Season Ticket Waiting List | Sold Out

[west didsblue]

correct.
i just can't work the tech stuff. season cards were straight forward .
p.s she has 24,000 points from those " few games ".

It’s easier to list the ticket than it’s ever been and you get a refund if it sells. Can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t do it if they can’t go to the match. I’m sure your daughter could do it if you can’t. You could even just give it away to someone on your friends and family as an alternative.

 

[ysmsa]

My two pence worth is that the club are heavily oversubscribed with season ticket holders. As others have mentioned there's the people that decided to renew this year after deferring last season now returning and the new season ticket holders it took on from last season. In my eyes they grossly underestimated the amount of people coming back and probably took on too many last season to make up the shortfall.
The cityzen membership was/is sold as the only way of getting onto the 'waiting list' and getting yourself a season ticket. As it is sold as the main benefit of the membership they needed to look as though they were offering something to cityzen members and that gave birth to the silver season ticket (this may just be coincidental but seems logical). It also explains why they are so elusive with numbers if so few were available. I can't see anywhere in the cityzens membership that mentions being put on the waiting list now either?!!
The way its been handled is very poor and the slogan the membership pack comes with in that it 'brings you closer to the club' is a bit ironic as a number have never felt so far away. I especially feel sorry for the individuals like Jam Tomorrow with 6500 points- potentially missing out to somebody whose never stepped foot in the Etihad before. Completely senseless way of doing it but encourages large numbers to pay £35 each year instead of rewarding loyalty. I can't see myself buying one of these lottery tickets again.

Do you not get a £5 reduction of PL tickets with a membership card so effectively pays for its if you attend 7 games?
I can't believe people just buy a membership card purely with a view to going on a S/T waiting list and not attending any matches.

It would mean somebody changing from being a casual fan and not attending many games if any to suddenly going to 19 League games just because they have a S/T.

I've had a quick look at the membership and there are a lot of benefits to make it worthwhile, assuming the member makes use of them (7 games or more and buys the odd thing from the Store for example)
As suggested there is always greater demand for the bigger games, that will never change.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

I get a sense of bewilderment reading parts if this thread. It was always going to be tough to get a new season ticket for 2022-23. City have won four out of five titles and have just signed the best young player in the world.

City have lost a fair number of seats with the revised arrangements and hoardings. Large numbers of those who deferred their season ticket appear to have come back.

Yet we get a load of entitled self-entitled moaning from those who missed out blaming everyone at the club.

The only way to be able to issue more season tickets is to expand the stadium, starting with a third tier to the North Stand. Until that happens people will continue to miss out on season tickets.

Even on that there is no consensus. Some seem to want to demolish the whole North Stand to replace it with a large single tier. Imagine the howls of disapproval from those forced out for a season? Some don’t think that expansion is needed because ‘there are loads of empty seats at every match’. Others seem to think that anyone from outside of Manchester should not be there?

I managed to get a season ticket after long gap since my last one lapsed. I did this because the team had a bad season losing the title to United and beaten by Wigan in the Cup Final and Mancini was sent packing. I got a second season ticket for my wife when the South Stand was expanded. That required paying a deposit well in advance.

Maybe there could be a more systematic approach to queuing for season tickets? But ultimately the same number will miss out.

I'm a SC member so I'm not directly affected by what the club has done this summer but I think it stinks to high heaven.

Every year there will be a proportion of SC holders who don't renew for all sorts of reasons and I highly doubt that everyone who deferred renewed either. Therefore there would be a small number of SCs available to new members this summer as they always have. However, the club have decided that they will not be offered as a full SC but instead a ticket bundle and they have branded it Silver. To compound what they have done, they haven't actually come out and stated that no full SCs would be available either. If they can be sold for 14 games then they can be sold for 19.

When Silver was announced a while back, it got a positive response as it was presented as an ADDITIONAL option. My question would be did CM reps know it was instead of Gold & Platinum or are they just being useful idiots for the club?

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

One of the problems is the number of seats reserved for hospitality. I had a rare venture into the posh padded seats in L2 for Leeds at home last December, the 7-0, right where the seats meet the private boxes, whilst the stadium was pretty much full, the hospitality bits in East Stand L2 were virtually empty. Again , try getting hospitality and you’ll be lucky. vast Swathes of hospitality in all four stands are half empty except for the so called big games. Of course the seats will be sold but do fuck all for the atmosphere or us so called legacy fans.

