Empty seats.. worsening trend?

[Marvin]

i'm still convinced were not selling out for certain games despite the club reporting it as a sell out, this can only be one thing and that's to satisfy FFP, there were quite a few empty's in the lower east and all put together could have been the size of a block, i just cant see that all these people buy a seat and don't bother turning up

What I don't get is why they are all in that stand. Something odd. There's always a few in that stand, but today there was more than usual, and today it was down at the front. Perhaps they give those seats to student unions to sell, maybe complimentary to staff who don't go, or to other organisations? It needs sorting. Price the game right and there's more than enough City fans to fill the ground for a League game.

i went into the ticket office at Maine road once because i had a problem with my seat and they showed me the computer to pick another available seat the guy said pick any of those in the umbro stand except for the first two front rows because all those are allocated to the university, it looks like there doing this for the family stand at the Etihad

That might explain it then. It does seem to be concentrated in the first couple of rows, and very visible on MOTD.

 

[dazng]

It is an on going problem same as fans leaving early & lack of athmosphere .one way to sort it is to get rid of outside ticket agencies .make it simple for season ticket holders who cant go .to get rid of there tickets .have a system ,where you can get tickets on match day without having to pay extra .& lastly oh silly me cut the price of tickets . i will not & wont pay £48 plus for a match day ticket

quite agree, my games come in at £34 per game with the season ticket, there's no chance i'd pay £48 when i could get a stream on the laptop and still have change from a few beers and a curry

So City would undercut themselves?

If £48 is what people are paying for an individual ticket the club aren't going to promote season tickets having individual games sold on for less than that.

It would hurt their sales.

Best solution is to move all comp tickets to the gods and take it from there

Couldn't agree more, stick them up top like the rags do.

 

[jaiguruKun]

The sooner we get rid of Viagogo the better.

 

[HelloCity]

Complimentary seats need to go in the new third tier.

 

[Marvin]

Complimentary seats need to go in the new third tier.

I'm not sure they are complimentary seats. Could be seats given to a student union to sell, and maybe for some games they are just not selling them - for example when there are no students! They are on holiday at the moment. There might be another explanation entirely but it does seem limited to those bottom few rows of the North Stand.

How can you have tickets been sold in my area of the ground for £50, and in another area there's some kind of grey market going on? This is a bit speculative, but it seems that it's down in some way to ticket distribution in the first 3-4 rows in that stand

 

[East Level 2]

City definitely need to do something about those empty seats near the bottom of the family stand, looks fuckin shite!!

I think that may be the worse I've seen the North Stand since the Pearce area.

After our game, Liverpool vs. Leicester was shown and nearly every seat on camera was filled for one of Pool's smallest games of the season. Do we have a bigger % of out-of-towners than we actually think?

there were a lot of Leicester fans in with the Liverpool fans behind the goal, the stewards probably didnt move in to shift them because there were that many, ive never seen that before at Anfield

I thought they were just at the front; in the disabled section.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

I think that may be the worse I've seen the North Stand since the Pearce area.

After our game, Liverpool vs. Leicester was shown and nearly every seat on camera was filled for one of Pool's smallest games of the season. Do we have a bigger % of out-of-towners than we actually think?

there were a lot of Leicester fans in with the Liverpool fans behind the goal, the stewards probably didnt move in to shift them because there were that many, ive never seen that before at Anfield

I thought they were just at the front; in the disabled section.

It looked like the disabled section to me as well. All credit to the disabled Leicester fans and their carers for letting the Scousers know what the score was!

 

[cyberblue]

It is an on going problem same as fans leaving early & lack of athmosphere .one way to sort it is to get rid of outside ticket agencies .make it simple for season ticket holders who cant go .to get rid of there tickets .have a system ,where you can get tickets on match day without having to pay extra .& lastly oh silly me cut the price of tickets . i will not & wont pay £48 plus for a match day ticket

quite agree, my games come in at £34 per game with the season ticket, there's no chance i'd pay £48 when i could get a stream on the laptop and still have change from a few beers and a curry

So City would undercut themselves?

If £48 is what people are paying for an individual ticket the club aren't going to promote season tickets having individual games sold on for less than that.

It would hurt their sales.

Best solution is to move all comp tickets to the gods and take it from there

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

Complimentary seats need to go in the new third tier.

I'm not sure they are complimentary seats. Could be seats given to a student union to sell, and maybe for some games they are just not selling them - for example when there are no students! They are on holiday at the moment. There might be another explanation entirely but it does seem limited to those bottom few rows of the North Stand.

How can you have tickets been sold in my area of the ground for £50, and in another area there's some kind of grey market going on? This is a bit speculative, but it seems that it's down in some way to ticket distribution in the first 3-4 rows in that stand

Interesting to note there was blocks on the front row covered up with black netting yesterday so you wouldn't have noticed them empty

 

[davymcfc]

To make one big family stand was a big mistake from the very beginning and now we are seeing empty seats in the same area week in week out.