Corporate Fans

[jonmcity]

The club need as many corporate fans as they can. The reasons are too obvious to point out.

But you are suggesting that if we dont end up like Arsenal (£100 standard tickets and huge % of Corporates) then we have FAILED.

I dont agree as there are other ways of dealing with the issues of FFPR.

City will remain a community focussed and affordable club whilst Arsenal have not.

Your use of the word FAIL is particularly galling TBH.

We can afford to have both. Others can not. We will expand to acomadate all. low cost tickets to keep the core support happy and high cost tickets for the corporate end. if we get this right we can become the bigest club in this country and possibly Europe in time.

 

[laserblue]

I was staggered by the amount of different languages i heard around the stadium weds

still can't be as bad as the swamp for international daytrippers though.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The more corporate fans in the stadium, and the richer they are, then the more chance there is of ordinary working fans affording a ticket. This is so blindingly obvious I really shouldn't have to spell it out

And that isnt what you meant originally IMO.

Why are you arguing such a stupid and obvious point? City are a business. They will look to maximize matchday revenue as much as they can. I would hope they will find a way to be avcesible to the working class fan but they will only do that by making money elsewhere.

You candream that the sheikh is in this project to help the downtrodden blues of Manchester but he isn't.

This already started this summer

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The more corporate fans in the stadium, and the richer they are, then the more chance there is of ordinary working fans affording a ticket. This is so blindingly obvious I really shouldn't have to spell it out

And that isnt what you meant originally IMO.

Why are you arguing such a stupid and obvious point? City are a business. They will look to maximize matchday revenue as much as they can. I would hope they will find a way to be avcesible to the working class fan but they will only do that by making money elsewhere.

You candream that the sheikh is in this project to help the downtrodden blues of Manchester but he isn't.

This already started this summer

 

[moomba]

Without corporates we'd all be paying much more for our tickets.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

My iPhones playing up. Sorry for repeating myself

 

[fbloke]

And that isnt what you meant originally IMO.

Why are you arguing such a stupid and obvious point? City are a business. They will look to maximize matchday revenue as much as they can. I would hope they will find a way to be avcesible to the working class fan but they will only do that by making money elsewhere.

You candream that the sheikh is in this project to help the downtrodden blues of Manchester but he isn't.

This already started this summer

Im not arguing anything. I concede that we will have more corporate and more expensive seats, thats obvious.

What I disagree with is the language you used and the extent to which City will go down that route.

I also have more faith in the club about not 'selling out' than perhaps you do. But we know that already dont we ;-)

 

[southern muppet]

I don't think it's an issue with corporate fans 'cos they are typically in a seperate section or in boxes. The problem there is with gentrification of the regular fanbase - i.e. from charging £100 for some non-corporate tickets.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Why are you arguing such a stupid and obvious point? City are a business. They will look to maximize matchday revenue as much as they can. I would hope they will find a way to be avcesible to the working class fan but they will only do that by making money elsewhere.

You candream that the sheikh is in this project to help the downtrodden blues of Manchester but he isn't.

This already started this summer

Im not arguing anything. I concede that we will have more corporate and more expensive seats, thats obvious.

What I disagree with is the language you used and the extent to which City will go down that route.

I also have more faith in the club about not 'selling out' than perhaps you do. But we know that already dont we ;-)

I think you didn't like me saying 'fail'

What I meant was if we won trophies we will attract corporates. If we don't we wont. Simple as that.

 

[DalbeyINUK]

As corporate "fans" are one of the chief moneymakers in sports the world over I'd imagine we would see a greater percentage of them at our matches. However we're more likely to see costlier corporate seats as facilities improve that offset some of the eventual rises in ticket prices for everybody else. As COMS becomes a destination like OT has for corporate events etc we should see the corporate side being charged higher prices. And like I said it should offset some of the eventual price increases the average fan will see as we become more successful.

So to sum up, yes we will see more of them, and no it's not necessarily a bad thing. Except for atmosphere.