North Stand Construction Discussion

jrb said:
There’s not prefect solution. Season tickets and match day tickets, home and away ;-), have always been open to abuse. But why should City fans have to pay an extra £150 membership fee to purchase a flexi gold season ticket? I asked that question earlier today, but nobody has tried to answer my question yet.
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The obvious answer to that is £150 is added to the price (as a minimum) of this new version of a seasoncard. This is even higher if the member doesn't attend all 19 home games.

Who benefits?

Firstly, supporters who attend, or want to attend, most league games but haven't been able to get a full SC as none have been released since Covid. Those on here who managed to get one of the 600 released for this season were ecstatic as it means they can go to all the league games they want to in the same seat without paying extortionate match day prices.

Obviously it's mainly the club which benefits mostly as it's a poorly disguised price increase and it enables them to sell more seats at match day prices as Flexi-Gold holders can't transfer tickets they have purchased.

Anyone trying to paint Flexi-Gold members as being tourists or lesser supporters needs to have a long, hard think about that.
 
jrb said:
Tim.

There shouldn’t be charge, never mind half the charge.

There’s absolutely no reason at all why the club shouldn’t be selling standard season tickets to City fans without a (£150) charge. It’s just another money making scam by the club.
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If somebody wants to go to every game I agree, and some normal S/C s should be available after the extension opens at least 4/5000.
If it’s a Matchday buyer that just wants the minimum 10 games then the £150 and buying the 10 tickets works out far cheaper than 10 match tickets and is great value.The issue is those buying it for all the games and seeing it as a normal S/C, when it should be seen more as targeted to Matchday buyers that don’t want to go to every game.
 
Big Joe Corrigan said:
We are not going to sell 8000 premium seats in the new NS. I would rather they made it affordable for the many, although I doubt they will.
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I'd prefer it to be affordable for the many as well.

But if every new season ticketholder has to pay the flexi gold premium, then that, in itself, means effectively an ever increasing number of premium seats.
 
blueparrot said:
If somebody wants to go to every game I agree, and some normal S/C s should be available after the extension opens at least 4/5000.
If it’s a Matchday buyer that just wants the minimum 10 games then the £150 and buying the 10 tickets works out far cheaper than 10 match tickets and is great value.The issue is those buying it for all the games and seeing it as a normal S/C, when it should be seen more as targeted to Matchday buyers that don’t want to go to every game.
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Agree there.

I think the relevant discussion point though in terms of the north stand expansion is that it is easier to create an atmosphere with fans who are going to be there the vast majority of games which is why having more season ticket holders would be beneficial. As well as the option to pick and choose games, flexi gold holders don’t have to sit in the same seat either.
 
HelloCity said:
Agree there.

I think the relevant discussion point though in terms of the north stand expansion is that it is easier to create an atmosphere with fans who are going to be there the vast majority of games which is why having more season ticket holders would be beneficial. As well as the option to pick and choose games, flexi gold holders don’t have to sit in the same seat either.
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Flexi golds do keep the same seat.
 
I’m 100% sure the vast majority of City fans who are desperate for a season ticket would attend most if not all of the PL games if the club offered standard season tickets.(in the new North stand)

There will always be genuine reasons why people can’t attend every PL game.

If a season ticket holder can’t attend a PL game they can sell their ticket on the ticket exchange.

There is absolutely no need to charge City fans £150 for the privilege, which it is atm, to buy a season ticket.
 
The intention of the club to only release new season tickets as flexi golds is nothing but a £150 price increase on season tickets.

With no gold alternative offered, anyone wanting a season ticket will be forced to pay £150 extra for the privilege. Whether you want the flexi option or not, you will have to pay it.
 
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MrCheeseGrater said:
The intention of the club to only release new season tickets as flexi golds is nothing but a £150 price increase on season tickets.

With no gold alternative offered, anyone wanting a season ticket will be forced to pay £150 extra for the privilege. Whether you want the flexi option or not, you will have to pay it.
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The club know City fans who are ‘desperate for a season ticket’ will have no option but to pay for a Flexi Gold season ticket, as that will be the only season ticket made available to them by the club, otherwise City fans won’t be able to buy a season ticket.
 
blueparrot said:
Flexi golds do keep the same seat.
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I knew they could guarantee the same seat but also thought they may be able to choose otherwise if preferred. Think I just misread the below as also having an option to move but probably just means at the point of purchase of the membership option.

