Today is very good example of why it’s a terrible idea to put 600 ‘GA+’ seats front and center of a supposed home end.
Seats will be similar to 93:20 which was infested with Leeds fans today. A city fan has been seriously injured (broken leg apparently).
The club treat us fans with utter contempt and expect us go above and beyond to make their botched attempt at a home end atmospheric?
Not for me, thanks.
City need a complete overhaul of the ticketing policy if they want the North Stand to be a success.
We had a Mother with her young child in block 120 yesterday, both Leeds fans, both with City memberships. They’ve had them a couple of years. The seats they were sat in are normally occupied by 2 regular season ticket holders.
I sit with 8 friends and family, all season ticket holders. If one or more of us can’t go, to a game, we usually resell on exchange through the City website.
I’ve had fans sitting in our resold seats, bringing their City mad kids to games, who’s parents support other teams. Again they’ve had memberships,
When games are slow to shift tickets, any bugger with a membership can buy them, even with next no purchase history.
Thats how easy it is for many for less attractive games.
Then we have the third party sellers!
At the recent ECL game, I had two Sale Sharks rugby players sat next to me, that was a tight squeeze!!!!
Although City fans, they got their tickets through a friend at the club!
I’m sure many of us gave acquired seats in away ends, I’ve sat in the Boardroom and Kenny Dalgleish stands at Anfield in recent years, through contacts and sat in every stand at Old Trafford, even sneaked my mate and I in through a staff entrance on one occasion, where there’s a will there’s a way.
But it seems far too many tickets are now falling too easily into away fans hands at The Etihad.
The whole ticket selling process needs a reset, away tickets are now like rocking horse shit, even I, after 50 odd years a season ticket holder and a gazillion loyalty points can’t get many of the tickets I’d like, and when I do, I see the regulars, but all too often, 100’s of unrecognisable faces, primarily foreign speaking, who clearly have paid top dollar for the tickets, with a package or corporate sale.
It’s nonsense.
