Priced out? | Club announce that matchday tickets being reduced by up to 43% (p93)

Five home games in November , hospitality available for all of them including Liverpool and match tickets available for all apart from Liverpool. One day the club might wake up to the fact they have pissed off a huge number of local match going supporters . When the third tier opens in the north stand I’ve no idea who’s going to fill it .
 
mexico1970 said:
If you go to the shops for a pie and they say you have to pay £3 before you place an order, but you get 10% off your gravy then that isn't a deal.

Don't tell me our fanbase fall for that shit ?
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Well as I go to enough games to get more my £35 back then I appreciate the 10% off anything if buy either from the shop or toe eat or drink. So feel free to not like it but don't speak for anyone else. Still it adds something to your long list of stuff to moan and be miserable about.
 
blueparrot said:
Well as I go to enough games to get more my £35 back then I appreciate the 10% off anything if buy either from the shop or toe eat or drink. So feel free to not like it but don't speak for anyone else. Still it adds something to your long list of stuff to moan and be miserable about.
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Again, on principle you shouldn't have to pay to access tickets.
 
mexico1970 said:
Again, on principle you shouldn't have to pay to access tickets.
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You don't, you pay for the priorty,discounts and other stuff, if you don't want to don't just have the free version without the discount without the priority, like my daughter does, my son and me choose to pay the £35. You can do what you like.Or just moan about it as it seems to make you happy.
 
blueparrot said:
Well as I go to enough games to get more my £35 back then I appreciate the 10% off anything if buy either from the shop or toe eat or drink. So feel free to not like it but don't speak for anyone else. Still it adds something to your long list of stuff to moan and be miserable about.
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Say's the Parrot.

I love City fans like you, happy with everything the club does.

You probably didn't complain about the previous match day ticket prices, and complained about the protesters and the protests that got the ticket prices reduced to what they are now. Even with the ticket prices reductions across the board, we still aren't selling out, with another 8000 seats and tickets to sell during the 2nd half of this season, next year.
 
jrb said:
Say's the Parrot.

I love City fans like you, happy with everything the club does.

You probably didn't complain about the previous match day ticket prices, and complained about the protests that got the ticket price reduced to what they are now. Even with the ticket prices reductions across the board we still aren't selling out.
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There has been a charge for priority membership for about 20 years give ot take, nobody has really complained now all of a sudden the usual people are complaining about it,seems to be mainly those who don't even have a match day membership and get the benefits from it. Yes I love being a City fan because it brings me lots of pleasure and enjoyment, if it didn't I wouldn't bother I have loads of interests,that I enjoy (most more expensive than football) and could do more of instead, some don't seem to like much about it at all,fine but don't expect everyone to step in line,or speak for them.
 
People have always complained about paying for a membership that allows you to buy tickets. That's not only just started now.

If it wasn't for the fans protests, and Mansour and Khaldoon intervening personally and forcing the directors to reduce the match day ticket prices this season, City fans would still be paying last season's scandalous match day ticket prices this season.

We all love supporting City. But that doesn't mean we can't question what decisions the directors make. We don't have to agree with every decision the directors make. Yes, the directors get a lot of decisions right. Let's give them some credit.

If you've happy with every decision the directors make, fair enough, but a lot of us aren't at times. .

When the directors make the right decisions, we give them credit. When the directors make wrong decisions, we have the right to question those decisions, especially if it impacts the fans.

City Matters talk to and question the directors on behalf of the fans. That has led to compromises and concessions from the directors, and complete u-turns by the directors at times.

If you want all City fans to be nodding dogs and to accept every decision the directors make, which impact the fans, you are going to be very, very disappointed, because that won't happen. The fans have a voice. We have a right to use that voice, because without the fans there is no City, the club we all love.
 
jrb said:
People have always complained about paying for a membership that allows you to buy tickets. That's not only just started now.

If it wasn't for the fans protests, and Mansour and Khaldoon intervening personally and forcing the directors to reduce the match day ticket prices this season, City fans would still be paying last season's scandalous match day ticket prices this season.

We all love supporting City. But that doesn't mean we can't question what decisions the directors make. We don't have to agree with every decision the directors make. Yes, the directors get a lot of decisions right. Let's give them some credit.

If you've happy with every decision the directors make, fair enough, but a lot of us aren't at times. .

When the directors make the right decisions, we give them credit. When the directors make wrong decisions, we have the right to question those decisions, especially if it impacts the fans.

City Matters talk to and question the directors on behalf of the fans. That has led to compromises and concessions from the directors, and complete u-turns by the directors at times.

