North Stand Construction Discussion

Stockton Heath Blue said:
Ridiculous mark up for a £14 ticket. I get why but doesn’t make it any better. That’s why I try and sell to OSC members or privately before using Ticket Exchange.
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Ticket transfer system is a belting way to make sure tickets are passed on. I've about 40 people on my Friends and Family list. Not ticket holders on the standard membership. Any season ticket holder not going we just WhatsApp out for someone to take it for the Ticket Exchange or upgrade price. Works like a charm.
 
supercity88 said:
There's a big market for it, which will grow with the continued decline of the rags. Would you want to go watch them lose at home to Copenhagen whilst eating a pork chop, sat next to a bucket collecting the rain from the leaky roof or come to City and watch the best players in the best facilities? If they club can push it and increase the revenues in order to give back to the rest of the fans that would be an ideal scenario. Sadly we've seen incremental price rises for all fans, although you can appreciate the club thinking it's still fair value considering we're the best team on the planet.
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We are the best team on the planet yes, but we won’t always be. Disenfranchising your regular match going supporters in the pursuit of ever more corporate/tourists is such a short sighted approach, dreamt up by people who probably know they won’t be at the club when the inevitable downturn arrives.
The Real Madrid fiasco was a case in point, regular supporters were disregarded by the club for that game and now we’re seeing group stage games with empty seats again as a lot of those supporters are thinking what’s the point, it’s only going to get worse when we’ve got an extra group game and 8,000 more seats to fill.
Somebody at the club needs to think long term and get a grip of this, there has got to be a better balance between increasing revenues in the short term and looking after the fanbase long term.
 
Stockton Heath Blue said:
Ridiculous mark up for a £14 ticket. I get why but doesn’t make it any better. That’s why I try and sell to OSC members or privately before using Ticket Exchange.
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City are a business, if we want to attract the best players in the world it costs money, the guy got his money back for the ticket and city sold it as corporate, brilliant, win win win...
 
Beaker said:
We are the best team on the planet yes, but we won’t always be. Disenfranchising your regular match going supporters in the pursuit of ever more corporate/tourists is such a short sighted approach, dreamt up by people who probably know they won’t be at the club when the inevitable downturn arrives.
The Real Madrid fiasco was a case in point, regular supporters were disregarded by the club for that game and now we’re seeing group stage games with empty seats again as a lot of those supporters are thinking what’s the point, it’s only going to get worse when we’ve got an extra group game and 8,000 more seats to fill.
Somebody at the club needs to think long term and get a grip of this, there has got to be a better balance between increasing revenues in the short term and looking after the fanbase long term.
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YAWN...
 
Beaker said:
We are the best team on the planet yes, but we won’t always be. Disenfranchising your regular match going supporters in the pursuit of ever more corporate/tourists is such a short sighted approach, dreamt up by people who probably know they won’t be at the club when the inevitable downturn arrives.
The Real Madrid fiasco was a case in point, regular supporters were disregarded by the club for that game and now we’re seeing group stage games with empty seats again as a lot of those supporters are thinking what’s the point, it’s only going to get worse when we’ve got an extra group game and 8,000 more seats to fill.
Somebody at the club needs to think long term and get a grip of this, there has got to be a better balance between increasing revenues in the short term and looking after the fanbase long term.
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City don't do anything short sighted, I'd have thought any Blue would have worked that out by now.
 
Beaker said:
We are the best team on the planet yes, but we won’t always be. Disenfranchising your regular match going supporters in the pursuit of ever more corporate/tourists is such a short sighted approach, dreamt up by people who probably know they won’t be at the club when the inevitable downturn arrives.
The Real Madrid fiasco was a case in point, regular supporters were disregarded by the club for that game and now we’re seeing group stage games with empty seats again as a lot of those supporters are thinking what’s the point, it’s only going to get worse when we’ve got an extra group game and 8,000 more seats to fill.
Somebody at the club needs to think long term and get a grip of this, there has got to be a better balance between increasing revenues in the short term and looking after the fanbase long term.
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More people are watching us than ever before so they're doing okay at the moment. I'd much rather the club weren't planning for a day when we're playing York at home and need to call on 30,000 loyal blues from the 90s. Their intentions are to keep growing the club, keep marketing the club and keep making as much money as possible. These loyal blues that have been priced out, probably wouldn't go to many games anyway. The prices are pretty fair for the standard of football we're seeing. We'd have easily sold another 8,000 tickets for that Real game. I agree it was farcical what the club did, but whilst the main concern was what it would do to the atmosphere for such a big game, actually it was nice to see so many people still in the ground at full time!
 
