Priced out?

A bit OTT that. ;-)

We need figure out something here. Are we saying that Sheikh Mansour is the saviour of our club who has delivered everything he promised and more. Or are we saying that he is a tyrant who is now abusing both the fans and the manager?

Just out of interest, what are your views on City charging City fans an additional £150 so they get the privilege of buying a Flexi Gold season ticket, whilst 1000's normal season ticket holders, myself included, don't pay a penny more surcharge to buy a normal season ticket.

Do you think the £150 Flexi Gold season ticket surcharge is just a money making scam by the club, yes or no?
 
Moss Side's Finest said:
Yes, I'm Eaton and then Oxford mate. My playground location clue is in my username. Don't judge a book by it's cover.
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I don't. Irrespective of where you came from with your attitude you wouldn't have lasted five minutes in any schools I went too in both Hulme and Wythenshawe. Well possibly if you were as hard as nails and even if you were you'd have still been sorted one way or another as Blondie sang.
 
paulchapo said:
I don't. Irrespective of where you came from with your attitude you wouldn't have lasted five minutes in any schools I went too in both Hulme and Wythenshawe. Well possibly if you were as hard as nails and even if you were you'd have still been sorted one way or another as Blondie sang.
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Who knows mate. And despite our difference of opinion, you are a fellow blue, so I wish you all the best.
 
jrb said:
Is your lunch break over at City? Only joking

Don't go yet mate!

I asked you about the £150 Flexi Gold season ticket surcharge.
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Personally I wouldn't buy one because I go to every home game, so it'd cost more. And to be honest, even if you missed a handful of games, you'd still end up better off with a standard season card. However, for some it may work, those who maybe go to half the home games and want to sit with their mates. Suppose it gives fans more options.... They're sold out, so many people must think they're worthwhile.
 
jrb said:
A bit OTT that. ;-)

We need figure out something here. Are we saying that Sheikh Mansour is the saviour of our club who has delivered everything he promised and more. Or are we saying that he is a tyrant who is now abusing both the fans and the manager?

Just out of interest, what are your views on City charging City fans an additional £150 so they get the privilege of buying a Flexi Gold season ticket, whilst 1000's normal season ticket holders, myself included, don't pay a penny more surcharge to buy a normal season ticket.

Do you think the £150 Flexi Gold season ticket surcharge is just a money making scam by the club, yes or no?
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The people who qualified should save quite a bit, but not if they were offered normal Gold. It was a compromise, and the people on them are likely to be the first in line for normal Golds like the Silver mob did.
 
In our treble season, I added up the top attendances of each football club in Greater Manchester:

Wigan 15,429
Bolton 18,356
Stockport 10,011
Salford 3,924
Rochdale 3,648
Oldham 9,496
Altrincham 3,169
Curzon Ashton 508
FC United 1,852
Radcliffe 843
Hyde 962
Ashton 510
Stalybridge 421
Atherton 426
Ramsbottom 584
Mossley 478
Trafford 373
Avro 300
Bury 4,044

= 75,334

City = 53,490

United = 73,711

Nobody is telling me that there are more fans of all the other clubs than there are City or United fans across the conurbation. Therefore, something is wrong. Even with worldwide attendees, neither club can even beat the smaller Gtr Mcr clubs combined? Nah, not having it me. That’s about ticket prices.

Both teams should have much bigger stadiums than they currently do just from local fans alone. Never mind the fans from further afield. The fact they don’t tells you something is wrong.

City could sell out the upcoming expanded 62k stadium to local fans alone if they did it right. We used to get 32k in the third tier, we would easily smash 62k. Yet we struggle to sell out £53k if there are two home games in the same week at the moment. That tells you a great deal. That’s about ticket prices.

In a ten day spell, it’s £175 for a single adult for normal (ie non-hospitality) tickets for the Spurs Feyenoord and Forest games combined, never mind how much it would be for families. No wonder Feyenoord didn’t sell out. That’s about ticket prices.

