Get to the Etihad for the 2nd leg!

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I'd estimate that up to 15,000 ST holders don't attend CL games in general just by going off the different faces around me at CL matches. It was the same for the Kiev game and that was in the South Stand singing section. That said, of those different faces very few were tourists and it was more a case of City fans that don't get to too many league games.

Maybe. It's hard to know. Depends where you sit I suppose too. Up until last season i was in padded seats and it was very touristy in there. Not so much in SS3. It does show that price is an issue to many fans though because very very few of the £299 ST holders in the SS3 are in CL cup scheme. That is seen by the number of empty seats on the planner on day 1 of sales. I would says it's less than 10%.

Maybe they should adopt a tiered approach for pricing like they do for ST. Top of SS3 £25 bottom of SS3 £35 etc

Who knows.

 

[Dogtanian]

No Rag, frankly I would rather be one of the 17,000 hard core who turned up in Mel Machin's days, which I am, than lots of the moaning, whingers on here. Seems if people aren't knocking the club, whingeing about something or if a poster isn't in agreement with the rest of the masses on here then they must be a Rag. Mysterious!

So you're moaning about moaners and call fellow Blues wankers?

 

[Daren James]

In this particular instance, it does chief.

I'm amazed at your ability to extract lines of text, repost them and even bold and underline stuff. Such masterly wizardry. Keep up the good work. Anyway, truce! I just simply have different views than you on ticket pricing and those who don't turn up. In the annoying Yank way, period.

 

[bugsyblue]

It's kind of depressing everyone is arguing over whether to attend or not our biggest game of the season. It's sad (and I'm not solely blaming the fans who are disgruntled with the prices here, the club are to blame too) that we aren't all excitedly backing the boys and discussing how we are going to get behind them on Tuesday for such an important game, a game we have a firm advantage in but one which will be still very difficult to overcome. And without ALL the fans behind us we are at such a disadvantage!

 

[Daren James]

So you're moaning about moaners and call fellow Blues wankers?

I'm talking about Johnny come Lately types who want a ticket when it suddenly becomes the thing to be seen at. Every club has em.

 

[Dogtanian]

I'm talking about Johnny come Lately types who want a ticket when it suddenly becomes the thing to be seen at. Every club has em.

The Johnny come lately types are the ones who will be getting the tickets, doubt if they are the ones moaning, the more long termers that get prices out then the better it is for them

 

[cucumberman]

None of those pre kickoff We Are City montage, none of those pre kick off stand shouting contest. None of those family outing activities. Get the stadium pitch black, an imposing Blue Moon no music needed. maybe a whispered blue moon. Come on City chants drowning the CL theme. Let zlatan feel like they can't wait to leg out from here.

 

[steviemc]

First time we've ever got to this stage of a comp. and already talk of boycott's, rants against the club, people over-egging their own fan status because of their loyalty/'istry blah blah blah. If you don't want to go to the game for whatever reason - don't go. You have a choice. Attending football matches is an expensive past-time and it's not gonna change.

 

[moenchengladbach blau]

After the Kiev match there were dozens of posters calling City every name under the sun from the comfort of their armchairs who took exception (with assistance from the PTB) to me suggesting if they were such expert fans they should have been there and not making noise on here. Their excuses were shall we say.....imaginative.

The more I read comments on here the less I think that posters are not representative of most match going blues and more likely that those who threaten to walk out or not to go to matches, or not to renew season tickets have rarely if ever made a turnstile revolve.

I know that City fans have always enjoyed a moan and that the internet allows any Walter Mitty to post anonymously but this is getting ridiculous. No wonder the media finds it so easy to have a go at us. FFS let's all get behind the team instead of behind a keyboard.

 

[Blue Mooner]

Didn't have me by any bollocks fella! I just have more important things going on in a proper life rather than a sad one stuck on forums all day, I really couldn't be bothered with you. As for 3 weeks, you sound like the old timers at a match who has a disagreement with a younger kid, usual retort is "I've been going 40 years, what would you know?" Like time gives you any more valid an opinion,

To be honest, those that decide not to turn up we're probably better off without. Far from being the one's who generate the atmosphere they're more likely the ones who moan and groan at the players during the match, slag off Yaya after the first mistake, and only too happy to share their vast knowledge of the game to anyone within earshot rather than simply getting behind the lads.

If you can't get 'up' for this match there is seriously something wrong with your football supporting motivations imo

 

[SiMCFC]

No Rag, frankly I would rather be one of the 17,000 hard core who turned up in Mel Machin's days, which I am, than lots of the moaning, whingers on here. Seems if people aren't knocking the club, whingeing about something or if a poster isn't in agreement with the rest of the masses on here then they must be a Rag. Mysterious!

Maybe not a rag but you have slagged blues off since day one on here, strange for a 'long term' fan hey? You are also a hypocrite as you have criticised 'old timers' then tried to make your point using a typical 'old timer' comment. I presume you were at York away as well?I think your a WUM and definitely not a City fan personally but lets leave it at that mate.

