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Skashion said:
Were the club justified in not anticipating demand? Absolutely.
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Sorry, I totally disagree. The Villa attendance had a number of factors that influenced it:

1. Live on free to air TV. This has always had a big impact on City's attendance, going right back to the 80s when live broadcasts started.

2. Midweek match: People with a fair distance to travel or young kids more likely to use factor 1 to decide to give it a miss.

3. 4th consecutive home game in a short period. Again the impact of factor 1 will have persuaded many to save their money for a possible QF tie.

None of those above factors apply to the Reading game, added to which it's a QF and one step from a match we haven't experienced in 30 years, an FA Cup Semi Final. All of that says to me expect 40k for this match.
 
i paid £ 17.50 for my normal ticket in east stand , my brother asked to get him a ticket for the sunderland game wich is £ 40 glad i have my season card . £ 22.50 for the villa game still cheap. Think people want free tickets or a good moan
 
lancs blue said:
Skashion said:
Were the club justified in not anticipating demand? Absolutely.
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Sorry, I totally disagree. The Villa attendance had a number of factors that influenced it:

1. Live on free to air TV. This has always had a big impact on City's attendance, going right back to the 80s when live broadcasts started.

2. Midweek match: People with a fair distance to travel or young kids more likely to use factor 1 to decide to give it a miss.

3. 4th consecutive home game in a short period. Again the impact of factor 1 will have persuaded many to save their money for a possible QF tie.

None of those above factors apply to the Reading game, added to which it's a QF and one step from a match we haven't experienced in 30 years, an FA Cup Semi Final. All of that says to me expect 40k for this match.
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What are you basing the 40k plus attendance on, there's nothing on this season's cup attendances to suggest anything close.

We got just over 30k against Juve in Europe, but the club should have anticipated over 40k for Reading in the FA cup?
 
lancs blue said:
Skashion said:
Were the club justified in not anticipating demand? Absolutely.
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Sorry, I totally disagree. The Villa attendance had a number of factors that influenced it:

1. Live on free to air TV. This has always had a big impact on City's attendance, going right back to the 80s when live broadcasts started.

2. Midweek match: People with a fair distance to travel or young kids more likely to use factor 1 to decide to give it a miss.

3. 4th consecutive home game in a short period. Again the impact of factor 1 will have persuaded many to save their money for a possible QF tie.

None of those above factors apply to the Reading game, added to which it's a QF and one step from a match we haven't experienced in 30 years, an FA Cup Semi Final. All of that says to me expect 40k for this match.
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How can the club have any confidence when it comes to attendances? I don't & I've been going for 37 years. Couldn't believe that so many turned up for Aris but couldn't believe how few bothered for the Villa game.

Give me 40k+ with Levels 1 & 2 packed out any day (and I'm saying that having had to relocate from EL3 to EL2). It really isn't hard to understand why the club have done this.
 
lancs blue said:
Skashion said:
Were the club justified in not anticipating demand? Absolutely.
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Sorry, I totally disagree. The Villa attendance had a number of factors that influenced it:

1. Live on free to air TV. This has always had a big impact on City's attendance, going right back to the 80s when live broadcasts started.

2. Midweek match: People with a fair distance to travel or young kids more likely to use factor 1 to decide to give it a miss.

3. 4th consecutive home game in a short period. Again the impact of factor 1 will have persuaded many to save their money for a possible QF tie.

None of those above factors apply to the Reading game, added to which it's a QF and one step from a match we haven't experienced in 30 years, an FA Cup Semi Final. All of that says to me expect 40k for this match.
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None of them applied all to one match, that is true. But we've had weekend games and still poor attendances, we've had games on ESPN, still poor attendances. Don't buy the consecutive games point because there's only Kiev midweek to break up the consecutive streak. So, yeah, it's a quarter-final but for anyone following the cup attendances this year knows that the usual later rounds equals higher attendances hasn't applied, as mentioned above, including Villa, which was on ESPN, and was about 10k short of our group Europa League attendances, which were all midweek, all similarly priced, and all on either Channel 5 or ITV7000 (freeview). Clearly, the City fans have prioritised the Europa League this season.
 
Just moved back from level 1 South to usual seats in 305.

Level 1 cost £15 and the girl on the phone says she owes me a £2.50 refund per ticket to move back to level 3 which are £17.50.

Confused.!!

As long as we get in!!
 
bluewigmcfc said:
are opening both level 3's or just east stand 1st ?
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Can`t make the Sunday game,but just phoned and bought 2 tickets for the Dynamo Game.No problem,but no doubt there will be thousands left for this game with the 6.00 pm KO !!
Asked ref L3 for Reading and they are ONLY opening East L3 and NOT CB3 !!
 
