Season Tickets - 2023/24

bobbyowenquiff said:
It is just crazy for any big PL clubs to turn down customers. They all need bigger stadia with a wider price category (like Barcelona). Football has never been bigger globally. All PL clubs need bigger grounds, bigger away allocations, more food and drink outlets. There should be enough room for the corporates and less wealthy fans. Even Elton John can get an audience of 250,000 these days. The top European clubs could easily get crowds of 100,000 if ticketing was sensibly priced. Infrastructure investment is exempt from FFP rules. Build and they will come.
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If the market is working properly, in the longer term the big clubs' popularity, attitude to pricing and the restrictions placed on fans should be beneficial to the rest of the pyramid. As long as the big clubs can't/won't accommodate everyone at a time of peak interest, smaller clubs have a chance to pick up the apples who fall off the cart. Some PL fanbases - present company excepted - scoff at what's happening lower down, but attendances are growing at quite a few grounds. And there's one thing you see there that we all know you won't see at many Premier League grounds. Local young people, turning up on a whim at the turnstile with their friends and siblings, paying less than tenner, sometimes much less, to get in. Yes, the numbers are small, but these are the matchgoing fans of the future, and they are enjoying the game at a price they can actually afford with change left over for a pie and a drink. Looking at it not just as a Blue who wants his club to continue to grow and prosper, but purely as someone who still believes in the idea of football as working people's Saturday afternoon entertainment, that's healthy for the game.
 
Beaker said:
I wish the club would just be honest rather than everything being so cloak and dagger. Just come out and say “we currently have x amount of season ticket holders, our business model means we need to get this figure down by x amount so until then no new season tickets will be put on sale.”
At least then everybody hoping to get one in the future knows where they stand.
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They'd never do that mate. If they come out and said 'we don't anticipate any new season tickets going on sale for two seasons' (or whatever) they're potentially missing out on 10s of thousands of people paying £70.

I'm pessimistic by nature and not 100 percent convinced they'll release any full new ones even when the new stand is completed. Hope I'm wrong.
 
Edghill OG said:
They'd never do that mate. If they come out and said 'we don't anticipate any new season tickets going on sale for two seasons' (or whatever) they're potentially missing out on 10s of thousands of people paying £70.

I'm pessimistic by nature and not 100 percent convinced they'll release any full new ones even when the new stand is completed. Hope I'm wrong.
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I’m surprised they haven’t targeted the over 65’s as a potential revenue stream. Think I read the rags have cut their discount.
 
Jazzyblue said:
If the market is working properly, in the longer term the big clubs' popularity, attitude to pricing and the restrictions placed on fans should be beneficial to the rest of the pyramid. As long as the big clubs can't/won't accommodate everyone at a time of peak interest, smaller clubs have a chance to pick up the apples who fall off the cart. Some PL fanbases - present company excepted - scoff at what's happening lower down, but attendances are growing at quite a few grounds. And there's one thing you see there that we all know you won't see at many Premier League grounds. Local young people, turning up on a whim at the turnstile with their friends and siblings, paying less than tenner, sometimes much less, to get in. Yes, the numbers are small, but these are the matchgoing fans of the future, and they are enjoying the game at a price they can actually afford with change left over for a pie and a drink. Looking at it not just as a Blue who wants his club to continue to grow and prosper, but purely as someone who still believes in the idea of football as working people's Saturday afternoon entertainment, that's healthy for the game.
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I agree 100 per cent. Lower league attendances are booming. And there is no reason why that should not continue. I am also a big fan of the philosophy of "support your local club." No reason why both sort of clubs (big and small) can't co-exist. I think it is interesting that in the digital age people still yearn for community events like music gigs and football. It seems like a basic human need to socialise in a group and Covid has boosted that feeling. Perhaps one day the market for football will peak but with over 3m people in Greater Manchester there is still huge growth potential within our own region let alone globally.
 
Downloaded my season ticket to my Google wallet. Opened it and low and behold I've got 2 season tickets in my wallet. I've had a value gold season ticket for a few years now and I've got my new seat in 329 and last season's in 303.
I've checked my City account and only my new season ticket is listed.
Just wondering if anybody else has had the same happen to them.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
I’m surprised they haven’t targeted the over 65’s as a potential revenue stream. Think I read the rags have cut their discount.
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It was Liverpool who cut the over-65 discount to 25% (from 50%) and West Ham raised the age for Senior discount to 66 (state pension age).
All the money sloshing about in the PL and they recover a measly few quid from fans who have supported these teams all their lives.
 
Bob Hope said:
Downloaded my season ticket to my Google wallet. Opened it and low and behold I've got 2 season tickets in my wallet. I've had a value gold season ticket for a few years now and I've got my new seat in 329 and last season's in 303.
I've checked my City account and only my new season ticket is listed.
Just wondering if anybody else has had the same happen to them.
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It does say in the email to remove last years.
 
manclad said:
It was Liverpool who cut the over-65 discount to 25% (from 50%) and West Ham raised the age for Senior discount to 66 (state pension age).
All the money sloshing about in the PL and they recover a measly few quid from fans who have supported these teams all their lives.
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Ah right. We won’t be too long behind if other clubs are doing it.
 
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