruyne.
About Haaland
About Laporte.
@bobbyowenquiff how dare you have a go at an absolute genuine City fan as @Long Slow Goodbye.
No doubting his credentials with a quick selection from his posting history.
I only looked into his posting history as I felt it would be what Klopp would of wanted.
Klopp has only spent just over half a billion on players, shoestring budget and won everything worth winning, Fraudiola spent just over 15 trillion and won a couple of energy drinks. Long live Klopp.
It's good that you are trying to find a solution but tbh point 2 would make my season ticket in the east stand well over a grand, not sure I would be prepared to shell out that sort of money even knowing I would be getting refunds. Any news from city matters and when or if more information from the meetings can be published?I agree about the pricing to a large degree but those empty seats, or at least the majority, will have been sold. It's mainly people who have tickets and don't turn up. If anyone has any ideas about how we solve that problem then me & the club will be glad to hear them.
My two proposals would be:
1. Pay a smaller upfront fee to reserve a seat but then pay on a match-by-match basis. If you don't pay for your seat say 2 weeks before the game, it goes on open sale
2. Rather than give an up-front discount for season cards, charge full price but give rebates depending on how many games you actually attend (or the seat is used).
I objected to his toxic comments about our owner accusing him of buying the club "to promote Abu Dhabi" and enable "dodgy land deals." That's what I call pathetic.That's a pathetic response to a perfectly reasonable post.
Not everything in the garden is rosy for all City fans, so it's unfair of you to criticise anyone who doesn't have your seemingly perfect view of the club.
The atmosphere is shit. The prices are too high. The club aims to attract wealthier fans and pays lip-service to those who aren't.
The football we play is wonderful but the 'quality' of opposition makes City look like the Harlem Globetrotters in the great majority of games. Like the HGs, this entertainment eventually wears thin for regular watchers, but continues to attract high spending tourists/day trippers.
A bit of an extreme example perhaps, but that is the ideal scenario for the club hierarchy, and I suspect is precisely what they are aiming for, along with their fellow Super League conspirators.
The CFG is no more than a circus.
I agree about the pricing to a large degree but those empty seats, or at least the majority, will have been sold. It's mainly people who have tickets and don't turn up. If anyone has any ideas about how we solve that problem then me & the club will be glad to hear them.
My two proposals would be:
1. Pay a smaller upfront fee to reserve a seat but then pay on a match-by-match basis. If you don't pay for your seat say 2 weeks before the game, it goes on open sale
2. Rather than give an up-front discount for season cards, charge full price but give rebates depending on how many games you actually attend (or the seat is used).
There are large blocks of seats empty, particularly in CB3.I agree about the pricing to a large degree but those empty seats, or at least the majority, will have been sold. It's mainly people who have tickets and don't turn up. If anyone has any ideas about how we solve that problem then me & the club will be glad to hear them.
My two proposals would be:
1. Pay a smaller upfront fee to reserve a seat but then pay on a match-by-match basis. If you don't pay for your seat say 2 weeks before the game, it goes on open sale
2. Rather than give an up-front discount for season cards, charge full price but give rebates depending on how many games you actually attend (or the seat is used).
I have found all but a couple of games in the Prem at home this season dull due to the way teams set up. If I had paid £50 plus for that crap today I would have been disappointed.
The Paris and Leipzig Games were the best games I have attended this season and the atmosphere in those two games were the best too.
Because the time has come that a few home truths need saying about our support!This thread has become an opportunity for City fans to slag off our own fanbase. We have enough enemies out there to do that for us.
Still giving allowances for the excuses of Covid, deferrals, extortionate ticket prices, the club not understanding our fanbase, opposing teams not coming to play so games are boring, it being just before Christmas, it raining a bit, it being a bit cold… I was still gob smacked at that yesterday! That was like a City game under Stuart Pearce, swathes of empty seats and hardly any noise from our fans whatsoever.The blame has to go somehwere, be that towards our fans or the board for pricing the tickets. Yesterday shocked me a bit, you often get empty seats in patches, but that was the worst I’ve seen for home game for ages. Somethings not right, we can easily fill the stadium every week, but there’s a problem that needs fixing.
You mean our owner who has only been to the ground once and has little or no interest in football?I objected to his toxic comments about our owner accusing him of buying the club "to promote Abu Dhabi" and enable "dodgy land deals." That's what I call pathetic.
The club can definitely do more for season tickets holders from the ticket office right through to the actual match day, and as I guess you might be indicating the fans can also do more to help with the atmosphere rather than just criticise the club (apologies if that is not what you meant).Because the time has come that a few home truths need saying about our support!
Yeah that is what I meant mate. The club can certainly do a hell of a lot more (a hell of a lot!), but by fuck we need fucking plugging in again as a set of fans. The apathy to create an atmosphere is painful to be part of!The club can definitely do more for season tickets holders from the ticket office right through to the actual match day, and as I guess you might be indicating the fans can also do more to help with the atmosphere rather than just criticise the club (apologies if that is not what you meant).
The frustrating thing about reading a thread like this is the City fans who seem to have no enjoyment from the actual game or the way we play, I really don’t understand that side of it and they then use their own antipathy about everything to do with the club.
Ah, this old gem. City is an investment to him and his other business interests, he is not a person from our local area and has many interests across the world.You mean our owner who has only been to the ground once and has little or no interest in football?
I made no generalisation of Sheikh Mansour. I simply quoted a fact.Ah, this old gem. City is an investment to him and his other business interests, he is not a person from our local area and has many interests across the world.
Only been to the ground once, yes, seen him on various social media and other media celebrating City title/cups wins many times with his children and members of his family and friends, so does seem engaged with the actual club.
Many members of this forum are passionate City fans and yet have never been to the ground or Manchester or this country, do they also have little or no interest in football? Lots of City fans in this country never go to the match for various reasons, but they are sill invested and passionate about City as those that do. In addition, how do you know he has little or no interest in football?
We could always have the owners of liverpool, united, Arsenal who are often seen at matches, maybe that’s because they are very busy transferring the literal billions they have taken out of those clubs increasing their own vast respective wealth, amazing owners, match day attendees.
Meanwhile our non-interested owner stays home and lets the people he chose to run the actual club we support to do their actual jobs and ensure it’s one of the best run clubs in the world with money generated invested back into it. The absolute bastard!
Supporters like you are never going to be happy, don’t see the reason you continue to be honest, oh wait, I may of just made a generalisation of you as you did with Mansour.
Typical for the majority of PL owners, investment with big profits.You mean our owner who has only been to the ground once and has little or no interest in football?