I suppose this is where the government regulator needs to come in and put a %age figure on season tickets. Say, 66% of seats must be offered as season tickets at any club. If lower numbers are causing a detrimental effect to atmosphere then that should come under their jurisdiction as it’s their job to protect the national game.Liverpool have a 25K season ticket holders cap so they can milk 35K day trippers every home game. We are following their model
It drives me mad that. Coach loads of kids from Scotland! (Often not city fans) But schools full of city fans in the local area that don’t get any tickets.Because in a variety of ways over may years the club has manged to (deliberately) alienate scores of thousands of (Mancunian) City fans, whilst simultaneously blanking young, local fans.
Loads of school parties on Sunday, non with Mancunian or Northern accents !!
It was my dad's seat i listed it on the exchange.chelsea fan in the seat kicked out after 10 mins
It drives me mad that. Coach loads of kids from Scotland! (Often not city fans) But schools full of city fans in the local area that don’t get any tickets.
But the club don't want season ticket holder, if they was available then you probably would sell out more with local fans. They want the tickets to sell as many hospitality as possible, £350 ticket but comes with a chinese in town. The club isn't remotely arsed about local fans, but even with local fans we would need the tourists a lot of the time for the complete sell out. Look at our attendances at this ground pre takeover.
And if fans are selling tickets on through football ticket websites what difference is that to what the club is doing?
I would hazard nothing at all, as I doubt the club put in any additional security checks. There only real issue is there not making the mark up.
It’s unrealistic to think amongst 50k persons no one is shifting tickets on but that is completely different to the overarching organisation, responsible for ticket distribution, undertaking those practices. As always with our club it’s all about the bottom line.
100 percent mate. All you need is an email.
My eldest couldnt go on Sunday so he transferred his ticket to me. I got the email stating its ready to download. I just forwarded it onto his mum who is a lifelong blue and she downloaded it into her apple wallet.
For me that is potentially what will have happened on Sunday. I could easily have forwarded the email to a liverpool fan ( not that I ever would) and then you have an away fan in a season ticket holders seat.
It is a huge problem. It isn't just City. Rangers had a block behind the goal at the swamp etc.
I really have no idea how to solve the issue. The one thing I hate is champions league nights. Being sat with people who I dont know or never go because its fashionable to go to those games. Was at Villa this season,Arsenal,Liverpool away amongst others. Fucking full of tourists ruining the atmosphere, not singing. Just fuck off and sell away tickets to people who deserve them.
Not doubting you but why was he filled in thenFound out something really interesting this afternoon.
The lad in 115 was a City fan.
Not bullshitting, no reason to. Been here long enough to know not but I have no reason to doubt it from my contact. Not a good fucking look blues.
It’s a short term money grab in my opinion.It probably goes back to money again.
A bloke down here in deepest Dorset’s son is City mad. His local football club often takes a few kids up, they might get a stadium tour/training session chucked in and then pay wildly over the odds for a ticket. Not sure a Mancunian blue would pay those inflated fees.
.....but he/she might buy a season ticket et al, for 40 years, rain, shine,good, great, or shit !!It probably goes back to money again.
1A bloke down here in deepest Dorset’s son is City mad. His local football club often takes a few kids up, they might get a stadium tour/training session chucked in and then pay wildly over the odds for a ticket. Not sure a Mancunian blue would pay those inflated fees.
It’s a short term money grab in my opinion.
Hard to say but match day revenue is approximately 100% of profit (similar figures) and the profits we make are generated by player sales. Some of our player sales have proven to be rash in the last year or two and we are now investing heavily in the squad again. My take is that we could do targeted measures to lower tickets prices, particularly for younger families.One thing I wonder about though is WHY this has continued for so long.
As big as the Premier League's global TV deals are, along with how much money the club make from sponsorships, merchandise, and licensing, how much does matchday gate revenue REALLY make a difference to City anymore?
I have a very hard time believing that lowering ticket prices and making sure more tickets end up in the hands of long-time City fan will hurt the club's bottom line in any significant way.
As was the lack of support and zero acknowledgment from the Club over the shitshow at Istanbul.The lack of reply to the open letter is criminal. Genuinely concerned for a Plymouth fan this weekend unless the club do something this week.
1894 going on talksport could be exactly what's needed
Doesn’t even need to be opposing fans either. Wembley virtually every time there is Blue on Blue trouble.Just seen some clips of Leeds fans in the Sheffield United and getting filled in, one of them looked in pretty bad shape.
And somewhere on here is a thread about trialing alcohol in the stands. It’ll never happen because of people with the mindset of thinking it’s ok to assault people in a stadium over football. I get the fact if they have been a gobshite then it’s inevitable because there are some dumb cunts out there, but would that happen on a random street if someone of another club said something derogatory to some bloke who is out with his wife, for example, and he had his own clubs shirt on? No, it wouldn’t.
Imagine going to work and your boss hauls you in and shows you footage of you assaulting someone in a stadium? Or your family see it, friends etc. It is fucking pathetic when you think about it.
That's down to the local schools not organising trips as any school/group cam apply, check out https://www.mancity.com/ticketing-and-hospitality/manchester-city-group-bookingsIt drives me mad that. Coach loads of kids from Scotland! (Often not city fans) But schools full of city fans in the local area that don’t get any tickets.
Fair enough.I know, but either he had a membership himself or a tout bought it off the exchange and sold it on to him.