If Tim is right about pricing at the bottom end, and MAG is right about pricing at the top end, it's a sign that the club is continuing its nudge of loyals and locals without STs to stick to patronising Cat B and Cat C games - as indicated by the slightly kinder pricing for those games and the introduction of Silvers. That's your 'old City', the one that stumbles against Everton and Brentford, gets back up off the canvas against Palace, and reminds us of what it meant to be a Blue in the old days. Meanwhile, the big games follow the 'Real Madrid model', where you will have a seat if you're a season ticket holder, but really every other seat is aimed to sell as a one-off to one-offs. That's your 'new City' - the one that kills United in 12 seconds, makes Real Madrid look ordinary, the glamour team we can't quite believe exists.
As it stands, we have a large enough proportion of ST holders who can experience the 'old City and the 'new City' relatively affordably so the moans fizzle out and aren't heard all at once. The trouble is, if you think you can get away with charging £95 for a game, are you going to stop there? How long before you start looking at the tens of thousands of ST holders and say we 'can get a LOT more out of them AND reduce the deal' - say mandatory cup schemes, Level 2 hospitality only...matchday pricing is the canary in the coal mine imo. The direction the North Stand expansion takes will be absolutely critical in showing the future direction the club is going, whether it thinks the only obligation to the fans is to play good football, or whether it wants to give a bit more back.