Individual Match Tickets

KnaresboroughBlue said:
If the Charity Shield game has sold out despite a boycott, it shows just how large our fanbase is becoming. Individual match tickets are going to be hard to come by this season I suspect.
Click to expand...

Yeah, was just thinking that. Not bothering myself but thought there was meant to be a boycott? Just shows how many there currently are to take up the slack. I'm assuming there was very little to no criteria?

Ticket prices are sadly only heading in one direction. The least they can do for the long term fan is get rid of this pay up front for all the games nonsense before a ball is even kicked. Some staggered criteria would also be beneficial for all of the games- even if it started from something as low as 3 games last season. Whilst new fans should be welcomed a wealthy JCL shouldn't be able to come along and buy pretty much all of the games at the start of the season- potentially at the expense of somebody that's been putting in the hard yards for years.
 
ftg89 said:
I have an awful feeling that tickets prices are going to be stupid! We as cityzen members saw that last season especially the second half. I paid £55 for Leeds at home! On that basis, United, Liverpool etc will be £70 plus this year. I’m planning on, like a lot of others, to buy united and Liverpool on Thursday and buy other games as and when (ticket exchange seats) I fear that even those will go to hospitality this season like they started to last season!

I’ve always said to fans of united and Liverpool who have shoved the ‘you’ll always get tickets, all those empty seats’ city have to pay people to watch them’ etc etc, that I’d rather have less fans and be able to go when I want than pay over the odds for hospitality because you can never get a Matchday ticket… unfortunately, we are getting to that point now.

Honest question for members, not for the season ticket holders as you’re safe, would you rather be not as good again and be able to go when you want or gain all these new fans/tourists and win everything but not be able to go?
Click to expand...

I'd rather - as an earlier poster said - have some sort of reward for my loyalty points and have the "Members" allocation staggered the way away matches are for season ticket holders.

I was a season ticket holder from 1999-2013 and still get to a fair few matches each season, which leaves me with 5155 loyalty points, but I'm in the same lottery as all the tourists for match tickets.

The biggest thing for me would be for us to be able to sell on our tickets legitimately the way season ticket holders do. Particularly with the "sell in one huge chunk" model, people buy tickets for matches that they then can't make, but can't sell them on. I'm sure quite a few of the you-know-whats are down to that.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
That's a dick's post mate. Embarrassing.
Click to expand...

It's all about opinions, mate.

You know what I'm getting at.

They could have achieved what they have achieved off the pitch by treating the fans better.

I won't ever criticize them for bringing Pep to City. They deserve credit for that. And I will always be grateful to them for that.
 
jrb said:
It's all about opinions, mate.

You know what I'm getting at.

They could have achieved what they have achieved off the pitch by treating the fans better.

I won't ever criticize them for bringing Pep to City. They deserve credit for that. And I will always be grateful to them for that.
Click to expand...
Khaldoon and Soriano are the envy of the football world because of what they have achieved at MCFC and that goes a long way beyond bringing Pep in.

Danny Wilson is a huge asset to the club who's been there through it all and has looked after many fans.

Ranting about "fucking off from the club" is a daft thing to do. Improvements can be made in some ticketing arrangements but to be honest that's been the case at City for 50 years in different guises and I understand pretty much every big club has a similar moan.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Khaldoon and Soriano are the envy of the football world because of what they have achieved at MCFC and that goes a long way beyond bringing Pep in.

Danny Wilson is a huge asset to the club who's been there through it all and has looked after many fans.

Ranting about "fucking off from the club" is a daft thing to do. Improvements can be made in some ticketing arrangements but to be honest that's been the case at City for 50 years in different guises and I understand pretty much every big club has a similar moan.
Click to expand...
I agree that Khaldoon and Soriano have done great things for the club. But I can't help thinking they've set us on a road which means in 25 years the price of success - if it continues - will be a matchgoing fanbase largely comprised of pensioners, hospitality and tourists. I intend fully to be in the first group btw - but there is no way you can add matchgoing fans in decent numbers outside those three groups if there are no season tickets and the price of a ticket could feed a family shopping at Aldi for a week. It's just pie in the sky. People will wear the shirt out and about, watch us on telly and attend no-fuss football locally. There's no guarantee they will even go once a year. There are lots of local Blues who never attend. The seats they might have had will be taken by people who've come to take selfies or get a picture of an opposition player.

