I both agree (with what you say) and disagree mate. Over one game the club lose revenue by reducing prices. However, if the club attract new fans they will have more fans wanting tickets long term. Plus the missing fans yesterday would want drinks and refreshments, and the club store would have done more business. Speculate to accumulate, n' all that.Not necessarily.
If you dropped the price of each ticket by £5, you would need to sell out the rest of the ground at £13 a head to cover that price drop. Given that most of the adult tickets were priced between £10 and £15, I don't see the financial incentive for the club to have dropped prices like that: they would probably have ended up with less gate receipts and devalued the product.
What about the 20,000 that leave early every home game.Do you think he would notice that.Just back from our reps meeting and we're all agreed that he was well out of order here. In fact we're going to ask the club if he'll come along to a meeting and explain what he thinks we need to do to fill the stadium. As it happens, we've got a club deputation, including Danny Wilson, coming along to our branch meeting this week so that'll be interesting.
Away FA Cup draw wasn't so bad IMOMadrid away has sold out.
So both Madrid games have sold out.
On top of 2 League Cup games against United, and the FA Cup game against Fulham.
And don’t forget, the FA Cup draw is tonight, so fans will have to fork out again for an FA Cup game home or away. And a possible replay.
Just back from our reps meeting and we're all agreed that he was well out of order here. In fact we're going to ask the club if he'll come along to a meeting and explain what he thinks we need to do to fill the stadium. As it happens, we've got a club deputation, including Danny Wilson, coming along to our branch meeting this week so that'll be interesting.
He said he didn’t know why, so doubt he knows what to do about it.Just back from our reps meeting and we're all agreed that he was well out of order here. In fact we're going to ask the club if he'll come along to a meeting and explain what he thinks we need to do to fill the stadium. As it happens, we've got a club deputation, including Danny Wilson, coming along to our branch meeting this week so that'll be interesting.
Yes but many of those people relocated a fair few into the ss 3 rd tier snapping up the cheap s/c before they went on open sale, and those bits that got moved were hardly singing sections, so dont think those relocations had a big degradation to the atmosphere. Lots of other reasons for that, and things can be done to help that don’t and won’t involve changing the corporate option.
There's no doubt the crowd can affect players in a variety of ways, good and bad.
It's possible that he may think why am I bothering? After all, the reason he tries to get his team to play attractive football is to entertain people and whilst TV rules in many ways, there's no substitute in terms of appreciation for people coming to the ground.
I realise Pep gets handsomely paid for his efforts but I doubt the money is a motivator.
I feel that Pep is underappreciated by our supporter base and it does concern me that might lead to him leaving sooner than he might otherwise have done.
Mind you, as long as the next guy wears a scarf and has nice hair, he'll be fine.[/QUOTE]
Now now........
W@nk! ;-)Manchester City's average attendance in the Premier League this season is 54,391 - more than 98% of capacity. [via @spbajko]
Well he should keep his mouth shut then as people who comment about things they have no answers for often look pretty stupid. But by talking to us, he could maybe understand some of the factors that cause people not toHe said he didn’t know why, so doubt he knows what to do about it.
Well there's an issue there as well. As has been said before, many people with tickets simply don't turn up, some for a significant number of games. We're not unique in that respect by the way. It's not just a City problem. Hence why we're trying to find ways of filling seats and threatening to refuse to renew the season tickets of serial no-shows who don't have a good reason. It's not just a question of selling tickets.Your comment about what we need to do to fill the stadium is confusing to me. We are selling out league games which can't be bad and getting 50,000 + crowds in CL group games against relatively poor opposition. Your comment makes it sound like our crowds are consistently poor which is very misleading. Maybe your intention is different but that is the feeling I got when reading your post.
Never mind the tram, who thought up the latest stewarding control at the entrance to Blue car parks? God knows what the stewards were doing but there was a big tailback down ATW/Hulme Hall Lane, it seemed that only 3 or 4 cars/coaches were being allowed in between each change of lights and it was nothing to do with the timing of the lights. That was with a reduced attendance too, it'll be chaos with a full house.Well he should keep his mouth shut then as people who comment about things they have no answers for often look pretty stupid. But by talking to us, he could maybe understand some of the factors that cause people not to
One of the other things we talked about was transport and how that affects attendances and early leavers. One of the suggestions put forward was that senior members of the club's management should experience for themselves what it's like to try to get a tram after a game. Then they might have some appreciation of what fans actually have to put up with.
Well he should keep his mouth shut then as people who comment about things they have no answers for often look pretty stupid. But by talking to us, he could maybe understand some of the factors that cause people not to
One of the other things we talked about was transport and how that affects attendnaces and early leavers. One of the suggestions put forward was that senior members of the club's management should experience for themselves what it's like to try to get a tram after a game. Then they might have some appreciation of what fans actually have to put up with.
Well there's an issue there as well. As has been said before, many people with tickets simply don't turn up, some for a significant number of games. We're not unique in that respect by the way. It's not just a City problem. Hence why we're trying to find ways of filling seats and threatening to refuse to renew the season tickets of serial no-shows who don't have a good reason. It's not just a question of selling tickets.
I don’t think it’s no shows or early leavers that bothers Pep. It’s flat, unsupportive atmospheres which don’t lift the team.
I both agree (with what you say) and disagree mate. Over one game the club lose revenue by reducing prices. However, if the club attract new fans they will have more fans wanting tickets long term. Plus the missing fans yesterday would want drinks and refreshments, and the club store would have done more business. Speculate to accumulate, n' all that.
Well there's an issue there as well. As has been said before, many people with tickets simply don't turn up, some for a significant number of games. We're not unique in that respect by the way. It's not just a City problem. Hence why we're trying to find ways of filling seats and threatening to refuse to renew the season tickets of serial no-shows who don't have a good reason. It's not just a question of selling tickets.
Never mind the tram, who thought up the latest stewarding control at the entrance to Blue car parks? God knows what the stewards were doing but there was a big tailback down ATW/Hulme Hall Lane, it seemed that only 3 or 4 cars/coaches were being allowed in between each change of lights and it was nothing to do with the timing of the lights. That was with a reduced attendance too, it'll be chaos with a full house.