I’ve always noticed a lot more smiles on Blues faces at the weekend cup games. The families are happy to be at the match. Sometimes our regular following have taken our successes a bit for granted. Many love going to the game but many others see it as a chore.When it comes to early round FA Cup games played on a weekend, plenty of locals tend to turn up as they’re games that the club usually get right on ticket pricing. The challenge is getting that many locals to turn up for midweek games, especially in the CL. That’s when the tourists tend to take up a fair bit of the slack. I don’t think that’s always just down to pricing but it is a factor. I think some people are more inclined to take the whole family to those weekend FA Cup games than they are for the midweek CL games, even if the prices were made as cheap at the CL games.
I'm pretty much with on every point... particularly the bit about rags fans being revolting!Putting aside the 'membership fee', FG is a great option for a fan and the club -:
FAN -: Gets the opporunity
to buy a ticket for as many games as he/she wants at a price lower than matchday price.
When that purchase option is not taken up, anotherfan can buy/use it under the same conditions.
CLUB -: Upfront membership fee. Ticket cascades down/across a potentially larger pool of available fans. A larger pool of fans having an opportunity to attend games.
Under the increased capacity the club could have a 'pool' of 75000 (say) fans for 62000 tickets.
If the club could address the primary price of tickets,along with the FG 'Membership fee, and make ALL agency tickets available under the FG scheme, the fan 'pool' could grow exponentially and absorb all the extra tickets and give even more fans the opportunity to attend more regularly.
The Sheikh has writen to all City fans declaring his appreciation of our loyalty and value.
Khaldoon has reiterated it on many occasions.
Pep & the team are on record stating their appreciation of our support home, away and abroad.
Its time now, with (the rags fans revolting), to stop running this part of the club by algorithm, and put in place affordable,logical pricing policies to retain our existing,loyal support, and attract and keep the next generation.
PS....Shift the away fans down to the shit wet seats in ESL110/111 & SSL113,
shit views,shit acoustics.
Make all SSL3/2 & most of SSL1 all City and listen to the racket.
Make an oyld man happy for Xmas.....I dare you !!
I think after several years restricting the supply of season tickets there is going to be huge demand for these tickets especially from existing season ticket holders who are parents whose children weren't old enough to be taken when season tickets stopped being sold but are old enough now. Such parents are likely to see this as potentially the only opportunity to take their child on a regular basis as it would allow them to move their seat and get another seat or seats next to it. In this situation I think the parents will just overlook the £75 premium child stealth tax -
I wonder if City will give any priority to such season ticket holding parents.
I also think it's really poor that City will come nowhere close to even trying to meet the demand for season tickets (or even flexi golds) from predominantly local fans and instead keep tickets back to sell them for £70 per game.
In addition to regular surveys it might be helpful if the club informed our fan base of the best ticket deals available forveach catagory.Every adult ST holder who had a live child membership special linked to their account had the opportunity to apply for a child flexi this season.
So, I’d imagine the same would apply next season, with extra seats available.
This is where the clubs engagement with supporters has been a chronic failure.When it comes to early round FA Cup games played on a weekend, plenty of locals tend to turn up as they’re games that the club usually get right on ticket pricing. The challenge is getting that many locals to turn up for midweek games, especially in the CL. That’s when the tourists tend to take up a fair bit of the slack. I don’t think that’s always just down to pricing but it is a factor. I think some people are more inclined to take the whole family to those weekend FA Cup games than they are for the midweek CL games, even if the prices were made as cheap at the CL games.
No, but you’ve already paid your membership fee & individual match prices are £9 & £10 for a junior, I’ve got one for the grandson, don’t think the club will worry about losing that, although I treat it like a normal ST & purchase said ticket anywaySome people think Flexi-Gold seaon tickets are a miracle that will guarantee tickets will be sold and seats will be taken up. I can guarantee you, if those additional 3000 expanded North stand Flexi-Gold season tickets would have been available for the Forest match this week, a large percentage of those 3000 Flexi-Gold season tickets seats wouldn’t have been sold 3 weeks before the match or closer as a seat sale. The club can spin Flexi-Gold, and the benefits that come with it, as much as they want, but in their basic form, normal season tickets and Flexi-Gold season tickets aren’t different. Neither ‘guarantee’ a seat sale and the person turning up for the match.
Like most of you, I will be interested to see the confirmed Flexi-Gold season ticket allocation and prices for NSL2 when that information is finally released by the club next year, and the take up by the fans, sold out or not.
Bad pal - the transport infrastructure is a joke
Residents parking on industrial estate and near a cemetery - really !
It just forces people to park in residential areas outside the zone and walk and get soaked or pay and get stuck in a carpark or traffic jam
Madrid last year ( I accept it went to penalties ) I missed the last train and had to catch an airport one and get a taxi
Public transport ( trains and trams ) unfit for purpose
No, but you’ve already paid your membership fee & individual match prices are £9 & £10 for a junior, I’ve got one for the grandson, don’t think the club will worry about losing that, although I treat it like a normal ST & purchase said ticket anyway
The cemetery was a lot smaller before Covid.thought you can't park around the ie/cemetery??
we used to park there before covid