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

What that statement imo could have done with is a token 'the club will continue to engage with fan representative groups' or something along those lines.
 
wearethesouthstand said:
1894 on Twitter : No announcement so far on season ticket availability. We will now consult with our members and the wider fan base on whether further action takes place at the Villa game.
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Good stuff. I would happily trade my season card entitlement to 12 fully refunded tickets (listed on the Exchange) if that helped match day members get cheaper ticket prices or the flexi-good set up fees were waived.
 
Eric Hitchmough said:
I can’t be arsed listing the many, many reasons because it’s late.

It felt like my club when I could take my son to watch City without having to remortgage the fucking house.

It felt like my club when I went to a match and there wasn’t an away fan with hair clippers or rag YouTubers sat in the home end.

It felt like my club before I was made to feel like an inconvenience to dickheads like Soriano because I don’t spend £200 in the club shop before filming the match on my iPad.

Is that enough to be going on with?
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Good and fair points.
 
Quick question hope somebody can help. My mates lad can't make the game Saturday so he's transfered his ticket on to my account but nothing available to add to my Google wallet yet. When are tickets usually available to add, thanks?
 
Donmcfc said:
The club should also be made to reassess Cityzens Matchday Membership. Having to pay a £35 fee for a chance to buy match tickets is not ethical especially when there is no guarantee of getting to see Liverpool, United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs. It's just another con to add to the £150 Flexi Gold fiddle. I don't think we are cheats regarding the 115 allegations but I think Cityzens Matchday and Flexi Gold members are being cheated out of hard earned money. I love the team and the club but I am beginning to despise the hierarchy. There is a complete disconnect between senior management and none hospitality fans.
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Similarly, Platinum is not ethical either.

Paying an extra £50 for double points has never sat right with me. I went with the decision after doing it for two years to get rid of it… everybody should have done the same.
 
halfcenturyup said:
You want metrics on feelings?
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Yeah- I hadn’t really associated the issues raised with how it would make someone “feel” about the club. I absolutely love going to the match - the social side, bevvy, laugh with my mates, watch the lads. I’m very very fortunate:,got great seats, next to my mates and my son. I hadn’t fully understood or considered pricing for dad and his lad(s), no possibility of season tickets etc. on reflection, I now understand how this would change one’s “feeling” for the club.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Good stuff. I would happily trade my season card entitlement to 12 fully refunded tickets (listed on the Exchange) if that helped match day members get cheaper ticket prices or the flexi-good set up fees were waived.
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Morning Tim, so there is no detail coming out from the club on various issues including FG when they had the opportunity to announce all in one go yesterday. We're going to highlight season ticket availability though at the moment as it's a major issue for fans that has not been resolved. So if there was a protest at the Villa game that is what it would be about. You will also know that all groups have asked the club to offer FG holders a choice between retaining FG and upgrading to a full traditional ST. Club are still not reading the room and are trying to get away with the bare minimum.
 
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The club should be careful in the direction they are going. This is the first season in quite a while we haven't been challenging for the title and on top of that the football on show has been pretty poor. We are still however fighting for a champions league place and are in the fa cup semi final but there are empty seats everywhere. Nobody seems to post attendance figures anymore but there was a lot of empty places against Leicester. Let's see how many there are against Palace. If we have thousands of tourists and newly acquired fans desperate to see us play why aren't these tickets being snapped up? Don't forget this has been the most successful period in our history and we are still not selling out games. They need to look their policies again.
 
paulchapo said:
The club should be careful in the direction they are going. This is the first season in quite a while we haven't been challenging for the title and on top of that the football on show has been pretty poor. We are still however fighting for a champions league place and are in the fa cup semi final but there are empty seats everywhere. Nobody seems to post attendance figures anymore but there was a lot of empty places against Leicester. Let's see how many there are against Palace. If we have thousands of tourists and newly acquired fans desperate to see us play why aren't these tickets being snapped up? Don't forget this has been the most successful period in our history and we are still not selling out games. They need to look their policies again.
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Won't help the seat situation when Haaland isn't playing either.

He'll be the main tourist attraction.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
Similarly, Platinum is not ethical either.

Paying an extra £50 for double points has never sat right with me. I went with the decision after doing it for two years to get rid of it… everybody should have done the same.
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The problem is that some of us could only afford to (or even get season tickets) way after others (my first season ticket was when in my 40s after I gambled on a career change that paid off and I never had anyone buying tickets for me as a kid) and without platinum we’d always be back of the line. In my view you’d have to get rid of the historical points from everyone at the same time if you want to remove Platinum and that’s a whole different problem.

Otherwise, the only option to me would be to just buy tickets via ticket resellers or join an OSC to “jump the queues”.

Even so, I still rarely get a chance to attend away games despite the years of platinum but I’m getting closer.
 
Seems to me this freeze is the beginning of an understanding that they do need us fans. Seeing those empty seats - and the fact for us protesters the sacrifice was quite easy - will have frightened the club that they’ve unleashed something they can’t control. We have to make sure that they know this genie hasn’t gone back in the bottle because it’s in the long term best interests of the club. The majority feels that football has run away from incomes. Filling seats of the priced out regular with occasional visitors might have seemed viable in the days when we were scoring six goals a game all the time, people were rushing back to events after Covid, no other team knew how to handle us on the pitch, we were playing more interesting footy than all our rivals and the geopolitical climate was relatively stable. Those days are behind us and who knows when they will be back. Attendances at the end of this season will not be what they were.
 
paulchapo said:
The club should be careful in the direction they are going. This is the first season in quite a while we haven't been challenging for the title and on top of that the football on show has been pretty poor. We are still however fighting for a champions league place and are in the fa cup semi final but there are empty seats everywhere. Nobody seems to post attendance figures anymore but there was a lot of empty places against Leicester. Let's see how many there are against Palace. If we have thousands of tourists and newly acquired fans desperate to see us play why aren't these tickets being snapped up? Don't forget this has been the most successful period in our history and we are still not selling out games. They need to look their policies again.
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It's a combination of factors for me. As you say, it's been our worst season in relative terms for a few years now. And although there's still so much to fight for on the pitch IMO, any kind of drop-off will put some fans off going. Add to that the extortionate match day prices and the fact that thousands of tickets farmed out to third party ticket agencies are being returned to the club for some games at short notice, many fans aren't going to be tempted. £114 is the cheapest anyone will pay for an adult and child for a rearranged midweek match against Aston Villa in a couple of weeks just after most kids are back at school following the Easter break. Hardly any fucker is going to be tempted at those prices in those circumstances. Now if those tickets were more reasonably priced and ticket availability had been showing sooner - instead of the club coming out with this sold out bullshit for months on end - then far more would've shifted.

The club need to have a huge rethink on both match day ticket pricing and the way they sell match day tickets. Simply freezing prices for next season is nowhere near enough, and you can again envisage that at the back end of next season we could well be faced with the same situation where games are being moved to midweek slots. Plus we'll have 8000 more seats to sell. And the way they appear to be going about that, insofar as making the majority of the new stand reserved for match day tickets only, could lead to no-shows that dwarf what we're currently seeing.
 
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