Cheap season tickets on the way out

[blingy]

Club aren't impressed with the amount of people buying tickets and not turning up to games. The general feeling is that the cheap cost of the ticket allows people to miss matches willy-nilly without feeling they've wasted their money. This mostly relates to the cheap kids season tickets in the north stand, where the figures for actual attendance are pretty poor to say the least. There's now hundreds if not thousands of fans who can't get tickets because an empty seat is taking their place.

If you've bought a cheap kids season ticket and don't use it often then best put it to use before the club raise the price and give the ticket to someone who wants to go to every game and is willing to pay for it.

As far as I'm concerned this all falls back on the whole north stand = family stand concept. Not sure if it can work with higher ticket prices and that many seats.

How do you know this fella??? And who exactly isn’t empresses??
HRH ?? Kaldoon ??
can’t see them being that fussed tbh about a few kids having to miss the odd game here and there due to bad weather late kick offs and school nights!!!
Think it is a bit of a myth there are thousands of empty seats regular in the family stand,, nope !! I know it’s a myth, as I sit there and there has not been Thousands of empty seats in that section all season.
on the odd occasion where there have been noticeable non attended (bad weather, night games) I’m sure the club would have been expecting this,, or do you think they would expect me to bring a 5 year old to a night game and keep him out till 11 pm on a school night, or perhaps sit said 5 year old in minus 5 temperatures with a risk of being stuck on snowed in roads for hours after the game ??
I am thinking the great minds at our club will have expected that there may be a few people not attending at night games and when the weather is bad, and that a good percentage of these would be from the family stand

 

[Halfpenny]

The easy way to solve this? A ticket exchange. Resell the empties makes the club a bit of extra on top of the ticket that's already been paid for. Don't know why they got rid in the first place.

Besides, why put up prices because people aren't going? 'People who want to go more will pay more' is ridiculous reasoning for an increase. Fulham was a special case, the weather conditions were awful and I understand why people didn't turn up, either because they couldn't make it or were worried about the conditions on the way home.

You see a lot of empties in the corporate sections most games, nothing's said about those. The few in the stands will be sorted easily with a seat exchange.

 

[Anonymous]

surely having cheaper seats would solve the problem of having empty seats not the issue, if you put prices up wont more people be less inclined to renew ?

also dont we have one of the oldest fanbases in the league, surely cheap ticket for kids will help to combat this?

 

[Blue Si O.B]

I know a few people with season tickets that dont even live in this country and only but them so they can come over for the derby and other big games willy nilly. one lives in philadelphia usa for fucks sake.

 

[fat boy blue]

A source close to the club told me not to trust a story without a genuine source close to the club

 

[birchvillablue]

More North stand bashing from the old bastard brigade.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Club aren't impressed with the amount of people buying tickets and not turning up to games. The general feeling is that the cheap cost of the ticket allows people to miss matches willy-nilly without feeling they've wasted their money. This mostly relates to the cheap kids season tickets in the north stand, where the figures for actual attendance are pretty poor to say the least. There's now hundreds if not thousands of fans who can't get tickets because an empty seat is taking their place.

If you've bought a cheap kids season ticket and don't use it often then best put it to use before the club raise the price and give the ticket to someone who wants to go to every game and is willing to pay for it.

As far as I'm concerned this all falls back on the whole north stand = family stand concept. Not sure if it can work with higher ticket prices and that many seats.

I don't believe this for one minute but I'll answer anyway. My kids have had their season tickets for 5 seasons now and they have missed 2 matches, one in the league and one in the cup. We sit in North Stand level 2 in the corner by the Colin Bell Stand. There are as many empties in the East Stand Level one as there are in the North Stand. So if we have to pay more then so should the East Stand Season ticket holders.

 

[u2fme2]

sounds like a bloody excuse to me

 

[theperfect10]

More North stand bashing from the old bastard brigade.

This.

If you price kids out of the game we won't grow a wider fan base that we'll need to sustain success into the future.

 

[Scrabster Six]

I'm in North stand with lad I go every game lad goes nearly every game except for school nights cant see City pricing the kids out but everybody has a "ceiling" price and thats citys call theres plenty of other things for the kids to do if City want to concentrate on their corporate people..