Protest v Wolves

bluetonium said:
As the protest was specifically to address season tickets, and that has now been "addressed" by the club, city matters need to give some guidance here, and quickly.

Are the steps taken by city felt to be enough by supporters?

If not, we still protest tonight given the event was supposed to be about season tickets specifically.

If yes, then not protesting and roaring on the team at 8am sharp will also send a very powerful message, and we move on to the next specific topic at the next game.

But either way there needs to be a response from the fan groups, or the fans will be split and therefore less effective.

Noted that the club have sent two updates, one last night and one this morning.
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The protests were also about match day pricing as well and arguably that became more of an issue once the season ticket price freeze was announced. In fact, in light of last night's announcement it becomes even more of an issue again because it's still to be addressed
 
117 M34 said:
Yes, they are disgusting.
But they've been the same for about 3 years and they have already announced they will freeze for next season, which isn't ideal but is still a relative price drop.
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How about the 9 ticket resale sites? Selling ticket exchange tickets through the resellers.
 
Jesus H Gabz said:
I would be cautious with 10 the club has form for increasing the criteria, best to have his account on an available phone. That is till they bring in facial recognition, a part of me (after the initial euphoria of the concessions) is starting to wonder what the trade off is, and a bit of AI at the turnstiles is a possibility
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He will be at most of them, we have someone next to us a mate not renewing after 30 years, will let him have it the odd time my lad can’t attend
 
es1 said:
sound

10 in person plus at least 6 others transferred or exchanged though so be aware of that
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Out of interest (and I ask this because my lad had the organisational skills of a lemming) does it matter when the ticket goes on exchange? He quite often decides at the last minute
 
es1 said:
10

would suggest there are ways round it though...get his ticket loaded to your phone rather than his so when he doesnt go you can just scan someone else in
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No good on my phone pal - sometimes he comes up on the train and we meet him inside the ground
 
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Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
Maybe I’m being thick, but It doesn’t say 4,000 new season tickets. They could all be flexi gold, in other areas of the ground or season ticket holders moving from other areas into the north stand
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Have you bothered reading the statement?

"It was always the Club’s intention to release new Season Tickets as part of the expansion of the North Stand. Whilst the seating configuration of the stand is yet to be finalised, we can confirm that it will be predominantly GA seating and that the majority of the additional GA seating capacity will be held by Season Ticket Members, through the release of new Season Tickets."

There's around 8,000 new seats, a majority means 4,000 plus. There's also 500+ new ones for next season. Note that this doesn't mean just the new stand, but means the entire stadium.

"We will also commit to offering Cityzens Matchday and Junior Members the opportunity to purchase Season Tickets which become available from non-renewals in future seasons."

The above is promising as well.
 
Big Joe Corrigan said:
I think his last paragraph says clearly more proper season tickets, and cheap prices to allow kids to attend.
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Jeysus.

I would have hoped my condition on the response was clear.

Ok.

How many seasons tickets do you want?

How much should they cost.

Same question for visitor tickets numbers and prices.

Easy questions obviously
 
BringBackSwales said:
Out of interest (and I ask this because my lad had the organisational skills of a lemming) does it matter when the ticket goes on exchange? He quite often decides at the last minute
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Current policy is just needs to be listed but not sold to be counted, and it needs to be listed at six hours before kick off. So reasonably last minute.
 
Centurions said:
Have you bothered reading the statement?

"It was always the Club’s intention to release new Season Tickets as part of the expansion of the North Stand. Whilst the seating configuration of the stand is yet to be finalised, we can confirm that it will be predominantly GA seating and that the majority of the additional GA seating capacity will be held by Season Ticket Members, through the release of new Season Tickets."

There's around 8,000 new seats, a majority means 4,000 plus. There's also 500+ new ones for next season. Note that this doesn't mean just the new stand, but means the entire stadium.

"We will also commit to offering Cityzens Matchday and Junior Members the opportunity to purchase Season Tickets which become available from non-renewals in future seasons."

The above is promising as well.
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How many season tickets will lapse at the end of this season that won't be passed on to the fans next season, and will be turned into new match day tickets or '500 new Flexi-Gold season tickets'? ;-) For arguments sake, say......500!

