Away tickets and points?

[Stephen230]

Getting away tickets now is similar to getting a season ticket. A little over 10 years ago, you could phone the ticket office and get a season ticket same day. Not so anymore. And that's because City are massive now.

I wouldn’t say over 10 years ago. I’ve bought two extra season tickets from scratch, one last year and the other about 3/4 years ago.

 

[wolfie1988]

To answer your questions, the club understandably aren't too forthcoming even to us about the work they do in monitoring ticket sales but I know they do have people dealing with these issues and it would be foolish to dismiss their figures of 25-30% of tickets changing hands prior to the change. It was clearly something they WERE concerned about so they do give a shit.

The only way people will catch up is if we ditch most of the hitoric points, and only go on more recent ones. So a 3 or 5 year rolling system. I think it just goes on the previous season at Liverpool. However there's the danger that the genuine hardcore support, who have been going to 90% or more of the games for many years, could be impacted so it's one the club and City Matters have to handle very carefully if we ever plan to implement this.

Each ticket they send out in the post costs money, whether that's to hospitality or OSC's, although I suspect the original benefit for introducing the OSC applications all those years ago was to save time and effort, when we had fewer branches and less restriction on the numbers of travelling fans.

I would genuinely love to know how they came to that figure. I, nor anybody I know, have ever been approached by anybody at an away game asking how I got my ticket or anything else. Besides the collect in destination in Madrid, Glasgow etc. it's very rare you see a member of City staff at an away game unless they are there as a fan or around the pitch as media.

I just think it's a very high %

 

[Stephen230]

They always mention a proportion of the allocation going to owner, players, board members etc. But if these people are going to the game, they’re sat in the directors box or a private box, not in the away end. I’ve occasionally seen an ex player in the away end but I’m pretty sure if Mansour and his family fancy taking in Palace away one year, they ain’t gonna be sat down near the corner flag with us. So don’t see why they all need to cream off the allocation for fans?

 

[Blue Mist]

I don't know the answer but it will be a lot more than 100-500. If guess at 10,000+ which would be 500k+ a year.

Which is a lot of money so they won't get rid of it. :-(
(Oh and I am shit at maths so was struggling to work out what figure to put in :-) )

 

[Originals]

I didn't know that - that's pretty rubbish to be honest. Would work a lot better if it was on a game-by-game basis. Would also be interesting for the club to know how many people actually want to go to each game.

A ballot really would never work.

We'd get the usual, oversubscribed for United, Liverpool Everton and any big games at the end of the season.

Soon as the midweek games and the Southampton or Palace away come round theyll be the same people (top level points who'd go) and the rest would end up on general sale like how the points system works now.

The points system surely shows who wants to go every game as they are top of the leader for going every game.

 

[Blue Mist]

I have an idea, let's all jib in or print our own, it seems to work for others.

 

[Corky]

They always mention a proportion of the allocation going to owner, players, board members etc. But if these people are going to the game, they’re sat in the directors box or a private box, not in the away end. I’ve occasionally seen an ex player in the away end but I’m pretty sure if Mansour and his family fancy taking in Palace away one year, they ain’t gonna be sat down near the corner flag with us. So don’t see why they all need to cream off the allocation for fans?

Brighton away 2019, families friends and minders even - it shows what happens if they all want to go, they get as many as they want.

 

[Originals]

Brighton away 2019, families friends and minders even - it shows what happens if they all want to go, they get as many as they want.

Each club should give areas for families and friends and just charge the club for the tickets.
Similar to what uefa do stick them in the posh seats near the directors/give them a box. Clubs could afford the cost of it all

 

[Corky]

Each club should give areas for families and friends and just charge the club for the tickets.
Similar to what uefa do stick them in the posh seats near the directors/give them a box. Clubs could afford the cost of it all

The cat a allocation, think it is 200 "between the 16 metre lines". Probably closer to a block for brighton like 500, and normally a tenth of that.

It would be better to have any extra allocation as you say, players and sponsors, if it doesn't into the 3k/10%.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I would genuinely love to know how they came to that figure. I, nor anybody I know, have ever been approached by anybody at an away game asking how I got my ticket or anything else. Besides the collect in destination in Madrid, Glasgow etc. it's very rare you see a member of City staff at an away game unless they are there as a fan or around the pitch as media.

I just think it's a very high %

I don't work for MI6 but I can take a guess that, among other things, they monitor social media channels and third-party ticket sites. Who knows; Daz Clarke could be Danny Wilson's pseudonym.

I once worked out on the Ticket forum on here that well over 30 tickets changed hands for one away game. And that was just the ones that were obvious.