North Stand expansion - seating, ticketing etc

TheGhost said:
I’m fuming that the away fans in SSL3 get safe standing but home fans don’t. I think I might just start standing the whole game.
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The reason the away section of SS3 is all rail seating is that the club were instructed to install it by the ground safety authority.

How do I know this? Because I had a call with a club employee about it (someone far senior than supporter services). There is nothing for the club in putting rail seating in there for away fans.
 
blueyorkie said:
We were told that one of the reasons for the Flex Season Cards was the no shows from normal season card holders, the flex thing was to ensure that the seats would not be empty.
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I don’t see how charging City fans an additional £150 a season will stop no shows happening.

There are numerous reasons why fans don’t show up for a match. Many are genuine reasons.

I missed the Inter Milan game because I came down with flu a couple of days before the match. I took the day off work the following day.

I always thought the ticket exchange was created by the club so City fans who can’t attend matches could sell their PL tickets.(back to the club)

It‘s a shame the club haven’t launched a fan to fan ticket exchange, where City fans who log into their OS account can sell their tickets directly to one another, and the club gets a cut from each resale, instead of the current ticket exchange setup.
 
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jrb said:
I don’t see how charging City fans an additional £150 a season will stop no shows happening.

There are numerous reasons why fans don’t show up for a match. Many are genuine reasons.

I missed the Inter Milan game because I came down with flu a couple of days before the match. I took the day off work the following day.

I always thought the ticket exchange was created by the club so City fans who can’t attend matches could sell their PL tickets.(back to the club)

It‘s a shame the club haven’t launched a fan to fan ticket exchange, where City fans who log into their OS account can sell their tickets directly to one another, and the club gets a cut from each resale, instead of the current ticket exchange setup.
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It’s the purchasing of tickets a few weeks before the game that reduces the number of no shows (in this category).

There’s been a fantastic Facebook forum for reselling tickets (outside the official ticket exchange) but it was despised on here because a few tickets for away games were sold yonks ago.
 
jrb said:
I like digging. Thoughts come into my head and I have to try and find the answer.

Home end seating configurations at other PL grounds.

Spurs new stadium.

Populous was tasked by Tottenham Hotspur Chairman, Daniel Levy, to create a stadium that would surpass the noise levels of the club’s former home, White Hart Lane. In response, the design of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium goes above and beyond to cultivate an extraordinary sense of place, belonging, and atmosphere.

“Daniel was obsessed with what the atmosphere was going to be like,” explains Tom Jones, Lead Architect. “White Hart Lane was known as having one of the best atmospheres in the Premier League and he didn’t want to lose that.”

In researching the stadium design, Mr Levy and Populous Managing Director Christopher Lee travelled the world, visiting hundreds of sports grounds. Those that most impressed with their atmosphere had a common feature: large, uninterrupted swathes of 'general admission seating' where the most passionate fans came together to sing and chant.

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Make it Loud: Designing for Atmosphere at New Tottenham Hotspur Stadium | Populous

Learn how architects pushed the boundaries of design at the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to amplify the crowd noise on matchdays.
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What was the remit to Populous from City? What exactly did City want the NSL2 to offer AND TO BE?
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That will come down to the design brief set by the client.
Spurs was simple - wide expanse of seats and atmosphere
Ours was - sky walk, goal line bar, fan zone, GA + tickets, or in lay man’s terms something to extract as much money out of the fan base as possible.
That is the difference
 
warpig said:
That will come down to the design brief set by the client.
Spurs was simple - wide expanse of seats and atmosphere
Ours was - sky walk, goal line bar, fan zone, GA + tickets, or in lay man’s terms something to extract as much money out of the fan base as possible.
That is the difference
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Fucking lol.

Good old people's club Spursy chairman, right old do-gooder he is.

You seem the shit at Spurs? They have a rooftop platform too, starts every game off, and all sorts of shit including go-karting beneath the stands. fml.
 
Coatigan said:
Fucking lol.

Good old people's club Spursy chairman, right old do-gooder he is.

You seem the shit at Spurs? They have a rooftop platform too, starts every game off, and all sorts of shit including go-karting beneath the stands. fml.
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Compare spurs south stand to our north stand. the club had final chance to provide a ‘home end’ and have blown it.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
It’s the purchasing of tickets a few weeks before the game that reduces the number of no shows (in this category).

