Away fans in home end again

[Indaparkside]

I started watching City aged 4, sat over an exit in the old scoreboard end at Maine rd. 1964. Never had a drink or burger or asked for one. Why cant parents feed kids at home before or after a match. Watching City was the highlight of my week, didn't need burger or Coke.

That’s because we couldn’t afford burgers back then:) used to have flask and pkt of crisps when I was a nipper

 

[Tim of the Oak]

That’s because we couldn’t afford burgers back then:) used to have flask and pkt of crisps when I was a nipper

I take it that was a hip flask?

 

[Indaparkside]

I take it that was a hip flask?

Haha did you carry a bum bag for your kebab fatty:)

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Say we have the expansion to 63,000 3000 for away fans. 60,000 blues paying £20 a game is 1.2 million. I know this is a very rough and general prediction. It would be very interesting to see how much the club needs from ticket sales per game to be self sufficient.

We made an operating loss of £28m last financial year, offset by a £38m profit on transfers. Previous year it was about the same so I'd say it's nearly £30m extra we need. We could probably do that if we got rid of the £325 and other cheaper tickets and charged the maximum price in each stand for any seat in there. We could also not offer any released season tickets to people and sell those as matchday seats. In about 6 or 7 years at the current rate of churn we'd be down to about 26,000 season ticket, which is the same as Liverpool and be able to sell half our seats at matchday prices.

If I was COO or CEO at City, and I really didn't care about the fans but only about significantly raising matchday revenue, that's what I would do bit I'm pretty sure that's not what our fans want. I'm sure we'd all like price freezes but if the only two choices on the table were small increases or what I suggested as the nuclear option to raise matchday revenue but then a freeze for 5 years, then I'm also sure most would (reluctantly) accept the small increases over one huge one.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Haha did you carry a bum bag for your kebab fatty:)

I hadn’t heard of kebabs in those days lol

 

[meeesh]

I said I'll bring it up. It's happening too often. My own brother's seat was put on Ticket Exchange for the derby and was sold to a rag. But there's no guarantee that the club will do anything or that anything they do will be 100% effective. It could be that it's our own fans selling some of these tickets. Everyone is quick to defend the Facebook page but what safeguards do they have against away fans buying tickets? Or on here?

At the same time there's people on the Madrid thread saying they'll get tickets in the home area. Can't have it both ways.

Fair enough,I agree as you say,if home fans are selling their tickets to "away" fans,the club will play that get out of jail free card without doubt,shameful though it is.

As for what happens at Madrid,that is of no relevance to me

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

didn't need burger or Coke.

To be fair, it wasn't a working class drug in those days.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

You say that, but I was in the neutral stand behind the goal next to the away section for Fulham away last year, and really enjoyed the day out. There’s no way the 2 of us would’ve qualified for the away section, so it was a great compromise. There was no sign of bother, but a fair few blues who stood up/cheered when we scored.
We heard plenty of foreign voices around us - London as an international city with lots of overseas workers and visitors who want nothing more than to take in the experience of a PL footy game whilst they are over here. Manchester doesn’t have that on the same scale, but it’s true to some extent.
If our stadium had the capacity, I honestly would not have a problem with it, esp if that was where agencies, prize winners, freebie tickets etc were all placed @Prestwich_Blue

So you’d be happy with potentially hundreds of Liverpool fans/away fans in the family stand??? Even though we could easily fill those seats with actual city fans. You’d also be depriving city fans from being able to get tickets.

We aren’t Fulham and unlike them we have the support to fill the seats - SS3 being an example of that when the away fans don’t fill their allocation.

I think the vast majority of city fans would be completely against the idea and if it was ever implemented I can only imagine the backlash

 

[supersonicblue]

We made an operating loss of £28m last financial year, offset by a £38m profit on transfers. Previous year it was about the same so I'd say it's nearly £30m extra we need. We could probably do that if we got rid of the £325 and other cheaper tickets and charged the maximum price in each stand for any seat in there. We could also not offer any released season tickets to people and sell those as matchday seats. In about 6 or 7 years at the current rate of churn we'd be down to about 26,000 season ticket, which is the same as Liverpool and be able to sell half our seats at matchday prices.

If I was COO or CEO at City, and I really didn't care about the fans but only about significantly raising matchday revenue, that's what I would do bit I'm pretty sure that's not what our fans want. I'm sure we'd all like price freezes but if the only two choices on the table were small increases or what I suggested as the nuclear option to raise matchday revenue but then a freeze for 5 years, then I'm also sure most would (reluctantly) accept the small increases over one huge one.

I get what your saying but when it gets to the next generation how are people going to pay for it. If you look around on a match day we are very much an ageing fan base who have been paying for their season ticket year on year. People complain about no atmosphere and no wonder why because young people simply can’t afford it. I’m not saying this is just city and eventually stadiums across Britain will lie half empty because no one can afford it. Tell me how German teams manage to make even if they’re only charging their fans £20 euros a game.

 

[ultimateharold]

It’s a hollow temporary stand in a ground that should have been demolished in the 1970’s. Brentford and QPR (and even Chelsea) are real West London clubs. Fulham less so.

A neutral section at City would be unsegregated and allow perhaps 3000 rival fans to purchase tickets in our end. I can’t think of one positive outcome here when Liverpool or Spurs take the lead. Imagine a European night with Napoli or Galatasaray. Carnage.

Colin Bell L3 has what are essentially blocks for away fans for years in the CL