The Club could take the best elements of season cards and flexi-golds to help sustain family generational support. For example, city offer a service with the FGs of placing adults with their kids. Season card holders could be required to attend 10 games or more in person too.Hope you’re feeling better soon mate.
Top post by the way. Of course, I don’t want us to lose the 115 case but I do feel that with the direction the club is travelling the generational link between fans is going to be broken. The decision to not offer new season tickets going forward will stop kids following in their parents and grandparents footsteps. When we were dogshit and in the second and third tier we never had to worry about any of that. That’s one of only a number of serious issues of course. Match day pricing for league games is another big one and it smacks of short-sightedness. The club could still make a fortune in ticketing revenues without pricing out our core supporters or denying them the chance of getting on the season ticket ladder in future. There’s a place at the club for legacy fans, new fans, and tourists, yet certain people at the club seem hellbent on alienating the former.
I have a similar experience in that on CL nights I see very few seasoncard holders around me but the club data suggests that 1 in 2 seasoncard holders are going to these games. Much more than I thought. In my block, I feel like I am surrounded by match-day fans on a CL night with half and half scarfs but I think many of these are locals and yet some fans think we need to get more locals at City and they don't like tourists at the club. Who are the match-day fans who turn up on a CL night. Some are labeled unfairly I believe as tourists because they wear half and half scarfs. The families who turn up with young children for an FA Cup game with half and half scarfs do not get labelled as tourists, or I hope they do not.I fear you are correct. As a family (3 generations) we have 5 season cards all sat together in SL3.
The day they consign season tickets to the bin is the day I will personally stop going. I am sure my kids wont.
As previously mentioned, due to some ongoing health issues I have now missed Newcastle, Madrid, Liverpool, Plymouth and Forest away today so far. My last game was the Tarquins away.
Have I missed going? Yes of course because it has been part of my life for over 43years. Not missed the 'matchday' experience but missed spending quality time with my 3 kids now 24, 15 and 12. Its what we do. Its fun. Seeing the same people sat around us on league games, those friendships you form. On c.league nights there is 1 person who is the same as on league games. I really dont like c.league and am personally unsure if i will continue in the scheme but fomo for final tickets is the deciding factor for me. My kids are City mad and say they will never ever stop going but as I have gotten older I am more relaxed about it. I want to be going for the next 25 yrs and hopefully the club will listen. My lad wrote a superb letter to the club for this meeting. I am sure he wont mind me putting it on here.
The new stand should be priced correctly so a generation of blues who have been priced out can return but I fear this is simply a pipedream.
In a perverse way I want us to be relegated to league 2 because the club would simply have to revert its pricing policy and for me the tourists would fuck off. Here is the letter he wrote. If you read left to right. The last attachment is his response from the club.
For obvious reasons City want to maximise ticket revenue but there is a tension between revenue loyalty and atmosphere and I don't think the club understands this very well.Hope you’re feeling better soon mate.
Top post by the way. Of course, I don’t want us to lose the 115 case but I do feel that with the direction the club is travelling the generational link between fans is going to be broken. The decision to not offer new season tickets going forward will stop kids following in their parents and grandparents footsteps. When we were dogshit and in the second and third tier we never had to worry about any of that. That’s one of only a number of serious issues of course. Match day pricing for league games is another big one and it smacks of short-sightedness. The club could still make a fortune in ticketing revenues without pricing out our core supporters or denying them the chance of getting on the season ticket ladder in future. There’s a place at the club for legacy fans, new fans, and tourists, yet certain people at the club seem hellbent on alienating the former.
Thanks mate. I will be back soon.Hope you’re feeling better soon mate.
Top post by the way. Of course, I don’t want us to lose the 115 case but I do feel that with the direction the club is travelling the generational link between fans is going to be broken. The decision to not offer new season tickets going forward will stop kids following in their parents and grandparents footsteps. When we were dogshit and in the second and third tier we never had to worry about any of that. That’s one of only a number of serious issues of course. Match day pricing for league games is another big one and it smacks of short-sightedness. The club could still make a fortune in ticketing revenues without pricing out our core supporters or denying them the chance of getting on the season ticket ladder in future. There’s a place at the club for legacy fans, new fans, and tourists, yet certain people at the club seem hellbent on alienating the former.
