Seat Counters - 2024/25

Psychedelic Casual said:
Some people refuse to go to the semis at Wembley, I know someone who’s stuck by that all along, including in 2011.
Some people cannot afford two Wembley trips in three weeks so will prioritise the final (granted we have to get there first).
The price of many peoples’ STs means they cannot afford a trip to Wembley.
Some people don’t have a season ticket but have just paid £71 for Villa at home plus £43 if they’re bringing their child along, so can’t afford Wembley in the same week.
Some people are saving up for the Club World Cup and may sacrifice Wembley trips this year to go to the USA.

If ticketing was cheaper all round for ST holders and matchday attendees, more people would go to Wembley. Even then, some people have the £399 Value Gold STs and that’s all they can afford full stop. No Cup games so not in Cup Schemes, no away games, just the £39.90 they pay a month for the ST plus travel to the game, and that’s the luxury in many peoples’ lives… trips to Wembley are well out of their reach.

We’ll end up taking around 28,000 fans on a trip to London (further than any of the other three teams have to go) when we have some of the most expensive ticketing in the country outside London to pay for outside that, when we’ve been there on 25 occasions (29 but four without fans) in the last 14 years, 7 times in the last 3 years alone, when the final is 3 weeks after the semi, with a month long trip to the USA coming up… that’s fucking good going and we should not be disappointed in ourselves or let other sets of fans knock us for it! I’ve been to Wembley more times than than some Rags I know have been to Old Trafford, yet they’ll message me ‘your fans are fucking shit, empty seats all over the place at Wembley’ and will miss the joke.
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The video shows footage of some of the 12k+ City fans who went to Leeds for the FA cup 5th round in February 1977 and the striking thing is virtually every City fan shown is aged under 30. Now if there's affordable match tickets and season tickets it naturally allows the support to regenerate itself.

At City with the ticketing policies that have been pursued it's now largely reliant on aging season ticket holders of 20 years plus standing and newer fans who haven't been to many games to traipse down to Wembley for FA cup semi finals with not that much in between to take up the slack
 
fathellensbellend said:
the club have had a nightmare, Pep is calling for support, what a monumental fuck up
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Think must of us eye-rolled this morning when we saw his "we need our people" line again this morning. Lives in a bubble and although he's the finest coach to have lived, he's needs to speak to his people and understand why these protests are vital and come before ANY football match. We love winning, we love football, but when a new generation don't even have the opportunity to attend it becomes our business.
 
Luddite_Blue said:



The video shows footage of some of the 12k+ City fans who went to Leeds for the FA cup 5th round in February 1977 and the striking thing is virtually every City fan shown is aged under 30. Now if there's affordable match tickets and season tickets it naturally allows the support to regenerate itself.

At City with the ticketing policies that have been pursued it's now largely reliant on aging season ticket holders of 20 years plus standing and newer fans who haven't been to many games to traipse down to Wembley for FA cup semi finals with not that much in between to take up the slack
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My second ever away game
 
Luddite_Blue said:



The video shows footage of some of the 12k+ City fans who went to Leeds for the FA cup 5th round in February 1977 and the striking thing is virtually every City fan shown is aged under 30. Now if there's affordable match tickets and season tickets it naturally allows the support to regenerate itself.

At City with the ticketing policies that have been pursued it's now largely reliant on aging season ticket holders of 20 years plus standing and newer fans who haven't been to many games to traipse down to Wembley for FA cup semi finals with not that much in between to take up the slack
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Remember it well , sixteen and a ticket in the Leeds end . Like you say the average age of the support thirty or under .
 
Manchester1894 said:
Think must of us eye-rolled this morning when we saw his "we need our people" line again this morning. Lives in a bubble and although he's the finest coach to have lived, he's needs to speak to his people and understand why these protests are vital and come before ANY football match. We love winning, we love football, but when a new generation don't even have the opportunity to attend it becomes our business.
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i want City to be the best on the pitch and off the pitch, i want City to engage the local fanbase, the future support, while spreading our wings. The nightmare years of the 90's the club was kept alive by a die hard fanbase, but behind that we were attracting little or no new support, fast forward 15-25 years and the club have adopted a dreadful ticketing policy that has allowed success to paper over some serious cracks in our support, literally the 1st season we are not at the top then huge gaps are starting to appear in ticket sales, and i lay the blame firmly at the clubs doors. Manchester City are not Barcelona and Soriano practically destroyed their support, he is well on the way to achieving the same at City. Matchday prices have to drop significantly, season tickets have to be introduced and we need to use the new stand as an opportunity to secure some proper local long term support, what we have at the moment is built on sand, and the disconnect is off the scale.
 
