New breed Season ticket holders only going to the big games

Prestwich_Blue said:
I thought that if you put your ticket on the exchange the club sends a paper ticket to the purchaser and cancels the card for that game. I don't think the seller needs to do anything.
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No you just have to phone up. Say you can't make it and you want a paper ticket. They send you out the ticket the next day. Very simple.
 
I tried to sell through the ticket exchange a couple of times with no luck. But I found that if you put up for face value (SS3 so £16) then I got rid of every ticket.

Am I right in thinking that with the exchange system the tickets are sold for full price but the ST holder only received 1/19th of the total cost? Seems a bit unfair.
 
ManCityX said:
City currently have a situation where a number of season ticket holders pick and choose their games.

This leads to games which have sold out featuring a number of empty seats throughout the stadium.

People will always miss games through illness, work, holidays & family issues etc, but since we became more successful there have been quite a few fans who have bought a season ticket with the intention of only going to the big games.

Is that what a season ticket is for? It seemingly never happened as much when we were shit. I've been watching a few season reviews from the early days of the Etihad and in the big sold out games there were less empty seats than there is now. Even back watching matches from 09/10, 10/11, 11/12 it seemed to be less of an issue.

The club tried to fix this with an official ticket exchange. Tbh it has not been the best advertised system in the world, with some fans thinking you still need to be Platinum to use it and I've not once heard or seen it demonstrated on the stadium's big screens.

I know people who can't afford a season ticket and have tried to get tickets late on for games only to find them sold out but then watched on the TV and seen many spots available.

Is there a solution?

What about having a 'Top 6 match ticket'? You get the same seat for matches against the top 6 clubs (not including us obviously) of last season. This would be aimed at fans who want to guarantee seats for the big games and seemingly aren't too interested if we're playing West Brom at home. This could potentially free up seats for new season ticket holders or just fans who can make the odd game.

Wouldn't really ever want us to go down the path of booting out people who don't come. They've parted with their money after all, but maybe they could part with their money on a top 6 ticket instead.
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Not a bad shout!

It's only happened in recent years though. Maybe due to people being bored at games with our slow and boring playing style so they found other things to do and just went to the big games.

Plus the traffic in Manchester is horrendous! It is one of the worst cities to get around in Europe http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...greater-manchester-one-most-congested-6772716
The Metrolink system is an absolute joke, it runs along roads that are subject to traffic jams FFS - who approved that? the amount of roadside parking around the city/inner-city/and suburbs makes it very hard for two-way tarffic to run smoothly (in fact stops it!), the fact we do not have an underground system for a connurbation of 2.7m is a travesty!
Remember the Everton FL Cup semi? People were still getting to their seats 55minutes into the game after terrible traffic jams. People are getting sick of this...AND IT'S GETTING WORSE!
 
The "big games" in the last few years have been a tad bigger than the big games in earlier years. Which means that its more likely that people who know they cant get to every game will buy a season card even if economically it isn't really worth it. I expect there are quite a few fans, who cant get to every game, and who couldn't get tickets for the United and QPR games in 11/12, that have bought season cards ever since.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I thought he was talking about Ticket Exchange. If you put your ticket on there, you don't need to do anything.
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That's right the s/ c holder puts it on the exchange and the club put it on the planner. If somebody buys it it's loaded to their cityzen card or a ticket is sent out and the s/c holder then gets credited. If it doesn't sell then nothing happens and the seat stays empty.
 
FrankSwift1 said:
I tried to sell through the ticket exchange a couple of times with no luck. But I found that if you put up for face value (SS3 so £16) then I got rid of every ticket.

Am I right in thinking that with the exchange system the tickets are sold for full price but the ST holder only received 1/19th of the total cost? Seems a bit unfair.
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Unfair to whom?
 
ManCityX said:
What about having a 'Top 6 match ticket'? You get the same seat for matches against the top 6 clubs (not including us obviously) of last season. This would be aimed at fans who want to guarantee seats for the big games and seemingly aren't too interested if we're playing West Brom at home. This could potentially free up seats for new season ticket holders or just fans who can make the odd game.

Wouldn't really ever want us to go down the path of booting out people who don't come. They've parted with their money after all, but maybe they could part with their money on a top 6 ticket instead.
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It sounds a remarkably stupid idea to offer cut priced tickets for matches which will sell out anyway.

A better idea might be a Category B Season ticket for matches which are slow to sell. That might be all matches apart from the top six or top eight. It would include matches against teams who do not normally take their full allocation for visiting support. This could be priced very competitively and could be sited in the third tier of the South Stand above the visiting support. How many visiting teams come near to taking their whole allocation?
 
JGL07 said:
It sounds a remarkably stupid idea to offer cut priced tickets for matches which will sell out anyway.

