Why, I was a junior blue, got my first season ticket with my Dad as a 13 year old in 95 £164 and had a lot of hope in Martin "Buster" Phillips who like City back then was pure shite. Sat in Kippax lower BB block row 32 just above the "A" in Manchester City witness of the true MCFC. CTID
Ad hominem attacks mark you out as suspect. Supporting high ticket prices doesn't add any credibility either.
Which of us fans has the right to claim that they know what reasonable is? I have read that these prices are not reasonable, that these prices stop our fans from the Maine road era being able to attend and they would get the place rocking. So where have these fans been for the past 13 years?
To a man with £1 in his pocket 50p might seem reasonable where do you draw the line? Some might say 10, some 20 whatever the figure we all have the right to make a personal decision as to what is reasonable to us as an individual and we can choose to pay or not the club are not holding a gun to anybody's head
These prices have increased by £20 from the group stages and we are now in the quarter final of the CL the club have decided what it thinks is reasonable it is up to the fans to decide whether they agree or not by paying it or not
Had the Kiev game sold out, with people desperate for tickets, that £20 increase might have been understandable. But it didn't by a long chalk, with more than 10,000 empty seats.These prices have increased by £20 from the group stages and we are now in the quarter final of the CL the club have decided what it thinks is reasonable it is up to the fans to decide whether they agree or not by paying it or not
This is the thing that puzzles me, the club don't learn by what's happened in the past?Had the Kiev game sold out, with people desperate for tickets, that £20 increase might have been understandable. But it didn't by a long chalk, with more than 10,000 empty seats.
That's it. The price (£50 for my seat in EL1) is one I won't pay but the bigger issue for me is the thinking that (a) put prices up anyway after the Kiev game and (b) prioritises a few thousand extra quid over a full house for a match that we're getting over £10m for playing, even if that was behind closed doors.This is the thing that puzzles me, the club don't learn by what's happened in the past?
10,000 empty seats so let's increase the price
Or
Drop the price and get a packed stadium bouncing for the night (Example: Hamburg)
It's not rocket science?
That's it. The price (£50 for my seat in EL1) is one I won't pay but the bigger issue for me is the thinking that (a) put prices up anyway after the Kiev game and (b) prioritises a few thousand extra quid over a full house for a match that we're getting over £10m for playing, even if that was behind closed doors.
You wouldn't have thought so but it is interesting that PSG still won't reveal their home prices. Perhaps we jumped the gun a bit announcing prices and there's some furious negotiations going on in the background between us and PSG? Probably hopelessly optimistic but you never know.I think getting 55k midweek at any game is a huge challenge these days. With traffic issues, games on TV. Apathy for the competition and a poor performance this season. Think it would have to be 25 quid to get a full house. Don't see any reason why it couldn't have been 25 quid and 10 for kids with a few thousand expensive ones in the posh seats. I am guessing the club won't be changing the price now.
It is a huge challenge getting that from our existing fan-base, many of who travel long distances or can't get out of work in time. So the solution is to attempt to attract more people by making prices reasonable, as you say. And I'm not that convinced that a QF in any competition is such a huge draw, when it's something we're getting used to these days.I think getting 55k midweek at any game is a huge challenge these days. With traffic issues, games on TV. Apathy for the competition and a poor performance this season. Think it would have to be 25 quid to get a full house. Don't see any reason why it couldn't have been 25 quid and 10 for kids with a few thousand expensive ones in the posh seats. I am guessing the club won't be changing the price now.
You might be a better judge of this but looking at the planner I reckon we must be at around 40000 now, if we are still in the tie I 'd expect it to push up to around 50,000.I think getting 55k midweek at any game is a huge challenge these days. With traffic issues, games on TV. Apathy for the competition and a poor performance this season. Think it would have to be 25 quid to get a full house. Don't see any reason why it couldn't have been 25 quid and 10 for kids with a few thousand expensive ones in the posh seats. I am guessing the club won't be changing the price now.