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.
For some reason the Chelsea game in February is available to buy.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.
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Some just used what they had saved for a season ticket proper to buy as many individual tickets as they could, myself included. But with demand I doubt if that’s even possible this year, and to be honest, if we cross the £100 a game barrier, loyal and local without season tickets will just go less. We all love City, but we also have to live in the real world. We play the best football in the world, it's true, I've been blessed to see what I've seen at the Etihad in recent years, but it wasn't the best football in the world that made me a City fan in the first place, and if we're drifting away from that to become a theme park, it's reasonable to ask if City still loves you.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.
I'll second that mateYour 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.
Fuck me, I'm outFor some reason the Chelsea game in February is available to buy.
Cheapest tickets are £73 at the ends, £75 on the sides, and then £90 in the posh seats.
Bargains!
Yeah the Chelsea game, I reported this to Man City this should not be available todayFuck me, I'm out
Can you also ask them to reduce the prices ; )Yeah the Chelsea game, I reported this to Man City this should not be available today
Some just used what they had saved for a season ticket proper to buy as many individual tickets as they could, myself included. But with demand I doubt if that’s even possible this year, and to be honest, if we cross the £100 a game barrier, loyal and local without season tickets will just go less. We all love City, but we also have to live in the real world. We play the best football in the world, it's true, I've been blessed to see what I've seen at the Etihad in recent years, but it wasn't the best football in the world that made me a City fan in the first place, and if we're drifting away from that to become a theme park, it's reasonable to ask if City still loves you.
Yeah was gonna say this let us know what the prices are this season: £70 for members £75 for non members £5 increase every year bloody hellCan you also ask them to reduce the prices ; )