Priced out? | Club announce that matchday tickets being reduced by up to 43% (p93)

mrtwiceaseason said:
Just looked at our block 137 ,84 tickets available,£71 and £43 for a FIVE YEAR OLD on a Tuesday night ,how far out of touch with reality are City ,imagine a midweek game with nothing to play for at all .what's a league cup match attendance going to look like with an extra £7k seats to fill ??
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Its unjustifiable. Lessons need to be learnt.

To hear Liv v Spuds is £80 for an adult and 2 kids and were at double that is frankly embarrassing for the Management! Plus the Membership charge. Deary me….
 
Just greedy bastards targeting the wrong people
Prices are an outrage
Loads of people have stopped going
Weird they prefer empty seats and shutting on the loyal fan base
CEO must have been to a fucked up business school
They will reap what they sow
 
Sibierskii said:
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Looks like the Gooner **** is still upset about us beating them to the title 2 seasons running. I hope his next shit is a hedgehog and every subsequent one after that too. Fair play to the Palace fan HLTCO - his was always one of the better Twitter accounts when I used to be on there
 
I wonder if the tarquin will feel the same when they cant have the interest free loans anymore and tickets to the library are 200 quid a pop so they can compete and spend another 200m. Alot of this is on the pl, clubs have to maximise profit at every single opportunity to comply with psr or whatever its called this week and something has to give and unfortunately its the fans that are giving and the pl couldnt give a damn.
 
We know that ticket prices ain’t going down next season so maybe somebody from the brains trust that run City can explain to supporters how they hope to flog 9000 extra seats when the new stand opens half way through.

They won’t of course cause they NEVER speak to supporters.

However, I will doff my cap to them achieving the impossible - managing to lose thousands of supporters on the back of 4 in a row. That takes a special level of mismanagement.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
We know that ticket prices ain’t going down next season so maybe somebody from the brains trust that run City can explain to supporters how they hope to flog 9000 extra seats when the new stand opens half way through.

They won’t of course cause they NEVER speak to supporters.

However, I will doff my cap to them achieving the impossible - managing to lose thousands of supporters on the back of 4 in a row. That takes a special level of mismanagement.
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There must be a demand for these ticket prices. Why else would the bread n butter fans be priced out
 
give it to gordon said:
There must be a demand for these ticket prices. Why else would the bread n butter fans be priced out
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I think some in our boardroom got carried away during the treble year. The perfect storm - Haaland arriving - winning everything in sight and demand off the scale.

Fast forward to now, a broken team, hideous recruitment, prices through the roof, alienation of supporters and suddenly the sums don’t add up.
 
crystal_mais said:
This has been my point. As a business they need to pay the costs. Why did Erling want to go from £375k a week to £500k a week yet we're all celebrating. The cost of football is just out of control
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I wasn't celebrating I cringed. Obviously happy he was prepared to commit his future to us, but best thing about the deal is if Madrid come sniffing they won't get him on the cheap.

The matchday revenue is barely touching the sides in total revenue. Your annual £50 season ticket rise isn't paying their wages.
 
The Barca boys were quite happy to have the Camp Nou running at about 75% occupancy.

Here's some back-of-a-fag-packet maths regarding selling tickets at £40 vs £70.

Camp Nou Revenue Impact (Reducing Ticket Price from £70 to £40)

SeasonAvg. Attendance% Capacity£ Loss/Match£ Loss/Season (19 Games)
2005/0674,10574.9%-£403,525-£7,667,975
2006/0773,46674.3%-£441,370-£8,385,030
2007/0876,33277.2%-£253,960-£4,825,240
2008/0970,49171.3%-£703,805-£13,372,295
2009/1077,98378.9%-£160,615-£3,051,685
2010/1179,21980.1%-£96,215-£1,828,085
2011/1278,34079.2%-£139,150-£2,643,850
2012/1371,35072.1%-£748,250-£14,216,750
2013/1471,95872.8%-£716,990-£13,622,810
2014/1573,62774.5%-£566,245-£10,758,655

The amount of people willing to pay £70 a ticket is more beneficial than selling out the full stadium at £40.

Attendances would have to drop below 60% of capacity for them to change their ticketing approach.

And, if you're thinking sell at £70 and then reduce to £40 a few days before the game when there's many left then it won't take long before everyone waits for the drop for every game.

It's unfortunate that this is how modern football business runs. Long gone are the days of building a community around a football club and looking after the supporters so they can, in turn, look after you when the going gets tough.

I wish I could take my son to more matches but at the moment it's not practical. So, he'll grow up without the buzz of the game like I did at his age.
 
Sibierskii said:
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this is exactly why nothing will be done to change it. rival fans should come together to stop disgraceful ticket pricing but it'll never happen due to the rivalry between clubs. there's united fans mocking us on the quotes to amos' tweet, i'm sure they were all protesting about the £66 tickets that sir jim introduced this season though
 
crystal_mais said:
This has been my point. As a business they need to pay the costs. Why did Erling want to go from £375k a week to £500k a week yet we're all celebrating. The cost of football is just out of control
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No celebrations from me. Not just Haaland’s contract but loads of similar stuff which shows how football has become detached from the people who love it.

Hard to believe 35 years ago I used to walk in the Platt Lane training ground, stand next to the touchline, next to Peter Reid/Sam Ellis, watch the players train, and no one batted an eyelid.
 
Edghill OG said:
I wasn't celebrating I cringed. Obviously happy he was prepared to commit his future to us, but best thing about the deal is if Madrid come sniffing they won't get him on the cheap.

The matchday revenue is barely touching the sides in total revenue. Your annual £50 season ticket rise isn't paying their wages.
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It might not touch the sides but it's all revenue streams. The largest cost to the business are the players. The sooner costs get controlled we may see a low down in costs passed down. It'll only get worse. Its a sport watched by working class people played by multi millionaires. Rodris new contract will be pretty steep too
 
crystal_mais said:
It might not touch the sides but it's all revenue streams. The largest cost to the business are the players. The sooner costs get controlled we may see a low down in costs passed down. It'll only get worse. Its a sport watched by working class people played by multi millionaires. Rodris new contract will be pretty steep too
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I agree about the players wages they are eye watering. Actually disgusting.

This myth that's been peddled about FFP as justification for raising ticket prices is ridiculous. Haalands wages are 500K a week. Not 5, not 50K, 500K. Basically it'd cover everybody's season ticket for the next 15 years for what he is paid in a week. Music to the club's ears this FFP/PSR excuse. At least some executives are getting some juicy bonuses on the back of it.
 
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