Etihad Atmosphere - 2021/22

[Deleted member 77198]

Spent a foggy day in Morecambe watching Fleetwood yesterday. In the toilets of the away end their were stickers from various lower division firms. One caught my eye though it had a picture of Ken Barlow from Coronation St. It said you've been Barlowed and a rags devil symbol. Anyone know what the fucks that's about ?

Maybe this:

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[mancityvstoke]

lower division firms.... this is old school scrapping

 

[Manchester33]

Again, can't help but think the club is scoring an own goal with the ticket prices for Leicester at home. A tough game where we really need fans behind the team, and the cheapest adult ticket in South Stand level 1 is £50.

If a City fan, his wife and their two kids (lets say 7 and 10) wanted to go to the game as a late Christmas present. Tickets in the family stand would cost £160 for the four of them. The average weekly wage across Greater Manchester is £644.62, so that trip out would cost 25% of our weeks pay. They'd also have to sit separately as there aren't four seats together. I can completely understand why people are reluctant to take up these tickets.

There are dozens of tickets available in every block. There are obviously COVID concerns, so it's natural there will be a lot of people who decide to give it a miss. But if they priced the games appropriately, and re-arranged seats so you could buy them together (as I've mentioned previously on this thread), they could easily sell the game out.

The empty seats will affect the atmosphere which (according to Pep) helps the team. It also damages our image and strengthens the 'emptyhad' rhetoric that could persuade potential fans to support (and contribute financially) to different clubs. You only have to look at Dortmund to see the impact a good fanbase can have in enticing tourists and supporters to spend their money.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Again, can't help but think the club is scoring an own goal with the ticket prices for Leicester at home. A tough game where we really need fans behind the team, and the cheapest adult ticket in South Stand level 1 is £50.

If a City fan, his wife and their two kids (lets say 7 and 10) wanted to go to the game as a late Christmas present. Tickets in the family stand would cost £160 for the four of them. The average weekly wage across Greater Manchester is £644.62, so that trip out would cost 25% of our weeks pay. They'd also have to sit separately as there aren't four seats together. I can completely understand why people are reluctant to take up these tickets.

There are dozens of tickets available in every block. There are obviously COVID concerns, so it's natural there will be a lot of people who decide to give it a miss. But if they priced the games appropriately, and re-arranged seats so you could buy them together (as I've mentioned previously on this thread), they could easily sell the game out.

The empty seats will affect the atmosphere which (according to Pep) helps the team. It also damages our image and strengthens the 'emptyhad' rhetoric that could persuade potential fans to support (and contribute financially) to different clubs. You only have to look at Dortmund to see the impact a good fanbase can have in enticing tourists and supporters to spend their money.

You'd think they would do more to combat empty seats.

Be interesting to see how many matchday tickets are available in each block per game?

 

[joenorth]

The problem is fans not going to certain games not informing the club to put on resale, then fans not wanting individual seats, there's no easy answer.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

The problem is fans not going to certain games not informing the club to put on resale, then fans not wanting individual seats, there's no easy answer.

Reduce the price of individual match day tickets. it’s more cost effective to have a season ticket and pick and choose which games you go to, rather than have a citizens membership and trying to buy them and paying stupid prices to watch the likes of Wolves and Burnley.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

The problem is fans not going to certain games not informing the club to put on resale, then fans not wanting individual seats, there's no easy answer.

5,000 tickets per hone game are being resold through the Ticket Exchange and the unofficial Facebook pages. Supply of tickets is exceeding demand, especially when there is less interest in single tickets like you wrote.

I think we are doing pretty well having 50k crowds during a pandemic.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

5,000 tickets per hone game are being resold through the Ticket Exchange and the unofficial Facebook pages. Supply of tickets is exceeding demand, especially when there is less interest in single tickets like you wrote.

I think we are doing pretty well having 50k crowds during a pandemic.

Don't tell the empty seat counters

 

[Manchester33]

The problem is fans not going to certain games not informing the club to put on resale, then fans not wanting individual seats, there's no easy answer.

The easiest answer is to reduce prices slightly and to bunch empty seats together so people can buy in groups. (when a ticket is listed on the exchange, everyone else on the row is moved up a seat, so all empty seats are together on the aisle). It wouldn't be very difficult to code, and as we now have mobile tickets the details can be updated quickly.

 

[Manchester33]

I think we are doing pretty well having 50k crowds during a pandemic.

50k fans week in week out is great. But we could fill more than that if we had the right systems on the exchange IMO. If it helped us shift an extra 200 tickets again that's £10k (at £50 a ticket). It's a no brainer to invest in the exchange site a bit.