You reap what you sow city ,maybe it needs an empty stadium to re focus that it's the legacy fan they need
We don't really have an issue selling out league games though (hence why the prices are so high). It's the midweek cup games that are the problem and I'm not sure pricing is the issue. They could give tickets away for free and it still wouldn't encourage people to travel from outside Greater Manchester to the lesser games.As a season ticket holder I wouldn't have much of an issue with one-off match tickets being the same price pro-rata. There are plenty of benefits to being a season ticket holder these days (ie first dibs on finals etc and more loyalty points).
Don't give them any ideas FFSI have an idea for an incentive to improve gates at the early mid-week cup games.
Offer cup schemes to non-seasoncard holders. If they commit to going to every UCL game (or League Cup/FA Cup) they get priority for final tickets over seasoncard holders who aren't on the scheme.
The other option (which I don't advocate) is to make UCL games compulsory for seasoncard holders like Liverpool, United and Chelsea do - if we did that our gates would be bigger, but at the expense of our supporters.
Haha the club would probably make it compulsory and then put out a tweet saying cup tickets are non transferable.I have an idea for an incentive to improve gates at the early mid-week cup games.
Offer cup schemes to non-seasoncard holders. If they commit to going to every UCL game (or League Cup/FA Cup) they get priority for final tickets over seasoncard holders who aren't on the scheme.
The other option (which I don't advocate) is to make UCL games compulsory for seasoncard holders like Liverpool, United and Chelsea do - if we did that our gates would be bigger, but at the expense of our supporters.
Southampton still showing on my phone too. Am wondering when it will change, part of me doesn't trust it to do so.It was a reply on the supporters service twitter thing. Didn't say why, I mean, why should they have to explain themselves.
I have still not had any money taken out for leipzig and Southampton is still showing on my phone.
I'm still waiting, hoping they take the money tomorrow because I can't be arsed with having to wait for hours on the phone to the ticket officeHas anyone on the CL Cup scheme had their DD monies taken yet for this game?
I suspect this is a much more realistic reason than the quite specific complaints about mobile ticketing or ticket office stuff to be honest. International student recruitment is down by about 40% across the sector, and I think lots of unis are still offering online stuff for Chinese students. This is a perfect storm of pandemic + Brexit + new immigration laws. The Manchester unis are some of the biggest recruiters here, but lots of international students would travel from surrounding cities to see a CL game. Once you include international tourism into Manchester, typically 1m+ a year, plus the fact the first CL game is before home students are back anyway, which is another 400k a year, I'd quite comfortably say that is anywhere between 5k and 20k tickets that we might have sold otherwise. For whatever reason, many "old school" City fans don't come to CL games, but the people who normally take their place won't be here either.Also normally at these games you get a lot of non-city fans from abroad who take up the slack, foreign students and the like, a lot of of French around me normally even if not playing a French team. These people are unlikely to be in the country now.