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

[moomba]

are these people the type to purchase a season ticket just to secure their seat for the bigger games and leave it empty for the remainder ?

No they aren't as you would see by reading this thread.

 

[OllyMCFC]

Move house, go to uni, go travelling, start a family or become ill/injured then it's goodbye to your season ticket. Absolutely disgraceful what we've become. Yet still we'll get people defending this.

 

[Edghill OG]

I can't get my head around people who buy a season ticket which by definition is supposed to be used to attend a seasons worth of games are angry that they are now being made to attend at least half of them?, are these people the type to purchase a season ticket just to secure their seat for the bigger games and leave it empty for the remainder ?

I know somebody that's a season ticket holder and when I told him about these new requirements last night he's consequently considering jacking it in. Been going years and in the space of a few days his mother was hospitalised with a stroke and his cousin passed away. Yes, I'm sure the club would not take his season ticket off him if he told them, but I don't think he should have to justify why he's not up to going to fixtures at the moment. He's getting on a bit and isn't tech savvy. I've obviously offered to help him, but he probably doesn't want to feel like a burden. Shouldn't be coming to this.

 

[uwerosler28]

I know somebody that's a season ticket holder and when I told him about these new requirements last night he's consequently considering jacking it in. Been going years and in the space of a few days his mother was hospitalised with a stroke and his cousin passed away. Yes, I'm sure the club would not take his season ticket off him if he told them, but I don't think he should have to justify why he's not up to going to fixtures at the moment. He's getting on a bit and isn't tech savvy. I've obviously offered to help him, but he probably doesn't want to feel like a burden. Shouldn't be coming to this.

Those circumstances are surely the exception and not the rule, there are people on here quoting that they only do 10 games a year as travel ect make it difficult, so they only ever do 10 games a season let's take a guess which games? What the hell are they buying a season ticket for if its not just to secure the more fashionable fixtures?

 

[foggy1974]

The draconian decision to make you personally attend 10 games, has only been put in place to stop people passing them on at face value so the club can sell them at extortionate prices or even worse pass them on to 1 of the 9 3rd party resell sites who won't care who are buying them.

My lad started uni last September & I had difficulty getting to games as I'm registered partially sighted. This season his cousin has used his season ticket & the only game that both our seat have been empty has been Forest midweek.

So even though his seat has been occupied all season & after following the club for 30 years, next season is probably my last if I am forced give my sons seasoncard up.

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

There’s a couple of ST holders who sit close to me who travel down from the north east. They only attend weekend games as they cannot get to midweek games on time after work. Who we are playing is irrelevant to them and many others who travel a fair distance. It’s simply of case of being able to make the match regardless of the opposition.

 

[Edghill OG]

Those circumstances are surely the exception and not the rule, there are people on here quoting that they only do 10 games a year as travel ect make it difficult, so they only ever do 10 games a season let's take a guess which games? What the hell are they buying a season ticket for if its not just to secure the more fashionable fixtures?

If there was genuine ticket availability for the bigger games and not syphoned off to hospitality/touting partners and tickets were more reasonably priced I'm sure some would opt for matchday purchases instead of holding on to their season tickets for dear life.

 

[foggy1974]

Those circumstances are surely the exception and not the rule, there are people on here quoting that they only do 10 games a year as travel ect make it difficult, so they only ever do 10 games a season let's take a guess which games? What the hell are they buying a season ticket for if its not just to secure the more fashionable fixtures?

So if they only do 10 games then they'll meet the criteria & its just not securing the fashionable games when City are charging £71 for Villa & similar prices for Leicester & Wolves

 

[CoventryBlue]

I can't get my head around people who buy a season ticket which by definition is supposed to be used to attend a seasons worth of games are angry that they are now being made to attend at least half of them?, are these people the type to purchase a season ticket just to secure their seat for the bigger games and leave it empty for the remainder ?

No, they'd be listing it given the 14 game policy. I'm sure some exist but it won't be many. If you can read the reasoning and put aside the cynicism, you'll see a lot have genuine issues that this doesn't protect against

Then even if you disregard that, any mechanism that can result in removal of SCs without them being open to others taking them on is a bad thing

You and others talk like these 10 game moaners are stopping others getting SCs when they're not. And that's why for me, it should be universal people are against it

 

[CoventryBlue]

Those circumstances are surely the exception and not the rule, there are people on here quoting that they only do 10 games a year as travel ect make it difficult, so they only ever do 10 games a season let's take a guess which games? What the hell are they buying a season ticket for if its not just to secure the more fashionable fixtures?

