Season Ticket Sales look better than I thought

[Didsbury Dave]

I posted a couple of weeks ago that season ticket sales looked static. Having just had a look it looks like I was wrong. There have been a number of sales since then and we look lke we'll smash our record number of season ticket sales. Using the same criteria as my last thread, the upper tiers only have a few rows left on them and they are usually the last seats in the stadium to sell.

Great news.

 

[gingerthai]

I posted a couple of weeks ago that season ticket sales looked static. Having just had a look it looks like I was wrong. There have been a number of sales since then and we look lke we'll smash our record number of season ticket sales. Using the same criteria as my last thread, the upper tiers only have a few rows left on them and they are usually the last seats in the stadium to sell.

Great news.

Excellent news. How did you find out how many are left?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I posted a couple of weeks ago that season ticket sales looked static. Having just had a look it looks like I was wrong. There have been a number of sales since then and we look lke we'll smash our record number of season ticket sales. Using the same criteria as my last thread, the upper tiers only have a few rows left on them and they are usually the last seats in the stadium to sell.

Great news.

Excellent news. How did you find out how many are left?

By pretending to buy one on the website for one of my "Friends and Family" on the account. I know it's not definitive, but I think this one's close as I''ve seen the available numbers drop and in recognisable selling patterns, ie the front ones have been going.

 

[flb]

I posted a couple of weeks ago that season ticket sales looked static. Having just had a look it looks like I was wrong. There have been a number of sales since then and we look lke we'll smash our record number of season ticket sales. Using the same criteria as my last thread, the upper tiers only have a few rows left on them and they are usually the last seats in the stadium to sell.

Great news.

How many s-tickets you reckon weve sold then?

 

[Anonymous]

It's always the way , a large number of City fans have a knack of leavin' things until the last minute .......

look at the ground sometimes , everybody seems to just 'appear' as the game kicks off , or just after ...... minutes before the place is half emprty !

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I posted a couple of weeks ago that season ticket sales looked static. Having just had a look it looks like I was wrong. There have been a number of sales since then and we look lke we'll smash our record number of season ticket sales. Using the same criteria as my last thread, the upper tiers only have a few rows left on them and they are usually the last seats in the stadium to sell.

Great news.

How many s-tickets you reckon weve sold then?

If I were to hazard a guess I'd say it looks around 38-39K, possibly even close to 40K

 

[BillyMC]

I posted a couple of weeks ago that season ticket sales looked static. Having just had a look it looks like I was wrong. There have been a number of sales since then and we look lke we'll smash our record number of season ticket sales. Using the same criteria as my last thread, the upper tiers only have a few rows left on them and they are usually the last seats in the stadium to sell.

Great news.

How many s-tickets you reckon weve sold then?

If I were to hazard a guess I'd say it looks around 38-39K, possibly even close to 40K

DD..this is getting close to "Seat Counting"...not something i would expect from you. Stop it now before it consumes you...they all started this way.Most of them end up locked in their bedrooms, curtains closed, with a gaunt, vacant look watching the dots disappear.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Is there a ceiling to the number of seasoncards the club can sell? I always thought it was a percentage of capacity, or is that a myth?

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

How many s-tickets you reckon weve sold then?

If I were to hazard a guess I'd say it looks around 38-39K, possibly even close to 40K

DD..this is getting close to "Seat Counting"...not something i would expect from you. Stop it now before it consumes you...they all started this way.Most of them end up locked in their bedrooms, curtains closed, with a gaunt, vacant look watching the dots disappear.

If you can think of a better way to spend a Friday nght I'm all ears pal

 

[flb]

I posted a couple of weeks ago that season ticket sales looked static. Having just had a look it looks like I was wrong. There have been a number of sales since then and we look lke we'll smash our record number of season ticket sales. Using the same criteria as my last thread, the upper tiers only have a few rows left on them and they are usually the last seats in the stadium to sell.

Great news.

How many s-tickets you reckon weve sold then?

If I were to hazard a guess I'd say it looks around 38-39K, possibly even close to 40K

Got to say if true those are great figures

Theres going to be a hell of a clamber for the 3-4000 tickets on open sale

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Is there a ceiling to the number of seasoncards the club can sell? I always thought it was a percentage of capacity, or is that a myth?

The Premier League rule is that 5% of the stadium's capacity must go on sale for each game. Now by my reckoning we have 42,400 seats for sale if you take off 2000 corporate, 2800 away fans. So we'd have to either offer 2100 on open sale, giving a ceiling a little over 40,000. Or if you interpret the 5% as total stadium capacity, that would be 2350, giving a tad under 40K.<br /><br />-- Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:16 pm --<br /><br />

How many s-tickets you reckon weve sold then?

If I were to hazard a guess I'd say it looks around 38-39K, possibly even close to 40K

Got to say if true those are great figures

Theres going to be a hell of a clamber for the 3-4000 tickets on open sale

There's a lot of assumptions and guesswork here mate, so please don't take it as gospel.

If we are close to a ceiling I would have expected City to be getting the message out, create a demand for the last few. Maybe the fact that we haven't seen that suggests I'm over-egging it somewhat.

 

[without a dream]

Got to say if true those are great figures

Theres going to be a hell of a clamber for the 3-4000 tickets on open sale

There's a lot of assumptions and guesswork here mate, so please don't take it as gospel.

If we are close to a ceiling I would have expected City to be getting the message out, create a demand for the last few. Maybe the fact that we haven't seen that suggests I'm over-egging it somewhat.

Or that City are confident of selling however many are left to none season ticket holders be that 10k or closer to 5k and don't see the need for a push.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I'd expect a "push" to be honest, as a few "last few seasoncards remaining" messages on the website/local press may push a few undecideds over the edge.

 

[without a dream]

I'd expect a "push" to be honest, as a few "last few seasoncards remaining" messages on the website/local press may push a few undecideds over the edge.

But if sales are relatively high already and we're expecting increased demand for tickets this season then surely there's more benefit to city flogging tickets match by match to 'blue memberships' at £25 for joining up then £40 a pop for the games than £30 a ticket for the season ticket holders.

 

[bluesmith]

This is all assuming we have upped the maximum we are willing to sell from 36k upto 40k.....

If we still have the widely suggested ceiling of 36K season tickets on sale we are just at a similar point to last year.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I'd expect a "push" to be honest, as a few "last few seasoncards remaining" messages on the website/local press may push a few undecideds over the edge.

But if sales are relatively high already and we're expecting increased demand for tickets this season then surely there's more benefit to city flogging tickets match by match to 'blue memberships' at £25 for joining up then £40 a pop for the games than £30 a ticket for the season ticket holders.

I seem to remember a few lower profile games where there were around 40,000 tickets actually bought, so City would be sensible to cover that shortfall if they can with season ticket sales.