Empty seats.. worsening trend?

[Prestwich_Blue]

Re: Get Rid of the Family Stand

Pity there isn't a thread about the 'empty seat' problem to discuss this in ....

Which it's been merged with.

 

[el blue]

Re: Get Rid of the Family Stand

Whilst getting rid of the Family Stand might not cause a revolution in changing the atmosphere, it will certainly help.
Having 1 big stand where all the fans are silent is a recipe for disaster.
I sit there - trying to start songs does not wor, bewildered faces look at you. Trying to join in on songs started by the SS also doesn't work - more bewildered faces.
If they are all split up, they will be in-between singing fans, so we will have 4 stands which could potentially sing, not just 3.

Also the empty seats. There is always 2 rows of empty seats nearish the front. This is the club's problem, as they are obviously reserved or something. However, if the constant scenario of empty seats in the Stand in other places is a problem. Yes there are empty seats in other places of the ground, but the highest proportion is in the Family Stand. Is this because they are the cheapest season tickets so people who live miles away decide not to come to the 'small' games. This is a problem. In my opinion if a season ticket is used less than a certain amount a season, they shouldn't be allowed one. By getting rid of the family stand the empty seats would be split up so at least it wouldn't look as bad and damage our image.

Sort it out City.

or maybe you just move??

Eh? He's not complaining about it for selfish reasons he's pointing out that it's to the detriment of the club when there's a half empty stand of silent supporters.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Please tell me you're not serious. I've got a season ticket in the North Stand with my two lads. Manchester is 250 miles away. We can't make midweekers due to school and work, and 5:30pm kick offs are also a gigantic pain in the arse travel wise, and I am obliged to occasionally knock them on the head if the train ticket prices are exorbitant. However, I've had the season ticket for donkey's years, I'm not about to give it up, and nor am I disposed to take lectures from people who have the good fortune to live 5 minutes away from the ground. I'm sure there are many others in similar circumstances. There's a great big recession on, people do what they can to attend, and no-one is under any obligation to turn up

If your missing most midweek games and 5:30 kick offs then that's quite a few matches your missing and perhaps you should forgo the season ticket and just buy for the games your actually going to. If you've had the ticket for donkeys years then youll have the loyalty points to pick and choose anyway. Why waste yr money and the seat?

Partly sentiment, partly the difficulty in getting tickets for big games without a season card, partly the knowledge that not having a season card will disincentivise me from attending games, partly because the cost of tickets for individual games is now so exorbitant that the season card is still (just about) a viable option.

I agree with poster above it sounds like, your just wasting your money tbh. Why not lend it to someone who can attend more and use your ticket when you can't. I know lots of people who would love to go. Just an idea btw.

It does frustrate me, when the game says sold out and I can't get a ticket, to then see on the TV loads of empty seats especially the family stand.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

I pay for my season ticket the club get my money, what has it got to do with you if I go or not

When ticket sales reach a peak ticket prices go up. Year-on-year mates or family members of mine fall away from our match going support because ticket prices just keep rising. Then when we see hundreds of empty seats dotted about everywhere it's fucking frustrating! If all these people who don't bother to turn up to numerous games a season don't take up a seasoncard there might not be such a ridiculous surge in ticket prices every season (way WAY over the rate of inflation!) as there isn't as much demand and at least people who would turn up every week on a cheaper ticket could and would go.

Then there are also minor things like the impact on atmosphere and the poor aesthetic look to a stadium when there are empty seats all over the place.

City are as much to blame for all this as the people not bothering to turn up. If everything wasn't so fucking ridiculously expensive then it is a certainty there would be fewer empty seats everywhere. From parking, to food and drink, and take that aside and say someone finds somewhere they don't have to pay for parking, they don't bother buying food or drink and they just go to the game and go home, it'll still cost them a huge sum of money for what it is they are going to see.

My Father is getting to an age now where he can't take on as much work as he used to and my Mother doesn't work. They dropped off from their seasoncards a few years ago now and it's got to the stage where he's saying "fuck paying £110 for us to both attend a game, that's nearly a day's pay for fuck's sake, do they think we're fucking mugs or what?!" and that's someone who attended City games religiously from the mid 1960s to about 2009.

Funnily enough, my Father is a joiner!

 

[ped]

the away fans are not moving ,that's set in stone,,imo the perfect sernario would be to swap the family stand to the south stand , and have all the singing section together in the lower tier north stand,becouse lets face it guys ,if the singing section is not being outsung by away fans they are out singing each other

 

[CelesteItis]

It's the same everywhere. Stop worrying about what other people think of us and enjoy your life.

In answer to your question, you buy your SC, it's yours, you attend whatever games you choose to.

If you buy a new coat, the shop doesn't tell you when to wear it ;.)

Spot. On

 

[Gingers Dad]

It's the same everywhere. Stop worrying about what other people think of us and enjoy your life.

In answer to your question, you buy your SC, it's yours, you attend whatever games you choose to.

If you buy a new coat, the shop doesn't tell you when to wear it ;.)

Spot. On

If people who don't intend to use their season tickets much stop buying them there will be more match day tickets available. Presumably then the price of match day tickets will come down allowing people who can't afford them now to go to matches.

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

Sick and fuckin tired of the stick the family stand gets all the fuckin time .why not just ban under 40s out of the ground and have done !! .why don't people have a look at yesterdays match and see its whole blocks and rows that were empty fuck all to do with people not turning up.if its such a big embarresment to some precious fuckers ask city to shift the complimentary or whatever they are up to the stand up armfolder ultra end

 

[maurizio]

This puzzles me. Where I sit in the East stand there's hardly ever an empty seat. Maybe the odd one if someone has family commitments. The attendances seem pretty healthy and 5 minutes or so after the match has kicked off the ground looks pretty full. These seats, are they around people in the family stand or something? The only empty seats I'm obviously aware of are with some of the away support or around the posh bit in the CB stand and they're probably eating inside. Obviously cup games are a different matter. We have a pretty good attendance compared with most clubs.

 

[183sash]

Why not change all the seats in the lower tiers to navy or black , dont show up so much on the telly , and use all the light blue ones up in the new extension ?