fathellensbellend said:
i want City to be the best on the pitch and off the pitch, i want City to engage the local fanbase, the future support, while spreading our wings. The nightmare years of the 90's the club was kept alive by a die hard fanbase, but behind that we were attracting little or no new support, fast forward 15-25 years and the club have adopted a dreadful ticketing policy that has allowed success to paper over some serious cracks in our support, literally the 1st season we are not at the top then huge gaps are starting to appear in ticket sales, and i lay the blame firmly at the clubs doors. Manchester City are not Barcelona and Soriano practically destroyed their support, he is well on the way to achieving the same at City. Matchday prices have to drop significantly, season tickets have to be introduced and we need to use the new stand as an opportunity to secure some proper local long term support, what we have at the moment is built on sand, and the disconnect is off the scale.
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It may be as good to build more season tickets in the existing stands, the new stand could be more centred on the one offs given all the facilities at that end. Whatever pricing is key and I agree with your post.
 
WestGorton said:
It may be as good to build more season tickets in the existing stands, the new stand could be more centred on the one offs given all the facilities at that end. Whatever pricing is key and I agree with your post.
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I am considering moving to the new stand from Block 211, simply because I will be able to get to the bloody awful Metrolink quicker.
 
fathellensbellend said:
i want City to be the best on the pitch and off the pitch, i want City to engage the local fanbase, the future support, while spreading our wings. The nightmare years of the 90's the club was kept alive by a die hard fanbase, but behind that we were attracting little or no new support, fast forward 15-25 years and the club have adopted a dreadful ticketing policy that has allowed success to paper over some serious cracks in our support, literally the 1st season we are not at the top then huge gaps are starting to appear in ticket sales, and i lay the blame firmly at the clubs doors. Manchester City are not Barcelona and Soriano practically destroyed their support, he is well on the way to achieving the same at City. Matchday prices have to drop significantly, season tickets have to be introduced and we need to use the new stand as an opportunity to secure some proper local long term support, what we have at the moment is built on sand, and the disconnect is off the scale.
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100%, these twats and their short term thinking are completely responsible, we lost generations of support due to our lack of success and when success came they tuned their back on local support, totally disengaged now are so many and it's much harder to get lapsed blues to return than it is for fans to stop going.Good luck to 93:20 and the others in their campaign and get that sycophantic banner in the east stand pulled down 'Manchester thanks you..' grovelling shite!!!.
 
Gray said:
Seats available on the planner:
  • Level 1 = 2,151
  • Level 2 = 840
  • Level 5 = 2,652
  • Total = 5,643
Blocks not release
  • 527 = 463 (as pointed out by Marvin)
  • 528 = 1,159
  • 529 = 1,112
  • 530 = 1,054
  • 531 = 482 (as pointed out by fathelensbellend)
  • Total = 4,270
Allocation is 36,190 less 9,913 so sales are 26,277.

Sold 262 tickets since my last count yesterday.
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4pm update:
Level 1- 2,090
Level 2- 839
Level 5- 2,354.

Still blocks 527-531 remain unavailable.
360 tickets sold today it looks like
 
philiph20 said:
100%, these twats and their short term thinking are completely responsible, we lost generations of support due to our lack of success and when success came they tuned their back on local support, totally disengaged now are so many and it's much harder to get lapsed blues to return than it is for fans to stop going.Good luck to 93:20 and the others in their campaign and get that sycophantic banner in the east stand pulled down 'Manchester thanks you..' grovelling shite!!!.
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If you aren’t grateful for what Sheikh Mansour has done for the Club then that’s your problem.

It doesn’t change the obvious that our owners want a return on their investment and some of the people they have employed have gotten too greedy.

I can barely remember the Sheikh Mansour flag but I think it was paid for by fans and not the Club.
 
mexico1970 said:
What would incentivise it is if we went back to queuing up at the ticket office for tickets, it's too easy for those fortunate enough to have the money just to join every scheme to guarantee themselves a ticket without any effort.

I know it isn't going to happen but just throwing it out there.
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We're never going back to queuing for tickets, but when it comes to cup schemes, I'd have them invitation-only. Invite people to the cup schemes who attend cup matches on a regular basis, which means people who have physically attended in person; purchasing a ticket but not attending does not count. I would also offer the scheme to match day members. Then, when it comes to finals, forget about cup scheme members getting priority; instead, offer tickets to people who have been attending that competition, whether they are in the scheme or not; again, this is based on attendance, not simply purchasing a ticket and not attending the game.
 
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