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I won't be suprised or shocked in the slightest at our attendances in the cups this season.

It is easier to find Area 51, break into it and have a cup of tea than it is to buy a simple macth ticket for a city game.

You can't buy a ticket unless you buy a membership. Crock of shit. Whatever happend to the good old days where you could just turn up whenever you wanted, 2 weeks before, 2 days before or 2 mins before the game and just go to the ticket office, pay the price and receive the ticket?

Blue Memberships my arse.
 
St Helens Blue (Exiled) said:
Why is it stupid..Look at our attendances against Reading,Salzburg,Notts County,Leicester,Kiev last season.I was there and the average weas about 25-30000...

Giving credence to a rag song. No - what I was saying was the song that they sing is true-Unfortunately . All I fucking hear about is our great Mancunian support and we are proud we have no Irish,cockneys etc etc... If we can get 46-47k at home for home league games why cant people turn up for the league cup,fa cup games.. And then they have the fucking nerve to moan when they cant get a ticket or slag the club off for the cup scheme being unfair. Yes I am angry about being accused of being a rag but I will get over it. We sing This city is ours,all I did was state that I dont sing it as our attendances are shocking to say the least for cup games. Believe me I give no credence to those twats from Stretford but to not be able to discuss chants etc is a little naive. Remember some of the vile chants we have sung in the past-it gets debated. All I am saying is people need to turn up,support the team and not just stay at home.

Can I breathe now....?
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The overall average for those games is nearly 32,000 (the Reading and Salzburg attendances were nearly 40k), and Kyiv, c'mon, six o'clock on a Thursday and you're hanging people on that.

The rags have to buy for cup games as part of their season ticket so don't be impressed, I certainly don't want their system at City. For the Carling Cup, where there is still a compulsion to buy tickets (if you forego Carling Cup tickets, you can't be entered into the ballot for ANY final - Champions League or FA Cup), there was 30,000 empty seats against Wolves last season: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/match/2010/oct/26/manchester-united-v-wolves" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/matc ... d-v-wolves</a> (Match Facts)

Yes, the rags have more lemmings willing to buy tickets, they've had twenty years of almost non-stop to success to get to the level where they can get 46,000 people who are only semi-forced into buying cup tickets. Congrats, we can only get 32,000 on average to cup games when given a totally free choice. I'm going to send this startling fact into Big Whoop magazine. Why do you even care? Are European games less of a laugh or have less atmosphere? I don't think so. If it's because the rags laugh at our empty seats, grow a spine and laugh at them having their arms twisted by the Glazers into buying tickets they know they wouldn't buy otherwise.
 
It the same old 25k-30k hardcore that have always gone, regardless of opposition that will be there. This doesn't bother me that much, we've not had a 20 year period of sustained success where some part time plastic is willing to buy a ticket to watch the mighty Manchester City when 20k that only go league games can't be arsed.

Even the rags have had over 20k empty seats at cup games recently, how often has that happened in the last 10 years? They used to have a conveyor belt of plastics ready to jump into any available seat, or red mancs that 'couldn't usually get a ticket'. Where are they now? I'd say there have been more reds disappear recently than blues. The few reds I knew that actually went to the swamp no longer do. My cousin will only go to away games 'because Old Trafford is shit'....he used to have a season ticket. This lot are a breed of their own and after a few seasons of getting outdone by City, will pack it in all together.

As for their song '20'000 empty seats'....bit hypocritical considering they have had 20'000 empty seats AND 20'000 empty streets in one season. I'm quite confident they won't be singing that song for much longer anyway.

Sorry to talk about them, yet it seems some people care too much about what they think. I think seeing our attendances suddenly increase by 20k would be more embarrassing for me, because surely that's a sign of us becoming more like them with a load of know nowt glory hunters half filling the ground.
 
berger1985 said:
It the same old 25k-30k hardcore that have always gone, regardless of opposition that will be there. This doesn't bother me that much, we've not had a 20 year period of sustained success where some part time plastic is willing to buy a ticket to watch the mighty Manchester City when 20k that only go league games can't be arsed.

