Empty seats in north stand/family stand

[marco]

This is my first posting. I got loads of stick yesterday by my son who is a rag about the large number of empty seats in north stand. It reflects poorly on City support. I am from N Ireland and all my friends are either Liverpool or Utd supporters and all they ever talk about is the empty seats at City.They never believe we ever sell-out the ground. I was at the Bayern game and there were empty seats in North stand. Any reason?

plenty of unused seats at the swamp these days ask your mates why they now go on open sale

 

[Blue Elmo]

I always think this

 

[laserblue]

This is my first posting. I got loads of stick yesterday by my son who is a rag about the large number of empty seats in north stand. It reflects poorly on City support. I am from N Ireland and all my friends are either Liverpool or Utd supporters and all they ever talk about is the empty seats at City.They never believe we ever sell-out the ground. I was at the Bayern game and there were empty seats in North stand. Any reason?

plenty of unused seats at the swamp these days ask your mates why they now go on open sale

30,000 empty seats at the palace game recently. ask your rag & dipper mates why that was.

 

[malg]

Happens at every game. Oh, and from where I'm sitting, they certainly don't come in late and then leave early again. There was a block of about 15-20 empty seats all game against Arsenal. There must be at 100 empty seats in there for the majority of games.

 

[Michael Corleone]

If you don't come to 80% or more of league games with a season ticket, you lose your season ticket for the next season.

This is the way it should be.

 

[Silvas_Left_Foot]

Only some of the North Stand lower is family, some is not. It is strange. Although yesterday there was a great atmosphere in the North Stand i thought.

 

[cavendishblue]

This is also my first post - I sit in 2nd tier of the the East Stand and the Family stand is just an embarrassment - I have no problem with young kids coming to the game and encouraging families attending. But it strikes me loads of them are not that interested, coming late, leaving early, constantly in and out to the shops/food outlets and quite often not turning up at all.

City need to get more savvy about their PR - if we want to grow our name nationally and internationally to increase the revenue. Most TV action is centred on the two goalmouths so at the moment what most people see is either a stand with zero-atmosphere and loads of empty seats (particularly in the last 15 minutes) or the away fans behind the other goal.

To me the family stand is one of the main reasons the atmoshere is so poor at the ground - I really think they should be relocated up to the 3rd tier where they can come & go as they please without spoiling the atmosphere for everyone else.

On another point, as we are moving to selling out many of our games does the club have a simple system to allow season ticket holders to sell on their tickets when they can't attend? I know Arsenal have a good scheme. We need to address the empty seats issue - it is an embarrassment and it needs to be sorted out.

 

[HelloCity]

They're getting rid of the £100 kids tickets because of this. Too many people taking the piss out of the deal.

 

[J.B]

Because there all stood in the south stand

 

[Blackcrowes]

I sit in East Stand lower - the guy next to me has a season ticket and has only attended about half the home games - strange - he must be loaded

Agree about North stand @ £95 - parents opt not to bring kids if the weather is crap. My lad sits with me (and pays a higher price for the privelage for sitting in East Stand Lowe) and never misses at home or most aways.