Seasoncard Renewal - Yes or No?

[John Wayne]

OK bye bye

Good to see everyone lamenting the loss of three long-standing fans from our match day support. And then people moan about tourists at home games.

 

[bluwes]

OK bye bye

Not a very nice response

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

OK bye bye

Alright jack

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

if you run a business which is losing customers what do you do? Cut prices and improve the product! Next season = Mbappe, Haaland and Messi all for half price season tickets! :)

 

[NPBlue]

OK bye bye

I'm under no illusion whatsoever our presence will be missed. We are not the type of supporter the club want anyway. Turn up 5 minutes before kick off, watch the game and go straight off without spending a penny on anything else.

Some may be happy happy watching adverts on the big screen for holidays in Abu Dhabi five minutes before kick off when the supporters should be generically generating their own atmosphere without the micro management, but we've had enough of all the bullshit, VAR, daft kick off times, price increases every year..........you are welcome to enjoy it if that's what you want. We've had enough of it, and we'll be more than happy watching our local team.

 

[Northerndave]

I met a couple of friends today for a beer, and all 3 of us are season card holders with over 100 years combined attendance between us. None of us are renewing. It's a combination of VAR and stupid kick off times, plus a general feeling the game at the top has lost it's soul.

City's loss will be Altrincham's gain. We will always be City fans, but we have fallen out of love with the Premier League and all it represents.

We are off to Moss Lane next season, the club I was raised with back in the 60's, and I'm looking forward to getting back to watching football as it should be.

I'll be saving over £1,500 as well which will be a bonus.

I might be joining you as I live a couple of tram stops away, especially as I've just seen that a pie is just £3..bargains !

 

[BlueAnorak]

Definately Maybe.
Depends on the price. I was on the edge last time. An above inflation rise and I'm out.

 

[NPBlue]

I might be joining you as I live a couple of tram stops away, especially as I've just seen that a pie is just £3..bargains !

The football is surprisingly good at that level. Pass it out from the back, and build play. It's not the hoof it and run rubbish you might expect, though you will be watching players with limitations. It is what it is, and it's a breath of fresh air compared to the Premier League. A whole game will pass without a break in play for an 'injury'.

I've always watched Alty, I've been going several times a year, and decades ago, it was my team. I used to go and see my grandfather there, so in that respect I have more connection with the club than I do with City now. Plenty of fond memories from the past.

It was funny today, when the subject of wearing scarves came up, because Alty play in red and white, and I said I'd be more than happy to wear my Alty scarf. My friends were not in favour, but my scarf, my Alty scarf, was bought for me by my mother in January 1966 a few days before we went to watch them play Wolves away in the 3rd round of the FA Cup.

We lost 5-0 but I was filled with pride when we heard my mother say 'they lost 5-0' when we arrived home.

Alty had been mentioned on the telly!

Yes, £14 to get in, a chairman that will welcome you, and though I can't comment on the quality of the pies, you can stand, have a beer, have a cigarette if you smoke, and watch a reasonable game of football.

 

[John Wayne]

I met a couple of friends today for a beer, and all 3 of us are season card holders with over 100 years combined attendance between us. None of us are renewing. It's a combination of VAR and stupid kick off times, plus a general feeling the game at the top has lost it's soul.

City's loss will be Altrincham's gain. We will always be City fans, but we have fallen out of love with the Premier League and all it represents.

We are off to Moss Lane next season, the club I was raised with back in the 60's, and I'm looking forward to getting back to watching football as it should be.

I'll be saving over £1,500 as well which will be a bonus.

I think this prolonged and unprecedented break has allowed fans to take stock and weigh up what it is they want out of City. For many of us long-standing season ticket-holders, renewing at the end of the season was a given. You didn't think about it, you just did it. Missing all the matches for more than a year will have made a lot of people think "I don't need to be there".

I see four things arising from the Covid era that may negatively impact attendances, and only one that may positively do likewise.

The positive impact is obvious - absence makes the heart grow fonder.

The negative impacts - post-pandemic finances, fear of being in crowds, getting out of the habit and historical grievances (VAR, diving, ESL, kick-off times, distance between club and fans, match day experience, etc.).

One of the things that has come into focus for me during this absence is that actually being at the game, particularly in winter, is often out of ritualistic tendency rather than enjoyment. Why else would I plough through Manchester traffic to watch a second string play Southampton in the League Cup on a wet Wednesday in November?

I've actually missed Maine Road recently. I think back to the days of the pubs in Moss Side, the pirate shops, the guy selling programmes from his car, "can I mind your car please, sir?", the sights, the sounds, the smells. It was all part of a great experience. Getting back in the car on a Saturday afternoon (it nearly always was Saturday) after a good win, sticking Radio 5 on for the classified check with the peerless James Alexander Gordon and then home to properly read the programme.

I feel like the Etihad is a bit soulless. We can really turn it on for the big occasions but 18 years on and it still isn't home. As mad as it sounds, I think adding the third tier to the South Stand took something away from the ground. It towers over the rest of the ground and it feels darker. That might only be my perception, but adding that tier has definitely made the ground feel more cavernous and less homely.

 

[Gundog’s Gundog]

I think this prolonged and unprecedented break has allowed fans to take stock and weigh up what it is they want out of City. For many of us long-standing season ticket-holders, renewing at the end of the season was a given. You didn't think about it, you just did it. Missing all the matches for more than a year will have made a lot of people think "I don't need to be there".

I see four things arising from the Covid era that may negatively impact attendances, and only one that may positively do likewise.

The positive impact is obvious - absence makes the heart grow fonder.

The negative impacts - post-pandemic finances, fear of being in crowds, getting out of the habit and historical grievances (VAR, diving, ESL, kick-off times, distance between club and fans, match day experience, etc.).

One of the things that has come into focus for me during this absence is that actually being at the game, particularly in winter, is often out of ritualistic tendency rather than enjoyment. Why else would I plough through Manchester traffic to watch a second string play Southampton in the League Cup on a wet Wednesday in November?

I've actually missed Maine Road recently. I think back to the days of the pubs in Moss Side, the pirate shops, the guy selling programmes from his car, "can I mind your car please, sir?", the sights, the sounds, the smells. It was all part of a great experience. Getting back in the car on a Saturday afternoon (it nearly always was Saturday) after a good win, sticking Radio 5 on for the classified check with the peerless James Alexander Gordon and then home to properly read the programme.

I feel like the Etihad is a bit soulless. We can really turn it on for the big occasions but 18 years on and it still isn't home. As mad as it sounds, I think adding the third tier to the South Stand took something away from the ground. It towers over the rest of the ground and it feels darker. That might only be my perception, but adding that tier has definitely made the ground feel more cavernous and less homely.

Good post. Yeah man I often reminisce about Maine Road, the forecourt, the alleys, the side streets, the traffic - just the general chaos of it and the vague underlying freling of lawlessness (not in a bad way just in an anything could happen here kind of way)

By comparison match days now feel like a trip to a Florida theme park. But then again maybe it’s just a getting older thing, maybe the young ones feel the same about days at the etihad as we did about days at Maine Road