Even the rags have had over 20k empty seats at cup games recently, how often has that happened in the last 10 years? They used to have a conveyor belt of plastics ready to jump into any available seat, or red mancs that 'couldn't usually get a ticket'. Where are they now? I'd say there have been more reds disappear recently than blues. The few reds I knew that actually went to the swamp no longer do. My cousin will only go to away games 'because Old Trafford is shit'....he used to have a season ticket. This lot are a breed of their own and after a few seasons of getting outdone by City, will pack it in all together.

As for their song '20'000 empty seats'....bit hypocritical considering they have had 20'000 empty seats AND 20'000 empty streets in one season. I'm quite confident they won't be singing that song for much longer anyway.

Sorry to talk about them, yet it seems some people care too much about what they think. I think seeing our attendances suddenly increase by 20k would be more embarrassing for me, because surely that's a sign of us becoming more like them with a load of know nowt glory hunters half filling the ground.
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Excellent post, berger, bang on the money.
By the way, still no date finalised for this game? The draw was more than a week ago. The OS is showing 7.45 on the Wednesday but I think that's just provisional as no tickets on sale yet. I suppose TV companies are keeping everyone waiting.
 
WNRH said:
I won't be suprised or shocked in the slightest at our attendances in the cups this season.

It is easier to find Area 51, break into it and have a cup of tea than it is to buy a simple macth ticket for a city game.

You can't buy a ticket unless you buy a membership. Crock of shit. Whatever happend to the good old days where you could just turn up whenever you wanted, 2 weeks before, 2 days before or 2 mins before the game and just go to the ticket office, pay the price and receive the ticket?

Blue Memberships my arse.
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If you're not a Blue member, can you not just get a paper ticket? If not, then that is a bit rubbish, cos it adds £10 to your first match ticket.
 
CityReg said:
Not surprised at all. There is a suggestion we don't sell out Napoli either. Can't believe it myself, but a few of the lads at work said the club don't think they'll sell out.

First Champions League game in history? Surely we'll sell out?
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I had a problem on line yesterday, could book 5 tockets but not the 6th one so had to ring the ground. I asked how sales were going for this one and the girl said they had been busy the last 3 days. Prices are really good to be honest.
 
It is on the Wednesday and not televised, so that excuse can't be used for having a poor crowd.
LongsightM13 said:
berger1985 said:
It the same old 25k-30k hardcore that have always gone, regardless of opposition that will be there. This doesn't bother me that much, we've not had a 20 year period of sustained success where some part time plastic is willing to buy a ticket to watch the mighty Manchester City when 20k that only go league games can't be arsed.

Even the rags have had over 20k empty seats at cup games recently, how often has that happened in the last 10 years? They used to have a conveyor belt of plastics ready to jump into any available seat, or red mancs that 'couldn't usually get a ticket'. Where are they now? I'd say there have been more reds disappear recently than blues. The few reds I knew that actually went to the swamp no longer do. My cousin will only go to away games 'because Old Trafford is shit'....he used to have a season ticket. This lot are a breed of their own and after a few seasons of getting outdone by City, will pack it in all together.

As for their song '20'000 empty seats'....bit hypocritical considering they have had 20'000 empty seats AND 20'000 empty streets in one season. I'm quite confident they won't be singing that song for much longer anyway.

Sorry to talk about them, yet it seems some people care too much about what they think. I think seeing our attendances suddenly increase by 20k would be more embarrassing for me, because surely that's a sign of us becoming more like them with a load of know nowt glory hunters half filling the ground.
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Excellent post, berger, bang on the money.
By the way, still no date finalised for this game? The draw was more than a week ago. The OS is showing 7.45 on the Wednesday but I think that's just provisional as no tickets on sale yet. I suppose TV companies are keeping everyone waiting.
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When was Wednesday announced? Missed that.
Tickets don't seem to be on sale yet. I'm in the cup scheme and not heard anything from the club or had the money taken out.
 
Friday, 11.51am

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Tickets-and-Travel/2011/September/Register-for-Carling-Cup-scheem" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Tickets-and- ... Cup-scheem</a>

'Holders Birmingham City visit the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday, 21 September'

LongsightM13 said:
When was Wednesday announced? Missed that.
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Are they holding off on ticket prices to try and get more people into the cup scheme? The attendance is likely to be bad but it'll be worse if people have barely 2 weeks to buy tickets.
 
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