Centurions said:
City don't do anything short sighted, I'd have thought any Blue would have worked that out by now.
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Signing Demichelis was probably a bit short sighted!

But yea even if they were, a bit of a struggle to argue a £300m investment that will take 3 years to build and has probably been at least that long in the making already, is short term thinking.
 
Stockton Heath Blue said:
Ridiculous mark up for a £14 ticket. I get why but doesn’t make it any better. That’s why I try and sell to OSC members or privately before using Ticket Exchange.
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Only put up for resale to allow another fan to attend wasn't bothered about getting 14 quid back ! But I suppose if the demand to spend £250 on a ticket is there you can't complain the guy was happy enough although I didn't mention what the original ticket cost me, an adult ticket purchased at full price for the fame was £55 so good bit of profit for City in doing this !
 
pride in battle said:
City are a business, if we want to attract the best players in the world it costs money, the guy got his money back for the ticket and city sold it as corporate, brilliant, win win win...
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The money City take from tickets is pocket money compared with revenues from Sponsorship, TV Etc. It has no bearing on signing players. The issue is that the ticket side is being run by a group of people who's only aim is to increase the take thereby justifying their job's, pay increases and bonuses. It's a profit making institution in itself and will screw the last penny out of fans. I will never ever return my ticket to the Club, would sell it at FV or below or give it away.
 
Wilmslow Road said:
The money City take from tickets is pocket money compared with revenues from Sponsorship, TV Etc. It has no bearing on signing players. The issue is that the ticket side is being run by a group of people who's only aim is to increase the take thereby justifying their job's, pay increases and bonuses. It's a profit making institution in itself and will screw the last penny out of fans. I will never ever return my ticket to the Club, would sell it at FV or below or give it away.
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You're living in a dreamworld...
 
Wilmslow Road said:
The money City take from tickets is pocket money compared with revenues from Sponsorship, TV Etc. It has no bearing on signing players. The issue is that the ticket side is being run by a group of people who's only aim is to increase the take thereby justifying their job's, pay increases and bonuses. It's a profit making institution in itself and will screw the last penny out of fans. I will never ever return my ticket to the Club, would sell it at FV or below or give it away.
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So much of this is naïve & shows an obvious lack of knowledge about how a football club (or any business) is managed.
Don’t you think our club has improved on and off the pitch in every way!?
 
CC1 said:
So much of this is naïve & shows an obvious lack of knowledge about how a football club (or any business) is managed.
Don’t you think our club has improved on and off the pitch in every way!?
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I wouldn’t say it’s improved in every way. There are areas where I think the club hasn’t been great at all - ticket prices and forced relocations in particular. A football club shouldn’t just be looked at as a profit making machine either. It’s not an ordinary business at all.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I wouldn’t say it’s improved in every way. There are areas where I think the club hasn’t been great at all - ticket prices and forced relocations in particular. A football club shouldn’t just be looked at as a profit making machine either. It’s not an ordinary business at all.
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But it has improved in most areas & “forced relocations” are unavoidable when a stadium is improved. You can’t have it both ways.

Our ticket prices are no worse than most other clubs & better than many - and we have the best team in the world!
 
Wilmslow Road said:
The money City take from tickets is pocket money compared with revenues from Sponsorship, TV Etc. It has no bearing on signing players. The issue is that the ticket side is being run by a group of people who's only aim is to increase the take thereby justifying their job's, pay increases and bonuses. It's a profit making institution in itself and will screw the last penny out of fans. I will never ever return my ticket to the Club, would sell it at FV or below or give it away.
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Not quite true, take away the matchday / ticket income and we make a loss which very much does have a bearing on the players we sign as we’d be failing FFP.
Hardly a profit making institution either as the profits are minuscule for business with our turnover less than 10 %. If my business only made that profit my accountant would be telling me it was unsustainable.
 
CC1 said:
But it has improved in most areas & “forced relocations” are unavoidable when a stadium is improved. You can’t have it both ways.

Our ticket prices are no worse than most other clubs & better than many - and we have the best team in the world!
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They weren’t unavoidable at all. Thousands were forced out of the north stand. They didn’t have to do that all, it was completely avoidable.

Sounds like whatever the club do you will support. Being the best club in the world, doesn’t mean everything they do is right or you have to agree with it.

I know lots of long term city fans who’ve been priced out of season tickets and now can’t afford the ridiculously high match day tickets. Our match day ticket prices are scandalous and you must be pretty well off if you think they’re reasonably priced.

I’ll repeat a football club isn’t just a business. Theyve done lots of things right, but I’m don’t agree with everything.
 
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