Open Letter on Season Tickets and Pricing | Club announce price freeze on "general admission season tickets & PL match tickets" for next season (p163)

[Dodge]

17.9% believe matchday ticket prices are just right?

Fucking hell.

 

[Dodge]

Well said mate. OSC appear to be protecting their own self interests here probably around away tickets. Go against the club and those benefits disapear. Awful mate.

Surely, the OSC protecting away tickets is keeping a good chunk of tickets out of the hands of corporates and the like?

Which is a good thing no?

 

[Maccblue]

Kevin was going to sign the letter. He was inconveniently on holiday .

With his French mate he got a ticket for in Paris when we all needed a wrist band and queued up to collect em
Corrupt tw@t

 

[Edghill OG]

As much as night follows day, we all really know the outcome.

City will apply the usual 5-10% increase like they have done for the last 10 years.

Fair dues to the groups protesting. But the club won't even bat an eyelid.

We've seen it so many times before, as many have said with the Istanbul fiasco.

They simply do not care.

That would be 'ordinary' though. I want to know why this meeting is being labelled as 'Extraordinary'? Reviving the old Silver Season Tickets and throwing us all on them? Haha.

Some have alluded to the club waiting to see how we do in the FA Cup and finish in the league, but I can't see that influencing anything. The 115 charges maybe and ensuring we're playing Premier League football? As you say it's clear they want to raise prices or they'd have come out and said they're being frozen. It's terrible PR whatever. If we got relegated and they froze prices everybody would just say it's a token gesture as we're playing an inferior standard of football. Whereas if they'd announced a freeze before the outcome had been made public then it'd be seen as being more genuine on their behalf.

As I've stated previously even if they freeze prices next year we are just back to square one again the following season. I'd prefer assurances they won't be increased by x percent over 3 or 5 years etc.

 

[Maccblue]

Surely, the OSC protecting away tickets is keeping a good chunk of tickets out of the hands of corporates and the like?

Which is a good thing no?

Give a larger allocation to point holders
That why people did the miles to get up the ladder
Corps don’t help
But 30% come on

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The people making the decisions have one job and that’s to improve the match day income, nothing else matters. Hence if City have a dozen games where there are a couple of thousand empty seats, but the rest are sold at a huge premium then its job done. I also suspect thousands of SC holders in CB and ES L1 will be offered deals to move to the new stand and their current seats upgraded to accommodate the well healed.

Yes but my point is that they can make these changes whilst increasing Matchday income if they get it just right.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Tim.

The 100% vote by the OSC8 not to back the City Matters Reps boycotting talks with the club was taken by people with names withheld, behind closed doors, and in secret. Unless I've missed it, nobody knows if Kevin Parker was at the meeting or not.

The decision not to back the other City Matters Reps was taken by the OSC8 alone, without the consent and backing of the OSC membership.(which I'm also part of)

No minutes about the meeting were posted on the OSC page on X/Twitter. And no explanation was given why the OSC8 'ALL VOTED AGAINST SUPPORTING THE BOYCOTT'.(which I find hard to believe)

That is not the way to run an organisation that represents 32K paid up OSC City fans. Basically it's a closed shop, where people running the OSC, many who are too close to the club and too close the directors personally, please themselves, and do as they want to do, without consulting the OSC CIty fans first.

The irony of not knowing how DEMOCRACY WROKS was lost on the OSC person replying to City fans, whoever it was?

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Sorry John, but you are turning a routine OSC meeting into something like a Spectre gathering in James Bond. All this name everyone who was there, like it’s some murder mystery is a bit OTT.

Some times it’s best to give people the benefit of the doubt. We are either all City or we’re not.

No fan group is perfect. Certainly not the OSC or any Branch. Neither are 1894.

 

[Edghill OG]

17.9% believe matchday ticket prices are just right?

Fucking hell.

Soriano must have personally filled out that questionnaire a fair few times.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

That would be 'ordinary' though. I want to know why this meeting is being labelled as 'Extraordinary'? Reviving the old Silver Season Tickets and throwing us all on them? Haha.

Some have alluded to the club waiting to see how we do in the FA Cup and finish in the league, but I can't see that influencing anything. The 115 charges maybe and ensuring we're playing Premier League football? As you say it's clear they want to raise prices or they'd have come out and said they're being frozen. It's terrible PR whatever. If we got relegated and they froze prices everybody would just say it's a token gesture as we're playing an inferior standard of football. Whereas if they'd announced a freeze before the outcome had been made public then it'd be seen as being more genuine on their behalf.

