Prestwich_Blue
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Certainly raise it at the next meeting.
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PSG ticket prices - Protest options v West Brom.
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I've stated time and time again that I've defended this club to the hilt since the takeover so yes, I am grateful for what the sheikh has done. I've also stated that I doubt he has ever had a hand in setting the ticket prices so this isn't a pop at him, moreso at certain employees who are out of touch with reality. You on the other hand seem to be of the blinkered opinion that every single person who works at the club is as wonderful as our owner. I can tell you for now that we've got some great people working at City but we've also got some utter gimps, and if it wasn't for one group of fans in particular, the cheese-fest inside the ground on a match-day would be ten times worse than it is now.
As for protesting about home ticket prices, how else do you expect fans of clubs up and down the country to go about it? It's not like away ticket prices where it was easier for us to organise a joint campaign with all the other clubs. Home ticket prices are different with many different shades of grey regarding pricing structures at each club. This is what Scudamore alluded to a couple of months ago - the Premier League were able to lobby the clubs on behalf of the fans about away tickets but it's not really possible for them to do it with home tickets. Therefore, it's up to the fans of each club to lobby their respective clubs about it and that's what fans up and down the country have been doing, not just City.
I can't begin to comprehend cheese 10 times worse than what it is at the Etihad currently, it has been cringeworthy this season.
Eccles Blue
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Yes agreed, criminal that there is not a place at City you can meet midweek and have a coffee, lunch etc. can you raise that? Think the rags have a cafe open every day?
But there is, there is the cafe in the building just before the shop. I meet up with City friends there and have a cuppa or lunch. (Unless they've closed it recently. I've not been able to get over there apart from match days in the past 3 months.)
quiet_riot
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You can be grateful without having to pay through the arse for it.. I don't know about you but I think we should be incredibly grateful.
Football ticket pricing is a football issue not a just a City issue. Let's not be the idiots making the headlines by protesting against our club.
An utterly bizarre closing line. "Let's tackle the issue together, but someone else go first"
A spineless attitude IMO.
Goldenboy87
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You can be grateful without having to pay through the arse for it.
An utterly bizarre closing line. "Let's tackle the issue together, but someone else go first"
A spineless attitude IMO.
Completely agree, if we keep turning up and paying then they will keep pushing the prices up.
Cheadle_hulmeBlue
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I get the logic but why didn't the same people take up the various ticket offers for previous rounds? Are our ticket prices in line with the rest of football or more expensive? Are our fans poorer than the rest of football fans? From where I see it our owners have lavished £100's millions bringing some of the best talent in the world to our previously mediocre team. They have invested £100's millions in developing East Manchester through regeneration projects. They have built the finest academy in the world on our doorstep thereby helping local talent and generating real new jobs and are soon to bring us the "best manager in the world". I don't know about you but I think we should be incredibly grateful.
For Prestwich Blue and his friends on here that's not enough. That group want to have heavily discounted tickets and a seat on the board so that City could be like it used to be in "the good old days". The phrase "there is no pleasing some people" is being taken to new heights.
Football ticket pricing is a football issue not a just a City issue. Let's not be the idiots making the headlines by protesting against our club.
it sounds like you think you owe the club something ? we have great owners and thing have been great, but it doesnt mean we should be ripped off and fans being priced out. we dont owe the club anything we are the club.
' incredibly grateful' ? alright then ill just bend over backwards accept anything the club do and watch from home because I've been priced out. sounds great. I forgot we aren't playing macclesfield and must charge what other top teams charge..
BlueDeadHead
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They are
I said "may be" about you not having the money worries shared by many others. It was not a claim to have any knowledge about you so why use a straw man fallacy? Is that an honest or respectful approach to having a discussion? I pointed out that there are many fans who cannot keep up with price increases. Supporting price increases and abusing those with another view doesn't enhance your credibility, neither does your glib dismissal of so many people. Rather it is more of a reflection of your indifference to others in less fortunate circumstances. If anything is worth cringing about it is your wilful acquiescence and complicity in pricing out genuine fans.
Do you honestly believe the Sheikh came to City to make his fortune off the majority of working class fans? Of course not. With all the money his Wahabbi family have accumulated he could pay me back for this seasons crap home performances. Match day revenue is nothing more to him than amother grain of sand in the desert. Those fans that followed City long before him through the dark times are now being priced out of attending and vociferously supporting their team. In there place we get critical and nervy fans who aren't sure they are getting their 50 quids worth mixed with in with the silent bandwagon jumping tourists, how can City be the community club it promotes itself as when it corporate interests now clearly and directly conflict with it?
Were you at the Hamburg game?
Whabbi? Interesting choice of words. So for you this is partially your own bias against our owner's background.
BlueDeadHead
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I wouldn't put money in UEFA's pocket personally but let's say £70-80 is the likely price for a bog standard seat. But its a final and a one-off, show-piece game so I'd expect a premium price as demand would be very high.
It's all about demand isn't it? And as we keep saying, it's clear that the demand just isn't there for CL games at the prices City are charging. So why stick the prices up? It's not good business on any level.
But you are undercutting your last post. If you can charge more for a CL final why can't you charge more for a quarterfinal. As you said...same hard seat, same pie etc...
M18CTID
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You can be grateful without having to pay through the arse for it.
An utterly bizarre closing line. "Let's tackle the issue together, but someone else go first"
A spineless attitude IMO.
Not only is it spineless, he's wrong in the sense that fans of other clubs have already taken up the baton on this which shows how out of touch he is.