allan harper
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That should be easy to do, no beer sales on euro nights.jonmcity said:
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Skashion
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In City Square there is.allan harper said:That should be easy to do, no beer sales on euro nights.jonmcity said:stay off the pies and beer £20 saved. get pissed before you go
allan harper
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Skashion said:In City Square there is.allan harper said:That should be easy to do, no beer sales on euro nights.
I didn't know that, nice one.
allan harper said:Manchester City football club isnt a charity !
£22.50 is a decent price for a good night of European football, Far better nights then league games.
The price is indeed a fair one for a European night. The trouble is that we have had game after game this year, people are really hard pushed at the moment and there is the potential for more extra games, hopefully.
The club could have pegged the prices at around £15 and gauranteed a full house and that would really have been a boost for the team. I just think that the extra few quid will mean an awful lot of fans stay at home which is really sad.
Skashion
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You've just lost all credibility.Mike N said:The club could have pegged the prices at around £15 and gauranteed a full house
Skashion said:You've just lost all credibility.Mike N said:The club could have pegged the prices at around £15 and gauranteed a full house
What an odd thing to say. Explain.
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Tell me which £15 game we've had a full house for this season. Notts County, no. Leicester, no. Timisoara, no. Valencia, no. Aris at £17, no. The average Europa League price for an adult this season, this is what I've paid (this includes the 3 for 2 deal), is £16.40. No full houses, much less a guaranteed one. Are people that desperate for £1.40? Now let's move on there, I don't think further evidence is needed but I'll provide some, how is it that Aris at £17 got a lower attendance than either Poznan or Salzburg at £20, and a very similar attendance to Juventus at £30 (and remember the piss poor away crowd they brought - factor that in and there were more City fans at that game than Aris)?Mike N said:Skashion said:You've just lost all credibility.
What an odd thing to say. Explain.
as someone's already posted, if we can't sell out these games then its clear our core support is much lower than people think. Under £25 for a European game, last 16, £25 and under for a Cup QF ... pretty good value in the scheme of things. Shows how far we still have to go to be a truly 'big' club ... closing a quarter of the ground before we even start?
its a myth too that if/when we get CL football next year that all those games will suddenly start selling out. they won't.
its a myth too that if/when we get CL football next year that all those games will suddenly start selling out. they won't.
Skashion said:Tell me which £15 game we've had a full house for this season. Notts County, no. Leicester, no. Timisoara, no. Valencia, no. Aris at £17, no. The average Europa League price for an adult this season, this is what I've paid (this includes the 3 for 2 deal), is £16.40. No full houses, much less a guaranteed one. Are people that desperate for £1.40? Now let's move on there, I don't think further evidence is needed but I'll provide some, how is it that Aris at £17 got a lower attendance than either Poznan or Salzburg at £20, and a very similar attendance to Juventus at £30 (and remember the piss poor away crowd they brought - factor that in and there were more City fans at that game than Aris)?Mike N said:What an odd thing to say. Explain.
Funny really, I thought you might have noticed as you typed that by the time we play Kiev we will have had 11 extra games at home this season. You might also have noticed that money is quite hard to come by at the moment for a lot of people. My suggestion is that the cost of games this year has really increased and rather than put the cost up from the last round to this, we should have tried to help fans out by reducing the cost.
Oh and my point about getting a full house was based on 40 years experience of knowing that cup competitions tend to build interest as the team progress through the competition. I think more fans will have wanted to go to this game rather than the last round and the round before. Therefore sell the tickets at a good price and the crowd would have been the biggest one this year for a European game.
I know everyone has mentioned Hamburg but that was one of the best nights ever at City. Even you must accept that it was because the club dropped the price to guarantee a full house.
Skashion
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Mike N said:Funny really, I thought you might have noticed as you typed that by the time we play Kiev we will have had 11 extra games at home this season. You might also have noticed that money is quite hard to come by at the moment for a lot of people. My suggestion is that the cost of games this year has really increased and rather than put the cost up from the last round to this, we should have tried to help fans out by reducing the cost.
Oh and my point about getting a full house was based on 40 years experience of knowing that cup competitions tend to build interest as the team progress through the competition. I think more fans will have wanted to go to this game rather than the last round and the round before. Therefore sell the tickets at a good price and the crowd would have been the biggest one this year for a European game.
I know everyone has mentioned Hamburg but that was one of the best nights ever at City. Even you must accept that it was because the club dropped the price to guarantee a full house.
Even you must accept that you can't argue with facts. £15 does not guarantee a full house. We've had four £15 games this season and none of them were full houses, all of them were actually sub-30k.
Yes, cup crowds should get bigger as you progress but there's still no basis to say that we'd sell out at £15 when we managed 37k on £17 in the previous round, which, incidentally, was no higher than what we managed against Salzburg at £20 in the previous round and less than Poznan also at £20. So, although your argument is logical, it is not substantiated by the facts. Individual tickets were cheaper against Aris than in the group stages, and the same plus 33p if you got the 3 for 2 deal, and the crowd was still no better.
Yes, it did, but I also know that we can't expect £5 tickets as a standard. If the club wants to do it as a one-off to pack out the place, for a big occasion, then good, but it can't do it every game on the chance that we get knocked out that round. Hamburg was a quarter-final and we were up shit creek before it kicked off because of Hughes. This is last 16 and I'm hoping we won't be up shit creek before it kicks off.