North Stand Construction Discussion

[jrb]

City won’t be able to sell an additional 6000 match day tickets. Many match day tickets have remained unsold this season due to the prices the club are charging for them. The match day tickets will be more expensive in 2 years time. There has to be a mixture of every type of season ticket and match day ticket made available. The priority is to sell 6000 additional seats, not leave the seats empty.

One thing the club should do next season is put back the 1000+ seats they’ve removed. That can be done easily as the terraces are still in place. The old advertising boards could be put back into place, if the club still has them, or the current lower advertising board could be left where it is, and the upper advertising board could be put into storage for 2 years.

As the capacity of the Etihad will be slightly reduced because of the North stand expansion, and demand for tickets will be at an all time high, the club has to give as many City fans as they can the opportunity to watch the European Champions and Treble Winners.

 

[jrb]

Via the Coop Live webcam.

A little grainy.

Nothing major happening yet onsite. Structures being taken down, etc. That will happening over the coming weeks.

 

[HelloCity]

City won’t be able to sell an additional 6000 match day tickets. Many match day tickets have remained unsold this season due to the prices the club are charging for them. The match day tickets will be more expensive in 2 years time. There has to be a mixture of every type of season ticket and match day ticket made available. The priority is to sell 6000 additional seats, not leave the seats empty.

One thing the club should do next season is put back the 1000+ seats they’ve removed. That can be done easily as the terraces are still in place. The old advertising boards could be put back into place, if the club still has them, or the current lower advertising board could be left where it is, and the upper advertising board could be put into storage for 2 years.

As the capacity of the Etihad will be slightly reduced because of the North stand expansion, and demand for tickets will be at an all time high, the club has to give as many City fans as they can the opportunity to watch the European Champions and Treble Winners.

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Every single home game sold out last season apart from Spurs which was rearranged last minute for a Thursday night with prices the same as they were for the original fixture. A lot of these tickets on sale were also returns.

There will always be tickets on sale via the ticket exchange no matter how big the ground is but getting tickets in the original sale period is now extremely difficult especially if you want to get several seats together. We’ve reached the point where even league cup games are selling out alongside sellouts for every CL game and the FA Cup games as well.

City will easily sell out the north stand based on current demand and you’ve even said yourself this weekend that the stand should have been ready now to cope with demand…

 

[Gone for a Burton]

Which is when IMB's SSC will come in big time.

IMBs SSC ?

Lighten our darkness we beseech thee o Lord.

 

[Centurions]

Exactly and what a huge and expensive job that would be

And your point is what?

 

[blueparrot]

Every single home game sold out last season apart from Spurs which was rearranged last minute for a Thursday night with prices the same as they were for the original fixture. A lot of these tickets on sale were also returns.

There will always be tickets on sale via the ticket exchange no matter how big the ground is but getting tickets in the original sale period is now extremely difficult especially if you want to get several seats together. We’ve reached the point where even league cup games are selling out alongside sellouts for every CL game and the FA Cup games as well.

City will easily sell out the north stand based on current demand and you’ve even said yourself this weekend that the stand should have been ready now to cope with demand…

Games pretty much sell out of matchday tickets of 2 or more together before the season starts. Thats one of the issues too many scattered singles, if more matchday seats were grouped together they’d sell out even quicker. With this extendion and any relocations they need to ring fence match day seats and stop future relocations leaving singles everywhere.

 

[Jazzyblue]

Every single home game sold out last season apart from Spurs which was rearranged last minute for a Thursday night with prices the same as they were for the original fixture. A lot of these tickets on sale were also returns.

There will always be tickets on sale via the ticket exchange no matter how big the ground is but getting tickets in the original sale period is now extremely difficult especially if you want to get several seats together. We’ve reached the point where even league cup games are selling out alongside sellouts for every CL game and the FA Cup games as well.

City will easily sell out the north stand based on current demand and you’ve even said yourself this weekend that the stand should have been ready now to cope with demand…

Is the demand so great that we could sell 6,000 extra seats at £70 a pop for a midweek game at a time when your average Manc is most likely being bitten by inflation/interest rates/higher taxes/stagnating wages or recession? It's a tough ask, that.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Every single home game sold out last season apart from Spurs which was rearranged last minute for a Thursday night with prices the same as they were for the original fixture. A lot of these tickets on sale were also returns.

There will always be tickets on sale via the ticket exchange no matter how big the ground is but getting tickets in the original sale period is now extremely difficult especially if you want to get several seats together. We’ve reached the point where even league cup games are selling out alongside sellouts for every CL game and the FA Cup games as well.

City will easily sell out the north stand based on current demand and you’ve even said yourself this weekend that the stand should have been ready now to cope with demand…

Regarding tickets coming up for sale on the ticket exchange, though this is usually the case, it certainly didn’t happen for the games against Arsenal, Real, and Chelsea. For there to be no returns is unrealistic, so what did the club do with them? I think we know the answer.

 

[blueparrot]

Is the demand so great that we could sell 6,000 extra seats at £70 a pop for a midweek game at a time when your average Manc is most likely being bitten by inflation/interest rates/higher taxes/stagnating wages or recession? It's a tough ask, that.

Well the most expensive games currently about £63 are the hardest to get matchday tickets for whatever day they fall on. The cheaper games some about £48 not quite as difficult. So probably ,yes.

 

[HelloCity]

Is the demand so great that we could sell 6,000 extra seats at £70 a pop for a midweek game at a time when your average Manc is most likely being bitten by inflation/interest rates/higher taxes/stagnating wages or recession? It's a tough ask, that.

When we built the South Stand third tier a lot of people had the same worries. We’ll carry on growing over time.

The over demand for all the big PL games and big CL games is greater than 6000-7000.

Tbh, I think we’ll have at least 2-3k new season ticket holders with the rest available to members.