An estimated 10,000 season ticket holders have fallen away from the City support during the club’s greatest ever era and one of the greatest eras that any English football clubs has ever seen?! Nah, not having it me. That’s not right. That’s about ticket prices.

I know about two dozen people who fall into that category and with pretty much all of them it’s down to the price rises and for those where it’s not it’s about the poor accessibility of travel to the stadium.

The frustrating thing is, ticket money isn’t even that much towards revenue. Certainly not when it comes to £50 price rises to season cards, which comes to less than £2m a season. We could just sign our next player for £76m instead of £72m and give every season ticket holder a fucking £50 discount as goodwill towards making us bear the brunt of the shit from other fans, journalists and social media about the 115 charges while the club stay silent! But nah, ‘rinse rinse and rinse these cunts who call themselves supporters’ must be written on the wall in the boardroom.
 
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M23 Citizen said:
An estimated 10,000 season ticket holders have fallen away from the City support during the club’s greatest ever era and one of the greatest eras that any English football clubs has ever seen?! Nah, not having it me. That’s not right. That’s about ticket prices.

I know about two dozen people who fall into that category and with pretty much all of them it’s down to the price rises and for those where it’s not it’s about the poor accessibility of travel to the stadium.
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I'v had to come out of the FA cup scheme 2 years ago and the league cup one this year,
Have to pay mine and me lads ( season tickets in the cheap ssl 3 ) who will be 18 next season,its up to him if he can afford his season ticket then.If not,he'll be out. I can't afford away games anymore .

god knows how local working class lads like myself can afford single match day tickets.

and then ,the dwindling of season cards available for people to buy,the suits should be ashamed but they , like in all industries don't give a fuck.
 
M23 Citizen said:
In our treble season, I added up the top attendances of each football club in Greater Manchester:

Wigan 15,429
Bolton 18,356
Stockport 10,011
Salford 3,924
Rochdale 3,648
Oldham 9,496
Altrincham 3,169
Curzon Ashton 508
FC United 1,852
Radcliffe 843
Hyde 962
Ashton 510
Stalybridge 421
Atherton 426
Ramsbottom 584
Mossley 478
Trafford 373
Avro 300
Bury 4,044

= 75,334

City = 53,490

United = 73,711

Nobody is telling me that there are more fans of all the other clubs than there are City or United fans across the conurbation. Therefore, something is wrong. Even with worldwide attendees, neither club can even beat the smaller Gtr Mcr clubs combined? Nah, not having it me. That’s about ticket prices.

Both teams should have much bigger stadiums than they currently do just from local fans alone. Never mind the fans from further afield. The fact they don’t tells you something is wrong.

City could sell out the upcoming expanded 62k stadium to local fans alone if they did it right. We used to get 32k in the third tier, we would easily smash 62k. Yet we struggle to sell out £53k if there are two home games in the same week at the moment. That tells you a great deal. That’s about ticket prices.

In a ten day spell, it’s £175 for a single adult for normal (ie non-hospitality) tickets for the Spurs Feyenoord and Forest games combined, never mind how much it would be for families. No wonder Feyenoord didn’t sell out. That’s about ticket prices.

An estimated 10,000 season ticket holders have fallen away from the City support during the club’s greatest ever era and one of the greatest eras that any English football clubs has ever seen?! Nah, not having it me. That’s not right. That’s about ticket prices.

I know about two dozen people who fall into that category and with pretty much all of them it’s down to the price rises and for those where it’s not it’s about the poor accessibility of travel to the stadium.

The frustrating thing is, ticket money isn’t even that much towards revenue. Certainly not when it comes to £50 price rises to season cards, which comes to less than £2m a season. We could just sign our next player for £76m instead of £72m and give every season ticket holder a fucking £50 discount as goodwill towards making us bear the brunt of the shit from other fans, journalists and social media about the 115 charges while the club stay silent! But nah, ‘rinse rinse and rinse these cunts who call themselves supporters’ must be written on the wall in the boardroom.
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Great post, sums up all the ticket cost/rip offs/ concessions problems in one post.
 
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