A s**t away end full of tourists

[Man_City_Loyal]

We regularly got small numbers of Belgium Blues - maybe a dozen or so -at Arsenal Away, who were also keen Anderlect fans, It was the 150 Belgiums who had tickets together in our end at Arsenal, who sang thier own songs, that was a pisstake.

we've had large number of Antwerp fans since the 90s come to city with Feyenoord but never done it like that

 

[bainy]

You are right about a possible joint statement.

But the club won’t respond publicly.

I’m not having a go at you mate, but you and other City fans must understand how the club works now.

The club will deal with any official and unofficial fan based grievances in house.

We will never find out about what was discussed and what the club have said in private.

Kevin Parker will get a response from City, but he won’t say anything.

City Matters will get a response from City, but whether that will be included in the meeting minutes is another matter.

1894 won’t get a response, no matter what they put out on their social media websites.

Everything at City is kept in-house. City will only make a public statement if they feel they have to.

Going forward. If there are any changes in the way away tickets are allocated by City in the future, it will only be visible and obvious in the away ends, and by no other means.

How do you know Kevin P will even raise this? Not having a go, but the OSC don't seem to raise anything!

 

[Northmanc68]

On the flip side, I've amassed a lot of loyalty points based upon a platinum season ticket since the scheme started, plus cup game direct debits. I used to go to a lot of away game between 2001 and 2009.

In reality, I haven't been to more than a dozen away games in the last fifteen years and, quite frankly, haven't got a lot of wish to go to many more. However, I check the criteria on a regular basis and I don't think there has been an away game where I couldn't have got a ticket if I so wished.

Quite frankly, despite all my loyalty points, given that my last away game in England was in 2017, despite the fact I never miss any home games, I'm not really sure that I should be in the queue for United away ahead of somebody who goes to all the away games now but simply isn't old enough to have built up the accumulated total that I have in the 25 years since we brought loyalty points in.

Totally understand that point of view and begs the question who thought it was a good idea to stop issuing points for away games a few years ago

 

[xgorton]

Lots of away tickets for sale on ticket sites for silly money,don't tell me no City fans sell them on.

 

[Northmanc68]

By the way at what point did we just ‘accept’ that only 60% of the away tickets went to points holders , that in itself is a disgrace

 

[dennishasdoneit]

I think the club should be much more transparent about where away tickets go.

I honestly think that ship has sailed.

 

[Penworthamblue]

Lots of away tickets for sale on ticket sites for silly money,don't tell me no City fans sell them on.

Unfortunately they do, I got 2 for the cup final from live football tickets, it's even got the persons name and supporters number who originally bought them on the e tickets

 

[Sk@mcfc]

Asked a couple of lads a few times in front of me to put there cameras down I don’t give a fuck what people do but when there obstructing your view for minutes on end so they can get a video is a piss take and it’s happening every home and away game now just support the boys ffs

 

[Mike N]

Try going to one then instead of coming on here talking a pile of shit.

I’ll happily compare my support with yours over the last 50 years you complete dick.

 

[Chappie]

I’ll happily compare my support with yours over the last 50 years you complete dick.

God bless you my son.
You will lose.

 

[bainy]

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That made me laugh!

 

[Luddite_Blue]

That co-ordinated approach is spoke about on here. It definitely feels like they agree how far they will all push it to rinse more money out of the game.

This coordinated approach has also been used with mobile ticketing and cashless stadiums - pre-covid I was unable to get a pie and a pint at Molyneux as they wouldn't accept cash in Wolverhampton FFS!!!

The PL clubs have been coordinating together for a long time whereas the fans, apart from the away fan price cap, haven't.

 

[Dodge]

I'm going to both Villa and Leicester. Villa should be decent but Leicester should be even better. The 2021-22 season when we won 1-0 there with Bernardo scoring was probably the best City away atmosphere in the past decade for me. The singing was non-stop with everyone joining in. The following season was good too but not quite at the same level.

Mate, living and working in Leicester as I do for my sins, their match-going fans are in awe of our away support. Whether it be in the ground, the pre-match arrangements our branch makes at Aylestone or the local businesses, they look forward to our visit like no other.

 

[bainy]

I go to mine to be amongst fellow city fans and have a laugh? It's a good way to meet new people who all have something in common

Not having ago at supporters clubs, I'm asking a question how does KP represent me as a official supporter with city??

 

[Nevizade]

Off topic but;

I’ve not been to an away game for a number of years but I’m always struck by our away contingent seems to have the same faces. Either during the game, Cheeseman’s vlogs or the YouTube guys, always the same people.

Wouldn’t it be great if the away tickets were on a ballot and let everyone who wants to go have the same chance?

Hi Ferran,

No, not really.

Hope this helps.

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

Agreed Danny is a decent lad ,if my money was going anywhere I would have a look at a certain sporting director from Barcelona who is retiring and who's last game it was at klanfield,
Those shirts were worn for a reason and none of them were kids .

 

[wolfie1988]

As I said, the club reserve 5% of the away tickets for the use of playerd, staff & sponsors. If it's come out of that allocation then the only complaint can be against the dickheads who thought it was clever to wear Barcelona shirts.

There is a genuine issue with whether the club sticks to the 60% they say they allocate to season ticket holders, and that's worth pressuring the club over (not that we'll get an answer).

But there's really no mileage in complaining about tickets that were never going to be part of that 60% anyway.

And if you're at an away game and see someone who doesn't appear to have sourced their ticket from the normal allocations then take a note of the seat and pass it on to Alex via Ciry Matters.

Can we argue that the 60% should be higher? Anyway that is an argument for another day!

I don't feel like these were from the 5%. I feel they were sold directly to these ticket sites. I had a look on there a few weeks back when the criteria was released for Liverpool and you could get rows of 10. I know we talk about you buying and then they source but nobody can source a row of 10 unless you're going directly to the club.

 

[Mike N]

Hi Ferran,

No, not really.

Hope this helps.

I wish I had his salary!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Can we argue that the 60% should be higher? Anyway that is an argument for another day!

I don't feel like these were from the 5%. I feel they were sold directly to these ticket sites. I had a look on there a few weeks back when the criteria was released for Liverpool and you could get rows of 10. I know we talk about you buying and then they source but nobody can source a row of 10 unless you're going directly to the club.

In response to your first point I've argued in the past (and even earlier in this thread) that there's a mismatch between numbers of tickets available to the different groups and and numbers making up those groups. If there's 5k hospitality season ticket holders (and that sounds like a lot) and 35k general season card holders, then the general season card holders should get 7 times the tickets that the hospitality subset get, whereas currently it's 4 times. So yes, we could argue that.

In response to your second point about the sourcing of the tickets, I'd apply the principle of Occam's Razor, which essentially says that the explanation with the fewest variables is probably the correct one. So I'd say that the high likelihood is that these were sourced directly from the club, probably via one of the Catalan executives or even Pep, rather than the club selling them to a third-party and then the required number of seats together being picked up by these fans.

 

[blubanjo]

We regularly got small numbers of Belgium Blues - maybe a dozen or so -at Arsenal Away, who were also keen Anderlect fans, It was the 150 Belgiums who had tickets together in our end at Arsenal, who sang thier own songs, that was a pisstake.

I bumped into a number of Belgian fans when we played at Anfield two seasons ago. They were in The Brick near Goodison and were ok tbf.
Apparently they'd followed City since the mid nineties?