 

[City of Troy]

It’s relatively simple, if you can’t make it get it in the exchange if you haven’t already given it someone yourself? Still your own ticket to do what you want with but surely you’d rather the seat be taken than empty with people wanting it. The problem is if it’s a midweek night game against Norwich nobody probably would want it.

I missed four last season on my ST gave three away to friends and one on here all free of charge of course, struggle to understand why people would just leave it empty

 

[Tier2Blue]

I get a sense of bewilderment reading parts if this thread. It was always going to be tough to get a new season ticket for 2022-23. City have won four out of five titles and have just signed the best young player in the world.

City have lost a fair number of seats with the revised arrangements and hoardings. Large numbers of those who deferred their season ticket appear to have come back.

Yet we get a load of entitled self-entitled moaning from those who missed out blaming everyone at the club.

The only way to be able to issue more season tickets is to expand the stadium, starting with a third tier to the North Stand. Until that happens people will continue to miss out on season tickets.

Even on that there is no consensus. Some seem to want to demolish the whole North Stand to replace it with a large single tier. Imagine the howls of disapproval from those forced out for a season? Some don’t think that expansion is needed because ‘there are loads of empty seats at every match’. Others seem to think that anyone from outside of Manchester should not be there?

I managed to get a season ticket after long gap since my last one lapsed. I did this because the team had a bad season losing the title to United and beaten by Wigan in the Cup Final and Mancini was sent packing. I got a second season ticket for my wife when the South Stand was expanded. That required paying a deposit well in advance.

Maybe there could be a more systematic approach to queuing for season tickets? But ultimately the same number will miss out.

What a load of self indulgent nonsense.

 

[Etihad]

Some blocks don't sell for low demand games at all, and you get messed around if you list it sometimes. E.g. It sells then the clubs relists it as the buyer notices the club are now selling all their tickets for £30, or it get put in a basket for hours on end so you can't take it down even though it hasn't sold.

Also the ticket exchange is zero help for people who can't make it at short notice. If you list you are never sure it has sold until three hours before the game, as the club can relist at any time so there is no confidences in the system.

So the club drop the matchday prices when it doesn't sell out? So it doesn't make sense to buy the lower demand games too early?

 

[beermusic]

Some blocks don't sell for low demand games at all, and you get messed around if you list it sometimes. E.g. It sells then the clubs relists it as the buyer notices the club are now selling all their tickets for £30, or it get put in a basket for hours on end so you can't take it down even though it hasn't sold.

Also the ticket exchange is zero help for people who can't make it at short notice. If you list you are never sure it has sold until three hours before the game, as the club can relist at any time so there is no confidences in the system.

Also I don’t think the club lists exchange tickets online until their original allocation of match day tickets in that stand sells out (in fact they definitely don’t as I have checked whenever I have used the seat). So if you are unable to make a Cat C game at short notice a couple of days before the game its can mean it doesn’t get sold. I’m sure they are available if you call up but who has half a day spare to contact the ticket office by phone?

 

[blueparrot]

One of the problems is the number of seats reserved for hospitality. I had a rare venture into the posh padded seats in L2 for Leeds at home last December, the 7-0, right where the seats meet the private boxes, whilst the stadium was pretty much full, the hospitality bits in East Stand L2 were virtually empty. Again , try getting hospitality and you’ll be lucky. vast Swathes of hospitality in all four stands are half empty except for the so called big games. Of course the seats will be sold but do fuck all for the atmosphere or us so called legacy fans.

While all that may be true, though if you mean 93:20 they’ve been full the couple of times I’ve been in them, whether the hospitality seats are full or not full has little impact on the atmosphere because the atmosphere doesn’t come from those seats. I think the fact it was 7- 0 probaly dampens the atmosphers as it becomes a procession and a relaxed crowd.

 

[Bill]

I think a pretty perfect system is saying you are allowed to miss 2 or 3 games per season. You either have to attend the rest or list your ticket on the exchange (if it doesn’t sell, it’s been listed so doesn’t class as one of your missed games).

That’s fair isn’t it?

Bill has come onto a thread where people are obviously upset at missing out, to boast about how his daughter only goes to half the games and that he doesn’t list it on the exchange. It’s weird behaviour.

boasting at paying £700 for 7 games ? no lad i'm fuming .
i CAN'T do ticket exchange. i'm old.