Individual Match Tickets

[Deleted member 77198]

Ah but if City staggered by points, it'd never get to the newbies so they'd not buy again or get to the ground to spend in the shop.

The vast majority of you guys with x,ooo points will still buy next year & the year after so you're of no real concern to them apart from a minor cash stream.

What an atrociously sad state of affairs. I can’t stand this side of the club.

 

[BlueMoonday]

Ah but if City staggered by points, it'd never get to the newbies so they'd not buy again or get to the ground to spend in the shop.

The vast majority of you guys with x,ooo points will still buy next year & the year after so you're of no real concern to them apart from a minor cash stream.

You are not wrong pal.

Funny that we were a concern to them when we were shit and we will be a concern if we are ever shit again... Tourists will go on to follow Newcastle.

 

[MCFC Wirral]

From personal experience, tickets for most matches are around if you know where to look. Social media, forums etc. There’s always someone who can’t make it and as long as you’re not too bothered about where you’re sitting then you’ll be fine.

If anyone has a spare for a match the night before then you could do worse then ask me or another Bluemooner. A fair price means you’ll get your money back. I may go once or twice next season having pretty much retired.

I strongly disagree with tickets for May 2024 matches being on sale so soon but things like this were always going to happen. Huge success is never a 100% positive thing.

 

[Jazzyblue]

The divide between SC holders and those buying on a match by match basis has never been greater. The commercial management of the club has decided that they can make far more money selling at matchday prices so new SC holders are effectively going to be extinct for the foreseeable future. Even when the expanded NS opens I predict a handful of new SCs with the majority being relocations from other parts of the stadium. The vacated seats will be sold as Enhanced Ticket Bundles (AKA Silver) or at matchday/package prices.

If you have a SC (I've had one for over 40 years) then my advice is to cling on to it for dear life as if you let it go you will probably never get another one.

If it doesn’t slow down the trajectory we’re on will eventually kill off regular matchgoing for anyone who currently doesn’t have a season ticket to the detriment of the future fan base. Pay £200 to go and watch City for you and the kids or go and watch a Greater Manchester non-league side for £20 max for all of you, pay on the gate, stand on the terraces, no silly queues for the bar, no hassles getting to and from the game, feel like a supporter not a walking cash machine, no PhD in geopolitics required, come home and watch the City match recorded off the telly with your tea. Saturday sorted without needing to remortgage your semi. There are whole generations of future legacy blues who cannot help when they were born and came of age, and the club will push them elsewhere at this rate.

 

[threespires]

If it doesn’t slow down the trajectory we’re on will eventually kill off regular matchgoing for anyone who currently doesn’t have a season ticket to the detriment of the future fan base. Pay £200 to go and watch City for you and the kids or go and watch a Greater Manchester non-league side for £20 max for all of you, pay on the gate, stand on the terraces, no silly queues for the bar, no hassles getting to and from the game, feel like a supporter not a walking cash machine, no PhD in geopolitics required, come home and watch the City match recorded off the telly with your tea. Saturday sorted without needing to remortgage your semi. There are whole generations of future legacy blues who cannot help when they were born and came of age, and the club will push them elsewhere at this rate.

I think that's pretty much where me and the youngest are heading personally. I'll withhold judgement till Thursday but I have a strong feeling that by the weekend we'll be plotting our travels around some lower league grounds.

It makes me sad that as a consequence he probably won't take being a City fan into adulthood but he wants to follow his team rather than sit and consume their content, there's enough of life where he can do that already. I sort of feel like I've failed as a parent if he doesn't remain a blue but then if he does it'll probably bear so little resemblance to what I was able to do that it won't really matter anyway.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

If anyone has a spare for a match the night before then you could do worse then ask me or another Bluemooner. A fair price means you’ll get your money back. I may go once or twice next season having pretty much retired.

I strongly disagree with tickets for May 2024 matches being on sale so soon but things like this were always going to happen. Huge success is never a 100% positive thing.

Your last paragraph highlights the problem for many Blues, myself included. I just don’t have the money to buy all the match tickets on Thursday, it’s a ridiculous way to sell them, and will mean many Blues missing out.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

If it doesn’t slow down the trajectory we’re on will eventually kill off regular matchgoing for anyone who currently doesn’t have a season ticket to the detriment of the future fan base. Pay £200 to go and watch City for you and the kids or go and watch a Greater Manchester non-league side for £20 max for all of you, pay on the gate, stand on the terraces, no silly queues for the bar, no hassles getting to and from the game, feel like a supporter not a walking cash machine, no PhD in geopolitics required, come home and watch the City match recorded off the telly with your tea. Saturday sorted without needing to remortgage your semi. There are whole generations of future legacy blues who cannot help when they were born and came of age, and the club will push them elsewhere at this rate.

I read most of that in the style of Radiohead …

 

[Edghill OG]

Your last paragraph highlights the problem for many Blues, myself included. I just don’t have the money to buy all the match tickets on Thursday, it’s a ridiculous way to sell them, and will mean many Blues missing out.

The only benefit to the club is that they get all that income up front. We all know they don't need to do that though. It also gives the inept ticket office the whole season to fix their fuck ups as well I suppose. Haha.

It's almost a sinister way of ensuring the Mancunian working classes don't attend many games and hit more of their 'target market'. Those with plenty of dosh to spend on non-essetials.

As I've said in a previous post the way they handle ticket sales now enables some high earners to essentially buy their own season ticket ahead of everybody else as he has a few more zeros at the end of his bank balance. Really distasteful.

 

[Etihad]

When predicting future, two things are certain ... no, not death and taxes ... the two certainties for next week are:

1. These individual match tickets will be a lot higher priced than last season, and even more than any of us here expect.

2. Come Friday, most of the fixtures will be sold out. Oh, and that second lot for some fixtures that the club has held back and said will be released in October ... expect them to be put on sale with an extra fiver (or even a tenner) on the price when they eventually come out.

Feel free to bookmark this and come back to me next weekend!

I also think this will happen. As someone commented earlier in the thread, we are competing with people who are buying to sell on (call them what you will). The demand for City tickets means that touts can easily recoup the price of membership from 1 ticket sale. Think the club need to do something about it. I'll be happy if I manage to get tickets to any games on Thursday.

 

[MAG]