Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

[StrutterBlue]

billy bullshit

looking online cheapest rag season ticket is 532 quid or 28 quid a game

cheapest at city is mine, 350 quid or 18.42 a game

Is the cheapest at city leaving out the value season ticket at £299?

 

[pirate]

Is the cheapest at city leaving out the value season ticket at £299?

it is

as the rags dont have an equivalent of that

 

[supercity88]

hi

What evidence have you got that the Club wants empty seats?

Efforts to get stay away season card holders to turn up more often are usually contested on here.

They don't want empty seats but they do want to maximise revenue. Pricing is crazy for some games. Games that would get a lot more people if priced accordingly. My point is that we want a sold out ground with 10,000 more true blues. But if the club can get 5000 turn up paying double anthem grow that to the full 10,000 they will. Local fans will get priced out for whoever pays more.

I just want to see a balance. Make as much as you can from those with cash, corporate don't care too much what price they pay. But try to get as many cheap tickets as possible to retain loyal fans and attract new or dormant local support too.

 

[blueparrot]

They don't want empty seats but they do want to maximise revenue. Pricing is crazy for some games. Games that would get a lot more people if priced

You say that but the games with the most expensive matchday tickets will be the ones with the least empty seats, mainly because nearly all season ticket holders turn up and dont put their tickets on re sale, secondly they are the games the away sell out so there are no returned away blocks, thirdly they are the games matchday buyers try and get tickets for first.
The games with empty seats are usually games that are less attractive, s/c holders don’t bother with and mid week or against teams that return at least one tier.Quite often the games with the cheapest match day tickets.
There are 2 different things, and more often than not don’t correllate.

 

[JASR]

He probably sharing it with 4 people.

He probably just misunderstood the difference between home games (19) in a season and total games in a season (38), as the ratio of his cost per game of £14 is half of the £28.
So essentially he’s a billy bullshit or a muppet at maths/understanding a league of home/away matches.
Ie a united fan

 

[Tim of the Oak]

They don't want empty seats but they do want to maximise revenue. Pricing is crazy for some games. Games that would get a lot more people if priced accordingly. My point is that we want a sold out ground with 10,000 more true blues. But if the club can get 5000 turn up paying double anthem grow that to the full 10,000 they will. Local fans will get priced out for whoever pays more.

I just want to see a balance. Make as much as you can from those with cash, corporate don't care too much what price they pay. But try to get as many cheap tickets as possible to retain loyal fans and attract new or dormant local support too.

I am all for cheaper seats mate but since only a few hundred single tickets go unsold for most Prem games then your figures don’t really add up. We’ve even been selling plenty of returned tickets from the away Team’s fans.

Most of the seats that are unoccupied are season card holders who haven’t shown up.

 

[City & Blue Brazil]

billy bullshit

looking online cheapest rag season ticket is 532 quid or 28 quid a game

cheapest at city is mine, 350 quid or 18.42 a game

Could be a f. o. c. as they also reduce prices by half.

 

[JGL07]

Could be a f. o. c. as they also reduce prices by half.

No. The £350 quoted is for a senior. United prices are not lower than City. Try buying a season ticket in London for much below £2,000!

United season tickets are a lot cheaper than you will find at any of the big London clubs and I expect at Liverpool too. But City have generally lower prices than most. In some cases this is as less than many teams in lower divisions.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

All these transport ideas are pie in the sky. There is a metro stop at the stadium. All that needs to be done is put on more trams on a match day and when there is a gig on and bingo it’s sorted.

There will be something in the region of 4.5m a year visiting the stadium and Arena from 2023.

And then we will get the the bars/restaurants/hotels which will also follow in the next 2 or 3 years which will increase the footfall even further

With the buses also coming public control by 2025 I would be sure the transport to the Etihad will be fit for purpose at some point !

How soon it will be sorted is the question.

There’s going to be no Metrolink from Piccadilly to Ashton between 2024 and 2026(at least) because of HS2 works at Piccadilly.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Talking to a rag on holiday, says his ST cost him £14 a game, not any wonder they have a large crowd, that or he's a Billy Bullshit.

They’ve frozen their ST prices for 11 straight years (and they moan about the Glazers!). An equivalent seat to mine at Old Trafford was nearly twice the price 11 years ago, now mine is more expensive.

 

[frothy]

Talking to a rag on holiday, says his ST cost him £14 a game, not any wonder they have a large crowd, that or he's a Billy Bullshit.

is he a pensioner?

 

[remember arthur mann]

is he a pensioner?

Yes, should have mentioned that, apparently behind the goal in the Stretford end, he can't have a good view, he say's Maguire is a decent player.

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

Just build the new stand and make it non-season ticket and cheap- say £25 a game. It will sell out every week. We could then sell more season tickets in the other stands. Incentivise ST attendance by saying if you miss five or more games and your ticket goes unused then you are excluded from renewing it.

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

Just build the new stand and make it non-season ticket and cheap- say £25 a game. It will sell out every week. We could then sell more season tickets in the other stands. Incentivise ST attendance by saying if you miss five or more games and your ticket goes unused then you are excluded from renewing it.

How does that work if you’re a season ticket holder paying £50 plus

 

[Centurions]

I am all for cheaper seats mate but since only a few hundred single tickets go unsold for most Prem games then your figures don’t really add up. We’ve even been selling plenty of returned tickets from the away Teams fans.

Most of the seats that are unoccupied are season card holders who haven’t shown up.

This post should be made a sticky and pinned to the top of the thread for the hard of understanding.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

How does that work if you’re a season ticket holder paying £50 plus

You’re probably in a better seat, that is guaranteed each game. I’m not totally in favour of the idea of a full stand being match day sales myself, I still think there’d be empty places some games.

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

You’re probably in a better seat, that is guaranteed each game. I’m not totally in favour of the idea of a full stand being match day sales myself, I still think there’d be empty places some games.

There isn’t really a bad seat in the place
Yes I’m in a good seat in East level 1 however if I’m paying £55/60 per match as opposed to £25 it would be time to have a serious think
I’m sure there would be some empty seats I don’t know what the answer is
If we can’t fill it now with Pep and this brand of football god knows

 

[Keeper!]

This post should be made a sticky and pinned to the top of the thread for the hard of understanding.

And the reason when the club do expand the stadium that the majority of the extra capacity should be available on a match going basis,easy of sitting together with your mates, easy to obtain and reasonably priced especially for the less attractive or midweek cup games.

Get people into the stadium, once there you hooked for life, we have an ageing fan base and it needs to change.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

There isn’t really a bad seat in the place
Yes I’m in a good seat in East level 1 however if I’m paying £55/60 per match as opposed to £25 it would be time to have a serious think
I’m sure there would be some empty seats I don’t know what the answer is
If we can’t fill it now with Pep and this brand of football god knows

Every seat has a good view but there are some which I wouldn’t want to be in when it rains. I contracted a really bad chest infection after one game when I was in the North Stand so am grateful for the seat I moved to in EL1. I doubt you’d get seats being sold at £25 anyway, maybe for Tuesday night against Brentford or Bournemouth, but the bigger games would have to be £40+.

 

[Maly]

They’ve frozen their ST prices for 11 straight years (and they moan about the Glazers!). An equivalent seat to mine at Old Trafford was nearly twice the price 11 years ago, now mine is more expensive.

you’re actually getting a great deal. The equivalent seat at OT would be having your seat plus the seat in front such is the leg room. Went with a pal to watch the youth cup final. By far & away the most uncomfortable seats, with the least fucking leg room I’ve ever sat in & im only 3ft 9

Plus the football is shite in Trafford ;)