I know that Alex from city matters said the club told them of the price increase last week and CM objected.
However, and maybe as a suggestion for future years, could this objecting have been done more proactively in earlier meetings and them tell the club in advance of decisions being made that there shouldn't be a price increase instead of when the decision has already been made?
I was just making the point that we have all had to think about the ‘next generation’ if we had kids. It wasn’t very ‘romantic’ bringing 4 kids up on my own and I was also upset that I couldn’t give my kids what a lot of their friends were having. But I didn’t whine about it I cut my coat according to my cloth.Brilliant for them, now get a paper round or do a Saturday job and see how many tickets they can afford now, plus go with their mates, not all can afford it. I’m just suppose a romantic when groups of us could just go to a game for a few quid, those days have long gone and unfortunately many will never experience it.
Well said Eccles Blue.I was just making the point that we have all had to think about the ‘next generation’ if we had kids. It wasn’t very ‘romantic’ bringing 4 kids up on my own and I was also upset that I couldn’t give my kids what a lot of their friends were having. But I didn’t whine about it I cut my coat according to my cloth.
I’m sorry if I had a different opinion to you but just because I can afford a season card now doesn’t mean I always could and I probably couldn’t if I didn’t get the OAP discount but I’m sure not giving it up!
Pardon me for breathing.
Most people nowadays don't understand the absolute poverty of previous generations rather than the relative poverty of today. My Mum brought me and my sister up on her own after my brutal father cleared off and we had literally nothing.I was just making the point that we have all had to think about the ‘next generation’ if we had kids. It wasn’t very ‘romantic’ bringing 4 kids up on my own and I was also upset that I couldn’t give my kids what a lot of their friends were having. But I didn’t whine about it I cut my coat according to my cloth.
I’m sorry if I had a different opinion to you but just because I can afford a season card now doesn’t mean I always could and I probably couldn’t if I didn’t get the OAP discount but I’m sure not giving it up!
Pardon me for breathing.
Glad 1894 are calling them out, I just wonder if the club are going to cut them off now and not hold meetings with them anymore for speaking out of turn
You should see me every time I go in Aldi.The store manager at Asda doesn't ask me to create a better atmosphere next time I'm in the shop either. It's reciprocal - the manager cannot demand a good atmosphere if the CEO sees the relationship with the fan as purely transactional.
And I applaud you but my point was the way things are going if kids don’t get in the door now they may never get it unless they pay a huge amount later, they don’t want people with season tickets they want day trippers spending £80 a ticket and £200 in the shops. Where have I said give up your ticket? My point was someone with a young family is been priced out and they don’t get them back, if prices continue to rise as they have. This isn’t like a 20 odd years ago when there were seats available at reasonable prices or no waiting list for a season ticket, if continue in the same vain it will be getting near £100 a ticket per game if you don’t have a season ticket. People find other uses for their money but I’m sure there will always be the glory hunters in years to come just look at old Trafford.I was just making the point that we have all had to think about the ‘next generation’ if we had kids. It wasn’t very ‘romantic’ bringing 4 kids up on my own and I was also upset that I couldn’t give my kids what a lot of their friends were having. But I didn’t whine about it I cut my coat according to my cloth.
I’m sorry if I had a different opinion to you but just because I can afford a season card now doesn’t mean I always could and I probably couldn’t if I didn’t get the OAP discount but I’m sure not giving it up!
Pardon me for breathing.
Que sera seraYou should see me every time I go in Aldi.
I go fucking beserk and always start the songs in the freezer aisle.
You're just a shit bar of chocolate, shit bar of chocolate , you're just a shit bar of chocolate.Que sera sera
Whatever will be will be
The chocolate bar’s 60p
Que sera sera
I try my very best in my 'romantic' world to never look at Old Trafford, apart from the cricket ground.And I applaud you but my point was the way things are going if kids don’t get in the door now they may never get it unless they pay a huge amount later, they don’t want people with season tickets they want day trippers spending £80 a ticket and £200 in the shops. Where have I said give up your ticket? My point was someone with a young family is been priced out and they don’t get them back, if prices continue to rise as they have. This isn’t like a 20 odd years ago when there were seats available at reasonable prices or no waiting list for a season ticket, if continue in the same vain it will be getting near £100 a ticket per game if you don’t have a season ticket. People find other uses for their money but I’m sure there will always be the glory hunters in years to come just look at old Trafford.
But hasn't it always been the case if you can't afford it you don't go ? That's definitely me in years gone by, regardless of how you dress it up.There's a weird Stockholm syndrome that afflicts people that makes them think they should be grateful for paying through the nose to watch the thing that ultimately only exists because of them. It's not the same as everything else in life. The club exists - and Sheik Mansour had an investible proposition - because generations of City supporters dedicated themselves to the club. Football clubs rely on the loyalty of people who don't give up when the club they follow goes for decades without a sniff of success. Just look at all the people on here connected to the Swales out movement, setting up fanzines, attending AGMs and EGMs as well as going home and away every week just to keep the club they love going in the vague hope that one day we might have some success. And the thanks that we get for that is fucking Soriano treating us with contempt because we can't be sufficiently monetised. And then Pep asks for the atmosphere to be better.
The supermarket analogy doesn't work at all - a City fan priced out of attending after years of committed support isn't going to make the choice to go to Bolton or Oldham because it's a bit cheaper, they'll just be disenfranchised by the club that belongs to them and become bitter and angry. Football is based around sentiment and loyalty not rational choices, if it was rational there wouldn't be 120ish professional clubs in England.
Great idea !!Every year they announce the ticket increase I think it’s an open goal for the players to offer to pay it instead.
Our last wage bill was £423m.
If the players took a 1 day pay cut it would raise the same amount as the ticket increase.
The club would earn more than £1.2m for the PR alone.
Exactly, so instead of taking them to City you took them to the park, I don't get this mentality that you have a divine right to be able to go to a football match, it costs time and money, it always has, it's not a new thing.I was just making the point that we have all had to think about the ‘next generation’ if we had kids. It wasn’t very ‘romantic’ bringing 4 kids up on my own and I was also upset that I couldn’t give my kids what a lot of their friends were having. But I didn’t whine about it I cut my coat according to my cloth.
I’m sorry if I had a different opinion to you but just because I can afford a season card now doesn’t mean I always could and I probably couldn’t if I didn’t get the OAP discount but I’m sure not giving it up!
Pardon me for breathing.
Good idea, however, if you asked most people on here, regardless of how much they earn, to take a pay cut to allow people to buy a none necessary product, most wouldn't be keen.Every year they announce the ticket increase I think it’s an open goal for the players to offer to pay it instead.
Our last wage bill was £423m.
If the players took a 1 day pay cut it would raise the same amount as the ticket increase.
The club would earn more than £1.2m for the PR alone.
My memory says if you go through the renew season card and get to the payment stage, if you click on your old card a box comes up to add a new cardCan anybody direct me as to how to add details of a new credit card, step by step? I was able to remove the details of the previous credit card (which had been stolen, in the meantime), but it says, unhelpfully, please go to the relevant tab to add the new card. Where is the “relevant tab” and under what rubric? I know, I know, I'd expect it to be at Your Account, but the window simply will not allow me to fill in the new information. Without which, I cannot renew my season card.
Thanks for any help…