Seat Counters - 2024/25
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Tourists dont want to see Bournemouth, Brentford, Forest etc, look at Burnley last season.
Prophet of Doom
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This is the chickens coming home to roost when you fuck around with how you treat the match going fans !
Im sure the club monitor social media engagement - so they will be up to speed that The photo of the Barca 8 now has multi million views on popular general football sites on social media. Multi millions that think City’s support is shite and full of plastics.
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Anyway, just shifted 4 tickets for Blues who could no longer go. There’s still plenty of Blues who could go to the game but not at City’s prices.
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Do you think they give a shit about how our support is perceived to be?
If I wa sheikh Mansour I’d want to know why there are well over 3000 tickets unsold for the match.
I appreciate that’s not very high up on Sheikh Mansour’s massive agenda, but hopefully he’d want to know after seeing all those empty blue plastic seats on Wednesday night against Forest.
I agree with that, if it starts to hit turnover I’m sure there will be questions asked, as it’s all they care about. It’s a sad world these people inhabit, when literally all you care about in life is how to make money quickly.
I’m talking specifically about the lads in Barcelona shirts going viral, and it leading to accusations of us having a shit support. I don’t think the higher ups will lose any sleep over that.
They will look at it and share it on their mobiles. It might get brought up in passing at the next directors meeeting.
(Soriano) “Why are those Barca fans not wearing City shirts from the souvenir store Danny?”
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I’ve listed mine (still going the game but will be elsewhere in the ground) but going to offer it out on here and on the City FB ticket exchange sites and if anyone wants it, I’ll delist it
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This is the BS we're dealing with, Leicester game midweek Wednesday 2nd April is sold out on the ticket site. So despite paying £35 membership you can't buy tickets from the club, and plan a trip, they give the perception of a sold out event.
BUT the tout sites have 1,000s for sale, £90 in the south stand, no kids or OAP discounts.
Leicester midweek in April would not be rammed even if we were going for the title (think Brentford last year). So the tout sites will not sell out at the extortion prices, thousands will get returned, on top of exchange tickets, and this is why you have available tickets in the numbers we see for Forest tomorrow.
They could sell all the tickets at a fair price, on the official site to genuine blues, but it's worth shifting a few thousand to event tourists at double the price. They genuinely don't care, making a few more quid is what it's about.
Leicester will have thousands of empty seats, guaranteed. They could sell them, at a decent price to members, but they choose not too. Only a few more nights like tomorrow might get their attention.....but I really doubt it. Been going on about 3 years now
BUT the tout sites have 1,000s for sale, £90 in the south stand, no kids or OAP discounts.
Leicester midweek in April would not be rammed even if we were going for the title (think Brentford last year). So the tout sites will not sell out at the extortion prices, thousands will get returned, on top of exchange tickets, and this is why you have available tickets in the numbers we see for Forest tomorrow.
They could sell all the tickets at a fair price, on the official site to genuine blues, but it's worth shifting a few thousand to event tourists at double the price. They genuinely don't care, making a few more quid is what it's about.
Leicester will have thousands of empty seats, guaranteed. They could sell them, at a decent price to members, but they choose not too. Only a few more nights like tomorrow might get their attention.....but I really doubt it. Been going on about 3 years now
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Been thinking about this since last night and your thoughts mirror mine. If City hadn’t given/sold thousands of Forest home tickets to the third party ticket sites and instead put them on sale to members back in the summer, a lot of them would’ve been snapped up back then. Sure, it wouldn’t be the most in demand game with it being midweek in December but plenty of tickets would’ve shifted. However, few fans are going to pay those prices now when thousands have been returned to City at such short notice, even if we were in a good run of form.
I’d like to know who at City thought it would be a good idea to shift thousands of tickets to third party ticket agencies for a midweek league game in December against Forest and expecting them all to sell. Whoever made that decision is a fucking idiot.
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Absolutely no way are City involved in tickets ending up with online ticket touts
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I'm sorry, but I think they almost certainly are. Just dealing with the more reputable ones, but they are using them as sales agents. Those sites have too many tickets, all sat together, and in the same blocks in the ground, often East Stand 3rd tier near the back, hundreds of seats. Most people you speak to sitting there will have paid more than face value from a ticketing site. Rows of seats together. When they don't shift them, you''ll see clusters of empties in those sections, even at big matches.
See Liverpool at home next year, 1,350 tickets available on a site, starting at £250 after fees. I know, maybe these sites are spoofing how many that have, but if you've sat up high in the third tier for a big home game, it's absolutely full of opposition fans and event tourists. And the number available will go down up to kickoff.
Why would City sell me a Liverpool ticket for £72, if they can get 3 times that by using an agency? They don't shout about it, and I'm sure there's a mechanism to distance themselves from it, but I will be humbly suprised and apologetic if i'm proven wrong on this.
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275 seats in 325 tomorrow - these whole rows aren't due to ST returns
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Aww bless….if you think that I’ve got some magic beans for sale.
It’s explained perfect above by Greenandblue.
City put tickets for sale for every game in August. They all sell out. Except that is for the thousands of tickets City hand to agents such as Livefootball to sell for ridiculous mark ups to tourists.
Everybody wins - city get huge margins on these tickets - get no grief as they are being sold by mystery agencies - and some tourist gets to pay £250-£400 for a premier league experience.
Except there is a problem when games are not popular. Like Forest tomorrow - where the agents have to hand back 4000 unsold tickets to City a week before the game.too late for most supporters to make plans now - so there will be thousands empty on Wednesday.
They will of course be doing the rounds across local schools to try and get bums on seats.
Every PL team is at it - you can go to any game you want to - home or away end - as long as you have your £400 ready you will get in.
fuckin hell haha, you've took naivety to new levels there. quite impressive
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No further questions your honour…no further questions.
It’s a racket in plain sight. I’m amazed a journalist hasn’t written a big exclusive on this yet as every PL club has their nose in the trough.
The fact that some supporters think that 4000 fans decide on the same day to return their ticket - and not just that - but they all sit in blocks together probably tells you why clubs are getting away with it.
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Prime 3rd tier seats as well near the halfway line. Fucking hell, if those had gone on sale to members back in the summer loads would've been snapped up.