It’s not the price of success at all. You’re picking extreme alternatives.Sadly it's the price of success. We all wish it wasn't but it is. The alternative is having an owner/chairman like Peter Swales, cheaper tickets and zero success. Many of us on here have experienced both. Although the 35 years of mediocrity, the pain of relegations and highs of promotions were character building and at times a blast, I certainly wouldn't swap them for the incredible football I've witnessed and trophy haul we've achieved in the last 14 years.
Football with it's ridiculous financial rules to meet and hoops to jump through to achieve those rules have contributed to rising ticket prices for every club. We're sadly probably stuck with this now and only a return to mediocrity again will lower the prices.
There won't always be 62,000 people in the stadium for every match. And the hotel won't always be full. Most hotels in the city centre are never always full, especially during the week.They won't all be tourist and what is a tourist? A season ticket holder from Norwich? 400 rooms is nothing when there are 61.000 in the stadium.
No, it's not the price of success. People keep on posting that.
As well as being succesful, MANSOUR and his directors could have treated the fans differently, and the club still could have been successful. But instead, after being successful, our owner and his directors began taking the fans for granted, and began treating the fans like shit, only being concerned about revenues and making money.
Remember MANSOUR's and Khaldoon's hollow words about how important the fans are/were to both of them? As it turns out, it was all PR bullshit, and they lied to us, but we didn't know that at the time. We do now.
Before this announcement we already had eight official ticket reseller partners. What do Viagogo bring to the table that the others can’t and will this mean we can reduce the number of partners in this sector. If I was one of the eight I would be asking why does this company generate an announcement when to the best of my knowledge the others didn’t. Are they receiving something the others aren’t?
It’s not the price of success at all. You’re picking extreme alternatives.
We could easily have affordable tickets and more corporate/ expensive seating.
What is the point of all this success if the actual fans can’t afford to go to the games? In the next 35 years - the next generation won’t be watching city regularly.
This is on the club and we shouldn’t bend over and accept it!
I don't think many 'legacy' fans have issues with new fans or day tripper coming, getting behind the team and adding to the vibe.The fact is that locals and season ticket holders will not be filling the 400 rooms in the new Radisson 'medlock' hotel.
It's the day trippers and half and half crowd that make that a viable business.
They aren't. The clubs would have increased season ticket and match day ticket prices anyway. And are doing.Again reread my post, clubs are having to increase prices to meet the ridiculous constraints the so called fair play rules give them. That's every club not just us. As the most successful of the last few years we can keep raising ours as the demand for tickets is high. That allows us to go and spend 200+ million in January to try and arrest a disastrous season so far by our standards. We will no doubt spend at least that amount again in the summer. Sure there is an element of greed involved too, of milking the golden cow, but unless we have a few more seasons like this one it sadly won't change.
Is the correct description of them.Bunch of cunts
That's why it has to be on 65 minutes, 15 minutes before the 80 minuters get up go.No one would notice a boycott at the end, it would just look like every other game as the early leavers exercise their collective right to fuck off early!!
I don't think many 'legacy' fans have issues with new fans or day tripper coming, getting behind the team and adding to the vibe.
(except when they get away tickets easily)
that is a different issue to signing a partnership with a bunch of ticket touting cunts or selling home tickets to away fans
Viagogo bring the most publicised and ridiculed price increases of any tickets tout company, going back 13 years. They’re a fucking terrible company.Before this announcement we already had eight official ticket reseller partners. What do Viagogo bring to the table that the others can’t and will this mean we can reduce the number of partners in this sector. If I was one of the eight I would be asking why does this company generate an announcement when to the best of my knowledge the others didn’t. Are they receiving something the others aren’t?
Yes if proper fans are been priced outDoes that matter as long as any match day fans can get the tickets they want too.
That's a seperate thing though.Yes if proper fans are been priced out
How I despise Viagogo.ticket touting of the highest order.'This multi-year agreement will see hospitality tickets from the Club’s existing hospitality allocation for men’s home fixtures and tickets for women’s fixtures made available directly on viagogo’s platform'.
How long before we see away tickets listed?
It isn't.That's a seperate thing though.
It isn't.
Tourist pay over the odds.
Local fans get forced out.
End result.
Ground full of twats.
And a shit atmosphere
That's bollocks. with a 61000 capacity there is room for most regular City fans and room for tourists.Tourist aren't twats, i'd say most City fans have been football tourists at times. and if the atmosphere is shit blame 50,000 city fans not the few tourist. Whenever I go tourists seem to join in more than a fair few of the miserable S'/C holders sat around me.It isn't.
Tourist pay over the odds.
Local fans get forced out.
End result.
Ground full of twats.
And a shit atmosphere