ChicagoBlue
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Speaking of Arsenal...exciting game and nice come back! Season has started out very tasty!
What I am saying is that life changes, life around our lives changes, we adjust. Because City is so important to some, I assume they make adjustments to allow themselves to go to games, until they can't. What to do? Do we subsidize ticket costs? Make some tickets cheaper? You know, like £300 for a season ticket....that's a ticket to every home game for £15.79! And, with the ability to sell a few of those to offset costs if £8/wk is too much.
I'm all for City making season tickets cheaper, but I'm realistic enough to know that I should probably not going to happen on a widespread basis, especially given the levels of investment at the club.
When City were shit, was itrelatively cheaper to watch them? Sure! Why were they shit? Maybe because they didn't have the investment needed to buy the players the likes of United, Liverpool and the rest were buying?! Circular argument, isn't it?!
I think City do a good job of keeping a portion of season tickets as inexpensive as any around. They don't allow you to sit with your mates, they don't throw in a beer or a pie or a shirt, but they make it about as cheap as a packet of fags every week. Is that cheap enough? I'm not the one to say.
As for my applying the free market to tickets, I'm not, nor is City. If either of us were, then there wouldn't be £299 season tickets and there would be an auction for tickets. However, I would note that the club is running a global business and they DO have to live in a world where free market principles apply. In fact, we hear about them being applied to City by fans all the time....like why City don't make £750M from their short sponsor, for example.
Everyone understands the concept, but some people don't like it applied to their slice of the pie. I don't make the rules. City don't listen to me when they set ticket prices, and they don't ask me how they should price anything. I'm simply an observer of what they do, and am trying to explain why.
I have no dog in the hunt, so fire away.....
Plus if you're an old facker like me £35 Everton and only 25 Palace,all on open sale and like you say no Cityzen membership needed.Lowest option for Everton is for a non Cityzen and is £45. or they can go to the Palace game for £35, no Cityzen membership required.
And as a wider point, it's not really your stance on the club's ticket policy that I disagree with in particular. It's your suggestion that people's earnings are simply a reflection of how hard they work. I think it's a very simplistic and closeted view of the world. You've suggested you have come from a difficult background and made a success of yourself financially. That's credit to you. But everyone had a different path, different circumstances. It's lazy and arrogant to suggest anyone who hasn't made money has simply not worked hard enough. Plenty of the hardest workers earn minimum wage and they've all got a different stories.