charity shield loyalty thought....

[Bluebird1]

Totally Agree, I went to every cup match last season home and away plus replays and could not get a cup final ticket, although all our home games were poorly supported, I recall Leicester and Notts County, where the chant was "your grounds too big for you" due to stay away fans!! now I am going to the Charity sheild, taking my Son and daughter, who also went to every cup match and nephew plus another adult for a great day out and big match experience.

To be honest at this time of the year the financial commitments are pretty heavy, most people going on holiday etc, and it is no different for me, but £100 for 5 tickets isnt too bad albeit the delivery charge/booking fee is terrible!!

I think it is the travelling which is more of a burden (£135.00 for all of us) so why didnt we have the game near home say Villa Park, it is nearer for us, and also for MU as their fans would only have to travel the same distance from London, and Birmingham Airport is just as accessible for Foreign travel as Manchester!!!

They're not likely to change the venue just to suit two Manchester teams.

 

[Shellmcfcneild]

if it ran how it used to be at a neutral ground wouldn't have been an issue

Wembley's pretty neutral isn't it?

Lol true should have worded that better @ a "neutral ground" in our area of country eg villa or birmingham

 

[mancitymick]

Totally Agree, I went to every cup match last season home and away plus replays and could not get a cup final ticket, although all our home games were poorly supported, I recall Leicester and Notts County, where the chant was "your grounds too big for you" due to stay away fans!! now I am going to the Charity sheild, taking my Son and daughter, who also went to every cup match and nephew plus another adult for a great day out and big match experience.

To be honest at this time of the year the financial commitments are pretty heavy, most people going on holiday etc, and it is no different for me, but £100 for 5 tickets isnt too bad albeit the delivery charge/booking fee is terrible!!

I think it is the travelling which is more of a burden (£135.00 for all of us) so why didnt we have the game near home say Villa Park, it is nearer for us, and also for MU as their fans would only have to travel the same distance from London, and Birmingham Airport is just as accessible for Foreign travel as Manchester!!!

They're not likely to change the venue just to suit two Manchester teams.

Also if they had moved it to Villa park the allocation would of been about 15k each and therefor as well as missing out of the final you may have missed out on this

 

[Impeccable]

Some rubbish being spewed on here. Why should some be penalised for not attending a glorified friendly? Get a grip, ffs.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Totally Agree, I went to every cup match last season home and away plus replays and could not get a cup final ticket, although all our home games were poorly supported, I recall Leicester and Notts County, where the chant was "your grounds too big for you" due to stay away fans!! now I am going to the Charity sheild, taking my Son and daughter, who also went to every cup match and nephew plus another adult for a great day out and big match experience.

To be honest at this time of the year the financial commitments are pretty heavy, most people going on holiday etc, and it is no different for me, but £100 for 5 tickets isnt too bad albeit the delivery charge/booking fee is terrible!!

I think it is the travelling which is more of a burden (£135.00 for all of us) so why didnt we have the game near home say Villa Park, it is nearer for us, and also for MU as their fans would only have to travel the same distance from London, and Birmingham Airport is just as accessible for Foreign travel as Manchester!!!

you should join an OSC mate - the number of lads I know who do not go any more, or who do not go very often, who got tickets for the Cup Final due to knowing high up people in supporters clubs is disgraceful - don't get me wrong, all good lads, but as they rarely go (they did in the past) I will never understand why they get tickets and fans who go a lot now do not - I personally know over a dozen like this so how many tickets went like this in total? And I do not think that any of them are going on Sunday - not fair, never has been, and probably never will

 

[Deleted member 14625]

would never happen but I personally think city should award the loyal blues going to wembley on Sunday with a first shout at tickets for our next final....that would ruffle a few feathers though prob not fare on the ones that can't go on Sunday due to financial restraints...

That's the biggest load of bollocks I've ever heard in my life!

A few questions:
Were you at the FA Youth Cup final a few years ago when just 19000 turned up? (Sheff Utd got 29977 for the final afew months ago and took 4500 to Old Trafford for the second leg!)! I was there! It was a more important game than this or any other Community Shield will ever be!
Were you at West Brom in the League Cup last season? Hardly any Blues there at all! I was there! It was a more important game than this or any other Community Shield will ever be!
Were you at Barnsley a few years ago in our home leg of the UEFA Cup Qualifyer against EB Streymur? The club were expecting 15000+ and only 7000 bothered with it! I was there! It was a more important game than this or any other Community Shield will ever be!
Were you at all those Prem games last season and any other where we don't sell out? Must be over 10 a season! I don't go to them all, I'm not lucky enough to afford every single one! But were you since you're banging the drum so hard over this pre-season exhibition game that many fans from every club up and down the country don't care about from the top of the Prem to the Conference, I thougt I'd confirm how you deserve to be talking so much shite!

