Priced out?

[b6_brum]

Out of curiosity, what's the range of matchday prices at city? I always thought (going back a couple of years anyway) that while you were expensive in some parts of the ground, there were some more affordable seats on offer also, but I may have got that wrong.

I find the whole topic just depressing. We've gone crazy this season. For games that don't capture the imagination as much (say tonight v Brentford) our cheapest seats are around £50. For the higher level games, they're more £70 ish. Then we have champions league games, that range from £70 to £100 for normal tickets. We then have thousands of corporate type seats that have become available this season all ranging from around £150 to £600, which virtually never get sold.

Part of it is quite amusing. Our chief executive seems to have a masterplan of increasing revenue by just charging whatever he thinks he can get away with and there doesn't appear to be much of a limit. Emery has been performing miracles on the pitch for 18 months and we've been riding a wave which has probably seen people go above and beyond what they can afford to try and capture moments of it. But it's tailing off and more and more empty seats are starting to appear the more congested the fixtures get and no signs of discounts ever appear to be present.

If Emery can't revert back to performing his miracles, our owners are going to watch a stadium become more and more empty over the next couple of years unless they have a serious re-think on their ticket price structure.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

We should demand his removal, we really should. It probably wouldn’t happen but it would make a splash and possibly raise a few eyebrows in the boardroom.

I would rather he went than Txiki. He clearly has no empathy with City fans but we have to assume the board thinks he's doing a "good" job. However, somewhat surprisingly, he's not even on the City board, let alone CFG. That's strange in my opinion.

However we really shouldn't give our enemies in the media any more bullets than they already have. Yesterday was an example of how people escalated a situation that was certainly unfortunate, into an unnecessary crisis, without really understanding the background, or thinking of the consequences.

The media, particularly people like Harris and Delaney, definitely read these threads looking for sticks to beat us with.

 

[Beaker]

Out of curiosity, what's the range of matchday prices at city? I always thought (going back a couple of years anyway) that while you were expensive in some parts of the ground, there were some more affordable seats on offer also, but I may have got that wrong.

I find the whole topic just depressing. We've gone crazy this season. For games that don't capture the imagination as much (say tonight v Brentford) our cheapest seats are around £50. For the higher level games, they're more £70 ish. Then we have champions league games, that range from £70 to £100 for normal tickets. We then have thousands of corporate type seats that have become available this season all ranging from around £150 to £600, which virtually never get sold.

Part of it is quite amusing. Our chief executive seems to have a masterplan of increasing revenue by just charging whatever he thinks he can get away with and there doesn't appear to be much of a limit. Emery has been performing miracles on the pitch for 18 months and we've been riding a wave which has probably seen people go above and beyond what they can afford to try and capture moments of it. But it's tailing off and more and more empty seats are starting to appear the more congested the fixtures get and no signs of discounts ever appear to be present.

If Emery can't revert back to performing his miracles, our owners are going to watch a stadium become more and more empty over the next couple of years unless they have a serious re-think on their ticket price structure.

Very similar, tonight’s game is £51-£53, when we play the likes of yourselves it will be £60+, against United next week it’s £80-£90 and £45 for kids, these are your bog standard general admission , they have premium seats and corporate which are substantially more but very rarely full. Champions League they can’t get away with charging quite as much as Villa because trust me, the novelty of it wears off.

It’s been great watching City win things these past few years, but the club have pushed the fanbase to breaking point and now it’s beginning to show, just as we’re about to expand the stadium by 8,000 seats.

 

[paulchapo]

Out of curiosity, what's the range of matchday prices at city? I always thought (going back a couple of years anyway) that while you were expensive in some parts of the ground, there were some more affordable seats on offer also, but I may have got that wrong.

I find the whole topic just depressing. We've gone crazy this season. For games that don't capture the imagination as much (say tonight v Brentford) our cheapest seats are around £50. For the higher level games, they're more £70 ish. Then we have champions league games, that range from £70 to £100 for normal tickets. We then have thousands of corporate type seats that have become available this season all ranging from around £150 to £600, which virtually never get sold.

Part of it is quite amusing. Our chief executive seems to have a masterplan of increasing revenue by just charging whatever he thinks he can get away with and there doesn't appear to be much of a limit. Emery has been performing miracles on the pitch for 18 months and we've been riding a wave which has probably seen people go above and beyond what they can afford to try and capture moments of it. But it's tailing off and more and more empty seats are starting to appear the more congested the fixtures get and no signs of discounts ever appear to be present.

If Emery can't revert back to performing his miracles, our owners are going to watch a stadium become more and more empty over the next couple of years unless they have a serious re-think on their ticket price structure.

This is where the executive types who make these decisions fall down. They treat football fans like any other customer, but they're not. They are emotionally invested, often through generations. They won't just swap clubs to go and watch one where the admission is cheaper. They will however only be squeezed up to a point, no matter how loyal. Once fans stop going and get out of the habit many won't bother returning. The so called matchday experience is often shit. Too many rules, regulations and hoops to jump through. Transport to and from games is expensive and unreliable and that's before we get onto the British weather. Watching at home or in a pub is often better.
People also don't like being fleeced and taken for granted. Clubs are starting to play a dangerous game and I fear it's going to blow up in their faces. Fans are already uniting against greedy clubs.