As for 3 weeks, you sound like the old timers at a match who has a disagreement with a younger kid, usual retort is "I've been going 40 years, what would you know?" Like time gives you any more valid an opinion,

And I still won't be going, said I wouldn't before the away leg and i'm not changing my mind because of the result. It's a corrupt corporate competition and I have no interest in attending personally.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

None of those pre kickoff We Are City montage, none of those pre kick off stand shouting contest. None of those family outing activities. Get the stadium pitch black, an imposing Blue Moon no music needed. maybe a whispered blue moon. Come on City chants drowning the CL theme. Let zlatan feel like they can't wait to leg out from here.

They don't tend to do that pre match Danny and Natalie shite at CL games.

 

[cucumberman]

They don't tend to do that pre match Danny and Natalie shite at CL games.

We have in the past been a bit too welcomey, Barcelona game comes to mind. I wouldn't put it past us in our attempts to showcase the matchday experience, such things make its way to the night in the false perception that it gets us artificially upbeat.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Came off the auto scheme, hedged my bets. Bought my regular seats this morning, £40 apiece.

It's a two-way street for me, in recent months, in terms of my loyalty.

The players somehow got us a great result last night and deserve every seat to be filled and the place buzzing.

 

[citymad]

Think Im more nervous about City fans booing the anthem that sets up an ugly and dire atmosphere. They must know by now we don't approve of Uefa so lets just put it by for now and concentrate on creating a positive atmosphere for once.

 

[Neville Kneville]

Think Im more nervous about City fans booing the anthem that sets up an ugly and dire atmosphere. They must know by now we don't approve of Uefa so lets just put it by for now and concentrate on creating a positive atmosphere for once.

I think the booing makes most people laugh & is good for the atmosphere not bad.

That was the case where I was sat for the last round anyhow.

 

[Bill]

Anybody against the pricing feel free to watch in on TV. There will be plenty to take your seat. Oh and the club will charge them more as non season card holder's. Club can't lose,only the objectors can.

 

[Zubrman]

It's expensive, there's no question. But it's the QF of the CL with a real chance of making the semi finals (though the club didn't know that when they first priced it). Like it or not it's a huge game and regardless of the opposition, at this stage tickets were going to be £40-60 because it's the biggest knockout competition in club football in the world and the latter stages. Like most fans, I'd have paid anything for a QF ticket in the CL back in the day.

Equally I get that people don't think it's right and for me all football games should be around the £30 mark. Unfortunately that's not the case. The Hamburg atmosphere was epic, the ground was shaking. £10 for adults and £5 for kids iirc. I remember getting into the SS and the Hamburg fans were loud and giving it large, then Blue Moon rang out. They stopped singing, looked around and were stunned by what they were hearing. We were so loud they literally stopped singing in shock. Sent shivers down my spine.

I'm sure this one will be even better, with the expanded SS. But it's a shame real hardcore fans feel they can't pay the money to go and watch it and that's why the pricing is wrong really. All City hardcore fans should be buzzing about the game feeling they can afford to go and watch it. £40 would probably have been on the mark. But then again, would these fans pay £50 for a semi ticket? And how much to go and watch a final?

If I recall correctly, it was £5 for adults and kids for £1.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Think Im more nervous about City fans booing the anthem that sets up an ugly and dire atmosphere. They must know by now we don't approve of Uefa so lets just put it by for now and concentrate on creating a positive atmosphere for once.

I find it a bit pathetic to be honest. Poor old city being hard done too. BOOOOO. Its like being at a pantomime.

 

[Stretford Born Blue]

In your opinion.

Unless it can be proven otherwise which it can't then either of us could be right or wrong. I know that our CL attendances are very different from the league attendances. The number of seats available illustrates that and none of my ST friends who go to league games go to CL games other than me and the lad and one other. That's 3 out of about 11. The People sat around where I sit are all new faces. It's a different crowd from the prem games on the whole. Might have been the same faces at Hamburg although I doubt it. Like I say just opinion.

You're quite right my friend, and each and every one of us is entitled to an opinion. Some are based on fact. some fiction, and others a complete shot in the dark. For example, where I sit in block 220, the vast majority around me and my 7 friends and family who are all season ticket holders, aged between 80 and 14, go to all Premiership games, as you would, having paid up front for them, and 7 of us are on the CL cup scheme, except for my 80 year old father who can be excused, given that he also lives 45 miles away from the stadium and doesn't do night games due to his age and round trip. The vast majority of the regulars, at least the row behind and the 5 or 6 rows in front of me also turn up at the CL games, in fact most other games, and if they don't, one of their friends or family take the seat. I know this because they have been seen a good number of times. I also see many other regular faces in the concourses who sit elsewhere, but not too many tourists. So, it can be safely said, that very few, if any tourists or selfie stick owners take their places in 220. Fact not opinion, so your statement that 'its all tourists' may well be right for your spot, but not mine, and I guess many others possibly fall into either category. It was a far reaching statement, which I couldn't agree entirely with...