Seat Counters 25/26

EastMidlandsBlue said:
The local tickets Liverpool sell are subsided as well, they were always £9, although that could've changed.

The difference with Liverpool is that those tickets are very much a box ticking exercise to try and give the impression that they actually care about their local fans.

The difference with us is that I think it could be a very useful tool to get the next generation of local fans in the ground, whilst still being able to sell the tickets at full whack to tourists. Would at least be a start
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City have absolutely zero interest in the next generation of local fans ,maybe Asia or American,they are making such a mess of this,they literally should be hoovering every kid up with the rags being irrelevant.
 
EastMidlandsBlue said:
The local tickets Liverpool sell are subsided as well, they were always £9, although that could've changed.

The difference with Liverpool is that those tickets are very much a box ticking exercise to try and give the impression that they actually care about their local fans.

The difference with us is that I think it could be a very useful tool to get the next generation of local fans in the ground, whilst still being able to sell the tickets at full whack to tourists. Would at least be a start
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If City charged £9 for their local fans would you say it was a box ticking exercise. I’d say well done Liverpool .
 
Sheik Battle and Goal said:
If City charged £9 for their local fans would you say it was a box ticking exercise. I’d say well done Liverpool .
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Oh I absolutely give Liverpool credit for doing it.

However, Liverpool are popular enough that they don't need their Local support, so based on this I can conclude that it is probably for PR reasons. (They sell less than 100 of these tickets per game fyi)

The difference with us is that it could be implemented as a genuine tactic to get locals into the ground, and rebuild the core fanbase.
 
mrtwiceaseason said:
City have absolutely zero interest in the next generation of local fans ,maybe Asia or American,they are making such a mess of this,they literally should be hoovering every kid up with the rags being irrelevant.
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They don't, but they really should.

Whilst we're more popular than ever before internationally, the club should be really concerned about the erosion of the core support over the last few years. They only have themselves to blame
 
EastMidlandsBlue said:
Oh I absolutely give Liverpool credit for doing it.

However, Liverpool are popular enough that they don't need their Local support, so based on this I can conclude that it is probably for PR reasons. (They sell less than 100 of these tickets per game fyi)

The difference with us is that it could be implemented as a genuine tactic to get locals into the ground, and rebuild the core fanbase.
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It used to be 500 tickets at £9 for the L post code. Might have changed earlier in the year.

There was a big article in the Athletic about the touting which said "Liverpool have gone after touts big time and "established that the sale of 500 £9 tickets for each home match to fans with an L postcode (a policy designed to help local fans access games) was getting absolutely destroyed by touts"

More generally they have attacked the problem and there was a case recently where several Liverpool touts got prison time. That involevd touts on the outside and a couple of Liverpool employees. They were running about 1000 memberships :)
 
philiph20 said:
And 7 other clubs average over 50000 and we are the most successful club in the country over the last decade. All the other clubs don’t have the drop offs for cup games and less fashionable fixtures that we do. 51000 at SJP last night, 42000 ? At ours last night, a sizeable proportion of season ticket holders don’t attend cup games this doesn’t happen at all the other comparable clubs.
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I suspect the other clubs season ticket holders avoid early rounds of domestic cups or League cup games.
Just like ours.
They have more people who want to go but don't have season tickets therefore pick up the slack.
It boils down to were customers not fans in the clubs minds. CTID
 
philiph20 said:
They did come and then they reduced the capacity by 1500 by taking out a few rows of pitch side seats because they made more money from it. They should have done the North stand extension much earlier before the bubble burst, there is a lot of apathy around the support at the moment and it's all down to the powers that be. They had the opportunity to hoover up local support attract lapsed blues back and they have failed miserably on that score. They should have focused on increasing support within a 20 mile radius and then gone international thus creating a long lasting loyal more or less permanent base who will be there in good times or bad.
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There were loads of young Manchester kids there last night. Weather awful but it was great to see. Club need to make it more accessible and affordable for those younger fans, especially for PL games.
 
uwerosler28 said:
Seems we have a real problem , the decade of jokes around the emptyhad and blue seats have now become a self fulfilling prophecy. Even in the early 00's when we had no success to talk about a cup quarter final with cheap tickets would have flown of the shelf regardless of it being near Christmas, just where was everyone last night that have supposedly been priced out by the tourists?. Post expansion i genuinely doubt if we will see any sell outs next season except may 2-3 high profile games , where has all our support gone?
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We had unsold semi final tickets when playing Liverpool in this competition. We didn’t sell out against Reading in the QF when we won it in 2011. Last nights crowd bigger than both those games!
 
jrb said:
As others have posted, once you stop going, you don’t miss it.