And no, it's not just us, it's all the big clubs, maybe they're looking at NBA and NFL and the price bracketing over there and thinking there's much further to go. But it will be the detriment of the Prem as a league that still bears some connection to traditional footballing culture/working people's relaxation. And that will mean a flatter atmosphere, much more of a theme park vibe, probably an ESL and lots more competitions and innovations that core fans won't necessarily like, especially when they twig they can get the 'legacy' experience elsewhere.

So there's much more to this than folk concerned about having to pay an extra £5 or s every year per match. It's about all the little flashing red signs, joining them up, and seeing where they point to. That said there's every chance we're being too harsh on the club. We have got FFP, a ground expansion, unprecedented demand and inflation. That's why the way the North Stand expansion is managed is critical, as I and others have said on here before. It will tell us where we're going.
 
Jazzyblue said:
I agree that Khaldoon and Soriano have done great things for the club. But I can't help thinking they've set us on a road which means in 25 years the price of success - if it continues - will be a matchgoing fanbase largely comprised of pensioners, hospitality and tourists. I intend fully to be in the first group btw - but there is no way you can add matchgoing fans in decent numbers outside those three groups if there are no season tickets and the price of a ticket could feed a family shopping at Aldi for a week. It's just pie in the sky. People will wear the shirt out and about, watch us on telly and attend no-fuss football locally. There's no guarantee they will even go once a year. There are lots of local Blues who never attend. The seats they might have had will be taken by people who've come to take selfies or get a picture of an opposition player.

And no, it's not just us, it's all the big clubs, maybe they're looking at NBA and NFL and the price bracketing over there and thinking there's much further to go. But it will be the detriment of the Prem as a league that still bears some connection to traditional footballing culture/working people's relaxation. And that will mean a flatter atmosphere, much more of a theme park vibe, probably an ESL and lots more competitions and innovations that core fans won't necessarily like, especially when they twig they can get the 'legacy' experience elsewhere.

So there's much more to this than folk concerned about having to pay an extra £5 or s every year per match. It's about all the little flashing red signs, joining them up, and seeing where they point to. That said there's every chance we're being too harsh on the club. We have got FFP, a ground expansion, unprecedented demand and inflation. That's why the way the North Stand expansion is managed is critical, as I and others have said on here before. It will tell us where we're going.
Click to expand...

I don't necessarily agree with JRB's assessment of Danny Wilson and Khaldoon as I think their hands are tied. From what Prestwich has said they've agreed to freeze prices before and then Soriano just goes and overrules them.

That said I haven't even bothered listening to the chairman's interview this time. They just seem to be hollow, cringey words and I just end up rolling my eyes. The snippets I have seen about us being the '12th man' etc and rabitting on about how commercially successful we are. Stop strangling the fanbase then! Carry on increasing prices and we'll soon be back down to 11.5 men.
 
mrcakey said:
I'd rather - as an earlier poster said - have some sort of reward for my loyalty points and have the "Members" allocation staggered the way away matches are for season ticket holders.

I was a season ticket holder from 1999-2013 and still get to a fair few matches each season, which leaves me with 5155 loyalty points, but I'm in the same lottery as all the tourists for match tickets.

The biggest thing for me would be for us to be able to sell on our tickets legitimately the way season ticket holders do. Particularly with the "sell in one huge chunk" model, people buy tickets for matches that they then can't make, but can't sell them on. I'm sure quite a few of the you-know-whats are down to that.
Click to expand...
The Face Value Ticket Pages are an invaluable resource. If you don’t download your ticket email you will probably get the face value ticket price back. If you have to send a QR code somebody will buy the ticket, probably for a bit less than face value.
 
BlueMoonday said:
Up until now, the highest tickets have been for high category games is £67. From my own experience I've not seen them exceed this amount unless it's for some form of corporate hospitality.

We've been paying top football since the takeover and during this time we've experienced being one of the most reasonably priced clubs to now one of the most expensive for mathcday tickets. Granted it is Pep who has taken us to the next level and brought on consistent success and pushed boundaries.

Looking at it commercially, (although I don't agree with it) I can sort of understand the price increases for matchday tickets.I believe spurs fans are expected to pay similar amounts and they're shite although they're London base where local fans typically earn higher wages due to London weighting etc.

