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[mrtwiceaseason]

Yup.

He made a post the other day, 'look how far we've come'. Then showed the crowd vs Mansfield compared to what we have now. Like that Mansfield crowd was at all comparable to the crowds we were getting back then.

Went to a talk last week by andy morrison and took along my copy of down amongst the dead men to get signed.which ive been reading this week the only reason i posted the msnsfied crowd was it was nearly 27years to the day .im well aware of the crowds we were getting that season and what records we were setting.
It was ment in praise of the club and not a dig
Edit if it suits the agenda just got up to 28 Dec 1998 31,000 v stoke city

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

because he wants to see city v Liverpool and city v utd and I hope I'm wrong but he wants his kid to see those games at £1-£5 when a adult would pay £55

Wrong on all charges mate if you think £36 for a 5 year old is acceptable then fine

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

Twice a season, as in once at the swamp, the other being the return fixture at the Etihad?

:)

Shit rumbled if going to games off and on for 45 years must make me a rag

 

[cleavers]

Also, just because you're one of the lucky few who got your hands on a £300 season ticket

I wasn't, I'll let you do the maths though, but you also could have moved as I did, and saved yourself quite a bit of money. (By the way my "biggest game of the season" will never be at that shithole, I wouldn't give them the steam off my piss, never mind any of my money.)

The wider trend at City is one of shitting on the core support in pursuit of the £, about time some of you lot recognised this.

Your opinion, but its a minority view, I'm "core support" (whatever the f*ck that is), and I'm more than happy with my club, in fact I'm happier than I've ever been in more than 45 years, best seat, best view, best team.

I accept the prices of away tickets are out of my league mostly, but given I probably spend more than most, just doing the home games, and a select few away, it doesn't bother me that much. The price of home league games are often expensive, but we have 40,000+ season card holders, so the majority of people buying them don't buy 19 (or more) home games (If they do then they're mad, with a 10 month interest free direct debit available). Our cup prices are generally fantastic, no pun intended, the champions league this year have been very good for example, I can't make the Capital One Cup because of work, but they've been equally good.

Nobody is forced to pay for platinum, its a choice, I pay it and get the away tickets I want generally, the only reason I pay it, I'm truly sorry you didn't get a swamp ticket, that you feel you are entitled too, but that's no reason for you to rubbish the club with phrases like "disgrace" and "shitting on the core support".

 

[RichardDunneOwnGoal]

I wasn't, I'll let you do the maths though, but you also could have moved as I did, and saved yourself quite a bit of money. (By the way my "biggest game of the season" will never be at that shithole, I wouldn't give them the steam off my piss, never mind any of my money.)

Your opinion, but its a minority view, I'm "core support" (whatever the f*ck that is), and I'm more than happy with my club, in fact I'm happier than I've ever been in more than 45 years, best seat, best view, best team.

I accept the prices of away tickets are out of my league mostly, but given I probably spend more than most, just doing the home games, and a select few away, it doesn't bother me that much. The price of home league games are often expensive, but we have 40,000+ season card holders, so the majority of people buying them don't buy 19 (or more) home games (If they do then they're mad, with a 10 month interest free direct debit available). Our cup prices are generally fantastic, no pun intended, the champions league this year have been very good for example, I can't make the Capital One Cup because of work, but they've been equally good.

Nobody is forced to pay for platinum, its a choice, I pay it and get the away tickets I want generally, the only reason I pay it, I'm truly sorry you didn't get a swamp ticket, that you feel you are entitled too, but that's no reason for you to rubbish the club with phrases like "disgrace" and "shitting on the core support".

Fair enough, you have one of the other cheaper tickets in the new South Stand.

As I said though, those are not typical of the average season ticket price. Most pay much more. And we can't all relocate into a new tier with a limited capacity. It's a self centred point. The average season ticket is circa double what you pay.

And make no mistake, when demand begins outstripping supply again, your season ticket price will undoubtedly rise sharply to come in line with the others.

"The price of home league games are often expensive, but we have 40,000+ season card holders, so the majority of people buying them don't buy 19 (or more) home games (If they do then they're mad, with a 10 month interest free direct debit available)."

There's nothing 'often' about it, they are expensive. As a matter of routine. Sometimes mere expensive, sometimes obscenely so.

Not everyone can afford a season ticket, or commit to one.

Those on a low income that would have attended several games a season on individual league tickets are now priced out of doing so, they'll attend less, or not at all due to seeing how they're being used as cash cows and not being able to justify such a large expense on a single fixture. Those tickets are now largely being picked up by football tourists and plastics.

You may not see that as an issue, but I do. Our match crowd is becoming gentrified.

If you have no problem with this then that's your prerogative, but don't ever come on here complaining about the atmosphere when you're complicit in it nosediving for example.

