City Charging West Brom fans £56

[jrb]

WestBrom should wait until it's too late or not tell us at all that they're boycotting this so that we can't then sell the seats on anyway. Leaving 2800 empty seats in the South Stand.

Ripping off fans is not acceptable. I don't care if it is my club. It's not on.

I have a big feeling SC prices are going to piss thousands off this Summer to the extent that we will become disillusioned with it in our thousands.

And they know they can do this because they now have nearly 7000 on the waiting list, its so hard, i pay for me and my son a season ticket and i don't earn a large amount, it is a struggle for me as it is :(

not at all, those 7000 on the list are for the 300 pound tickets, i can guarantee at least half wouldnt take up other seats at prices we are used to.

Sorry, not having that. If West Brom bring a 1000 fans, City will make an extra £17,000.

£17,000 is a drop in the ocean. The PL winners get £90mill in prize money.

In essence City have joined the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, and Spurs for the sake of an extra £17,000.

As a club we pride ourselves on being different. Are we different anymore?

 

[Deleted member 58678]

And they know they can do this because they now have nearly 7000 on the waiting list, its so hard, i pay for me and my son a season ticket and i don't earn a large amount, it is a struggle for me as it is :(

not at all, those 7000 on the list are for the 300 pound tickets, i can guarantee at least half wouldnt take up other seats at prices we are used to.

Sorry, not having that. If West Brom bring a 1000 fans, City will make an extra £17,000.

£17,000 is a drop in the ocean. The PL winners get £90mill. In prize money.

In essence City have joined the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, and Spurs for the sake of an extra £17,000.

As a club we pride ourselves on being different. Are we different anymore?

It's only going to get worse.

 

[pissedagain]

I feel sorry for west brom because like city they voted against FFP in the premier league, as in the case of Newcastle we could just say to the geordies, see your chairman, he voted for FFP, but sadly for west brom, they are as much a victim as all of us <a class="postlink" href="http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/latest-news/premier-league-clubs-adopt-spending-constraints" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/late ... onstraints</a>

 

[CatMan]

What I want to know, by name, is who are the 2 people responsible for this pricing policy. In short, someone suggests it and someone ratifies it. Just who the f* ck are these pair.

If there are people on here who know for sure then provide names; because if I'm honest it won't be the big shakers and movers, more like some upstart trying to look good by squeezing profit to benefit their own career path rather more than either the club or the fans.

Names needed!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

What I want to know, by name, is who are the 2 people responsible for this pricing policy. In short, someone suggests it and someone ratifies it. Just who the f* ck are these pair.

If there are people on here who know for sure then provide names; because if I'm honest it won't be the big shakers and movers, more like some upstart trying to look good by squeezing profit to benefit their own career path rather more than either the club or the fans.

Names needed!

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

It's the way of football I am afraid.
My old dear is 68-Just paid £92 notes for Westbrom and Southampton in South Level 2.
The club needs to be careful with it's ticketing price policy. They will lose a lot of the traditional support if they don't realise that we are a working class club with a working class set of fans.

 

[jake28]

Sorry that can't happen as if West Brom say they want all 2,800 they will have to pay for them whether their fans buy them or not so City can't lose.

No one likes paying high prices but this is a title run in game and a relegation decider for them, so the tickets will sell. if West Brom don't buy them then thats good for us as they will have very little away support.

i dont blame City its Tw"tini and FFP, we either pay the prices and have a league title winning team OR we fall behind. Personally with TV and live streams meaning you can watch the game whether you are there or not I would rather see us have a competitive team and go to less games,

Also it might encourage people to buy a sc which is far far better value than buying on a game by game basis and then buy for it either in a loan or direct debit scheme if you cant stump up all the cash up front.

No one can berate the club for this. Its supply and demand.

In your opinion people cant berate the club........Clearly this thread shows they can and they are doing.

Where does all this stop? We were outraged at Arsenal last year and some quite rightly boycotted the match. Those prices were only £6 more and I believe we are charging blue members as much as £60 in some parts of the ground for this.

How did Scott Sinclair improve our title winning ambitions? He didn't and was never going to yet he cost £8m to sign and last season probably around £2.5m in wages. I would hazard a guess that now he is worth fuck all, we will be paying his wages next season too or a vast chunk of them.

These stupid ticket prices for what I would class as a category C game only add around £1.5 to £2m a year tops as we don't do it for all clubs (Yet).

If I were a West Brom fan I would be fucking this one right off.

It's not categorcy C on the basis that it's a title run-in game. Were it at the start of the season it wouldn't be 56 quid.

im sure city will be completely relaxed if there are no west brom fans there as it only helps our chances and City will sell the tickets to City fans.

I think its wrong to criticise City when ticket prices are a football problem not a City problem. Fans seem to expect City to charge cheap prices when their competitors chelsea, rags etc aren't it just can't happen. If you want to see the best teams then logically you have to pay for it.

The rags did speak with their feet with FCUM but largely its been a damp squib as the demand is still there.

Were it not for FFP I'm almost certain that Sheikh Mansour would have been happy to subsidise ticket prices and undercut the rags to get fans coming to CIty as opposed to the rags. With FFP, unfortunately he can't do it.

Like I say by all means criticise ticket prices but you need to criticise Tw*tini and football in general not City. All City are doing is trying to compete financially with our rivals - a direct result of FFP.

FFP is a pathetic excuse.

 

[Blue_Ketchup]

yet again they just seem to make the prices up as they go along.

how much will they be charging for the west ham game? £58, £68 £80?

can't believe some people on here are trying to defend city on this one, as others have said I'm really worried about next years st cost, have been on all schemes for years but will have to drop the schemes next year as have really struggled with finding the money this season, esp as they seem to take the money 4 weeks + before the game is even played.

the points of blue meetings they used to have - do these still happen? it was a good way of talking to the club on these sorts of issues but can't find any info on them now so not sure if these have dried up.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

I agree with the poster above FFP is a pathetic excuse we don't have to charge high prices, you only have to look at bayern or Dortmund. Ticket revenue is nothing to us, it's just pure greed from the club

 

[Danny Hoekman]

There's nothing to debate - it's just an absolute disgrace.