Please Don't Give Your Season Ticket Up!

The only comparable with the clubs attitude to season cards that I can think of, is restaurants that have a minimum charge or spend for a table. Perhaps that is the way it will go, if you spend £25 on food, drink, etc per match, you can keep your season cards. There is no doubt that the requirement to now scan your ticket to get the 10% discount on food, drink and merchandise is a form of tracking your spend, so the club know who makes them money and who doesn’t.
I certainly agree that people should be very reluctant to let their season tickets go at present. There are obviously loads of good reasons why people do give up tickets. If I am brutally honest with myself, there were a couple of points in my life where I absolutely should have stopped going and prioritised other things, and I would never judge anybody who gives a ticket up. But this is a situation never seen before in UK sport, where clubs are actively targeting the reduction of long term and local customers for profit. The days of taking a break from going, for whatever reason, are over. Now when your ticket is gone it is gone for good. And as such, we should all work together with our mates and families, to try wherever possible to prevent tickets been handed back, simply so that City and Viagogo (other touts are available) can tout them back out.
 
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thegoatsthegoat said:
If City plan to stop you forwarding the ticket on yourself then that will be the problem. If you can't go and sell back to the club, they can freely sell it higher than what they paid you if they wish. We have become bitter for the many reasons explained to you that you don't want to listen to so why do you keep going?
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Do they plan to do that?
 
I’m renewing but I understand that I’ll have to move from front of NL2 at some point. I may have a decision to make the year after based on if I like where I go next. Shame because there’s a load of people who have sat around me for years and it’s a good group. Were obviously going to be displaced to various places.
 
GaslightAnthem said:
I’m definitely giving mine up and I can’t wait. 15 years of good times but I will never give the club another penny if I can avoid it. Happy to threaten to take your ST away if you can’t attend but unwilling to hear the reason you can’t attend at short notice (I have MS) so fuck the club. Absolute vermin.
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Absolute bullshit. You are peddling untruths. Give me one example of someone having their season ticket taken away.

They are trying to pursuade the non-attenders to put their tickets on the exchange. My wife has been unable to attend many matches this season and we haven't heard a peep from anybody about this. When she hasn't been able to travel, the tickets have either been transferred to my son or put on the exchange. The majority have sold but some have not.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
It isn't a debate if you don't read any message to you is it you absolute whopper. @Moderating Team people have been banned for far less if you want to step in


I might have to, it is staggering how they can still log on daily and ask the same questions despite being given answers on it weeks ago. Maybe someone can do a welfare check as their career has clearly fucked off
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If no-one has not pointed this out so far, can I be the first to do so: RAG!
 
What everyone should do though is ditch the £50 Platinum Tax.

Unless you are in the small minority of high points people who can go to most away games and want to keep up there.

For everyone else it's useless and a rip off.

It would not surprise me if this got investigated at some stage as a form of missselling. (Where's Martin Lewis when you need him?)

It has never been right. Fck the Platinum Tax!
 
My dad’s will go in the summer sadly after he passed away last year. Tried to keep it going but no interest from kids and then last couple of games haven’t even sold on exchange
 
My mate who sits next to me in 125 is seriously considering not renewing he hardly comes to games anymore and always gives me his ticket on exchange so I’ve been taking the wife for about a year now and she’s really enjoying going to games. If he gives it up can he transfer it over to my wife or will the club say there’s a waiting list?
 
Give up your season ticket, no chance.
49 years I’ve had one, first one cost me £5 in 1976, to stand on the Kippax.
I first went in March 1972, a 1 nil win against Chelsea in front of 53000.
Granted, I don’t much care for a lot of the changes to the game and match day experience over recent years, but it’s not about the noise in the background, the distractions, the bitterness exhibited by some inside and outside our great club.
It’s about supporting ‘my chosen team’, getting behind them, meeting family and friends for the match, joining those around us in our seats, no it’s not the kippax, but it’ll do, I’m 63 next and, I want that discounted seat in a few years. Meanwhile £40 per match will do.
Social Media is poisonous, it’s spreads miss information, misery and ill will, even amongst like minded people.
A lot of the negativity I read about this great club of ours is from ill informed, opinionated fans, even City fans who believe everything they read.
Let’s just get a grip, give your head a wobble and ask yourself, what is it you really want as a fan of Man City?
My wants are simple, go and cheer them on as often as possible with like minded blues.
A couple of the regulars I go to matches with couldn’t go last week, so their tickets were resold,
Consequently, sat next to me was a Mexican woman and her teenage son who were so excited to be there. They were mad as wasps, vocal, passionate and, they really went through the emotions, 2 nil down, 5-2 up. It was a joy to see.
I’ve had fans of other clubs sat next to me when regulars couldn’t take up their seats (West Ham, Burnley, Blackburn, West Brom), taking their children to a game, who were City mad.
New fans, born out of success, building the club exposure.
We all started somewhere, attending our first match.
Some of us are lucky enough to get to most matches.
There will always be the generational fan, like my son who is a fourth generation blue after my grandfather and his sons, hopefully the fifth will come along soon and, I’ll want to induct them at my earliest opportunity.
So, give up my season ticket, no thanks pal, I have a passion, a love, a belonging, it’s called Manchester City FC. CTID.
 
Bald fraud said:
My mate who sits next to me in 125 is seriously considering not renewing he hardly comes to games anymore and always gives me his ticket on exchange so I’ve been taking the wife for about a year now and she’s really enjoying going to games. If he gives it up can he transfer it over to my wife or will the club say there’s a waiting list?
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You’ll be lucky to be able to transfer it. Highly unlikely.
Just influence him to renew and you use it.
 
Gave up my Hammers season ticket after 30 odd years. Wish I done it sooner in hindsight. Lovely to have more free time and not stress about going , costly crappy commute and sitting around moaning tactical geniuses for 90 mins.
 
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