Individual Match Tickets

[Didsbury Dave]

Soriano is a ****!

The sooner he fucks off back to Barcelona, the better.

He can take Danny Wilson with him.

As for Khaldoon, proclaiming to put loyal City fans first who stuck by the club on his annual end of season videos, he’s another bullshitter!

That's a dick's post mate. Embarrassing.

 

[PragueBlue]

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.

 

[Edghill OG]

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.

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.

 

[mrcakey]

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?

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.

 

[jrb]

That's a dick's post mate. Embarrassing.

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.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

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.

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.

 

[dawlishdave]

Anyone know when ticket exchange opens.

 

[Jazzyblue]

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.

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.

 

[Edghill OG]

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.

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.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

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.

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.