That said, if we are looking at a wider picture I'd like to raise the point that there are many cityzen members on this thread who've been members or season ticket holders in the past, have followed the club home and away for decades (I know this for a fact) and therefore have spent a lot of money following city. They've probably got a lot more points than some existing ST holders. Despite points, money invested watching city, this group I mention are now expected to pay a premium because a tourist or JLC who attends once a year is happy to pay £73+ game. How is this sustainable and beneficial to the long term local support for the club? The club are not making PL games very accessible to local kids who the club may need to rely on for future support. I know league Cup games, CL games will offer tickets at a lower price but that limits this group to watching city mid week. We can't comment on Cat "B" or "C" games because the club haven't released the prices but safe to say these will have seen a sharp increase.

I'd also like to raise the point that many ST holders are now new dad's etc and who at some point will want to take their kids regularly to games. How would this be possible when now new STs are being released despite many folk not renewing.

Even if a lot of us can afford matchday tickets come Thursday, why didn't the club stagger the release of all tickets according to loyalty points or put in a stricter criteria for date joined? Thursday is going to be a mad scramble for couples or families trying to buy seats together and are competing with JLCs /tourists who only signed up to membership in May. The club wouldn't have lost out on revenue if they had set stricter criteria it just would have made it fairer in those who've been members for years.

We are reliant on the team performing shite, Pep / Haaland leaving in order for games to become accessible. What a toss state of affairs.
Click to expand...
This was my confirmation from the 21/22 season Liverpool league game (prior to restarting my ST once I moved back home) with a £75 ticket price in a non-hospitality section

Completely agree on the staggered ticket front and I’m surprised this isn’t the case already. I’m 90% certain that parents can buy an extra ticket for kids at home games like they can for away games but I don’t have any experience on this personally.

We can’t overlook the many school groups who take up the very top of CBS and East. Some parts of the family stand too. You’d hope there’s an increase of this availability once we’ve extended the stadium too.

I completely understand your (and this specific forum’s) sentiment but what else can the club do if there’s a supporter who doesn’t have points to show their attendances through the years? It’d turn into a postcode lottery. I think all things considered, families will be able to attend some games watching city throughout the next few seasons. Naturally high demand games will be more popular and therefore more difficult to option tickets both in terms of availability and price. And most probably, those with existing points history will be able to access many more games than the first timer/sparse supporter
 

Attachments

  • IMG_9043.jpeg
    IMG_9043.jpeg
    361.5 KB · Views: 71
We're not the only ones getting dry bummed !

I'm back in the UK for the West Ham(A) & Forest(H) games. Close to ZERO chance of me getting a West Ham away ticket, so I was resigned to trying to get a 'cheap' hospitality ticket, as I will already be in London that weekend. I contacted West Ham and they responded today. The cheapest BAR (Same as Joe's, where you pay for your food & drink) with a good seat is 600 QUID ! I'm just not doing that. It's cheaper to buy a West Ham ticket on the resale market, even when it's 3-4x face value.

The football world is going f'in-crazy !
 
blueparrot said:
They aren’t £100 though. I’ve seen around £70 mentioned, I assume for the top price games with the discount guessing that will be £63. Not cheap but I’ve been paying around £58/£60 for the top price games and about £40/£45 for cheaper games the last few years so the price difference isn’t going to change my match going habits Especially when all my other costs add up,to about £150/ game.
Click to expand...
I know my seat on an individual match basis for Utd and Liverpool last season was £86, not hospitality
 
Impeccable One said:
We're not the only ones getting dry bummed !

I'm back in the UK for the West Ham(A) & Forest(H) games. Close to ZERO chance of me getting a West Ham away ticket, so I was resigned to trying to get a 'cheap' hospitality ticket, as I will already be in London that weekend. I contacted West Ham and they responded today. The cheapest BAR (Same as Joe's, where you pay for your food & drink) with a good seat is 600 QUID ! I'm just not doing that. It's cheaper to buy a West Ham ticket on the resale market, even when it's 3-4x face value.

The football world is going f'in-crazy !
Click to expand...

£600 without food or drinks? You was right to fuck that off. I’m trying to sort you one now mate but may have missed the OSC deadline for applying (was last week I think)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top