Seat Counters 25/26

Wirral Blue8 said:
132 tickets sold since yesterday at 11.30am.
Tickets remaining for League Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg v Newcastle. Less than 2 weeks to go until the game and selling about a couple of hundred tickets a day. Likely about 9000 empty seats for it - attendance of about 43k

Level 0: 3,710

Level 1: 3,622

Level 3: 4,333

Total: 11,665 tickets left
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In theory the tie was dead once we eventually went two up, and some fans thought about saving their pennies for Wembley. Subsequent performances may well have increased the jeopardy, but have hardly encouraged fans to part with hard earned cash.
As for Gala on Wednesday; we must be doing something seriously wrong if we can't attract a significant number of the thousands of fans who have a few games of recent purchase history. The annual membership charge might be partially responsible but I think we all accept that is an unnecessary charge anyway.
 
wolfie1988 said:
I don't think the prices are wonderful, but you'd also be hard pushed to watch a Champions League match and the 2nd leg of a Semi Final for the prices City charge anywhere else.

It's general apathy. It's creeped in across a lot of our core support.
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After defending the club yesterday and being a bit critical of our supporters, I think the Salford prices are a complete dick move from City
 
Georgian Maestro said:
The club is in a difficult position. Modern football is an arms race and we are significantly behind the opposition on matchday income. All the recent, controversial decisions around the corporate seats in the North stand development, reductions in the number of season tickets, third party sellers and barriers to transferring tickets are all about maximising the income for the here and now. Those responsible will have been given year on year match day revenue targets and they are looking at all angles in order to hit them. The club need to pause, take a step back and look at this for the long term. They need to get the place full and bouncing with predominantly local support. The high paying corporate customers will then follow.
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if you read some of other clubs twitter pages it's clear all clubs piss in same pot as regards ticketing ideas
this all started with rags season ticket holders have to attend every home cup game or ticket for next game withdrawn magic full stadium to top it all revenue included in finaces nail there hats on for as much as we can only one winner the one with biggest stadium
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
We have an ageing fanbase. Some of us are literally dying off! I didn’t miss a single home game for decades but Ill health has intervened a few times in recent years. I’m missing my first home game this season tomorrow for those reasons. Back for Gala and Spurs away hopefully.
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Yep, and I think some of that is behind getting a decent crowd for a 3pm Saturday well priced match, compared to a midweek 8pm well priced match.
In those cases it’s not necessarily price alone which is the issue.
Even if there are transport issues it’s less of a problem 3pm Saturday as more time to get in/get home after. Also more of my mates can come. Also I can make a day of it with some beers, either before or after or both. Alternatively, easier to bring children if family wanna come too.

None of the above applies to a midweek game.
 
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Tim of the Oak said:
Looks like City has ramped up the prices after the no shows against Exeter. That’s very short sighted, especially when the last round was played in between extreme weather warnings.
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That doesn’t make any sense? Ramp up the prices after no shows? We already can’t fill the ground as it is.

As has been said there was rows of empty seats against Exeter. There’s no way that’s just people not showing up.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
The club are definitely missing a trick, because there's a new type of football supporter who might prefer City over United, but not enough to stomach our convoluted ticket buying process

It's these occasional/casual supporters who are often belittled but are so critical when it comes to the club selling tickets for the less attractive fixtures, especially when the capacity increases.
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They won’t have, but you’d like to think they’ve got something up their sleeve in terms of ticketing when the stand opens up. If not, other than for a few of the bigger games, it’s going to look pretty silly. My very basic logic says make tickets affordable and easy to purchase and then watch the stadium fill up each game.
 
