Seat Counters - 2022/23

Stephen230 said:
Not saying it’s right. But you could look at it another way and say the fact the club are making such profits for one off sales, enables them to balance the books whilst still offering season tickets at £11.58 per game.
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I can't complain got what I paid for the ticket 1/19th of season ticket price ! Just saying this is why the club is encouraging folks to put tickets back up for sale ! On open sale it would have been £40 as an under 18's ticket or £75/80 for an adult so City have made over £200 on offering a guy a seat with a meal from what they season ticket price was ! Clever .
 
fathellensbellend said:
that is also possible, the City side of the ground excluding club Wembley our side holds approximately 38000 seats, we have 2000 seats in club Wembley, it means 6000 seats on our side are fa seats, it means a number of these have now become available
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FA and friends seats really piss me off.

If they're giving tickets to 'good guys' give them ones for the community shield after all it's all about being 'good guys' so should be a shoe-in.

My mate got a ticket for the Stoke final at 2x the face value from Norwich FA.... money making at its finest & nowt to do with love of the game.
 
blue b4 the moon said:
Think it's a really great service from the club. Games are changing date/times at very short notice and even if not a guaranteed refund game you'd be unlucky not to get 1/19th back.

As for the club making money. Well they are sort of but they're only charging current game prices and technically they'd sold a full size seat cheaper anyway if filled by a FOC or kid for a whole season. Imagine the outcry if City said there's a 5k limit on FOC season tickets!!!!
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Agree.

I've said before, our fanbase is not the same as Rags or Dippers where Families and Mates share a S/T.

So a group in Bristol or wherever have 2 S/T's at the Swamp, always used but not by the same 2 inbred fans!
 
fathellensbellend said:
that is also possible, the City side of the ground excluding club Wembley our side holds approximately 38000 seats, we have 2000 seats in club Wembley, it means 6000 seats on our side are fa seats, it means a number of these have now become available
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Let's face it, if you're getting the option of semi final freebies from the FA and you're neutral you'd be going on Sunday for the Rags/Brighton game. That's why there's so many neutral returns.
There will be extra tickets in both ends
 
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blue b4 the moon said:
FA and friends seats really piss me off.

If they're giving tickets to 'good guys' give them ones for the community shield after all it's all about being 'good guys' so should be a shoe-in.

My mate got a ticket for the Stoke final at 2x the face value from Norwich FA.... money making at its finest & nowt to do with love of the game.
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I obviously don’t know but I would be very surprised if those tickets came directly from any regional FA. Far more likely they were given to someone at face value by an FA on the understanding they were going to use them and that person personally sold them on at a profit.

I’ve had tickets from Altrincham FA in the past and they’ve requested that the ticket stubs were returned.
 
So for clarity, block 121 which has 800 or so left, where have these come from? Were they held back or returned by FA?
 
Franny 1234 said:
Just received this message from city
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I said it yesterday, they thought they could guarantee refund on the exchange and make a fortune. They’ve overestimated what people are willing to pay and are now panicking.

Greedy bastards, it serves them right.
 
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Tarnat said:
So for clarity, block 121 which has 800 or so left, where have these come from? Were they held back or returned by FA?
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I would assume a bit of both.

What I know is that my friend works for a Premier League club who were in the championship at the time. For one of our cup finals, I think it was Wigan, he had a letter from the FA offering his club tickets for the cup final. I think they might have been allowed up to ten. He had to return the letter saying how many tickets they wanted, and in which club's end. So let's say the FA do that with every member club they might need to hold back, say 10,000 tickets, but they won't know what the takeup actually is and also for which end of the stadium.

this is why when we played Stoke they got an "extra allocation" of 2000 but we didn't get any. Clearly all of the City tickets were taken up by FA members but not all of the Stoke ones. Now I don't know how this plays out for semi finals. Clearly the increased allocations tell you that less tickets are offered in that way but there will probably still be some, and persumably sponsors and Club Wembley members get offered additional tickets in teh same way.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I would assume a bit of both.

What I know is that my friend works for a Premier League club who were in the championship at the time. For one of our cup finals, I think it was Wigan, he had a letter from the FA offering his club tickets for the cup final. I think they might have been allowed up to ten. He had to return the letter saying how many tickets they wanted, and in which club's end. So let's say the FA do that with every member club they might need to hold back, say 10,000 tickets, but they won't know what the takeup actually is and also for which end of the stadium.

this is why when we played Stoke they got an "extra allocation" of 2000 but we didn't get any. Clearly all of the City tickets were taken up by FA members but not all of the Stoke ones. Now I don't know how this plays out for semi finals. Clearly the increased allocations tell you that less tickets are offered in that way but there will probably still be some, and persumably sponsors and Club Wembley members get offered additional tickets in teh same way.
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I believe every club who enters the FA Cup gets two tickets so the likes of Ashton United or Maine Road or Prestwich Heys will all get opportunities to buy two. Some clubs have offered them in sponsorship packages before.
 
WNRH said:
I believe every club who enters the FA Cup gets two tickets so the likes of Ashton United or Maine Road or Prestwich Heys will all get opportunities to buy two. Some clubs have offered them in sponsorship packages before.
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That's right. And I think the higher up the pyramid you are the more you can get. Also, these tickets are the ones which often find their way into the hands of touts which is why there were City fans in the Stoke end and Sunderland fans in the City end.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I would assume a bit of both.

What I know is that my friend works for a Premier League club who were in the championship at the time. For one of our cup finals, I think it was Wigan, he had a letter from the FA offering his club tickets for the cup final. I think they might have been allowed up to ten. He had to return the letter saying how many tickets they wanted, and in which club's end. So let's say the FA do that with every member club they might need to hold back, say 10,000 tickets, but they won't know what the takeup actually is and also for which end of the stadium.

this is why when we played Stoke they got an "extra allocation" of 2000 but we didn't get any. Clearly all of the City tickets were taken up by FA members but not all of the Stoke ones. Now I don't know how this plays out for semi finals. Clearly the increased allocations tell you that less tickets are offered in that way but there will probably still be some, and persumably sponsors and Club Wembley members get offered additional tickets in teh same way.
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Spot on analysis this. For the Stoke final I sources 2 extra tickets (for my wife and daughter) in our end via another FA through a friend and several back channels; tickets in our end in 2011 were very hard to come by, whereas Stoke had 2k returned. Their fans jumped on this claiming they had more fans at the final - they didnt at all, with tickets in our end being sourced by Blues for Blues so there were never any available to go back to City for resale.

Id all but guarantee the sudden flood of tickets available in the £80 bracket near the halfway line will be returns from other FA's and what is described as the "football family"
 
Didsbury Dave said:
That's right. And I think the higher up the pyramid you are the more you can get. Also, these tickets are the ones which often find their way into the hands of touts which is why there were City fans in the Stoke end and Sunderland fans in the City end.
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So..not being a expert I'm totally confused so in simple terms how many tickets do we have 34k or 36?and how many do you believe we have sold thus far?
 
fathellensbellend said:
i would hazard a guess at about 29000/29500 , sales seem to have stopped now pretty much, amazed there isnt a real buzz about going down and watching our fantastic team, we seem to have a real apathetic fanbase at times
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I think we have a mainly manc fanbase, who are a bit tired of wemberlee plus struggling with credit crunch. If we had planes flying to manc from dublin, belfast, scandinavia for every home game, plus coaches arriving from every town / city outside of manc ---we would easliy sell out. 29 k sold is a great return...this is my 20 + trip in 11 years...the novelty does where off im sure.
 
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