There’s been a fantastic Facebook forum for reselling tickets (outside the official ticket exchange) but it was despised on here because a few tickets for away games were sold yonks ago.
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I appreciate that.

But you still have to pay £150 before you can buy a ticket a few weeks earlier.

I bought my season ticket at the start of the season outright.
I paid an extra £50 for platinum.
I’m in all the cup schemes.
I’m doing everything the club has instigated me to do to protect my loyalty points and the opportunity to get an away ticket.
In doing so I’m repaying Sheikh Mansour on many levels for his investment in the club, stadium, and in East Manchester, just like 10,000’s of other City fans are.
Whether I go to the match or not City have still got my season ticket money, they’ve got my platinum money, and they’ve got my cup scheme money. If I sold my ticket back to the club via the ticket exchange the club will get that match day ticket money as well, minus a 1/19th of it. As a City fan I really can’t do much more financially for the club apart from buy a few beers inside the ground on a match day.
 
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warpig said:
Compare spurs south stand to our north stand. the club had final chance to provide a ‘home end’ and have blown it.
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The price of a season card in Spurs’ South Stand is over a grand. Many of the tickets are nearly the same price as 93:20 tickets at the Etihad. I reckon that’s about the category of expensive side seats that will be in our expanded North Stand. (Excluding the Sky walk platform).
 
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jrb said:
I appreciate that.

But you still have to pay £150 before you can buy a ticket a few weeks earlier.

I bought my season ticket at the start of the season outright.
I paid an extra £50 for platinum.
I’m in all the cup schemes.
I’m doing everything the club has instigated me to do to protect my loyalty points and the opportunity to get an away ticket.
In doing so I’m repaying Sheikh Mansour on many levels for his investment in the club, stadium, and in East Manchester, just like 10,000’s of other City fans are.
Whether I go to the match or not City have still got my season ticket money, they’ve got my platinum money, and they’ve got my cup scheme money. If I sold my ticket back to the club via the ticket exchange the club will get that match day ticket money as well, minus a 1/19th of it. As a City fan I really can’t do much more financially for the club apart from buy a few beers inside the ground on a match day.
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Yes and the initial charge is too high and most posters appear to agree on that.

My own view is that peole have a responsibility to try to fill the seat even if they aren’t at the game. This might be doing as little as offering the ticket to friends and family or posting it on City’s Ticket Exchange.

There appeared to be some empty seats at Newcastle away that were probably more than could be explained by Blues moving to stand with their mates. There are Blues who would have loved those seats. I know I am talking an away game here so it’s not directly comparable.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
The price of a season card in Spurs’ South Stand is over a grand. Many of the tickets are nearly the same price as 93:20 tickets at the Etihad. I reckon that’s about the category of expensive side seats they will be in kur expanded North Stand.
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Click to enlarge to see the ticket prices.

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Tim of the Oak said:
Yes and the initial charge is too high and most posters appear to agree on that.

My own view is that peole have a responsibility to try to fill the seat even if they aren’t at the game. This might be doing as little as offering the ticket to friends and family or posting it on City’s Ticket Exchange.

There appeared to be some empty seats at Newcastle away that were probably more than could be explained by Blues moving to stand with their mates. There are Blues who would have loved those seats. I know I am talking an away game here so it’s not directly comparable.
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Newcastle away was sold out on the OS, like all our PL games are.
 
warpig said:
Compare spurs south stand to our north stand. the club had final chance to provide a ‘home end’ and have blown it.
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It is about half way though the build, don't see how they have.
 
jrb said:
Newcastle away was sold out on the OS, like all our PL games are.
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Maybe a bus broke down or there was a delayed flight. It happens. I just hope it wasn’t tickets that could have been made available to other Blues like the infamous game at Bournemouth a number of years back
 
Coatigan said:
It is about half way though the build, don't see how they have.
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Regardless of the build time, the club have either made their mind up about the North stand seating configuration, season ticket costs, match day ticket costs, etc, or they haven’t yet. The build isn’t important as such. What’s important is when the club makes an announcement to the fans on those things, so the fans can plan if they are moving to the NS or not, where they are moving to the NS, and if they can afford to move to the NS. That’s what the fans will want to know about first and foremost, not about the build of the NS, like we do.
 
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