42 years a season ticket holder here,and I really am going to struggle with the 10 games, and you know something if they revoke my season ticket renewal, well so be it .
My work is now i have to work every other Saturday so I go when I can but the last 2 seasons I was quite merrily selling my ticket for face value approx 20quid on fb without any probs and giving folks the chance to go to games that are probs in the same boat as me (or just not loads of spare cash) that otherwise would not bother, now where was the harm in that city , no not good enough for you was it ,no you want to buy my ticket back at face value and you want to sell it on at a profit , we'll your chickens are coming home to roost , so unless you do a Starmer like u turn you are going to loose a serious amount of fans in the very near future, but you seemed not to care well it was full and demand was there ,
Well how's that working out for you now ?

Reep what you sow !
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
That doesn’t make any sense? Ramp up the prices after no shows? We already can’t fill the ground as it is.

As has been said there was rows of empty seats against Exeter. There’s no way that’s just people not showing up.
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There were loads of Blues who bought tickets for the Exeter game and couldn't go and either were unable to transfer tickets or couldn't find takers for them. I know that for a fact.

I am not objecting to your conspiracy theory. I am not doubting there were some agencies that let some tickets go to waste, just like there might have been a broken down coach that accounted for a couple of rows of empty seats.
 
Kippax1973 said:
42 years a season ticket holder here,and I really am going to struggle with the 10 games, and you know something if they revoke my season ticket renewal, well so be it .
My work is now i have to work every other Saturday so I go when I can but the last 2 seasons I was quite merrily selling my ticket for face value approx 20quid on fb without any probs and giving folks the chance to go to games that are probs in the same boat as me (or just not loads of spare cash) that otherwise would not bother, now where was the harm in that city , no not good enough for you was it ,no you want to buy my ticket back at face value and you want to sell it on at a profit , we'll your chickens are coming home to roost , so unless you do a Starmer like u turn you are going to loose a serious amount of fans in the very near future, but you seemed not to care well it was full and demand was there ,
Well how's that working out for you now ?

Reep what you sow !
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Nice try but you ain't getting off so easily.
The club will struggle to shift tickets for quite a few home games in the last few months of the season especially once the extension is open. Fans will protest about the prices, ridiculous restrictive minimum attendance requirements and difficulty transferring tickets, and the club will back down and claim they've listened to the fans rather than admitting they fucked up in the first place.
 
East Level 2 said:
Nice try but you ain't getting off so easily.
The club will struggle to shift tickets for quite a few home games in the last few months of the season especially once the extension is open. Fans will protest about the prices, ridiculous restrictive minimum attendance requirements and difficulty transferring tickets, and the club will back down and claim they've listened to the fans rather than admitting they fucked up in the first place.
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I hope your right but I'm rapidly loosing any faith this will ever happen
 
An adult and a kid together for any domestic cup game before the quarterfinals should be capped at £20. My seat is £27.50 for Salford which is too much but I will go because it’s Saturday and a 3pm kick off. I’m sure they have a plan going forward…
 
Marvin. said:
Man Utd get massive media backing and can survive the bad times. We are labelled as cheats. I don't think there is any prospect of Man Utd's fanbase eroding. I am not sure I want that to be honest. I want a healthy vibrant City dominating a healthy vibrant football world.
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Marvin I first took attention of your posts when you suggested the Rags sharing the Etihad while there circus stadium got built.
And you don't half come out with positive posts regarding the Rags.
Am not suggesting your a Rag but it comes across you have a little soft spot for them.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Looks like City has ramped up the prices after the no shows against Exeter. That’s very short sighted, especially when the last round was played in between extreme weather warnings.
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How do you know they were no-shows? How did numerous groups of 20 odd people on the same rows and chunks of seats all right next to each other all coördinate to not turn up when they’d bought tickets, by chance, for the same game?
 
Football on the whole is saturated. Our crowds are genuinely up for about 5-6 home hands a season. Usual big rivals, latter cup games and the likes of Madrid.

Once we became successful a lot of people had to stop moaning. The culture has to change. Now most expect 3-0 4-0 wins.

Generations move on too. The fight to get to and get out of the stadium starts to become too much to bother with for more elderly supporters. I think as blokes approach their 70’s, the majority just cba and enjoy it on Sky more.
 
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