Atmosphere - 2023/24

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uwerosler28 said:
Genuine question, are the club not appointing a ticket compliance officer ?, if so is that not because they are also pissed at situations like last night and want it to stop? I cant understand them paying to bring someone in if their remit will be to stop something we are accusing the club of profiteering from?, could this not just be fans racking up the £ by reselling to 3rd parties for big games.
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Think they’re more arsed about blues jibbing into 115/114 with tickets elsewhere in the ground than they are about clear rival fans sitting in our end. The ticket checks the past couple of weeks have been a pain in the arse and causing massive agro between fans/stewards at the “checkpoints”
 
Ashleymcduff said:
Meet a guy in mary d’s last night who flew over solo from Austin Texas brought a ticket and meal from vermillion direct from club for £250 .. not even a city fan just wanted to come to the game. Was a good lad to be fare had a pint with him and met him after game but it’s madness someone can just rock up and do that .
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Are you seeing him again?
 
Ashleymcduff said:
Meet a guy in mary d’s last night who flew over solo from Austin Texas brought a ticket and meal from vermillion direct from club for £250 .. not even a city fan just wanted to come to the game. Was a good lad to be fare had a pint with him and met him after game but it’s madness someone can just rock up and do that .
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All about the money, our club has changed forever
 
Blue Smarties said:
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Handled well there, made his point and didn’t go overboard and (hopefully) didn’t get himself in bother.
Shouldn’t be our responsibility to deal with these situations though, the club pay money for stewards and security to make sure this shit doesn’t happen
 
The ticket compliance officer will be more concerned with people getting in on concessions without paying for upgrades than the agency selling, and also will prioritise making it impossible for blues to transfer to each other, so they have to return them to the club for premium reselling. Matchday purchased tickets are non-transferable per the T&Cs. You must return them, for the big games anyway.

The club must be involved with the agencies, they simply have to be, they have thousands of tickets.
The agencies help shift tickets for the lower category games so I assume get looked after for the bigger games as well. They never really drop the prices hugely, and are happy to leave empty seats rather than than drop them too low close to kick off, or everyone would wait. I was looking constantly on Live football and ticombo, the very cheapest started at £360, being £300 plus fees, and dropped to about £180 plus fees, so £240 by kick off.

The club started the off-site buffet at £340, and it sold out, so they launched another batch at £500, same thing, just priced to meet demand.

If someone wants to pay £500 to watch a football match, the club would be nuts not to harvest that market. As a matchday purchaser that means I'm fcked for future ticket availability, no matter how many years I've been going, or points I have, a very small number of tickets will go to matchday purchasers for big UCL games, and United, Liverpool and Arsenal.

What really bugs me is the scramble for tickets, then being surrounded by passionless observers, empties and Scousers in the East Stand 3 for Liverpool at home. Kick off time didn't help, but it was terrible.

It's going to get worse before it gets better
 
uwerosler28 said:
So why are they recruiting a ticket compliance officer who's job surely will be to stop this? Makes no sense. As we all know season ticket holders aren't coming to these games so are they buying the tickets then selling on for a quite tempting profit?
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I think it’s to stop ordinary fans selling on tickets on things like the ticket exchange on Facebook. The club have partnerships with companies/ agencies and sell on large numbers of tickets at high prices, which are unavailable to ordinary fans - they aren’t going to stop that.

It’s literally rows of tickets - it’s not fans buying them and selling them on.
 
The Arab lads next to me in the Colin Bell top tier whilst often glued to their phones certainly enjoyed the game and intriguingly hooted like an owl to celebrate Kevs goal.
Had a good go at most songs and is welcome back anytime especially as like it or not he reflects the demographic of the people who actually fund our treble winners.

3rd game in a row with a lot of Americans possibly more than watch our US owned rivals. All a bit surreal to this old fart as is having my season ticket on my phone!
 
uwerosler28 said:
So why are they recruiting a ticket compliance officer who's job surely will be to stop this? Makes no sense. As we all know season ticket holders aren't coming to these games so are they buying the tickets then selling on for a quite tempting profit?
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I think yesterday has shown there are is far too many of these non City fans getting tickets for it just to be a lot of cup schemers selling their tickets on.
 
Petethemancinleeds said:
The Arab lads next to me in the Colin Bell top tier whilst often glued to their phones certainly enjoyed the game and intriguingly hooted like an owl to celebrate Kevs goal.
Had a good go at most songs and is welcome back anytime especially as like it or not he reflects the demographic of the people who actually fund our treble winners.

3rd game in a row with a lot of Americans possibly more than watch our US owned rivals. All a bit surreal to this old fart as is having my season ticket on my phone!
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As said previously in the thread , tourists supporting city whilst annoying isnt the issue from yesterday, its Madrid fans openly wearing shirts / scarfs in the ground and celebrated goals while the fans are the ones who are left to deal with them
 
I’m assuming many Seasoncard holders who aren’t on the cup schemes are cutting back given how much their payments have increased by.

It’s been a while but they’ll surely have time to pick and choose what cup matches to go to?
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
She was at the stadium a few years ago doing some bollocks, goading Blues. She must think because she’s a pretty little blonde nobody will touch her.

What we need is Mrs Foden to rag her round by her hair and tell her to fuck off back down south. Daft slag.
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Different girl that was, asking ‘where’s your CL Trophy’. She stopped my mate, he was polite, I wouldn’t have been.UeN6zZHySZGLiCt3DHMuAQ.jpeg
 
TB369 said:
I was sat in SSL3 yesterday and there was a family of about 6 Madrid supporters behind me. They cheered when Madrid scored and a lad a few seats down didn't take too kindly to it. Towards the end of the game everyone was pretty much stood up, one of the older guys pushed me in the back and gestured for me to sit down as he didn't want to stand and watch.
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Did you tell him to fuck off ?
 
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