TBH Centurions, I'm a very cynical person. :-(
 
OntarioBlue said:
I’m always suspicious when I see words like “predominantly” and “majority” being used without quoting actual numbers. “Majority” simply means 50% plus one. So, if the capacity of the new stand is (say) 8000 then only 4001 need to be season cards. How many season card holders were relocated due to the construction and will be moved back ? How many existing season card holders will ask to be moved there ? This could easily be more than 4001 so “majority” achieved without a single new season card being issued.

I have a simple question for the Club. If there are 36000 season cards now when the stadium has a capacity of 54,000 (all numbers approximate) how many season cards will there when the capacity is 61,000 ?
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Current stadium capacity is 52,800
 
Centurions said:
Have you bothered reading the statement?

"It was always the Club’s intention to release new Season Tickets as part of the expansion of the North Stand. Whilst the seating configuration of the stand is yet to be finalised, we can confirm that it will be predominantly GA seating and that the majority of the additional GA seating capacity will be held by Season Ticket Members, through the release of new Season Tickets."

There's around 8,000 new seats, a majority means 4,000 plus. There's also 500+ new ones for next season. Note that this doesn't mean just the new stand, but means the entire stadium.

"We will also commit to offering Cityzens Matchday and Junior Members the opportunity to purchase Season Tickets which become available from non-renewals in future seasons."

The above is promising as well.
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Predominantly can mean 51%, so they are only saying that a minimum of 4000 of the new seats will be GA, of which a majority will be ST, so a minimum of 2000. It also doesn't say all these new NS ST will be new ST, they may include relocations from other parts of the ground.

And nothing is committed, even for Cityzens/Juniors they say they will commit, not that they have committed.

Words are important.

Anyone who thinks these announcements are anything other than an attempt to disrupt tonight's protest is giving the executives too much credit. If I am wrong, why rush it out? They have never done that before.

We finally have Soriano where we want him, under pressure between Mansour/Khaldoon and the fans. I just don't think we should let him off too easily. Not yet. The ****.
 
The club announced 3000 NSL2 safe standing seats in September last year. One would assume the majority of those NSL2 safe standing seats were always going to be new (£175)Flexi-Gold season tickets. Obviously there will also be some safe standing match day tickets.

During these discussions, it was clear that fans share our view on the importance of adding rail seating to the expanded North Stand. As such, the Club will introduce a minimum of 3,000 rail seats as part of the expansion, with the option of increasing this allocation ahead of opening should there be further demand.

www.mancity.com

Configuration of the Etihad Stadium’s North Stand expansion revealed

We are delighted to reveal the seating configuration for the expansion of the North Stand at the Etihad Stadium, which will open during the 2025/26 season.
www.mancity.com www.mancity.com
 
Mr Grumpy said:
Jeysus.

I would have hoped my condition on the response was clear.

Ok.

How many seasons tickets do you want?

How much should they cost.

Same question for visitor tickets numbers and prices.

Easy questions obviously
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For a start I’d hope the 4000 mentioned in dispatches by the club are full season tickets, and if all 4000 are for the new extension then they should be priced as the South Stand. Visitor ticket numbers stay as they are and are capped at £30.
 
Not read many posts on this thread. But for fuck sake protest in some other way. As Pep says we have 5 finals coming up and this half empty ground trait is fucking up the whole atmosphere in the ground. And don't the plebs in the media love it. You wouldn't have know we won at the weekend but we certainly knew we had 5 thousand empty seats. The media, other clubs and fans are laughing at us while we jeopardize our Champs league qualification. Don't qualify for the big trophy don't expect big bollock superstars signing.
 
invisibleandalone said:
Not read many posts on this thread. But for fuck sake protest in some other way. As Pep says we have 5 finals coming up and this half empty ground trait is fucking up the whole atmosphere in the ground. And don't the plebs in the media love it. You wouldn't have know we won at the weekend but we certainly knew we had 5 thousand empty seats. The media, other clubs and fans are laughing at us while we jeopardize our Champs league qualification. Don't qualify for the big trophy don't expect big bollock superstars signing.
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I’ve already debunked the six years without issuing new season tickets thing, it’s actually four years which in of itself isn’t good, but if you are going to launch a protest at least have your facts right. Whoever organises these things are a bit clueless.
 
As someone who lives too far from Manchester to attend many games, the empty seats at any stage of the game just fuels the trolls. It is a shame that there can’t be some common ground. An empty seat equals zero revenue, a seat for £10 means £10 revenue.
 
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