As I've stated previously even if they freeze prices next year we are just back to square one again the following season. I'd prefer assurances they won't be increased by x percent over 3 or 5 years etc.

The meeting was “extraordinary” because it wasn’t scheduled in the timetable / diary. That’s not unusual in business.

 

[wearethesouthstand]

Just to say a meeting tonight between 15 reps, many from Citymatters including the osc rep, the seasoncard rep -and others from solid citizens, the foodbank and the trade union blues took place.

Dialogue is ongoing.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

City charge more than £640 for the vast majority of adult season tickets already. What SHB was saying is that he can't see the club adding around 50% to the price of the current cheapest season tickets and making them £640 or £700

In one mate. Dubciteh is on the wind up..as i think anyone is with Citeh in there name

 

[blue b4 the moon]

I’m assuming you are a member of 1894 pal? For the record I am not in an OSC, I did apply for CM but was rejected out of hand by the club (probably not helped by referring to myself as effectively a legacy fan) but I am in complete agreement with what 1894 do and the way they/you do it. You try and do stuff about the shit atmosphere and try and bring the club to account for shit like the north stand, prices, new season tickets etc etc. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, I think you speak for the majority of us

I can take no credit for 1984.

I'm just an annoyed SC holder.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I can take no credit for 1984.

I'm just an annoyed SC holder.

were you supporting somebody else in 1984? Just a gag!!

 

[A57 the snake]

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue or walk with kings and not lose that common touch,
Kipling or Kippax
Either way it’s pretty apt to where we are.

 

[johnnytapia]

I’d be astonished if Rusholme Branch voted Yes. @Chappie were you or the Tashman involved?

 

[blue b4 the moon]

were you supporting somebody else in 1984? Just a gag!!

Sorry 1894.

Currently in bed with a very sore calf and knackered from flying all day yesterday....got home 06.45 this morning.

I'm just grumpy & pissed off that almost every unit of fans are battling with each other and lots have their own personal agendas rather than uniting (yuk) as one.

Fwiw I did the '94 survey and went a bit Victor Meldrew in the comments. The questions were set to get a certain outcome but didn't go deep enough.

I'm sure if I can walk tomorrow I'll be in a better frame of mind.

 

[Dubciteh]

In one mate. Dubciteh is on the wind up..as i think anyone is with Citeh in there name

Genuinely not mate. Made my point further down in relation to the point made.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Sorry 1894.

Currently in bed with a very sore calf and knackered from flying all day yesterday....got home 06.45 this morning.

I'm just grumpy & pissed off that almost every unit of fans are battling with each other and lots have their own personal agendas rather than uniting (yuk) as one.

Fwiw I did the '94 survey and went a bit Victor Meldrew in the comments. The questions were set to get a certain outcome but didn't go deep enough.

I'm sure if I can walk tomorrow I'll be in a better frame of mind.

Are you ok? IF you were flying all day and have a sore calf please be careful of DVTs. Please take care.

Sorry to poke my nose in but flying and sore calves make me worry. :-)

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Are you ok? IF you were flying all day and have a sore calf please be careful of DVTs. Please take care.

Sorry to poke my nose in but flying and sore calves make me worry. :-)

Think it's just cramp but yeah I'll be keeping an eye on it.

Thanks.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

I'm in the OSC, but mainly for coach travel to away matches, as I've usually got enough points regardless.

I'm also a legacy fan, holding an Adult Season Ticket for all 44 seasons that I've been an adult, (and I've still got my ticket stub to prove that I was at York)

I believe that cheaper match tickets are essential, but cheaper seasoncards are a double edged sword as they attract the type of supporter who can't be arsed with the less attractive games/kick off times.

I also read a few forums from other PL clubs so I'm well aware which problems are specifically related to City and which are literally across the PL spectrum (atmosphere and tourists being the best examples of the latter)

I often snigger at the contradiction of our highest ever average attendance receiving so much negativity, not just from the media and fans of other clubs, but also our regular support.
However that's just me being a cynical twat.

Loads of people will agree with me and loads will disagree. That's fine, but it's sad to see so much inner conflict between people who've dedicated so much time to make my experience better.