Protest v Wolves

Working the overnight shift so did a little googling.

Vivid seats.com has just 2 tickets for the City end at Goodison Park this weekend - for $311 each for a £30 ticket

The Wolves game you can take your pick from loads of tickets, the cheapest being $82.
No membership card needed, just a little warning that away fans buying tickets in the home areas could face removal by the club.
 
If you are a 14 year old fan of one of the 5 other 'big 6' clubs who has just got a paper round and wants to spend your money on a season ticket at your club, how long would you have to wait for each club to get one?

We need to compare like for like.
 
I don't think 6 mins is enough, I say that because you watch on tv ( when I'm not there in the flesh) there are hundreds walking down after the game as started so nobody will know there is a protest
 
What would be the ideal or realistic number of new season tickets? If you had to guess.

Does the pl have a threshold percentage you have to follow with how many seats are ST?
 
justsaying said:
try ticket for cricket match.
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You’re comparing apples with pears.

Cricket is a full days play.

And Test Cricket is the equivalent of an international tournament.

A day watching Lancashire is cheap compared to watching City.
 
Eds said:
On the season card matter they should issue 3k for the north stand for those aged 16 - 30 for £399 and with a promise that if certain criteria are met the price remains the same for the following two seasons. Some of the criteria could be that these tickets have to be used for 17 out of 19 PL games and can only be transferred to someone on friends and family a maximum of three times. It should be unreserved rail seating with the idea that it's the same people in the same places pretty much every game as if the ticket isn't used then it can't be renewed. We don't want people getting cheap tickets and then picking and choosing their games. I know it would be need to be discussed further but the idea is to get the younger element of our fanbase all in one large area where they can all be together with their mates. Seats would be on a first come first served basis match by match. But in the same way people had their favourite spot in the Kippax this would be similar. The club wanted a blue wall here is one way to do it.
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Unreserved seating can only be occupied to around 80 or 90 percent of capacity according to a steward I discussed it with at an away game many years ago. This may have changed, but I don't recall unreserved seating at a game for many years other than at a few friendlies.
 
CheshireExpat said:
What would be the ideal or realistic number of new season tickets? If you had to guess.

Does the pl have a threshold percentage you have to follow with how many seats are ST?
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If the club wants a "blue wall" then around 4,000 season tickets. Perhaps 3,000 new STs and 1,000 transferring from other areas.
The north stand extension looks more complex than the south stand extension, so the club must be wanting it to be an "atmosphere end" even though they don't appear to be ticketing it that way.
 
pride in battle said:
£71 to watch the best football team in the world wether its City, Real Madrid, Barca is cheap
Have you seen concert prices, the theatre?
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love to know what your version of cheap is lol.

Our tickets are more expensive than others, english football in general is more expensive than any other league.

Apparently we are the best league in the world? Yet barely do well year in year out in Europe. Yet the 'cheaper' leagues do it well.
 
ysmsa said:
It's not cheap,

Nobody would go to see the same Band or attend the Theatre 25 times in a 10 month period.
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Almost nobody. Years ago I followed a singer around and went to the first 15 concerts of their European tour - which was one more than the singer did - they were sick for one and the concert was cancelled. (Which as a side issue - I got speaking with one of the backing singers and ended up on the backstage pass list for 3 or 4 years). And before anyone calls me a stalker - as Otis Lee Crenshaw said “some people call it stalking, I call it selective walking…”
 
Will join in the concourse demo but not sure I will be out of work in time for the 7pm one, hope it's well supported
 
CheshireExpat said:
What would be the ideal or realistic number of new season tickets? If you had to guess.

Does the pl have a threshold percentage you have to follow with how many seats are ST?
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My ideal: 3000 new season tickets to replace the 3000 we've lost since 2019 and a further 4000 from the 7000 capacity increase.

Realistic: We'll be lucky if we get 3000 new season tickets.
That'd bring us back up to 40k, but the % ST rate would be far lower with the expanded North Stand, which is what the club wants so they can flog more match day tickets from £61+ every game.
 
Corky said:
Normal season tickets were last available for 2021/22 so the Six minute thing is a bit off the mark, the year before that was behind closed doors so N/A, and they were on sale in 2019/20. Silvers then came in for 2022/23 and 2023/24 but they could all convert these for 2024/25 to normal season tickets once FG were introduced.

I can see the club allowing the FG holders who attend the most games convert to normal season tickets. I doubt the club have decided what they are doing yet, and the best protest would be for all ST holders to put their tickets on the exchange for guaranteed refund for the Wolves match and hit them where it hurts.
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This is a good point, but as referenced in February's open letter it's about traditional seasontickets being offered through a proper sales process.

• 2021 = offered some due to people who deferred over Covid
• ⁠2022 = Silver tickets
• ⁠2024 = Flexi gold

As you say, it was 2019/20 the last time they were on sale properly. So the 6 year thing is true despite being multiple unorthodox ways they were brought in.

Clearly the club's strategy has been to reduce their numbers (from 40K+ in 2019 to 35,900 now), and to start to replace them with a warped version (flexi-gold) that are more profitable and have less benefits to a ST (no ticket transfer etc).

You say you "can see the club allowing FG holders who attend the most games to convert to normal season tickets" - this is pure speculation on your part, as the club explicitly states in the FAQs that FG holders cannot do this. Their intention is obviously not for this to happen.

The only reason they would change strategy, is if Blues make their feelings known via protest, as we did vs Leicester ahead of the last City Matters meetings on pricing. Certain club executives have proven they can't be trusted to make the right decisions for the fanbase, they need us to show them. Let's carry on doing that.

CTID
 
Ric said:
I got my lad his first season ticket when he was 9, and we’ve been going to every home game together ever since. It’s really sad to think that younger parents simply won’t get that opportunity with their kids. That surely can’t be right.
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Only this. It's so obvious it's painful to watch.
 
City have a problem.

They don't want to go back to normal season tickets because they are now a loss leader.

City don't want to drop the £150 and £75 Flexi- Gold scam charge, as all new season tickets are going to be Flexi-Gold, and City don't want to lose that additional income.
 
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