"I'm truly sorry you didn't get a swamp ticket, that you feel you are entitled too, but that's no reason for you to rubbish the club with phrases like "disgrace" and "shitting on the core support".

Don't try and insult me with that crap. It's not a question of 'feeling' entitled, I literally was entitled to a ticket by the club's very own ticketing criteria - until they said "fuck the core support, corporates get a bigger slice this year, they have priority now".

I haven't missed out on a ticket for the swamp derby for years, such is my place in the hierarchy for tickets due to the number of games attended. 'Loyalty points' they were once known as, of course now they're merely 'ticket points'. I qualified via my points for the derby in April, and went to every single game, bar one, between that time and when this season's derby tickets went on sale.

The maximum amount of points you could earn in that period was 1300, the criteria for this season's derby sold out at a threshold 1750 higher than it did in April.

The club are shitting on the core support in pursuit of the £. If you can't recognise this wider trend, because you got yourself a cheap ticket in the new stand the club were desperate to shift season tickets in, then I can't help you.

 

[cleavers]

Most pay much more. And we can't all relocate into a new tier with a limited capacity. It's a self centred point. The average season ticket is circa double what you pay.

Everyone in the stadium had the same chance as me to relocate to a cheaper seat.

If you have no problem with this then that's your prerogative, but don't ever come on here complaining about the atmosphere when you're complicit in it nosediving for example.

Sorry, I missed best atmosphere at the Etihad/CoMS from my other post, its a great atmosphere there, so no I won't come complaining on here about it, oh and not that many f*ck off home at 80 minutes either, its all a bit more "core support" in fact, you might have liked it....

Don't try and insult me with that crap. It's not a question of 'feeling' entitled, I literally was entitled to a ticket by the club's very own ticketing criteria - until they said "fuck the core support, corporates get a bigger slice this year, they have priority now".

So in fact you weren't "entitled" as you missed out on the points you have, most I know who do have the points, and wanted to go, did. I don't have the points, because over the last 4 or 5 years, I've not been financially able to sustain it, as I said its not the "biggest game" for me anyway. I never saw the phrase "fuck the core support" in the ticket announcement for the game. I do have an issue with you over the phrase "core support" though, because its self entitled shite (imho).

I haven't missed out on a ticket for the swamp derby for years, such is my place in the hierarchy for tickets due to the number of games attended.

Oh the "bigger blue" argument, well done you.

The "club", I'm afraid, have to look after the club, if you can find my posts from 2008, you'll see I predicted all of this, I was shouted down by many. Its how being a top club works, you either accept and take what you can get from it, or moan and become unhappy.

Compare and contrast...

Me - best seat, best view, best team, best atmosphere so far, best price (cheaper than Pearce seasons).
You - "shitting on core support", "disgrace", moan and moan.

You sound so unhappy, but why not accept what it is, and get on with enjoying the good stuff, and get on enjoying supporting one of the best teams/clubs in the world, or maybe you could setup FCCofM ?

You won't like my reply, but I'm happy, are you ?

 

[Georgian Maestro]

Went to a talk last week by andy morrison and took along my copy of down amongst the dead men to get signed.which ive been reading this week the only reason i posted the msnsfied crowd was it was nearly 27years to the day .im well aware of the crowds we were getting that season and what records we were setting.
It was ment in praise of the club and not a dig
Edit if it suits the agenda just got up to 28 Dec 1998 31,000 v stoke city

17 years ago

 

[Silva2021]

As a fan of City but with a young family, I cannot have the time away to justify going to the game all the time. Single tickets are over priced but yet I will buy one a few times a season and go with friends for exactly that reason. If I was able to go every or most home games I would get a season ticket. To me they seem to have the individual game about right and the fact they tend to sell out, speaks for itself.

To the poster complaining about the Liverpool ticket prices. I agree the price it starts to get to taking them to Liverpool is very high, especially as you cannot guarantee how they will be at the game. I hope for home FA Cup games as they are often cheap and child friendly (league cup & CL are too late for mine, despite living local).

I actually find these games, where we can win easily the kids prefer, especially if plenty of goals to cheers!! It's also better for me in terms of keeping an eye on them...A nervy game against Liverpool, I don't want to miss a minute but will get the 'need the toilet' at a crucial phase!!

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

17 years ago

As you have just pointed out this is why i got a u grade in maths "!"!

 

[RichardDunneOwnGoal]

Everyone in the stadium had the same chance as me to relocate to a cheaper seat.

Sorry, I missed best atmosphere at the Etihad/CoMS from my other post, its a great atmosphere there, so no I won't come complaining on here about it, oh and not that many f*ck off home at 80 minutes either, its all a bit more "core support" in fact, you might have liked it....

