North Stand expansion - seating, ticketing etc

[GaudinoMotors]

What was it like outside with the concert on?

Who was playing?
Looked like a "cure" type, goth crowd - done up to the nines. Surreal and incongruous - but the crowd mix and amount of people was absorbed and manageable.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

You're

Letting off steam about HS2....see what I mean aboot nutters.

The club are unlikely to be rail roaded in to an express decision but this is the right platform to signal your concerns.

Just the ticket but guard against anyone arriving early !!

I have tunnel vision on all things intercity.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

We’ve priced out huge numbers of long term fans who would attend games like last night or the fa cup. Those fans are now picking and choosing, which games they can attend.

We’re now relying basically on glory hunters and corporates to fill our stadium. Turns out they only really attend the big games against the likes of Madrid.

We need our core fan base, it’s a shame the club don’t realise that. The expanded stand would have been empty last night

 

[kurious oranj]

Who was playing?
Looked like a "cure" type, goth crowd - done up to the nines. Surreal and incongruous - but the crowd mix and amount of people was absorbed and manageable.

Sleep Token

 

[Tim of the Oak]

We’ve priced out huge numbers of long term fans who would attend games like last night or the fa cup. Those fans are now picking and choosing, which games they can attend.

We’re now relying basically on glory hunters and corporates to fill our stadium. Turns out they only really attend the big games against the likes of Madrid.

We need our core fan base, it’s a shame the club don’t realise that. The expanded stand would have been empty last night

I’m not sure who the core fans base are. There’s too many matches so many of the “regulars” go to the weekend home games and semi finals and finals. Tickets were going for peanuts for last night. If the people desribed on here (I’m talking Ciry fans) as tourists, glory hunters, foreigners etc don’t buy the seats the ground would be half empty

 

[Gone for a Burton]

I have tunnel vision on all things intercity.

You might hit the buffers.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

I’m not sure who the core fans base are. There’s too many matches so many of the “regulars” go to the weekend home games and semi finals and finals. Tickets were going for peanuts for last night. If the people desribed on here (I’m talking Ciry fans) as tourists, glory hunters, foreigners etc don’t buy the seats the ground would be half empty

I’d argue our core fan base is the fans who turn up no matter what league we are in or how well we doing. Also local fans. Up until recently these two have always made up the majority of our match going fan base.

I don’t agree with your other points. A lot of long standing fans aren’t going to weekend games or finals because they’ve been priced out or they aren’t season ticket holder anymore. The prices for league match tickets are ridiculous.

The prices for last night werent peanuts, they’ve increased on last year and with the amount of games people are now picking and choosing.

Just make it affordable for everyone then long standing fans and tourists can go and the ground would be more full.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

You might hit the buffers.

Let's get this thread back on the tracks.

 

[Prophet of Doom]

This is our HS2.
Totally unnecessary - rather they'd wrapped and updated the ground as a whole. Too late now.

On last night - never sat in the middle of a more unknowledgeable, unpartisan to City crowd. I've championed the new and needed "support" but last night was as if they'd herded shoppers from the Trafford Centre in, who'd never watched football, never-mind us. Horrible.

The thing is what would the attendance be without the clueless day trippers ? Less than 40k ?

The new stand was the right idea but it’s being built at a time when there is complete disengagement by City with supporters.

Everything from ticket pricing, lack of engagement, ticket distribution for away games, treating City Matters with contempt etc has been a complete fuck up - with the result being matchday atmosphere being shit and ticket demand dropping significantly from the time the new stand got the greenlight.

The complete silence from City to supporters on pretty much everything gets on my tits. Any other club that had as many away fans on the home end as last night would be having an investigation at 9am today - our mob are probably having a meeting about why there weren’t more Dutch fans filling the empty seats.

A year away from its opening and no plan or idea who might be sitting in this new stand when it opens - the likelyhood is there will be lots of empty seats at many games.

 

[Roachy]

We’ve priced out huge numbers of long term fans who would attend games like last night or the fa cup. Those fans are now picking and choosing, which games they can attend.

We’re now relying basically on glory hunters and corporates to fill our stadium. Turns out they only really attend the big games against the likes of Madrid.

We need our core fan base, it’s a shame the club don’t realise that. The expanded stand would have been empty last night

I think it would have. Either that or more gaps in other areas. I was sat in the family stand last night but my ST for PL games is in SSL 3. It looked half empty.