Roll call for 9 minute protest

Marvin. said:
And if there are fight it explicitly o nseason tickets and prices. The only thing wrong with the protest was that it was unfocused and highlighted ten ton of issues including tourists, an argument which is creating a hierarchy of City fans some of whom are worthy, some of whom are not.
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At this rate, I'm sure your just trolling now
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
There’s been a hierarchy going back to 2001 and before. The introduction of Loyalty Points was because those who put the hard yards in deserve to be ahead of those who don’t. Certainly before those who just pay a bit more or can get access to things many have spent decades building up, just by buying from a worldwide ticket tout site.

I’ve already seen some American woman on X boasting that she’s got a ticket for the Derby on Sunday, yet after decades of building up over 20,000+ points, loads of Blues can’t get a sniff.

For Wembley there’s a staged criteria when people can get tickets because there’s a hierarchy. This should exist for big home games as well for me. Many Blues who’ve been going to City for decades didn’t get a ticket for the CL semifinal against Madrid, one of the greatest nights in the club’s history, yet thousands of nobodies were there probably for their first ever live football match… that’s not right.
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On the one ticket touting site that I've checked, there are 11 separate listings flogging tickets in the away section for Sunday. Surely no proper fan is doing this, so who's tickets are they & why are they allowed to do it?
 
DavidChubs said:
On the one ticket touting site that I've checked, there are 11 separate listings flogging tickets in the away section for Sunday. Surely no proper fan is doing this, so who's tickets are they & why are they allowed to do it?
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I have heard (I’m not stating this as fact, simply told by someone as third hand info) that people who work the club are told if they aren’t using or haven’t found anyone to use the tickets they are given by the club for games, to list them on Live Football Tickets.

But it makes you wonder…

When you look on that site, for the Derby on Sunday there are tickets in the away end for single seats, 2 together or ‘all together’ (however many that means) ranging from £260-520. For our final ever game at Goodison there are similar things.

When I’ve been to various grounds watching us, going back some time (as one American was stood next to my mate at Wembley for Spurs away in 2018 who paid £300 for her ticket), I’ve spoken to fans next to, in front, behind me or on the concourse and they’ve told me they’ve used these ticket tout sites to buy their tickets at these prices: some Germans at Hudds away were quite open talking about wanting City to get beat that day, they were stood next to someone on here at the time.

When we tell them tickets are capped at £30 they are sometimes in a state of shock!
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
I noticed you and Ducado weren't in your seats last night and nobody else was?
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He said he wasn't planning to go and at the last minute (well yesterday lunchtime) I couldn't. I don't know if he put his ticket on the exchange but I deliberately didn't, as it meant there'd be an empty seat the club couldn't sell. That was my contribution to the protest.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
When we tell them tickets are capped at £30 they are sometimes in a state of shock!
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Although we suspected a while back that City were supplying online ticket agencies we now know they are. They are indirectly touting home and away tickets to legalised online touts. As you say are capped at £30 yet City are shamelessly selling them on to agencies to profiteer from.

A shameful and disgusting way of treating proper blues that City.
 
Marvin. said:
And if there are fight it explicitly o nseason tickets and prices. The only thing wrong with the protest was that it was unfocused and highlighted ten ton of issues including tourists, an argument which is creating a hierarchy of City fans some of whom are worthy, some of whom are not.
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Ten ton of issues or 2 or 3? That’s right up there with I’ve told you a million times not to exaggerate
 
To be honest, when I saw the highlights this morning on the City website, I was embarrassed. Mny City fans missed the first goal, and just fuelled the empty seats propaganda. There are surely better ways to make the owners listen. What concerned me more were the number of empty seats at the end of the game. We need to show our support for the team.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
To be honest, when I saw the highlights this morning on the City website, I was embarrassed. Mny City fans missed the first goal, and just fuelled the empty seats propaganda. There are surely better ways to make the owners listen. What concerned me more were the number of empty seats at the end of the game. We need to show our support for the team.
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Nobody cares about the empty seats propaganda. It’s just other fans on the wind up, and in fairness to the socials they have explained why the seats were empty early on. Most comments I’ve made have been positive towards the protest.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
To be honest, when I saw the highlights this morning on the City website, I was embarrassed. Mny City fans missed the first goal, and just fuelled the empty seats propaganda. There are surely better ways to make the owners listen. What concerned me more were the number of empty seats at the end of the game. We need to show our support for the team.
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Embarrassed by City fans missing a goal, when you freely admit you've hardly ever been to a game at the Etihad?

I hope you see the irony.
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
Although we suspected a while back that City were supplying online ticket agencies we now know they are. They are indirectly touting home and away tickets to legalised online touts. As you say are capped at £30 yet City are shamelessly selling them on to agencies to profiteer from.

A shameful and disgusting way of treating proper blues that City.
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You do wonder if the FSA might take this up legally as the club are breaking a contract with fans about the distribution of away tickets and not using the loyalty points system or transparently communicating this distribution.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
To be honest, when I saw the highlights this morning on the City website, I was embarrassed. Mny City fans missed the first goal, and just fuelled the empty seats propaganda. There are surely better ways to make the owners listen. What concerned me more were the number of empty seats at the end of the game. We need to show our support for the team.
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where was you sat last night?
 
TheGhost said:
You do wonder if the FSA might take this up legally as the club are breaking a contract with fans about the distribution of away tickets and not using the loyalty points system or transparently communicating this distribution.
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I did think that and I think the FSA should. I suspect City aren't the only PL club to be supplying online agencies though. We'll have to wait and see what becomes of all this...
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
To be honest, when I saw the highlights this morning on the City website, I was embarrassed. Mny City fans missed the first goal, and just fuelled the empty seats propaganda. There are surely better ways to make the owners listen. What concerned me more were the number of empty seats at the end of the game. We need to show our support for the team.
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There’s some right cranks on this thread.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
To be honest, when I saw the highlights this morning on the City website, I was embarrassed. Mny City fans missed the first goal, and just fuelled the empty seats propaganda. There are surely better ways to make the owners listen. What concerned me more were the number of empty seats at the end of the game. We need to show our support for the team.
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I must be a big embarrassment to you then as I have missed countless City goals over the years
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
I did think that and I think the FSA should. I suspect City aren't the only PL club to be supplying online agencies though. We'll have to wait and see what becomes of all this...
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I’m going a Price of Football live event at the end of the month. I’m going to ask this very question. Their ‘Secret Lawyer’ is Nick DiMarco. It would be interesting to see what he has to say on the subject.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
To be honest, when I saw the highlights this morning on the City website, I was embarrassed. Mny City fans missed the first goal, and just fuelled the empty seats propaganda. There are surely better ways to make the owners listen. What concerned me more were the number of empty seats at the end of the game. We need to show our support for the team.
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Anyone with a brain knows why. You’re maybe a little sensitive to what other fans say down South? Just show them the comparison photo from the 10th minute, it’s not difficult, just grow a backbone.
 
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