I appreciate that’s not the case with plenty of City fans.

I can honestly say I wasn’t bothered about missing the match tonight.

Especially a midweek game, battling the rush hour traffic, a horrible wet and cold Manchester night, up in the morning at 4am for work.
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And...fuck me it's perpetual motion in fucking moaning, how do you live ? Honestly wtf ???
 
uwerosler28 said:
Seems we have a real problem , the decade of jokes around the emptyhad and blue seats have now become a self fulfilling prophecy. Even in the early 00's when we had no success to talk about a cup quarter final with cheap tickets would have flown of the shelf regardless of it being near Christmas, just where was everyone last night that have supposedly been priced out by the tourists?. Post expansion i genuinely doubt if we will see any sell outs next season except may 2-3 high profile games , where has all our support gone?
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Actually no...fa cup quarter final v west ham...less than 40.000 ?
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
There were over 40,000 there last night. A great attendance for the League Cup before Christmas in terrible weather. You don’t have to apologise. You can do what you want. But there is a minority of City fans who seem to be fixated on slagging off the club at every opportunity. There are other ones who don’t like the way fellow fans look assuming they are “tourists” Last night the ground was full of happy family groups, mostly from Greater Manchester. The tickets were dirt cheap. So well done to the club.
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Well said mate
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
It used to be 500 tickets at £9 for the L post code. Might have changed earlier in the year.

There was a big article in the Athletic about the touting which said "Liverpool have gone after touts big time and "established that the sale of 500 £9 tickets for each home match to fans with an L postcode (a policy designed to help local fans access games) was getting absolutely destroyed by touts"

More generally they have attacked the problem and there was a case recently where several Liverpool touts got prison time. That involevd touts on the outside and a couple of Liverpool employees. They were running about 1000 memberships :)
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They were selling the £9 tickets for up to £400. They controlled a big chunk of the 500 tickets available.
Rats sentenced for Liverpool ticket scam
 
City sold several hundreds / maybe thousands of £9 junior tickets for Liverpool at home, this season. That’s one of the biggest games in world football these days. I hope the 4k extra season cards will result in more affordable tickets,

Our directors try to maximise revenue and of course they are ruthless and/or careerist business people. That said, you only have to look at the match day revenues of our rivals, and beyond that their industrial scale ticket touting operations, to realise we do better than most top clubs on ticket prices. It’s important to see beyond the PR and yes we use touting agencies too. Football is too expensive generally .

I know Arsenal have some cheaper tickets that posters have occasionally highlighted. They also had very loose controls over ticket transfers that resulted in their stewards getting battered against Cologne a few years ago. There isn’t a perfect system

Some Blues couldn’t give tickets away for Brentford. People pick and chose their games like they are entitled to do so.

Maybe we do a bit too much moaning and that might deter the next generation of fans.
 
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jrb said:
As others have posted, once you stop going, you don’t miss it.

I appreciate that’s not the case with plenty of City fans.

I can honestly say I wasn’t bothered about missing the match tonight.

Especially a midweek game, battling the rush hour traffic, a horrible wet and cold Manchester night, up in the morning at 4am for work.
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If you don't want to go, dont go.
It's your choice.
But keep it to yourself, because lots of us are bored with your negativity.
 
gkmcfc said:
We had unsold semi final tickets when playing Liverpool in this competition. We didn’t sell out against Reading in the QF when we won it in 2011. Last nights crowd bigger than both those games!
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We’re too sensitive to criticism from other teams’ fans about empty seats and all that but no team has ever filled their stadium for every game in every competition.

Those who criticise any club for giving away seats to schools and colleges when there’s an opportunity are idiots, it’s absolutely the right thing to do. Behind me on Wednesday was a group from a school or club, all of Asian heritage. One of them was annoyingly giddy, but he was so excited to be there, maybe his first time at the stadium. He knew all the players and kept coming out with cliché comments it was very amusing, if only he’d been a bit quieter, my ears are only just recovering! The rest of the group were very quiet and more interested in the food, one was openly supporting Brentford (probably to wind the City kid up) but even if just that one kid returns at some point in the future it’s job done. We don’t all come from a long line of grandparents who started at Hyde Road.
 
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