Season Tickets - 2025/26 | Changes to ticket transfer this season (p101)

Ric said:
Probably not, but obviously people’s circumstances change. And the fact that you will never get a season ticket back if you give it up makes people reticent to do so.

There are numerous anecdotal examples already on here and Twitter of people who have been season ticket holders for many years, but have fallen ill/had a kid/been laid off/going to uni/working abroad/working shifts etc. Should they have to forfeit years of loyalty because of a temporary change in circumstances?!

It’s a horribly thought out policy by the club, and the sooner they retract it the better.
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Its already been stated that they won't lose their season card with the circumstances listed.
 
CatMan said:
You really have no idea have you!

Manchester City have been the life and blood of 50% of this City's football followers, for over 130 years. There is, in front of your blind eyes, a systematic destruction and alienation of our native core support, in favour of international tourists. Just how blind to this are you?
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On average on a CL night, 50% of City's seasoncard holders don't show. That is minuted from City in City Matters minutes that you can find on mancity.com. That means on an average CL might we have very roughly 20,000 season ticket holders in the ground and 30,000 match day fans. Yes a few are international tourists and they are very welcome. Many travel half way across the world to support City. If you watch Cheesys vlogs he often interviews fans from America and Canada outside the ground. However on a CL night there are also a lot of local Mancs because it's very difficult to get to the Etihad from the rest of the UK for 8pm on a midweek night. That's why a lot of seasoncard holders do not go to Cup games. Unfortunately some City fans think that asian City fans are international tourists. I live in Manchester. When I go to the ground on a CL night I see and hear loads of foreign languages and people from all kinds of backgrounds and most of them I believe are from Manchester.

Should we fight for cheaper and more seasoncards? yes. But please don't turn fan protests into a seasoncard vs internationals conflict.

On the wider 115 case, I feel City have been trying to succeed in a League whose rules have been constantly bent and changed so that it suits a cartel vs new entrants. Remember that Man Utd and Liverpool executives went behind the backs of their PL rivals and set up an alternative competition (ESL) and arranged sponsors etc in a move that would have destroyed the PL. We all know that Mansour etc are international financiers and giant capitalists but so are rival club owners. They are all playing dirty.
 
foggy1974 said:
Seriously
a) not issuing new seasoncards for 6 years
& b) putting in policies that alienate seasoncard holders by restricting friends & family next season & threatening fans who don't attend 10 games in person.

I'd like to know who's clever idea it was to change a system that worked for the majority of seasoncard holders
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They were issued in 2021/22, they were sold on points and any CMM with 250 points was able to get one,

I don't agree with changes but using false information to protest against the club undermines the argument.

The next thing will be charging to transfer, which I predicted in 2021 when they got rid of physicals for most.
 
pride in battle said:
Its already been stated that they won't lose their season card with the circumstances listed.
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Where has it been stated? Have I missed something? The official line from the club is you must attend minimum 10 games in person. Don’t remember reading about exceptions or individual circumstances?
 
pride in battle said:
Its already been stated that they won't lose their season card with the circumstances listed.
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Where is this stated?

And how much resource will it take to listen to all these appeals against removal of season ticket? Is this really the direction we want our club to go in?
 
Little club said:
There always be a blue in my sons seat as it's go's to my missus. 1 season he will get 10 and 1 season he will get 9. Why would anyone give a season ticket up for a flexi gold when the season ticket is use for every game and on cup schemes.
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I’m for sharing the tickets within families mate. That’s any area where the 10 game rule needs to be more flexible.
 
Anyway, I’m on my way to Everton. I’m getting in a few away games in before my loyalty points get overtaken by somebody who hasn’t been to a home game in 5 years.

Joking aside, the Club need to be light touch with this 10 game rule and continue to Support Blues going through health, work and / or financial crisis.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Anyway, I’m on my way to Everton. I’m getting in a few away games in before my loyalty points get overtaken by somebody who hasn’t been to a home game in 5 years.

Joking aside, the Club need to be light touch with this 10 game rule and continue to Support Blues going through health, work and / or financial crisis.
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Enjoy the game mate.

Loud and proud!
 
Buckshaw Blue said:
Where has it been stated? Have I missed something? The official line from the club is you must attend minimum 10 games in person. Don’t remember reading about exceptions or individual circumstances?
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The Club were pushed about legitimate exemptions to this policy, which they did recognise. That has to include pregnancy, caring responsibilities, disabilities, health conditions, emergencies, shift working, and more. #CityMatters
 
SiMCFC said:
With your crystal ball, can you check how many games will move to midweek 19.45 and Sunday 19:00 kick offs please? Much appreciated.
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Sorry but my crystal ball is currently down

I moan like fuck about game changes as it pisses me off but still make the games

Understand different circumstances and my belief is the club don’t want ST holders as those attending occasionally spend more money

But I would never give my ST up
 
moomba said:
Where is this stated?

