Priced out?

CTID Somerset said:
No worries :0)

On BM forums, I just get confused on the definition of,what a Tourist City fan maybe???

Non Tourists are:-

Season ticket holder??
Manchester born and bred?
Etc?
Etc?
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A tourist is someone who supports another club but turns up at a City game. - I was a tourist at Leominster v Hinton earlier in the season and also at Tamworth v Aldershot Town.
I'm not as much of a groundhopper as I used to be but have been a "tourist" at several dozen games over the years.
However I never jumped the queue by using ticket agencies and only got into all-ticket games by buying spares outside the ground, so never deprived a genuine fan of a ticket.
 
Stephen230 said:
Players and staff have been getting tickets for whoever they please since time began. I’ve benefitted from it myself in the past. To expect a senior coach at a club not to have access to a bunch of tickets is naive in the extreme.

But the yellow hat lot and the Barcelona firm, didn’t just happen to all turn up in identical gear by chance. Someone has gone to a fair bit of trouble organising that to make sure they were all coordinated.

Surely it’s not asking too much if you’re a senior employee and are asked to get a bunch of tickets to an in-demand game, to say… Yeah, I can get them. But do us a favour, keep your head’s down and don’t take the piss?
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Don’t disagree with what you have said :0(

1 or two tickets maybe,as a favour , but 8!!!

And as you said, so brazen and blatant about it!!!

Now that is proper taking the piss!!!
 
Back to Bloom and Brighton.

Albion have announced a 5% rise in season-ticket prices at the Amex – and taken measures they hope will help fill seats left empty.

There are also changes to concessionary age categories coming in the next two seasons.

Announcing the changes, the club told fans: “We’ve done all we can to minimise the impact with a rise of approximately 5%.

Albion want fans to use their season tickets for at least 75% of matches – be it through attendance themselves, listing for resale or sharing.

The club warn: “You cannot leave your seat empty for five or more matches.

“If you do, you may not be able to renew for 2026-27."

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Albion announce season-ticket price rise and plan to fill empty seats at the Amex

Brighton confirm season-ticket renewal prices for 2025-26
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jrb said:
Back to Bloom and Brighton.

Albion have announced a 5% rise in season-ticket prices at the Amex – and taken measures they hope will help fill seats left empty.

There are also changes to concessionary age categories coming in the next two seasons.

Announcing the changes, the club told fans: “We’ve done all we can to minimise the impact with a rise of approximately 5%.

Albion want fans to use their season tickets for at least 75% of matches – be it through attendance themselves, listing for resale or sharing.

The club warn: “You cannot leave your seat empty for five or more matches.

“If you do, you may not be able to renew for 2026-27."

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Albion announce season-ticket price rise and plan to fill empty seats at the Amex

Brighton confirm season-ticket renewal prices for 2025-26
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I’m surprised more clubs haven’t raised the OAP to 66 in line with the increase in pension age.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
United responded to The 1958 about their own struggle with this:

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Ha ha - what a piss-take that is. Putting the onus back on the fans for United's shit player recruitment policy over recent years, and then to top it off asking United fans to come up with ideas to grow revenue at the club! Shouldn't they be asking the people they employ to do that?
 
M18CTID said:
Ha ha - what a piss-take that is. Putting the onus back on the fans for United's shit player recruitment policy over recent years, and then to top it off asking United fans to come up with ideas to grow revenue at the club! Shouldn't they be asking the people they employ to do that?
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The new employees (apart from the bicycle man and Sunday League Omar) are mainly agency workers on zero hours contracts. They’ve sacked hundreds of local workers, many of whom were lifelong rags.

Posters Come on here saying we’ve become the rags, everything we’ve hated. We’ve got a long way to fall to reach their depths
 
United v Rangers trouble report in the MEN.

If the ticket touts are doing it at United, they will be doing it at City as well.

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Ticket touts have also reputedly become so sophisticated they have the wherewithal to develop a QR code for United tickets, bypassing the screenshot approach.
 
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jrb said:
United v Rangers trouble report in the MEN.

If the ticket touts are doing it at United, they will doing it at City as well.

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Ticket touts have also reputedly become so sophisticated they have the wherewithal to develop a QR code for United tickets, bypassing the screenshot approach.
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Retina scans and biometrics, you can tell using these technologies if someone trying to get in was a southerner who has eaten too many barms and the blue blood Mancunians who have survived on muffins.
 
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M18CTID said:
Ha ha - what a piss-take that is. Putting the onus back on the fans for United's shit player recruitment policy over recent years, and then to top it off asking United fans to come up with ideas to grow revenue at the club! Shouldn't they be asking the people they employ to do that?
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It's that bit about returning to being cash positive that made me chuckle. I've highlighted their cashflow issues before.

We don't publish a separate cashflow statement at MCFC level as it's all rolled up in CFG, but it's possible to calculate that we generate around £100m-plus cash every financial year. And that's just from operational sources before adding in cash from player sales. We then spend pretty well all of that on the squad (or have done in prior years).

They must be making a complete pig's ear of things financially to end up not being cash positive and cutting a few quid here and there by sacking minimum wage staff doesn't materially change that.

Missing out on Europe completely next season will make their cashflow situation even worsevand the only way to resolve that will be to sell their highest earners or mist valuable assets (e.g. players like Mainoo who have come through the youth team). It's not even a case of selling the likes of Mainoo will generate a profit for them. They'll need the cold, hard cash.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
It's that bit about returning to being cash positive that made me chuckle. I've highlighted their cashflow issues before.

We don't publish a separate cashflow statement at MCFC level as it's all rolled up in CFG, but it's possible to calculate that we generate around £100m-plus cash every financial year. And that's just from operational sources before adding in cash from player sales. We then spend pretty well all of that on the squad (or have done in prior years).

They must be making a complete pig's ear of things financially to end up not being cash positive and cutting a few quid here and there by sacking minimum wage staff doesn't materially change that.

Missing out on Europe completely next season will make their cashflow situation even worsevand the only way to resolve that will be to sell their highest earners or mist valuable assets (e.g. players like Mainoo who have come through the youth team). It's not even a case of selling the likes of Mainoo will generate a profit for them. They'll need the cold, hard cash.
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It’s absolutely hilarious that they may get back basically hat they paid for Mount but have to give Chelsea Garnacho!

They really are a mess currently.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
United responded to The 1958 about their own struggle with this:

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I don't understand how they expect to claw back millions by cancelling the staff Christmas party and sacking the tea lady. If they just accepted they are a mid table team now and stopped spunking money around they could probably get themselves competitive again in 10 years
 
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