City calling round ex-season ticket holders - drumming up business?

[squirtyflower]

What is it for then?

You’ve already told us what you think it’s for, so you won’t be in the least bit interested in what I think.

And whilst I’m on my soapbox, anyone thinking taking the soft drinks, water, butties, crisps and sweets off kids is an acceptable form of consumerism lacks any emotional intelligence.

 

[asahartford1]

Anyone thinking the queuing up at the Etihad and having your bags searched is to stop terrorism is sadly deluded.

No, it is because Seriano has a hatred of flasks, he is quoted as saying " todos termos estan muy mal" To be fair I have never liked flasks either, so brittle, and take so much looking after. The contents never are drinkable or steaming hot anyway,

 

[MadchesterCity]

You’ve already told us what you think it’s for, so you won’t be in the least bit interested in what I think.

And whilst I’m on my soapbox, anyone thinking taking the soft drinks, water, butties, crisps and sweets off kids is an acceptable form of consumerism lacks any emotional intelligence.

I am interested, which is why I asked.
I don't think it's correct that people can't take drinks to events, it is the rules though, you can choose to sneak a beer into cineworld if you wish but you shouldn't be able to sneak objects into say the MEN or other events where there are thousands of people present.

As another poster mentioned the security from my experience don't take sweets or small snacks away from kids. Maybe this differs where in the ground you sit. The queues are annoying but surely they are for security reasons and not to take away my bottle of water?

It does piss me off though that the catering staff won't let me keep the lid on a bottle of water. I don't think the original posters issue was with his flask but because his bag was too big and he chose to bring the issue up with City and then chose to give up his season card. There are bag storage options available, not sure why he wasn't informed of these by supporter services

 

[Fame Monster]

Unbelievable post. You’re a true bitter. In my opinion we couldn’t have better management - perhaps you prefer the Glazers who put nothing in & take what they can

If not being a happy clapper is being bitter then sign me up. But too many people with your mentality attend games and are quite happy to get bent over and do whatever they're told even if it means being treated like a piece of shit. Effectively barring someone from entry because he's got food is just the latest example of it. Things are going amazing on the pitch but the match day experience, independent of how the team play, has got worse/completely removed for a lot of fans and I'm glad not all of our fans want to be treated like cattle.

 

[oakiecokie]

No Waggon Wheel ?

A Mars Bar mate when they were fucking BIG. ;)

 

[oakiecokie]

Don’t f*** with the City butty and flask Boys!

Who are we
Who are we.

 

[Phil1]

If not being a happy clapper is being bitter then sign me up. But too many people with your mentality attend games and are quite happy to get bent over and do whatever they're told even if it means being treated like a piece of shit. Effectively barring someone from entry because he's got food is just the latest example of it. Things are going amazing on the pitch but the match day experience, independent of how the team play, has got worse/completely removed for a lot of fans and I'm glad not all of our fans want to be treated like cattle.

Pudding chips and gravy and a can of coke before you go in and jobs a good’un.
Why anybody would spend money on food inside the ground baffles me. It’s fucking awful.

 

[BlueNirvana]

the only bag drop this season is for hospitality they may introduce one later in the season with a £5 charge but as it stands now hospitality only

 

[squirtyflower]

I am interested, which is why I asked.
I don't think it's correct that people can't take drinks to events, it is the rules though, you can choose to sneak a beer into cineworld if you wish but you shouldn't be able to sneak objects into say the MEN or other events where there are thousands of people present.

As another poster mentioned the security from my experience don't take sweets or small snacks away from kids. Maybe this differs where in the ground you sit. The queues are annoying but surely they are for security reasons and not to take away my bottle of water?

It does piss me off though that the catering staff won't let me keep the lid on a bottle of water. I don't think the original posters issue was with his flask but because his bag was too big and he chose to bring the issue up with City and then chose to give up his season card. There are bag storage options available, not sure why he wasn't informed of these by supporter services

Our family sits in two different parts of the ground. One generally has much longer queues than the other.
Where I go in there are usually five security lines. Where my wife goes in there are six. My section contains few fans in comparison to hers and the longest I’ve queued for is 21 minutes. She generally queues for at least 25 minutes.

On many occasion I see people have their food taken off them, but one particularly galling one was a gentleman who had taken three young lads to the game. Each lad had a small plastic bag containing a small bottle of pop and a bag of crisp. I was absolutely disgusted that the woman told them they either drank them and eat them there and then or they would have to be confiscated (a posh word for stolen).

It makes no odds at all to me in that I’m happy to spend money on food and drink at the game, but if I had a young family and money was tight I’d feel differently.

Ps I regularly go to the cinema with two small bottles of wine and some Haribo and have never had them stolen from me.

 

[cjn]

Not being able to bring your own food and drink inside is the policy of pretty much every sport or theatre venue pretty much everywhere. I'm genuinely confused why this would be surprising in any way.