Dear Forum
My daughter has an exam on Wednesday morning and as much as I would like to stay after the whistle especially with it being the last home game would it be ok if we left at the final whistle so that I can get her home for a reasonable hour and a decent night's sleep.
Many thanks.
No it isn't. Stop spinning that yarn. City were offering me 6, yes 6 tickets on the OS ticket page for Leicester. If the match was sold out, they wouldn't be offering other me and other City fans a maximum of 6 tickets, priced at £58 each.(£348! Lol!)
There were seats either side of me me that were empty. The same against Palace. I don't have any season ticket holders near me bar 1 person. Those seats and the people who stand next to those seats are always changing. I had a black lad stood next to me yesterday. He didn't know the chants, but still tried to join in. A newbie. Fair play to him.
TBH I'm not arsed about the empty seats jibe like many City fans. It's banter from the Rags. I get it all the time in work. United fans have got nothing else to say about us now. It's water off a ducks back. What I'm more bothered about is the ticket pricing policy at City, how they've come up with it and why, and the thinking and rational behind it. For whatever reason those running the club seem to be happy with pricing seats too expensively, and in the process stopping City fans from going to the matches. That's the hardest thing to swallow. Our club and those running it 'are' pricing City fans out!!! Think about that.
Brainwashed by the media consistent mention of it when in reality every ground has empty seats even the scum have and shut tiers but it doesn't get the continual mention of it.
A good job our parents didnt have your attitude or we would have no fans coming through !!
In a season how many mid week league games do you think we get ?
Using your logic there never would have been a need to expand the South Stand as the empty seats were around even before that expansion. If we weren't selling out why would we expand?
As it happens, we expanded and the third tier is full for every league game, with us even selling out the away allocation when it is returned to us.
My logic has always been to expand the Etihad. Where did I state otherwise? "Your grounds too big for you!"
But there were't empty seats before we expanded the stadium. Apologies, there were. When Pearce and Beenie wiped 4000 fans off our attendances with shit football. Mancini brought those fans back again. Every game was all but sold out, or sold out. And because of the matchday attendances and demand from City fans who couldn't get a ticket, the club decided to expanded the SS stand.
But there is one very important point to remember. When the stadium was full, and demand for tickets was going through the SS roof, ticket prices were much more affordable. There was no tiered block pricing. Getting to and away from the stadium was easier. And there weren't 1000's queuing up to get in to the stadium 10 minutes before kick off. See my picture on the Queues thread.
Slowly these things and more have chipped away at our matchday going support. Yes, we are still averaging 52,000-53,000+. But games aren't selling out regardless of how the club and some fans want to spin it. But much more importanly and sadly, the club are pricing City fans out of watching the team.
Here you go.
If the seats in the 3 away bocks in the SS level 3 weren't £20 each. Reduced to clear. And were priced like the other blocks all over the stadium. Mid-£30's. And if it wasn't Zab's final game. Would the match have sold out, or have been close to selling out. No!
There were also expensive matchday tickets before last season, don't remember much wailing from bluemoon posters when I paid £50 5 years ago, there seems to be a few that want to blame Soriano , firstly for increasing matchday prices, which isn't true and then blaming that for empty seats, when the real reason is an expanded stadium with more cheaper s/c. As you say there were empty seats before, there are a few more now, and when we expand again there will be yet more. Does it matter ? No.You're completely making things up now.
There were empty seats before last season. Please don't kid yourself and re-write history.
In fact, we were mocked for expanding because we apparently couldn't fill the ground as it already was.
Dear SirHi Eds.
Thank you for your message. I would advise that if this exam is important then it may be best that she not attend the game altogether so that she can stay at home and revise. If attending then staying for an extra 15-20 minutes after the game may not actually make much difference, especially as night traffic in the area isn't actually that bad following the late starts.
Thanks.