Season Tickets - 2024/25

[East Level 2]

My reading is that it's a trial for flexible ticketing all over the stadium. If people don't take up the option for the less popular games, they'll use dynamic pricing to try to sell the tickets.

As an example, if we're playing a relegation contender on a January midweek date and we're struggling to shift the spare tickets. These might be £45 if you book in advance but £25 if you wait until 48 hours before the game.

In my personal view that's potentially a good thing as it will encourage people to buy tickets at £25 that they wouldn't buy at £45. Of course it'll piss off those who did pay the £45 but that's the chance you take.

That last sentence could lead to an almighty scramble in the 48 hours before a match some find less attractive.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Just for information:
(a) For a few hours yesterday 1,000 tickets were being reposted per hour for last night’s game, on the most popular Man Ciry Face Value Ticket Page. That illustrates how keen many season card holders were to avoid last night’s game. The legacy fans deserted the lads in their droves.
(b) 8.15pm kick offs diminish demand from people travelling a decent distance to the game (unless it’s a very glamorous match). I got home at quarter to 2am last night. The train that goes across the Pennines after the game (usually the 10.57pm but the train I could catch last night was the 11.17pm) was virtually empty. It’s normally full of several hundred Blues going home to Bradford, Leeds etc.
(c) if younhaven’t got a season card and fancy a Flexi Gold, go for it,

 

[dickie davies]

My reading is that it's a trial for flexible ticketing all over the stadium. If people don't take up the option for the less popular games, they'll use dynamic pricing to try to sell the tickets.

As an example, if we're playing a relegation contender on a January midweek date and we're struggling to shift the spare tickets. These might be £45 if you book in advance but £25 if you wait until 48 hours before the game.

In my personal view that's potentially a good thing as it will encourage people to buy tickets at £25 that they wouldn't buy at £45. Of course it'll piss off those who did pay the £45 but that's the chance you take.

It'd be better if the club started with them at the lower price, say the equivalent of a season card in that area and then increased the price as the game moved closer
Eg a £560 season card =£40 per game
The seat is for sale at £40 up to 15 days before the game
At 14 days left it moves to £50
At 7 it moves to £60

This is for lower category midweek matches

 

[blueparrot]

It'd be better if the club started with them at the lower price, say the equivalent of a season card in that area and then increased the price as the game moved closer
Eg a £560 season card =£40 per game
The seat is for sale at £40 up to 15 days before the game
At 14 days left it moves to £50
At 7 it moves to £60

This is for lower category midweek matches

Isn't that how airlines do it, cheaper to start with, increasing, then maybe reducing for last minute if any seats are unsold.

 

[Jazzyblue]

Just for information:
(a) For a few hours yesterday 1,000 tickets were being reposted per hour for last night’s game, on the most popular Man Ciry Face Value Ticket Page. That illustrates how keen many season card holders were to avoid last night’s game. The legacy fans deserted the lads in their droves.
(b) 8.15pm kick offs diminish demand from people travelling a decent distance to the game (unless it’s a very glamorous match). I got home at quarter to 2am last night. The train that goes across the Pennines after the game (usually the 10.57pm but the train I could catch last night was the 11.17pm) was virtually empty. It’s normally full of several hundred Blues going home to Bradford, Leeds etc.
(c) if younhaven’t got a season card and fancy a Flexi Gold, go for it,

Precisely why the club needs to stop fannying about, widen the pool of season ticket holders and recognise that there’s a cost of living crisis whacking families of all incomes across the country. Mortgages doubled last year for many, many people and PL clubs are turning the screw on us for relative pennies on their overall income. It’s the Easter holidays, there are lots of younger fans from within easy travelling distance who would have loved last night’s game, they would pick up the slack if they weren’t being priced out.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Precisely why the club needs to stop fannying about, widen the pool of season ticket holders and recognise that there’s a cost of living crisis whacking families of all incomes across the country.

Or alternatively reduce the ridiculous cost of match day tickets. My seat in mid SS3 would have cost £61 for match day last night. Crazy

 

[Corky]

That last sentence could lead to an almighty scramble in the 48 hours before a match some find less attractive.

City tried that 2 seasons ago, around 15 PL games were reduced to £30 in the last week when there were singles left. People complained and cancelled their tickets and rebought (even in the last 7 days), and people who knew what was going on could monitor the site and wait until the last 5 or 6 days and get a single in 9320 for £30.

Since then the prices have been increased mid season in the last two seasons, they have well and truly trialled cutting prices in the last week and have know gone the other way.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

The dynamic pricing already exists on the Club’s godsend. The Face Vamue ticket pages. Particularly, the page City tried for years to close down. There were loads of ticket available for last night at around £20.

 

[Edghill OG]

When there's a points system in place, we shouldn't be in a mad rush to buy matchday tickets released on one day. That was a shambles with the site crashing as every man and his dog scrambled to buy tickets with no criteria in place. For matchday tickets, the club need to stagger sales for next season using the points system.

Bad enough with matchday tickets pushing on £67 for certain game but is really toss losing out to tourists and touts.

CB3 there's only a few that I recognise each time. Germans behind me and to the right last night and a Chinese lass in front. Relocating on the 12th. Seem to get Scottish schools up there a fair bit bizarrely. Had a couple of pints in town and there were Belgians, Americans etc all going to the game.

I do wonder whether all the tickets going on sale at the start of the season is to cater more for the tourist types. Booking flights, accommodation etc. Quite obvious it makes it hard for a working class individual to attend regularly. A good way of killing two ducks with one stone.

 

[Jazzyblue]

Or alternatively reduce the ridiculous cost of match day tickets. My seat in mid SS3 would have cost £61 for match day last night. Crazy

Ideally both!