So in fact you weren't "entitled" as you missed out on the points you have, most I know who do have the points, and wanted to go, did. I don't have the points, because over the last 4 or 5 years, I've not been financially able to sustain it, as I said its not the "biggest game" for me anyway. I never saw the phrase "fuck the core support" in the ticket announcement for the game. I do have an issue with you over the phrase "core support" though, because its self entitled shite (imho).

Oh the "bigger blue" argument, well done you.

The "club", I'm afraid, have to look after the club, if you can find my posts from 2008, you'll see I predicted all of this, I was shouted down by many. Its how being a top club works, you either accept and take what you can get from it, or moan and become unhappy.

Compare and contrast...

Me - best seat, best view, best team, best atmosphere so far, best price (cheaper than Pearce seasons).
You - "shitting on core support", "disgrace", moan and moan.

You sound so unhappy, but why not accept what it is, and get on with enjoying the good stuff, and get on enjoying supporting one of the best teams/clubs in the world, or maybe you could setup FCCofM ?

You won't like my reply, but I'm happy, are you ?

"So in fact you weren't "entitled" as you missed out on the points you have, most I know who do have the points, and wanted to go, did. I don't have the points, because over the last 4 or 5 years, I've not been financially able to sustain it, as I said its not the "biggest game" for me anyway. I never saw the phrase "fuck the core support" in the ticket announcement for the game. I do have an issue with you over the phrase "core support" though, because its self entitled shite (imho)."

I missed out by less than 100 points, and I wouldn't have done if the club hadn't allowed a much bigger slice of the allocation to go to corporates irrespective of points - making the qualifying criteria for those of us buying via points leapfrog by 1750 points. I was entitled to a ticket under the usual ticketing policy, as were other blues in my points range, until the club gave the corporates a bigger slice of the allocation, allowing them to circumvent the points criteria. I would have qualified had the club not given that larger slice to corporate at the expense of the core support.

Hope this helps.

I'll tell you what I have a problem with, 'I'm alright Jack' blues like yourself who can't see the wood for the trees.

I'd be raising this issue had I even got a ticket, as it's something I've recognised for a while.

And it's nothing to do with a 'bigger blue' argument for fuck's sake, it's about recognising those who put in the most yards supporting the club should get priority ahead of some corporate tosser who has little to no real affinity to City.

It's funny you try that 'bigger blue' jibe with me, while you sit on your fucking high horse and try and ridicule me for what you perceive as ungratefulness/entitlement or needless moaning. Yours' is the 'proper' position I take it? Couldn't make it up.

No, I'm not happy mate. I'm growing increasingly disillusioned with City, and I see us as becoming everything we used to despise about United.

Of course I'm delighted with our success, but I don't want success at any cost. The club doesn't have to shit on the core support, and that includes you of course (I'm not sure where you interpreted it not to include you), to be successful.

Individual league ticket prices among the most expensive in the league. Season ticket prices increasing by an average of 10% every year for 7 years (even the rags have had season ticket prices frozen for about 3 years now). Corporates getting priority ahead of the core support for the biggest games of the season irrespective of points, with circa half of the allocation going towards corporates for the Sevilla game midweek.

Everything is about the £ now.

So yeah, shitting on the core support.

 

[Bill]

I am one of the "core support" and I don't feel shit on. in fact I feel priveldged to be watching the kind of player we now have in our squad. I also accept that if you want to watch that kind of player the price will be higher than watching bernado corradi and co. you can see a play at Oldham rep or you can watch the lion king in London. same rules apply, they are both plays but one costs considerably more. common sense.

 

[cleavers]

I'll tell you what I have a problem with, 'I'm alright Jack' blues like yourself who can't see the wood for the trees.

Good.

Question, for all your whinging, were you at the "20 is plenty" protest against Newcastle ?

You moan, but do you do anything about it ? It was pretty pointless as a protest as only about 20-30 turned up, and some of them were united, liverpool, everton, and newcastle fans.

"I'm all right jack", do f*ck off.

I'm growing increasingly disillusioned with City, and I see us as becoming everything we used to despise about United.

You'll find I forecast this about 7 years ago, but hardly anyone recognised it. Its what comes of being a top club, luckily CITY haven't gone as far as we could have, we've kept season tickets reasonable, recently built a new section with many cheaper seats, are planning on doing a second, where cheaper tickets ARE available, and have looked at improving the atmosphere, whilst at the same time increasing corporate revenues, something they HAD to do, to keep yours and my prices sensible.

As season ticket holders we have the best value for money football product in the PL, and probably the FL too, given the facilities, AND the team.

City - "Shitting on the core support" since 2008.

 

[cleavers]

I am one of the "core support" and I don't feel shit on. in fact I feel priveldged to be watching the kind of player we now have in our squad. I also accept that if you want to watch that kind of player the price will be higher than watching bernado corradi and co. you can see a play at Oldham rep or you can watch the lion king in London. same rules apply, they are both plays but one costs considerably more. common sense.