And how much resource will it take to listen to all these appeals against removal of season ticket? Is this really the direction we want our club to go in?
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The Club were pushed about legitimate exemptions to this policy, which they did recognise. That has to include pregnancy, caring responsibilities, disabilities, health conditions, emergencies, shift working, and more. #CityMatters
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
Are there that many people who buy a season ticket yet intend to go to 9 games or less?
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As much as I normally side with the fans, I believe there are a few more than you might expect. Again, this is a club-created problem. Before they stopped selling season tickets, they were putting them on sale on a first come, first served basis, rather than on some form of previous attendance requirement. Coupled with the extraordinary match day prices and the fact that they are also generally sold on a first come, first served basis, often making it difficult to get tickets for certain games, people who had no intention of attending a majority of the games were getting them, knowing that after 6 or 7 matches, it probably paid for itself when compared to match day prices.

Season tickets and match day tickets should be sold based on a diminishing prior attendance history, with match day tickets being priced considerably more in line with season ticket costs. The maximum markup should be no more than 25%. Get season tickets into the hands of people who want to attend the majority of the games, while offering people who can't commit to that a fair chance at buying match day tickets at a reasonable price. That's how you handle no-shows.
 
Buckshaw Blue said:
And what if you became unwell? Or had to care for a loved one who became unwell? Would you still deserve to lose it then?
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It’s already been mentioned exceptional circumstances would be taken into account

If not then it’s bang out of order

But following our club through the shit times to now no chance I will be giving my ST up
 
CatMan said:
For me, I won't be at all concerned if we lose the FFP case and are relegated. I want these clowns out. Yes, there will be people who say, "well, what about the success they have brought?", well frankly, if it was on the back of cheating then it's tainted anyway and they will have not only have made our club hated by other fans, but their current antics are making our own fans hate the club too! That by any standards is incredible.
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So you think we have cheated then? You think all the measures we’ve fought against are legitimate and are there purely to prevent bad people doing evil and naughty things?
You’re naive. Is it cheating if the rules are crooked? Is it fraud to invest in your own business because some idiots decided out of jealousy and spite that it’s not fair? I say no. To hell with those idiots and the crimes they lay at our feet I hope we burn it down.

Your bigger issue is a salient one, but you don’t see the bigger picture. Society is broken at large. Roads remain broken, staff underfunded, jobs harder and harder to come by because those at the top continue to siphon off money they can, constantly bleeding you just a little bit more dry by the day because, well what are you going to do? You are not just not the target of city but you are the target audience of a single business on the earth. None of us mean anything beyond our spending power. Is that city’s fault? No. And it will remain this way till society is fixed as a whole, when we turn away from money and look to the human next to us and think ‘We’re in this together’.
You could, as you have tried to, make the point a “local” club should support the “local” fans but city have evolved past that and sadly for us ‘legacy fans’ they’re leaving us behind and I don’t think any post or protest will change this. The stone is rolling down the hill and picks up momentum every day.

One could reflect on the renewal and fixing of east Manchester city have done and see what they have done for us at large and see nothing but rejuvenation, renewal, prospering and be grateful in that way, but we are humans and our emotions dictate us and so we complain how we are put out and focus on that.

I think, the sad fact is that we don’t matter any more, and I don’t think we will again!
 
pride in battle said:
The Club were pushed about legitimate exemptions to this policy, which they did recognise. That has to include pregnancy, caring responsibilities, disabilities, health conditions, emergencies, shift working, and more. #CityMatters
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:) Is it in the contract terms? CM pushing something and the club recognising it doesn't mean it will happen? Trust no-one!
 
pride in battle said:
The Club were pushed about legitimate exemptions to this policy, which they did recognise. That has to include pregnancy, caring responsibilities, disabilities, health conditions, emergencies, shift working, and more. #CityMatters
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Fair enough, although Id say there are many more legitimate exceptions that arent stated. And it doesn't really answer the question about why the club would move towards a system where they, and supporters have to spend time and effort going through this process.

For me, if m asked to beg to keep.my season ticket after over 20 years I'm walking away.
 
ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN said:
It’s already been mentioned exceptional circumstances would be taken into account

If not then it’s bang out of order

But following our club through the shit times to now no chance I will be giving my ST up
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It isn't in the terms and conditions though as they haven't been published, and tend not to be until after STs are renewed. 2 years ago the terms stated if you listed your ticket 10 times on the Exchange you could lose your season ticket, but there was nothing else on the website to tell you this, just in the middle of a 40 page document. You can't rely on Bluemoon hearsay.
 
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