If you want all City fans to be nodding dogs and to accept every decision the directors make, which impact the fans, you are going to be very, very disappointed, because that won't happen. The fans have a voice. We have a right to use that voice, because without the fans there is no City, the club we all love.
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Show me the complaints about members fees from 10 or 13 years ago then,I don’t remember any, when I joined on here.
 
carlosthejackal said:
Five home games in November , hospitality available for all of them including Liverpool and match tickets available for all apart from Liverpool. One day the club might wake up to the fact they have pissed off a huge number of local match going supporters . When the third tier opens in the north stand I’ve no idea who’s going to fill it .
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Barbers
 
blueparrot said:
You don't, you pay for the priorty,discounts and other stuff, if you don't want to don't just have the free version without the discount without the priority, like my daughter does, my son and me choose to pay the £35. You can do what you like.Or just moan about it as it seems to make you happy.
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I'm happy for you.
 
jrb said:
People have always complained about paying for a membership that allows you to buy tickets. That's not only just started now.

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If you want all City fans to be nodding dogs and to accept every decision the directors make, which impact the fans, you are going to be very, very disappointed, because that won't happen. The fans have a voice. We have a right to use that voice, because without the fans there is no City, the club we all love.
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All very true, and it works both ways - there's not everything the club has done that is wrong or detrimental to it's "customer base" including those of us who have been here for donkeys years. And there's not everything that the club does that is right...

To my mind, the things that have not worked, some of which they have addressed are:-

1) Flexi season tickets - my biggest gripe - they've taken what would have been a very good idea, and beneficial to both fans and club and wrecked it by the £150 fee they initially charged. Imagine a season ticket in your name with your guaranteed seat, which you could pay for in instalments and the club asked x number of days or weeks before to confirm if you were coming. Brilliant for everyone's cashflow, brilliant if you know you'll miss some games and not have to pay for them, brilliant for the club in knowing in advance which seats would be available for resale. I "think" they've gone too far and wont retrieve the view that flexi tickets are not real season tickets, but in reality, they could be welcomed and very acceptable without the £150 fee...

2) ST transfers - yes, we know it says they are non-transferrable. It says so in the ST books I have from Maine Road bitd. But it's football culture to treat these as our tickets and in our gift to give them to whoever we want. In theory the club dont lose out as we've paid for them. They should drop the draconian rules for a bit of reconciliation with fans, at the expense of a few who dont transfer or resell. Combined with a revamped flexi, that would be pretty minimal loss... fwiw, I spoke to Danny Wilson about trasnsferring tickets to STs to allow them to take friends/family as one off and he really doesn't get it..

3) The new stand - hopefully not as bad as it sounds, but there really hasn't been the engagement to make it a blue wall and allow transfer en-masse for our singing fans at the expense of others. If the exec areas are small and not in the way, it'll be ok.

4) Pricing of matchday tickets - I think they've got this about right now having pushed it far too far in the past. I think we need to be realistic that, despite all recent success, we will struggle on midweek nights to fill the stadium with local fans unless the opposition is hugely attractive.

Hopefully, with 6000 new seats to fill, the draconian approach before will peter out, and the club wont rigidly enforce attendance rules and so on. We'll then see a more sensible approach to fan relations and more cordial from both sides - inevitably some people just want to moan (especially on here) - but lets hope they can get it right.
 
carlosthejackal said:
Five home games in November , hospitality available for all of them including Liverpool and match tickets available for all apart from Liverpool. One day the club might wake up to the fact they have pissed off a huge number of local match going supporters . When the third tier opens in the north stand I’ve no idea who’s going to fill it .
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I was lucky enough to be gifted with corporate tickets last season for the Liverpool game (Mancunian suite). There were huge amounts of Liverpool fans in there, openly celebrating when they scored.

They don’t care if it’s city fans in those seats. Just wait until the expansion opens and most of those hotel package deals are away fans
 
I would go to Swansea tomorrow but because I won’t join the membership scheme.I am not allowed.
I,ve got family and friends who are season ticket holders who could buy one on my behalf but cannot transfer them to me anymore.
Last season the semi final at Wembley against forest I could buy four tickets because of the lack of sales.How many old school blues like me who live away now are not going to games.I paid £25 quid to get city tv.Should of bought a membership instead.
 
carlosthejackal said:
Five home games in November , hospitality available for all of them including Liverpool and match tickets available for all apart from Liverpool. One day the club might wake up to the fact they have pissed off a huge number of local match going supporters . When the third tier opens in the north stand I’ve no idea who’s going to fill it .
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It’s baffling considering the success we’ve had over the years, more so when you see the rags fill the swamp every game with the shite they have on offer.
 
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