But that might be the case for five years while they take a job somewhere. They move back home and the next 30 years they're 19/19 attendance. With no mechanism of pausing or getting your SC back, why would anyone give it up and just do the 10 games. It's not an argument mate, or you're arguing against perceived piss takers which I reckon are very few

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

The test on seasoncards will be in the ticketing of the new stand. If we do a Liverpool and only issue 1,000 season tickets, then it will become clear that the club is squeezing seasoncards.

My vague hope this is a signal that they're doing cheapish season cards up there but are trying to signal they don't want them being bought and then sold. I assume it is something City Matters have been asking for - a home end atmosphere end not full of tourists - and this is a clunkyish way of trying to do that. Let's see, I suppose.

 

[Stephen230]

One of the very rare things that I’m sure we can all agree on, is the concept of buying a season ticket has shifted beyond recognition since the idea was first introduced.

Back when most of us started going, buying a ST had minimal financial saving and wasn’t really any more convenient than paying at the gate.

The benefit was nearly all in the clubs favour. You paid your money upfront in full and the club couldn’t care in the slightest if you turned up once or 21 times in a season.

Times have changed. And I don’t think it’s unreasonable that the club’s attitude changes to reflect that. What we will disagree about, is to what degree that change is fair and acceptable.

You can now buy a season ticket with interest free monthly instalments throughout the season and attend as few as about seven games and still be better off than buying individual tickets for those games.

There’s plenty of ST holders just on this thread that happily admit that they’ve no intention of attending over half the games.

I appreciate that plenty will disagree and that’s fair enough. But for me, as long as the club continue to be sympathetic to special individual circumstances, I don’t have an issue with them not allowing season tickets to be sold to people who routinely have no intention of attending over half of the games.

 

[CoventryBlue]

One of the very rare things that I’m sure we can all agree on, is the concept of buying a season ticket has shifted beyond recognition since the idea was first introduced.

Back when most of us started going, buying a ST had minimal financial saving and wasn’t really any more convenient than paying at the gate.

The benefit was nearly all in the clubs favour. You paid your money upfront in full and the club couldn’t care in the slightest if you turned up once or 21 times in a season.

Times have changed. And I don’t think it’s unreasonable that the club’s attitude changes to reflect that. What we will disagree about, is to what degree that change is fair and acceptable.

You can now buy a season ticket with interest free monthly instalments throughout the season and attend as few as about seven games and still be better off than buying individual tickets for those games.

There’s plenty of ST holders just on this thread that happily admit that they’ve no intention of attending over half the games.

I appreciate that plenty will disagree and that’s fair enough. But for me, as long as the club continue to be sympathetic to special individual circumstances, I don’t have an issue with them not allowing season tickets to be sold to people who routinely have no intention of attending over half of the games.

Genuinely, what posts on here have been made by people who "happily admit that they've no intention of attending half the games"?

These people are in yours and a few other's imaginations.

I've not read anyone say that and anyone saying how it will affect them can certainly not be labelled as "happily" sharing their thoughts

Lots have explained how they share a SC, some have mentioned how they live far away, others call out kick off times changing.

This bogeyman evil tout running 10 SCs or rich **** only going to United and Liverpool games whilst writing off the £900 just don't exist at any scale yet seem to be the reason people support this and make comments like yours

 

[moomba]

Those circumstances are surely the exception and not the rule, there are people on here quoting that they only do 10 games a year as travel ect make it difficult, so they only ever do 10 games a season let's take a guess which games? What the hell are they buying a season ticket for if its not just to secure the more fashionable fixtures?

Maybe to get to the games they can get to regardless of who it's against.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

One of the very rare things that I’m sure we can all agree on, is the concept of buying a season ticket has shifted beyond recognition since the idea was first introduced.

Back when most of us started going, buying a ST had minimal financial saving and wasn’t really any more convenient than paying at the gate.

