Is it just me or have our ticket prices increased vastly ??

[stonerblue]

I had a customer yesterday who moaned about the price of some shoe laces that were 75p. You will always get someone moaning about prices, and given our owners wealth, they feel justified. Because the sheikh is loaded people seem to think City should be giving tickets.
The price is the price so either pay up or don't go.

 

[Ticket For Schalke]

Hear hear Quag.

if fans dont want to pay 50, wait till a cat c game, city will still be playing.

That's unfair, you can't expect the same attendance/crowd/atmosphere in the Derby as you'd expect if we were playing Wigan.

Why mate, its still our "beloved" city, if i wanted to watch the rags i'd go to the swamp.

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

Ah, a thread about the ever increasing cost of going to watch City and, without fail, it brings out the usual 'swining cock and bollocks', "I'd sacrifice my first born, you wouldn't, I'm a bigger blue" brigade out in force with their bullshit comments.

It is absolutely pathetic that threads like this are constantly full of, mostly the same, characters who have zero empathy with the situations of others and think that their glib, throwaway "don't buy a kebab every week comments are in any way relevant.

In fact, it rather gives them away and says a lot about the quality of their social circles.

Meanwhile, it has absolutely fuck all to do with hard working families who have been scrimping and saving to manage to go to City as football has become more expensive over the last 20 years and still get shafted year upon year.

And I say all that as someone who can easily afford the price of his season ticket. I'm just not a selfish, unsympathetic tosser.

Oh, and as for the "it's UEFA and their rules" merchants.

Please find a quote from the club that has ever, just once, offered this as an explanation for next season's increased season ticket/parking/food/ticket/drink prices.

Because, unless I am mistaken, no-one at the club has ever suggested anything of the sort (although I stand to be corrected).

Face it, Garry Cook talks the talk about the fans who have kept this club going for years, but all the actions regarding next season's costs for people who have been going for decades suggest that he is actual much more interested in attracting a new breed of rag type fans that will be wanting to spend much more money on tickets and all sorts of associated tat in their 'matchday experience.'

It's easy to say that you are a 'fan's man' but when you are simultaneously increasing all associated costs, it rings a bit hollow to me.

A good post and you are correct in what you say in that it is a proven business model.

 

[Ticket For Schalke]

Ah, a thread about the ever increasing cost of going to watch City and, without fail, it brings out the usual 'swining cock and bollocks', "I'd sacrifice my first born, you wouldn't, I'm a bigger blue" brigade out in force with their bullshit comments.

It is absolutely pathetic that threads like this are constantly full of, mostly the same, characters who have zero empathy with the situations of others and think that their glib, throwaway "don't buy a kebab every week comments are in any way relevant.

In fact, it rather gives them away and says a lot about the quality of their social circles.

Meanwhile, it has absolutely fuck all to do with hard working families who have been scrimping and saving to manage to go to City as football has become more expensive over the last 20 years and still get shafted year upon year.

And I say all that as someone who can easily afford the price of his season ticket. I'm just not a selfish, unsympathetic tosser.

Oh, and as for the "it's UEFA and their rules" merchants.

Please find a quote from the club that has ever, just once, offered this as an explanation for next season's increased season ticket/parking/food/ticket/drink prices.

Because, unless I am mistaken, no-one at the club has ever suggested anything of the sort (although I stand to be corrected).

Face it, Garry Cook talks the talk about the fans who have kept this club going for years, but all the actions regarding next season's costs for people who have been going for decades suggest that he is actual much more interested in attracting a new breed of rag type fans that will be wanting to spend much more money on tickets and all sorts of associated tat in their 'matchday experience.'

It's easy to say that you are a 'fan's man' but when you are simultaneously increasing all associated costs, it rings a bit hollow to me.

A good post and you are correct in what you say.

I dont think its GC i think its the club, but wehay lets blame GC, love it how no one mentions the good stuff about GC, im guessing the people that slag him off, have never met the man, as everyone who has, cannot speak highley of him.

 

[Wheelsy]

That's unfair, you can't expect the same attendance/crowd/atmosphere in the Derby as you'd expect if we were playing Wigan.

Why mate, its still our "beloved" city, if i wanted to watch the rags i'd go to the swamp.

Rightly or wrongly, it's just the way it is. You'll always get a bigger crowd and a bigger atmosphere against bigger opponents, and they are the games most sought after.

 

[Ticket For Schalke]

Why mate, its still our "beloved" city, if i wanted to watch the rags i'd go to the swamp.

Rightly or wrongly, it's just the way it is. You'll always get a bigger crowd and a bigger atmosphere against bigger opponents, and they are the games most sought after.

Atmosphere is a totally diff subject, im not arguing with you, just putting the discussion out to others, that seem not to want to go to these games, but yet they can't get a ticket for the glamour games.

 

[nmc]

A lot of good points in this thread and it's a subject people feel strongly about. On the one hand people want lower prices because they want to follow the club through thick and thin and it would improve the atmosphere etc. but I seem to remember sitting in a half empty (cheap to get in) ground with Stuart Pearce playing his brand of "donkey jacket" football. Where was everybody then? We now have an owner pumping in up to £200m of investment each year - which I think we all love - but it was always going to come at a cost and the club will change. To say we are turning into the rags is not true however, quite the opposite. Garry Cook and co want a stadium full of season ticket holders - the same loyal band week in week out. The rags in contrast did target the day traveller and held down season tickets at times in the 1990's. The real downside with the present strategy at City is for those who cannot afford a season ticket or who cannot attend regularly enough to justify one.

 

[BurnCK]

£48 for a football match (Liverpool at home) does seem a bit excessive, but then it's to be expected in todays money driven game. It's certainly no where near the most expensive in the Prem though, and if we're happy to see the club spend millions on players then we've got to accept that we're gonna have to pay these sort of prices.

 

[SWP's back]

Hear hear Quag.

if fans dont want to pay 50, wait till a cat c game, city will still be playing.

That's unfair, you can't expect the same attendance/crowd/atmosphere in the Derby as you'd expect if we were playing Wigan.

It's about city, not the opposition and we should sell out each game.

 

[BurnCK]

That's unfair, you can't expect the same attendance/crowd/atmosphere in the Derby as you'd expect if we were playing Wigan.

It's about city, not the opposition and we should sell out each game.

I agree, but also disagree. If someone can only afford to spend £50 on City one month and they have a choice of a game versus Wigan or Utd, then pretty much 100% are gonna choose the Utd game.