A better idea might be a Category B Season ticket for matches which are slow to sell. That might be all matches apart from the top six or top eight. It would include matches against teams who do not normally take their full allocation for visiting support. This could be priced very competitively and could be sited in the third tier of the South Stand above the visiting support. How many visiting teams come near to taking their whole allocation?
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That is what Blackburn Rovers did in their last few seasons in the PL. A 14 match season ticket with a discount and option to be move for the other five. They were located in the Darwen end half to the 'keepers right. City, United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea were the five, but they originally had Everton planned instead of City but changed it (circa 2009 onwards).
 
There is obviously people doing this as they do around me. Some people who would come to every game 2 seasons ago now only attend the big ones. Some issues do crop up throughout a season that prevent people from going but if your attendance is that infrequent the issue must have been known before the season started eg. working at the weekend so why buy a ticket in the first place?
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Unfair to whom?
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Unfair in the fact that your ST is sold at £50 for example and you only receive £16 worth of credit. It encourages people to sell privately at a level just below the cost of a match ticket or not bothering to put it on the ticket exchange as it's 'only' £16 off next season. I sell mine at £16.
 
FrankSwift1 said:
Unfair in the fact that your ST is sold at £50 for example and you only receive £16 worth of credit. It encourages people to sell privately at a level just below the cost of a match ticket or not bothering to put it on the ticket exchange as it's 'only' £16 off next season. I sell mine at £16.
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Trouble is though, if they give you back more, people could buy them to sell them on. If they sold them for £16 nobody would buy a ticket at full price.
 
FrankSwift1 said:
Unfair in the fact that your ST is sold at £50 for example and you only receive £16 worth of credit. It encourages people to sell privately at a level just below the cost of a match ticket or not bothering to put it on the ticket exchange as it's 'only' £16 off next season. I sell mine at £16.
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I would imagine that if you go for the cheapest season tickets which are at the back of South Stand L3, you've chosen it for the price rather than the view. If that's the case £16 is likely to mean a bit more to you than someone who can afford to pay £600-£700 for a season ticket. Also, they are the seats that are least likely to sell unless it's a top opponent as the match day price is the same for the whole tier.
 
Know of a couple of different groups of lads who live abroad and have business interests both there and in Manchester. for convenience they all have season tickets next to their Manchester based family to use when in the country or for the odd time family/mates want to use them, too much of a pain in the arse they say to sell them on
 
Went over the Mancunian Way yesterday. Roadworks are nearly complete. So that's another excuse box deleted.
Anyone know when St Peters Sq will be fully open for the trams?
 
Gingers Dad said:
Went over the Mancunian Way yesterday. Roadworks are nearly complete. So that's another excuse box deleted.
Anyone know when St Peters Sq will be fully open for the trams?
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Traffic near the ground will still not move for ages post game. It is shit and is purposefully designed to be shit to encourage folks to use a shit metro system.
 
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Gingers Dad said:
Went over the Mancunian Way yesterday. Roadworks are nearly complete. So that's another excuse box deleted.
Anyone know when St Peters Sq will be fully open for the trams?
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Supposed to be open by Late August. I wouldn't hold your breath mind. It looks nowhere near complete. The line between Picadilly Gardens and Deansgate Castlefield closes next week for 9 weeks so they can reconfigure the lines to the way they will need to be on opening of St Peters Square
 
I bought my first season ticket in 88. Or rather my Dad bought it me. But I confess I'm one of those not attending week in week out. I pay my renewal money every season. I know when I renew that they'll be plenty of games I miss.
I'm self employed, still involved in amature football and have other commitments.
5.30 games are near impossible to attend. For social/family reasons.
12.30 games also. Work.
Anything but 4pm Sunday is very difficult. Sunday league. City won't fight off heart attacks, may even cause them.

So that leaves me with Saturday 3pm's and Super Sunday's.
So as we've become better, on TV more my attendance has dropped.

Last season I probably made as many away trips as I did home.

I'm not a new supporter but the changing times of games constantly makes it difficult to attend.
Saturday's 3pm fine, Sunday 4pm fine, week nights fine. I'd love all our games to be Monday night.

I always offer my seat to mates for free, the issue is, my availability to attend is not clear till a couple of hours before kick off. So makes it hard to fill my seat.

I don't pick and chose the big games, quite the opposite, I normally get to the less glamorous games.

Kick off times make a difference to many fans.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I started following city in 1966 when I lived in Saddleworth. My Dad took me to Main Road a couple of times although he was not really a fan. We moved away from the area when i was 11 and I haven't lived closer than 100 miles ever since. Hasn't stopped me following City through thick and thin and with the extension of the ground I became a season ticket holder for the first time this season. I have a 450 mile round trip to attend home games and will usually 'stop over'. Those games I can't attend for whatever reason I sell through the ticket exchange so the seats aren't empty. I don't class myself as a superficial fan, quite the opposite actually.
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Pfft Main Road?????


Rag ;)
 
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