Are You Doing Anything To Protest About The Latest Season Ticket Price Increase?

[Bert Trautmanns Helemet]

Well I have just now come out of the 93:20 seats (which is well over rated IMHO)
and gone down to Value Gold and cancelled all of my cup schemes.
Suits me fine. Well done City!

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I lied. We didn't moan at first. Bar those forced out of the NS.

We took the first few price rises on the chin. We knew they were coming. Along with corporate area's etc.

But the price rises have kept on coming. 10 in total. "It should have been 11!"

My season ticket was £400. It's now £685. Minus cup games? £285÷10=£28.50. Average it out as a £30 increase a season.

We've never had it so good because Pep is here. And when he goes? Will it ever be as good again? Erm..... no!

Will £900,000 pay for a Sane, Sterling, Ederson? No!

£160mill winning the PL does. £40mill being in the CL does. £millions in existing and new sponsorship deals does. Tours do. New kits do. Etc.

If it really is about inflation and running costs as City have stated(come on!), please explian to me why those costs can't be saved by the club via reducing expenditure within the club over a season. As a club are we that flipent with money every season to have to claw back £900,000 via continual season ticket and matchday ticket price rises? We obviously are.

Be interesting to see what happens when Pep goes. How can it ever get better than this?

 

[Sir peace frog]

Your post was massively over the top because I imagine the increase doesn't hit you as much as other fans. People work it out to how much extra it is a second over a year to justify it and make out it is minimal. People were probably already at their limits and to increase further is a joke. All well and good posting a load of tripe of it being 3p or get Swales back but the fact remains the increase wasn't needed. As I said in my first post it is more staggering when seats aren't filled to begin with. The club has lost touch with the fans and will continue to do so to reach the heights of where they want to be. Shame.

being an extremely wealthy guy doesn't come into
on lates last night and might of been a little grumpy this morning :), I don't like price rises, but the owners know what they are doing and if they feel they need to increase for whatever reason as long as its reasonable and as long as the club/team keeps on improving I'm all for it.

BTW last time I looked I was fucking skint :)

 

[Clubber]

It's an extra £1.50 per month for me.

Not even the cost of a cup of tea in the Etihad.

I understand the principle for many, especially when it comes to trying to attract and keep kids.

My lad's football team training is rife with City shirts, none of them have been to a proper game and would no doubt love to.

I totally agree. Think mine is similar, so can't even get half a pint.

It would be nice to see the tickets go down, but when everything else is going up (2% isn't too bad, as inflation currently at 3%) and we are really the best show in town (Country...... continent) i think on a business level, its hard to sell a reduction to the owner/money men.

 

[paulchapo]

The thing is when we were shit and on the verge of bankruptcy the club had to keep prices low and/or frozen otherwise plenty wouldn't have renewed. Now we are successful and playing great football they know they will sell all season tickets even if there is a steep increase. I don't like it but I doubt I can realistically do anything about it. Well I can, I can not renew but someone will take my place.

My season ticket is going to be £685 in the south stand lower. That works out at just over £36 a game which I still consider good value. I am thinking of ditching platinum so that will save me £50 a year.

We can protest all we like but I doubt the club will listen or drop prices so long as there is a waiting list of thousands ready to take our place.

It is a catch 22 situation and we can't have it all ways. If we hadn't had the takeover I would just be buying my tickets on a match by match basis and picking and choosing my games. The standard of football wasn't great and we had zero chance of winning anything. I have been following the club since 1968 and stood by them in the old third division but I was becoming pretty disillusioned just prior to 2008. I had realised that the top four were light years ahead of us and the gap was growing bigger by the year and barring a miracle we were never going to bridge it. Thankfully we got that miracle.

If I am eventually priced out I will be sad but grateful that to date I have seen us win seven trophies in ten years, when I expected to die without seeing us win a single one. I have watched some fantastic football, seen my club become a giant in world football and have memories I will smile about on my deathbed. If I have to vacate my seat it will be thanks for the memories and I hope the person who takes it has as much fun as I had over the years.

 

[Tom_mcfc]

Tad unfair.

Just a funny way of making a valid point.

Perennial moaners. 3% - just smashed or are about to smash almost every league record, young squad of immensely talented players, domestic double, best manager in the world and people are crying over a 3% rise, beggars belief.

Isn't harsh, I imagine he is financially comfortable and is why he feels the need to mock people who aren't happy with their tickets going up again. Being good also doesn't justify a price increase, when we was shit was it ever lower the next year? Was it bollocks.

 

[Tom_mcfc]

being an extremely wealthy guy doesn't come into
on lates last night and might of been a little grumpy this morning :), I don't like price rises, but the owners know what they are doing and if they feel they need to increase for whatever reason as long as its reasonable and as long as the club/team keeps on improving I'm all for it.

BTW last time I looked I was fucking skint :)

Exactly the owners know what they are doing from a business point of view, we are customers not fans and as ever the people that make the club what it is get shat on. They could go up a penny a game and I would feel the same, the amount it has gone up isn't the problem. The problem it has gone up full stop.

 

[oakiecokie]

Actually it gives us the chance to discuss an unnecessary hike in prices at a time when demand isn't that high.

It's a fucking farce upping the cost and anyone defending the club need to take their blue specs off and realise that small incremental rises will eventually price the majority out.

So sorry that you've had to read this thread, maybe you shouldn't come back to this thread in future as it clearly upsets you

It only upsets me as we are just covering the fucking same old posts from the previous 3% hike thread ... nothing new at all except constant weeping and wailing.
For all those moaning about the Rags once again NOT increasing their costs well don`t all those whingers on here just fuck off over the road and watch the turgid shit thats being played over there.
Give me a small price increase any day to watch the style of football we play.

 

[oakiecokie]

I'm going to celebrate like fuck, i'm going to spend silly money on shit beer in the ground before kick off and at half time, i might even treat myself to a fucking pie, and all that time i won't once be fucking complaining about ticket prices because it's the best football the country has ever seen at a reasonable cost compared to others.

The club has to make ends meet, the club pays it's staff (not players) more than the minimum wage and if that means my extra £1 a game helps towards that i'm happy.

Sure the club could freeze or lower prices, but then when we miss out on the next top signing because it's too expensive i'm sure the usual suspects can have a whinge about something else.

Anyone's ire should be aimed at Uefa and FFP as to why our owner has to make ends meet instead of using some of his own cash.

One other thing @jrb , do you actually approve of anything the club does? All i ever see are negative comments regarding the club from you.

Its a wonderful trait he has complaining over fuck all.My only complaints are responding to those people who constantly moan about anything and everything that this wonderful club does.
People also forget that the Club has to run on sustainability and I bet the additional monies we have to fork out for policing has risen thus meaning that the additional monies of £800K as someone mentioned,will soon be eaten up.We are not a bottomless pit of money,as some people (usually other supporters) seem to think.

 

[tommcfc]

Isn't harsh, I imagine he is financially comfortable and is why he feels the need to mock people who aren't happy with their tickets going up again. Being good also doesn't justify a price increase, when we was shit was it ever lower the next year? Was it bollocks.

Think calling someone a weapon, twice, is harsh for the subject matter - but maybe that's just me.

Again, comparisons to the old days of when we were shit isn't the point, it's the present, we're the best team in the country by a long way and the pricing, in my opinion, is relatively fair for that.