Thanks Bill, another "I'm all right Jack" supporter :)

 

[RichardDunneOwnGoal]

I am one of the "core support" and I don't feel shit on.

Would that change if the allocation granted towards corporate grew even further next season and then you yourself became directly affected, with you missing out on tickets for games like the derby or Sevilla in midweek via your points for the first time in years?

 

[squirtyflower]

Isn't this thread about the cheap cost of Gladbach tickets compared to Liverpool?

Yet someone seems to have made it into a crusade against corporate City shitting on the fans

 

[RichardDunneOwnGoal]

Good.

Question, for all your whinging, were you at the "20 is plenty" protest against Newcastle ?

You moan, but do you do anything about it ? It was pretty pointless as a protest as only about 20-30 turned up, and some of them were united, liverpool, everton, and newcastle fans.

"I'm all right jack", do f*ck off.

You'll find I forecast this about 7 years ago, but hardly anyone recognised it. Its what comes of being a top club, luckily CITY haven't gone as far as we could have, we've kept season tickets reasonable, recently built a new section with many cheaper seats, are planning on doing a second, where cheaper tickets ARE available, and have looked at improving the atmosphere, whilst at the same time increasing corporate revenues, something they HAD to do, to keep yours and my prices sensible.

As season ticket holders we have the best value for money football product in the PL, and probably the FL too, given the facilities, AND the team.

City - "Shitting on the core support" since 2008.

Yeah, very much 'I'm alright Jack' is your attitude. Hence your indifference about this growing issue because you got you hands on the minority of cheap season tickets.

Wind your neck in as well, tell me to fuck off. Tired of these double standards on here, if I replied to you in kind I'd be sitting out for a week again.

Re the 20 is plenty protest, I didn't know we had anyone behind it or that we had anything planned.

"City - "Shitting on the core support" since 2008."

Probably really started more around 2011 when Platinium was first introduced, but there you have it.

 

[goalmole]

Somebody, please define "core support".

 

[Bill]

Would that change if the allocation granted towards corporate grew even further next season and then you yourself became directly affected, with you missing out on tickets for games like the derby or Sevilla in midweek via your points for the first time in years?

Can't see how it could. Prices are published,with a criteria.,I decide whether to pay or not. It's been like that for all time. If we signed Messi and tyranny they would go up again. Then I have a choice to make. Nobody forces me to attend or pay .

 

[cleavers]

Wind your neck in as well, tell me to fuck off. Tired of these double standards on here, if I replied to you in kind I'd be sitting out for a week again.

No you wouldn't, not from me anyway, we're having a lively debate between posters, me being a mod has nothing to do with it, and your "all right jack" shit annoyed me, so I told you so, not as a mod, as a poster, my fellow mods can always warn me, or thread ban me, that's how it works.

Oh and you've just done it again, whilst knowing f**k all about me, and what I appreciate/dislike. I've mates more deserving than you (imho), who've had to give up going because of the prices, and I feel their pain regularly, yet none of them moan about not getting a ticket for the shithole in trafford, and blaming City. They still support the club, they don't say crap like "shitting on the core support", they have to watch us in their local pubs, on snide TV, attending the odd game when someone can't go, using their tickets. Of course they don't like that they can't afford it any more, but they don't moan like you do, they accept that to have one of the best teams in the world costs money, and that when the chance comes to be part of it, they'll love it like they always did.

Re the 20 is plenty protest, I didn't know we had anyone behind it or that we had anything planned.

Pity you missed the big thread on here about it then :)

Anyway this thread has been hijacked, by both of us, and was meant to be about the great prices for a champions league game, a game that could decide if we top a champions league group for the first time, at £20 - "shitting on the core support" it isn't ;o)

 

[goalmole]

Our league ticket prices are a disgrace, the individual ticket prices.

£50 is fairly average for us nowadays. £60 and above isn't uncommon for the big games.

Along with the £35 membership and the much more expensive cost of under 16 tickets to boot, yes, they're a disgrace.

Also, just because you're one of the lucky few who got your hands on a £300 season ticket doesn't mean that's a typical price for a season ticket at City. It's not.

I'm paying £42 a game for my season ticket at £800, including the platinum fee, which didn't count for anything as the club gave the corporates almost half of our allocation for our biggest game of the season at the swamp the other week, and I missed out on a ticket for the first time in years.

The wider trend at City is one of shitting on the core support in pursuit of the £, about time some of you lot recognised this.

I'd be pursuing the £ as well if I'd just spent a billion of them to get a yo-yo club that was in financial disarray at the time to being one of the strongest in the Prem and soon, hopefully, in Europe both financially and on the field.