Great Post mate..and bravo to your lad for putting that letter together, you must be very proud of him.I fear you are correct. As a family (3 generations) we have 5 season cards all sat together in SL3.
The day they consign season tickets to the bin is the day I will personally stop going. I am sure my kids wont.
As previously mentioned, due to some ongoing health issues I have now missed Newcastle, Madrid, Liverpool, Plymouth and Forest away today so far. My last game was the Tarquins away.
Have I missed going? Yes of course because it has been part of my life for over 43years. Not missed the 'matchday' experience but missed spending quality time with my 3 kids now 24, 15 and 12. Its what we do. Its fun. Seeing the same people sat around us on league games, those friendships you form. On c.league nights there is 1 person who is the same as on league games. I really dont like c.league and am personally unsure if i will continue in the scheme but fomo for final tickets is the deciding factor for me. My kids are City mad and say they will never ever stop going but as I have gotten older I am more relaxed about it. I want to be going for the next 25 yrs and hopefully the club will listen. My lad wrote a superb letter to the club for this meeting. I am sure he wont mind me putting it on here.
The new stand should be priced correctly so a generation of blues who have been priced out can return but I fear this is simply a pipedream.
In a perverse way I want us to be relegated to league 2 because the club would simply have to revert its pricing policy and for me the tourists would fuck off. Here is the letter he wrote. If you read left to right. The last attachment is his response from the club.
Do you think you'd even notice? It's not much more than 1 person per row, and in an otherwise full stadium, I doubt that would feel unusual. Even when most games are sold out, there's usually one empty seat somewhere near me.
Last season I noticed that one seat across from me started off with someone in the seat but then about 15/20 minutes into the first half the person disappeared and didn’t come back. After a couple of matches I asked him what happens and found he was going to join his mates in a standing area!There’s usually a few empties on my row.
My mate hasn’t come out of the 93:20 bar for the 2nd half, 2 or 3 times this season .Last season I noticed that one seat across from me started off with someone in the seat but then about 15/20 minutes into the first half the person disappeared and didn’t come back. After a couple of matches I asked him what happens and found he was going to join his mates in a standing area!
who can blame him ?My mate hasn’t come out of the 93:20 bar for the 2nd half, 2 or 3 times this season .
LOL - my m8 cant squeeze in 4 to 5 pints at half time no problem and is back in his seat for kick off almost always. Hes a machine - dont know how he does itMy mate hasn’t come out of the 93:20 bar for the 2nd half, 2 or 3 times this season .
Or affords itLOL - my m8 cant squeeze in 4 to 5 pints at half time no problem and is back in his seat for kick off almost always. Hes a machine - dont know how he does it
City fans forget that 10% of the population have money. City need to remember that 90% do not.Spoke to a lad in New York. He is going to the Leicester game. He bought through an agency. Two tickets £500. He thought it was great value for a pre-match meal offsite (Vermilion, Gaucho, Lucky Cat, or Dakota), transfers to the Etihad, free bar and then seats together in the ground.
Because it’s a pain in the fucking arse. Especially for those not tech-savvy.What’s shocking to me is that there’s around 3,000 season tickets holder, per game, who simply don’t show up. Don’t try and move on their ticket, or anything.
Do they get a choice of which of them restaurants they can go to or do they just get allocated one?Spoke to a lad in New York. He is going to the Leicester game. He bought through an agency. Two tickets £500. He thought it was great value for a pre-match meal offsite (Vermilion, Gaucho, Lucky Cat, or Dakota), transfers to the Etihad, free bar and then seats together in the ground.
The area where there's generally noticeable gaps from where I sit is in Joe's/93:20.It's not shocking; it's bollocks.
That would mean 1 in every 18 seats was empty and I doubt that is correct.
Christ, i thought we were bad,just been sent this,apologies if already been posted.
we thought we had it bad, rangers fans doing a munich dance in their home end,christ.I enjoyed that,
Funny fucker he is.
They wouldn’t have got away with that in the 80s!we thought we had it bad, rangers fans doing a munich dance in their home end,christ.