Fucking pipe down with yer shite opinions and comments! Go to the game, enjoy it, give the Rags a load of shit, but stop dirtying this forum with bullshit!<br /><br />-- Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:40 am --<br /><br />

Totally Agree, I went to every cup match last season home and away plus replays and could not get a cup final ticket, although all our home games were poorly supported, I recall Leicester and Notts County, where the chant was "your grounds too big for you" due to stay away fans!! now I am going to the Charity sheild, taking my Son and daughter, who also went to every cup match and nephew plus another adult for a great day out and big match experience.

To be honest at this time of the year the financial commitments are pretty heavy, most people going on holiday etc, and it is no different for me, but £100 for 5 tickets isnt too bad albeit the delivery charge/booking fee is terrible!!

I think it is the travelling which is more of a burden (£135.00 for all of us) so why didnt we have the game near home say Villa Park, it is nearer for us, and also for MU as their fans would only have to travel the same distance from London, and Birmingham Airport is just as accessible for Foreign travel as Manchester!!!

Well done, I went to every home and away cup match last season too but bothered to go when we were shit too so I had enough points for the semi and the final! If you keep going every season you'll eventually have enough points to toto finals!

 

[Impeccable]

would never happen but I personally think city should award the loyal blues going to wembley on Sunday with a first shout at tickets for our next final....that would ruffle a few feathers though prob not fare on the ones that can't go on Sunday due to financial restraints...

That's the biggest load of bollocks I've ever heard in my life!

A few questions:
Were you at the FA Youth Cup final a few years ago when just 19000 turned up? (Sheff Utd got 29977 for the final afew months ago and took 4500 to Old Trafford for the second leg!)! I was there! It was a more important game than this or any other Community Shield will ever be!
Were you at West Brom in the League Cup last season? Hardly any Blues there at all! I was there! It was a more important game than this or any other Community Shield will ever be!
Were you at Barnsley a few years ago in our home leg of the UEFA Cup Qualifyer against EB Streymur? The club were expecting 15000+ and only 7000 bothered with it! I was there! It was a more important game than this or any other Community Shield will ever be!
Were you at all those Prem games last season and any other where we don't sell out? Must be over 10 a season! I don't go to them all, I'm not lucky enough to afford every single one! But were you since you're banging the drum so hard over this pre-season exhibition game that many fans from every club up and down the country don't care about from the top of the Prem to the Conference, I thougt I'd confirm how you deserve to be talking so much shite!

Fucking pipe down with yer shite opinions and comments! Go to the game, enjoy it, give the Rags a load of shit, but stop dirtying this forum with bullshit!

-- Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:40 am --

Totally Agree, I went to every cup match last season home and away plus replays and could not get a cup final ticket, although all our home games were poorly supported, I recall Leicester and Notts County, where the chant was "your grounds too big for you" due to stay away fans!! now I am going to the Charity sheild, taking my Son and daughter, who also went to every cup match and nephew plus another adult for a great day out and big match experience.

To be honest at this time of the year the financial commitments are pretty heavy, most people going on holiday etc, and it is no different for me, but £100 for 5 tickets isnt too bad albeit the delivery charge/booking fee is terrible!!

I think it is the travelling which is more of a burden (£135.00 for all of us) so why didnt we have the game near home say Villa Park, it is nearer for us, and also for MU as their fans would only have to travel the same distance from London, and Birmingham Airport is just as accessible for Foreign travel as Manchester!!!

Well done, I went to every home and away cup match last season too but bothered to go when we were shit too so I had enough points for the semi and the final! If you keep going every season you'll eventually have enough points to toto finals!

Well said that man

 

[colin's bell helmet]

absolutely spot on Dan.......guaranteed cup final tkts for going to a fuckin friendly match! ha ha do me a fuckin favour. I also got semi/cup final tkts no problem because I've had a season tkt for 20yrs and had enough points, it's simple really if you don't have enough loyalty points to meet criteria for games then you don't deserve a ticket for that game. why do people moan that they go to cup games yet can't get tickets for a final because if all season ticket holders took up their seat for these cup games then these cup goers wouldn't even be able to go to the fuckin cup games either!!

 

[andy66]

would never happen but I personally think city should award the loyal blues going to wembley on Sunday with a first shout at tickets for our next final....that would ruffle a few feathers though prob not fare on the ones that can't go on Sunday due to financial restraints...

Don't agree. This match has no relevance to any later this season. Priority for semi-final and final tickets should be given to those that attend the earlier rounds. Not just buy a ticket but actually go.

 

[schfc6]

Oh this again., it's not fair I went every cup game and didn't get a final ticket.
Well I got a ticket because, I spent years going all over the country for cup and league games. Places I've been with City range from Groclin disco ball or whatever it was called, to Lokeren, to Bournmouth to Mansfield in a pre season friendly to Doncaster, the infamous friendly where Barton got his arse handed to him by Keegan and some big black dude playing centre mid for Doncaster. Effectively I've been all over the place with City, we even had to blag a lift back from a league game at Port Vale because we had no money for the train and we were too young to drive. Yet because it's my best mates daughters Christening I should miss next years final if we get there? That sounds fair. I know why don't we come up with a system that rewards years of loyalty, something like a points system where the more games you have attended, the longer you have had a season ticket the more points you get,, that sounds fair to me.