The benefit was nearly all in the clubs favour. You paid your money upfront in full and the club couldn’t care in the slightest if you turned up once or 21 times in a season.

Times have changed. And I don’t think it’s unreasonable that the club’s attitude changes to reflect that. What we will disagree about, is to what degree that change is fair and acceptable.

You can now buy a season ticket with interest free monthly instalments throughout the season and attend as few as about seven games and still be better off than buying individual tickets for those games.

There’s plenty of ST holders just on this thread that happily admit that they’ve no intention of attending over half the games.

I appreciate that plenty will disagree and that’s fair enough. But for me, as long as the club continue to be sympathetic to special individual circumstances, I don’t have an issue with them not allowing season tickets to be sold to people who routinely have no intention of attending over half of the games.

Great post Stephen

 

[.db.]

One of the very rare things that I’m sure we can all agree on, is the concept of buying a season ticket has shifted beyond recognition since the idea was first introduced.

Back when most of us started going, buying a ST had minimal financial saving and wasn’t really any more convenient than paying at the gate.

The benefit was nearly all in the clubs favour. You paid your money upfront in full and the club couldn’t care in the slightest if you turned up once or 21 times in a season.

Times have changed. And I don’t think it’s unreasonable that the club’s attitude changes to reflect that. What we will disagree about, is to what degree that change is fair and acceptable.

You can now buy a season ticket with interest free monthly instalments throughout the season and attend as few as about seven games and still be better off than buying individual tickets for those games.

There’s plenty of ST holders just on this thread that happily admit that they’ve no intention of attending over half the games.

I appreciate that plenty will disagree and that’s fair enough. But for me, as long as the club continue to be sympathetic to special individual circumstances, I don’t have an issue with them not allowing season tickets to be sold to people who routinely have no intention of attending over half of the games.

No there aren’t.

 

[moomba]

Can't believe people are suggesting that it's a good thing that the club will listen to individual cases and decide whether or not people are entitled to buy a season ticket or not.

What a waste of time and money, and guaranteed to cause a hell of a lot of ill will for those that don't make the cut.

What have we become?

 

[Norbiton]

I can't get my head around people who buy a season ticket which by definition is supposed to be used to attend a seasons worth of games are angry that they are now being made to attend at least half of them?, are these people the type to purchase a season ticket just to secure their seat for the bigger games and leave it empty for the remainder ?

I find it strange that people wouldn’t put their seat on the ticket exchange or transfer it to another City fan if they couldn’t use it. But there are all kinds of reasons why people can’t make it to games and taking season tickets away from them will do nothing at all to help fellow supporters

 

[Blu3m00n91]

Move house, go to uni, go travelling, start a family or become ill/injured then it's goodbye to your season ticket. Absolutely disgraceful what we've become. Yet still we'll get people defending this.

Exactly the situation I’m in. 15 years a season ticket holder barely missed a game but because I’ve decided to travel for a year I am now going to be punished and lose my seat. How people defend the club is beyond me.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

One of the very rare things that I’m sure we can all agree on, is the concept of buying a season ticket has shifted beyond recognition since the idea was first introduced.

Back when most of us started going, buying a ST had minimal financial saving and wasn’t really any more convenient than paying at the gate.

The benefit was nearly all in the clubs favour. You paid your money upfront in full and the club couldn’t care in the slightest if you turned up once or 21 times in a season.

Times have changed. And I don’t think it’s unreasonable that the club’s attitude changes to reflect that. What we will disagree about, is to what degree that change is fair and acceptable.

You can now buy a season ticket with interest free monthly instalments throughout the season and attend as few as about seven games and still be better off than buying individual tickets for those games.

There’s plenty of ST holders just on this thread that happily admit that they’ve no intention of attending over half the games.

I appreciate that plenty will disagree and that’s fair enough. But for me, as long as the club continue to be sympathetic to special individual circumstances, I don’t have an issue with them not allowing season tickets to be sold to people who routinely have no intention of attending over half of the games.

Very fair points you’ve made but my issue is City aren’t exactly making those tickets affordable for the rest. The single match day prices now are just a joke. They don’t care who sits in the seat as long as it’s sold. The club need to be very careful with how they treat us. Nothing lasts forever they are cashing in on the unbelievable success. I think they’re in for a shock when Pep goes.