Flexi-Gold Season Ticket Members can select the same guaranteed seat for all Premier League matches they wish to attend, at point of renewal/purchase. There will be several seat locations available around the stadium, subject to availability at the time of purchase.

Would be very interesting to see how many games flexi gold members are going to.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
The reality is that if City’s owners did what the fans want, we would no longer be able to attract World class players and would probably end up struggling to stay in the Premier League, but at least some here would like that so they could get tickets
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Utter nonsense. Brainwashed. They waste more money on fireworks and light shows that no one wants.

We’re making £50m profit we do not need to be milking the fans.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Or maybe people will get new season cards in expanded North Stand and they won’t contribute to the atmosphere. These flexi golds were offered when fans feared there would be no new season cards. I reckon there will be season cards in the expanded North Stand but nobody really knows.
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Tim there’s no new season cards being made available. Flexi Gold is not a like for like replacement. The only thing that needs to happen is seasoncards to be reintroduced like it is at every other club in the prem.

The only season cards are people already on them who choose to move. No new ones. You run a branch. Why don’t the OSC do more?
 
Tim of the Oak said:
I heard about the number of tickets that get transferred from City Execs at a fans meeting IIRC. Try looking on the Facebook pages and X in the lead up to the Fulham game. This will be the minority of tickets getting transferred but you might get an idea of scale.

I’ve said there will be season cards in the North Stand and you now appear to agree with me on they specific point, unless I’m missing something.

I’ve answered your questions. Now please explain to me how flexi golds will be so damaging. What research have you done to support your view? I know lots of families they were delighted to get their kids flexi golds btw
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Tim of the Oak said:
I heard about the number of tickets that get transferred from City Execs at a fans meeting IIRC. Try looking on the Facebook pages and X in the lead up to the Fulham game. This will be the minority of tickets getting transferred but you might get an idea of scale.

I’ve said there will be season cards in the North Stand and you now appear to agree with me on they specific point, unless I’m missing something.

I’ve answered your questions. Now please explain to me how flexi golds will be so damaging. What research have you done to support your view? I know lots of families they were delighted to get their kids flexi golds btw
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My grandson got his first season card via the Flexi scheme, we pay £75 ps and half the games are £9 & other half £10, works out at just shy of £14 per game if attending all games, and we where chuffed to bits, obviously the club could’ve made X3 on the seat for an adult, so I kind of understand it’s a balancing act, but I obviously say that as someone who benefited from the scheme, i understand people’s frustration with flexi’s, but they’re actually supplementing the price of others
 
Jesus H Gabz said:
My grandson got his first season card via the Flexi scheme, we pay £75 ps and half the games are £9 & other half £10, works out at just shy of £14 per game if attending all games, and we where chuffed to bits, obviously the club could’ve made X3 on the seat for an adult, so I kind of understand it’s a balancing act, but I obviously say that as someone who benefited from the scheme, i understand people’s frustration with flexi’s, but they’re actually supplementing the price of others
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Just checked this seasons prices and it works out at £25 more, which isn’t too bad at all, but I’d expect them to run it up over the coming years by raising both the down payment & individual matches
 
Norman kneejerk said:
People always used to say especially my dad's generation that the steps at MR were shallower than uniteds so it was harder to see but the New North Stand was better iirc.
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When it opened, the North Stand provided the best view I had ever seen at Maine Road with good sight lines and no pillars in the way.

Unfortunately after the first year of operation, they put seats in. It did seem a strange approach. Either put the seats in from the start or retain the crash barriers for a few seasons.
 
JGL07 said:
When it opened, the North Stand provided the best view I had ever seen at Maine Road with good sight lines and no pillars in the way.

Unfortunately after the first year of operation, they put seats in. It did seem a strange approach. Either put the seats in from the start or retain the crash barriers for a few seasons.
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I think a change in the law regarding the proportion of a stadium that had to be seated forced the club to install seats. It wasn’t the original plan for the North Stand.
 
pace89 said:
I think a change in the law regarding the proportion of a stadium that had to be seated forced the club to install seats. It wasn’t the original plan for the North Stand.
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I find that hard to believe given that the Main Stand and the Platt Lane End were all fully seated. That is a bigger proportion of seats than the vast majority of First Division Stadia back then.

I suspect that it was a desire to push up season ticket sales. You can’t really sell season tickets for terrace space or even for unnumbered Platt Lane seats.

It certainly worked as I bought my first season ticket when the North Stand seats went in. I think it cost me £12 or something like that.
 
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