Didsbury Dave said:
I believe the club should sell as manay season tickets as they can this year and drop any stupid ideas of "capping" the numbers. ACtually there would be some sort of police imposed limit of 42,000 or something, to accomodate larger cup allocations, but that's it. That would represent a sensible cap if we could sell that many.
Get the bums on the seats, get their cash in. Get the ground full and create a demand for the last few tickets.
A hell of a lot of people cannot afford season tickets. Create a situation where you only allow 2,000 of those people access to each game and you risk alienating many potential supporters for good.
The club has to think long term and keep those people interested. Under your system, we'd cast thousands adrift for ever with their kids going to support clubs that would take them in.
City have done it spot on. Capped the season tickets to allow 10,000 less well of people the chance to go to games as and when they can afford it.