All of EL3 is now open.

I just called and moved my tickets back there from where I had booked. They even refunded me the difference as I was in a £25 seat.

Ticketline put me straight through to customer services who took about 5 mins to answer the call.
 
EastStandBlue said:
All of EL3 is now open.

I just called and moved my tickets back there from where I had booked. They even refunded me the difference as I was in a £25 seat.

Ticketline put me straight through to customer services who took about 5 mins to answer the call.
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How can this be?

City are the devil. I know, people on here kept telling me.
 
EastStandBlue said:
All of EL3 is now open.

I just called and moved my tickets back there from where I had booked. They even refunded me the difference as I was in a £25 seat.

Ticketline put me straight through to customer services who took about 5 mins to answer the call.
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Complete and utter farce, how difficult is it for them to grasp the concept of customer choice - letting people decide where they want to sit instead of trying to railroad them into an area they don't want to be in.

EDIT: That's two lots of admin effort, one to relocate out of L3 and one to relocate back in. Time that could have been spent selling more tickets.
 
lancs blue said:
EastStandBlue said:
All of EL3 is now open.

I just called and moved my tickets back there from where I had booked. They even refunded me the difference as I was in a £25 seat.

Ticketline put me straight through to customer services who took about 5 mins to answer the call.
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Complete and utter farce, how difficult is it for them to grasp the concept of customer choice - letting people decide where they want to sit instead of trying to railroad them into an area they don't want to be in.
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Isn't that what they just did for him.

They let him move back and refunded the difference.
 
SWP's back said:
lancs blue said:
Complete and utter farce, how difficult is it for them to grasp the concept of customer choice - letting people decide where they want to sit instead of trying to railroad them into an area they don't want to be in.
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Isn't that what they just did for him.

They let him move back and refunded the difference.
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So why waste all that time relocating back and forth, why not just let people choose their normal seat in the first place??
 
booked x3 tickets on - line at £25 each
appears level 3 now open at £17.50 each
it would appear i'm £22.50 down as i have no great preference between the 2 areas.what have city done that is good for me other than mess me about?

am i able to swap?
can i swap on-line? ( my hunch would be no)
if i ring up will they then want to charge me booking fee on each tx for their fannyin around?

the whole thing smacks of moving football away from 3pm ko.
people generally like to know where they stand and as soon as you start messing about they tend to vote with their feet! rant over and out!
 
xmusampa said:
booked x3 tickets on - line at £25 each
appears level 3 now open at £17.50 each
it would appear i'm £22.50 down as i have no great preference between the 2 areas.what have city done that is good for me other than mess me about?

am i able to swap?
can i swap on-line? ( my hunch would be no)
if i ring up will they then want to charge me booking fee on each tx for their fannyin around?

the whole thing smacks of moving football away from 3pm ko.
people generally like to know where they stand and as soon as you start messing about they tend to vote with their feet! rant over and out!
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Have you read my post?

If you a season ticket hold in EL3 they will relocate you back FREE OF CHARGE and refund a difference.

If you arent a season ticket holder in EL3 then, as it should be, its hard cheese. You chose your seats.

The club made a mistake by closing it but they've rectified it and are allowing it to become a sell out.
 
Any chance we'll fill one of the third tiers? I expect a few Reading fans will go in our ends, somrthing I've no problem with as long as they behave themselves after going three down!!
 
Can't believe all the fuss about a not open / open the 3rd tier.

Everyone moans when there are empty seats around them, lack of atmosphere etc. The club say ok we wont open the 3rd tiers for cup games to get you all together and you can have a sing song. Club projected the demand for tickets wrong - so open the 3rd tier. Que moaners in melt down.

Grab a seat - sing your heart out because there is a huge chance that 90 mins after KO on Sunday we will be on our way to that over priced stadium in London.

Happy days!
 
Got to give the club credit for the way they have handled this. The only problem here for me are the stay away fans that have led the club to have to take this sort of action. Of course we should sell the bottom tiers first, it makes complete sense and improves the atmosphere, giving us a better chance of progressing. I am on level 2 meaning Im paying £25, which in my opinion is still good value for a cup quarter final, and no I dont have loads of spare money, I'm pretty much skint already this month and only got paid 10 days ago. Well done City.
 
Have you read my post?

If you a season ticket hold in EL3 they will relocate you back FREE OF CHARGE and refund a difference.

If you arent a season ticket holder in EL3 then, as it should be, its hard cheese. You chose your seats.

The club made a mistake by closing it but they've rectified it and are allowing it to become a sell out.



problem being i was only given a restricted choice and they wanted to charge me top dollar for their benefit not mine!
 
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