Away tickets

fathellensbellend said:
Surely games like the community shield should offer loyalty points, thousands of tickets left, surely a decent incentive would shift a few, for those who want to progress the door is closed, how can that ever help sales.
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Nail on head regarding attendance. It is exactly those who can’t be bothered to go to this game who shout “foul” when they can’t get to old Trafford or anfield.

Give them a midweek away game with travel of over 50 miles and they are nowhere to be seen unlike those of us who have over 25k points. - why do we have those points? Because we go to every game not just the ones we feel entitled to!!!

Rant over. Couldn’t give two hoots about loyalty points but heartily sick if the implied criticism of those of us who are at the top of the tree - we got there because we did the hard yards. Yes we all lost points from the 70’s and 80’s and 90s but a personal record of 8 years without missing any game except US preseason friendlies means I am entitled to feel entitled!!!
 
Corky said:
Wigan wasn't boycotted, just not many turned up as it was £35 instead of £25 teh year before, however ehrn the story is told in another 20 years it will be £50 up from a fiver.

The fake Bolton boycott was £28, but because there was some story of a boycott most fans had to pay £36 for upper tier as they made us fill that first.

We only got 2036 for Everton a couple of games before Wigan, the prices vary but were around £27/£28, compared to 1,961 for Wigan, both on the telly on Saturday, but Everton was 515 and Wigan 1245. Blackburn 2,807 earlier that season out of 7k.

The fact is we had no glory fans then.
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Pretty sure that Everton away game was a 3pm kick-off. Micah equalised in about the 94th minute.

The reasons for some of our poor away crowds at the start of that season was as much to do with us having a shite second half of the season in 2005-06 as anything else. The poor turnout at Wigan was 3 fold: Ticket prices up a tenner from the year before, 12.45 kick-off on the box, and City being utter dog shit. My mate left at around 60 minutes and was back in a pub in Levenshulme before the final whistle had gone. Our supporters club branch took a minibus with just 9 fans on it. 6 weeks or so later we played Villa away midweek. It was a match I wasn’t originally planning to go to as I was returning from New York the day before but after we got beat 4-0 at Wigan I thought fuck it, I’m going. That night the Wigan 9 became the Villa 7, yet when we played at Old Trafford less than 2 weeks later, we miraculously had about 90 branch members turn up for that one.
 
M18CTID said:
Pretty sure that Everton away game was a 3pm kick-off. Micah equalised in about the 94th minute.

The reasons for some of our poor away crowds at the start of that season was as much to do with us having a shite second half of the season in 2005-06 as anything else. The poor turnout at Wigan was 3 fold: Ticket prices up a tenner from the year before, 12.45 kick-off on the box, and City being utter dog shit. My mate left at around 60 minutes and was back in a pub in Levenshulme before the final whistle had gone. Our supporters club branch took a minibus with just 9 fans on it. 6 weeks or so later we played Villa away midweek. It was a match I wasn’t originally planning to go to as I was returning from New York the day before but after we got beat 4-0 at Wigan I thought fuck it, I’m going. That night the Wigan 9 became the Villa 7, yet when we played at Old Trafford less than 2 weeks later, we miraculously had about 90 branch members turn up for that one.
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Yeah it was 3pm after checking an no fans turned up, so hardly a wiggin boycott with a very similar number. There was no one in the cheaper back 10 rows on the lower as they were the restricted cheaper ones they were meant to sell last, I insisted on buying them and there were just two of us, but decent seats as we could sit right where we wanted. No booze in he ground either in those days.

Villa away midweek twice in 2 years, and it was the cheapest away was around 1000 from city for the Vassell 1-0 and the Distin classic for 3-1.

However we need to change the system as the middle class fans want to 'catch up' now we are good with their discriminatory 'equality' changes for younger fans as a Trojan horse. Led by a middle class fan short of points.
 
kbb said:
Nail on head regarding attendance. It is exactly those who can’t be bothered to go to this game who shout “foul” when they can’t get to old Trafford or anfield.

Give them a midweek away game with travel of over 50 miles and they are nowhere to be seen unlike those of us who have over 25k points. - why do we have those points? Because we go to every game not just the ones we feel entitled to!!!

Rant over. Couldn’t give two hoots about loyalty points but heartily sick if the implied criticism of those of us who are at the top of the tree - we got there because we did the hard yards. Yes we all lost points from the 70’s and 80’s and 90s but a personal record of 8 years without missing any game except US preseason friendlies means I am entitled to feel entitled!!!
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Bingo
 
kbb said:
Nail on head regarding attendance. It is exactly those who can’t be bothered to go to this game who shout “foul” when they can’t get to old Trafford or anfield.

Give them a midweek away game with travel of over 50 miles and they are nowhere to be seen unlike those of us who have over 25k points. - why do we have those points? Because we go to every game not just the ones we feel entitled to!!!

Rant over. Couldn’t give two hoots about loyalty points but heartily sick if the implied criticism of those of us who are at the top of the tree - we got there because we did the hard yards. Yes we all lost points from the 70’s and 80’s and 90s but a personal record of 8 years without missing any game except US preseason friendlies means I am entitled to feel entitled!!!
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Can you explain why you missed the us pre season friendliest before we make a judgement?
 
Tim of the Oak said:
I wonder if Ric can put a quota on Corky’s and Simon’s superfan posts. Maybe 5 a week would do!
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If you are not a glory fan or chronic part timer you are now a super fan, all the we missed the boat SC/CM cabal so change the rules.
 
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