Open Letter on Season Tickets and Pricing | Club announce price freeze on "general admission season tickets & PL match tickets" for next season (p163)

Beaker said:
If the ticketing plan is to stretch the pricing as far as possible and hope the team continues to do well, I believe you are giving them too much credit in your previous posts. That is not a corporate plan; it is gamblers attempting to make a quick buck. They don't have a plan for the future; you can say they have data, they know this and that, they know fuck all, and they're making it up as they go along.
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The data will mean the some total of fuck all if our "Bad spell" gets any longer.
 
Eccles Blue said:
I never hit a child. Although I had colleagues who did. I just tried to reason with them and also gave them my hard stare....... that Paddington Bear one pinched my hard stare thing!! :-)
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I got the strap quite a few times and cane once, I also had a blackboard cleaner thingy bounce off my head for staring out the window. Following the abolition of corporal punishment I visited my daughters school and without the spectre of violence there seemed a lot more trust between teachers and pupils.
 
Norbert D said:
I got the strap quite a few times and cane once, I also had a blackboard cleaner thingy bounce off my head for staring out the window. Following the abolition of corporal punishment I visited my daughters school and without the spectre of violence there seemed a lot more trust between teachers and pupils.
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That is monstrous. I used the blackboard cleaner but never on a child just on the blackboard. A few times when they were very noisy/excited after painting or PE to quieten them down. I banged on the blackboard with it.
There was one time when I had laryngitis (don't know why I thought I'd be ok to teach but..... too conscientious) I used the blackboard rubber to attract attention. The kids were great, they were sympathetic and when I was whispering to them what to do they were really quiet. It made me laugh inside.
 
DiscoSteve said:
Insanity it is - but you can't actually blame the club, they are caught in an insane trap caused by the leeches (agents) in and around the players, and the players themselves. I said this right at the start of this thread, but THIS is the root cause of all of this - how have we collectively got to the point where anyone thinks its acceptabe to pay people 6 figures a WEEK to kick a ball around the pitch...
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City made seventy three million pounds profit last year and eighty odd million the year before.

A reduction to £40 tickets for general admission and a 25% reduction in non-hospitality season tickets would cost the club approximately seven million over the course of a season presuming good cup and CL runs.

We pay Kalvin Phillips eight million per year to play for someone else.
 
Damocles said:
City made seventy three million pounds profit last year and eighty odd million the year before.

A reduction to £40 tickets for general admission and a 25% reduction in season tickets would cost the club approximately seven million over the course of a season presuming good cup and CL runs.

We pay Kalvin Phillips eight million per year
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.... and it would force other clubs (who can't really afford it) to follow suit and especially United whose funding of their new stadium will depend largely on how much they can make from matchday ...

You know it makes sense.
 
Damocles said:
City made seventy three million pounds profit last year and eighty odd million the year before.

A reduction to £40 tickets for general admission and a 25% reduction in non-hospitality season tickets would cost the club approximately seven million over the course of a season presuming good cup and CL runs.

We pay Kalvin Phillips eight million per year to play for someone else.
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There’s something the club are missing out on with regards to the new North Stand Level 2.

If the club really drove that as a huge atmosphere stand and fans made it work, made it famous, made it iconic, the club could find a sponsor for the stand that would make up for the shortfall of reducing ticket prices.

Look at what Fortuna Düsseldorf did:
www.skysports.com

Fortuna Dusseldorf letting fans in for free: German second-division side playing to 52,000 and are now top of the table

As Fortuna Dusseldorf prepare to host another 52,000 supporters for their game against Hamburg on Sunday, Adam Bate speaks to the clubs CEO Alexander Jobst to find out how this second-division side in Germany changed everything by letting the fans in for free
www.skysports.com www.skysports.com
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
There’s something the club are missing out on with regards to the new North Stand Level 2.

If the club really drove that as a huge atmosphere stand and fans made it work, made it famous, made it iconic, the club could find a sponsor for the stand that would make up for the shortfall of reducing ticket prices.

Look at what Fortuna Düsseldorf did:
www.skysports.com

Fortuna Dusseldorf letting fans in for free: German second-division side playing to 52,000 and are now top of the table

As Fortuna Dusseldorf prepare to host another 52,000 supporters for their game against Hamburg on Sunday, Adam Bate speaks to the clubs CEO Alexander Jobst to find out how this second-division side in Germany changed everything by letting the fans in for free
www.skysports.com www.skysports.com
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Must be nice.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
There’s something the club are missing out on with regards to the new North Stand Level 2.

If the club really drove that as a huge atmosphere stand and fans made it work, made it famous, made it iconic, the club could find a sponsor for the stand that would make up for the shortfall of reducing ticket prices.

Look at what Fortuna Düsseldorf did:
www.skysports.com

Fortuna Dusseldorf letting fans in for free: German second-division side playing to 52,000 and are now top of the table

As Fortuna Dusseldorf prepare to host another 52,000 supporters for their game against Hamburg on Sunday, Adam Bate speaks to the clubs CEO Alexander Jobst to find out how this second-division side in Germany changed everything by letting the fans in for free
www.skysports.com www.skysports.com
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It would be lovely to see the club announce a heavily incentivised pricing for the new NS as a proper home end. But now they've frozen season ticket prices they'll no doubt issue a sting by having it as single ticket admission at a higher rate instead!

The SSL3 pricing was good to start with, so let's see. But hard not to be negative these days.
 
Norbert D said:
I got the strap quite a few times and cane once, I also had a blackboard cleaner thingy bounce off my head for staring out the window. Following the abolition of corporal punishment I visited my daughters school and without the spectre of violence there seemed a lot more trust between teachers and pupils.
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Depends on the school and the pupils.
 
Eccles Blue said:
I never hit a child. Although I had colleagues who did. I just tried to reason with them and also gave them my hard stare....... that Paddington Bear one pinched my hard stare thing!! :-)
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That’s interesting, so there was no real policy on corporal punishment? Teachers were left to their own devices as long as they fell within accepted boundaries?
 
Mancity1980 said:
That’s interesting, so there was no real policy on corporal punishment? Teachers were left to their own devices as long as they fell within accepted boundaries?
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I’m not sure there were any ‘accepted’ boundaries.

Looking back some of our teachers, particularly the PE ones, were nothing short of sadistic. Also, in hindsight I bet there was a fair few of them getting some kind of nonce thrill out of it.
 
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