Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[Shaelumstash]

We thought this years ago and still prices have gone up

I think @Shaelumstash is talking a lot of sense and out his point across well so doesn't warrant any abuse. Seem pretty realistic points to me

Thanks mate. It's weird, people just want to expand now without assesing whether it's the right thing to do.

I'd love us to have a 60k plus stadium, and I'm sure we will one day. But we should expand when it makes economic sense as oppossed to on the whims of a few posters on Bluemoon.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Thanks mate. It's weird, people just want to expand now without assesing whether it's the right thing to do.

I'd love us to have a 60k plus stadium, and I'm sure we will one day. But we should expand when it makes economic sense as oppossed to on the whims of a few posters on Bluemoon.

OK then, and let's go hypothetical, (and please don't quote economics to me, I've got more qualifications in my left bollock than you'll ever have), let's say we sign Messi in the summer - do you think we'd regularly sell out 60k?

 

[The blue phantom]

We thought this years ago and still prices have gone up

I think @Shaelumstash is talking a lot of sense and out his point across well so doesn't warrant any abuse. Seem pretty realistic points to me

He did a great in depth post with some good points. Why it got attacked off a couple of posters is a mystery.

 

[kippaxblue76]

I fail to see why we cannot follow the German model more closely, football is for everyone not just those who can afford to pay inflated prices. This article is a couple of years old but makes a lot of sense to me unless i am missing something.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ets-low-104-putting-Premier-League-shame.html

 

[blueparrot]

We thought this years ago and still prices have gone up

I think @Shaelumstash is talking a lot of sense and out his point across well so doesn't warrant any abuse. Seem pretty realistic points to me

Prices have gone down this season, there are tickets at £31 / £36 for a lot of games this season I dont think there were any league games for less than £43 last season. I know economically it might make sense to have less fans and charge more, but building the extension and charging less this season shows they aren't thinking that way.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

We thought this years ago and still prices have gone up

I think @Shaelumstash is talking a lot of sense and out his point across well so doesn't warrant any abuse. Seem pretty realistic points to me

i think prices have gone down in general this year for match day prices or stayed low - especially for cup games. some games are still poorly priced, but with prem games at 30 quid i dont think its to bad.
Its season tickets that should come down imo. if we had cheap ticket prices we could easily sell out a 60 or 70,000 seater ground. we sold 17,000 tickets against hamburg in a few hours if i remember correctly. we already have the fan base, it just needs the right pricing.

 

[Shaelumstash]

OK then, and let's go hypothetical, (and please don't quote economics to me, I've got more qualifications in my left bollock than you'll ever have), let's say we sign Messi in the summer - do you think we'd regularly sell out 60k?

It seems even with the extensive scholarly achievements of you, and your left bollock, reading comprehension doesn't seem to be one of your strong points.

I used the specific example earlier that Messi is the only player I can think of that could immediately add 9k fans to our regular home gate every week.

I think we'll get to 60k organically in the next few years with continued success. But there clearly isn't the demand for 60k to attend now, that's not my opinion, it's just reality.

And on another note, I can't ever remember having a crossed word with you on here. I made a point about attendances and supply and demand. It seems there's quite a few who share a similar view.

If you disagreed, no problem, let's have a discussion. But your post off the bat to say I talk "Bollocks" was inflamatory and uncalled for. I'll discuss any point about City on here and enjoy hearing others views. But your post is something I'd expect from a brain dead in the pub who doesn't understand what the grown ups are talking about. No need for it.

 

[Wilf Wild 1937]

It would be illuminating if we knew how many people are currently on the Waiting List for Season Tickets and at what rate the number is increasing. Maybe time to bump the Waiting List thread? I'll let the moderators decide.

 

[worsleyweb]

It would be illuminating if we knew how many people are currently on the Waiting List for Season Tickets and at what rate the number is increasing. Maybe time to bump the Waiting List thread? I'll let the moderators decide.

Barely exists this waiting list.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

We thought this years ago and still prices have gone up

I think @Shaelumstash is talking a lot of sense and out his point across well so doesn't warrant any abuse. Seem pretty realistic points to me

We were getting 40k in 2006/7. When we won the title we were getting 7k more. This season we'll get a similar increase in our average crowd. Leicester is pretty well sold out next week. What's to say we couldn't add another 5-6,000 in the next 4 years? If we can persuade 50,000 people to attend a game just 2 or 3 times a season, we could do that.

As a business, we're in a growth phase. All our commercial efforts are going to increasing awareness and demand. Therefore we need to ensure we can meet that demand. And speaking as a fan who pays to go to games, I do not want a situation wher the execs constantly push up prices as demand increases and supply remains constant because that's the other side of shaelumstash's arguments. Even with 60k seats in the stadium, there are games we will sell out. But I don't want to be paying £1,000 for a bog-standard season ticket or £80+ for a single ticket.

The return on investment argument is largely irrelevant I suspect, for two reasons. First, I doubt it would be assessed as a stand-alone project, where we need to measure the rate of return against the spend. Increasing demand increases our overall value as a brand and company. Plus although we don't own the stadium, it is an asset in our balance sheet and its value would increase. Also, the money would probably come from Abu Dhabi rather than be sourced commercially so we wouldn't need to worry about justifying it on a commercial basis.