Seat Counters - 2023/24

Dexter Morgan said:
Missing the point. DD
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I know the point is that people want cheaper tickets. I do understand that. But I do think some of that desire ultimately comes from fans who are petrified of us showing empty seats on TV.

£30-40 for an adult and £20-30 for a child is not a bad price for an FA Cup Quarter final.
 
Dexter Morgan said:
You are both missing the point. I can't afford to go even though I could walk there. I have a season ticket at the back of SS3 its cheap and on DD so I can afford premier league games on that basis. I want to go on Saturday but anything over £30 means I can't. There's 2 of us in this house in the same position. People think of ticket prices singular. Its often Dad n lad etc . The club have consistently put prices up. It's turning local legacy fans away. I will watch on TV but I'm very disappointed to be doing so. It will be cheaper for the semi at Wembley. Greedy bastards. Fk the light shows off and all the cringy stuff like presenters nobody listens to . Huddersfield sold out yet this might do. Is anyone from City reading these pages?
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I don't think either of us are missing the point - ideally the tickets would be cheaper than they are (the price of the kids tickets in particular is excessive IMO) but an earlier relaxation of the selling criteria and properly advertising that fact would've still led to it selling out a lot quicker than it has, despite fans being sadly priced out
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I know the point is that people want cheaper tickets. I do understand that. But I do think some of that desire ultimately comes from fans who are petrified of us showing empty seats on TV.

£30-40 for an adult and £20-30 for a child is not a bad price for an FA Cup Quarter final.
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Especially when we sold 9k in 24hours for a Friday night game in London. At the time some were saying we could have sold double that.
 
It's greed pure and simple. Some non City fan has the job of squeezing every penny out of us. They will move on to another job eventually and leave behind a disengaged fan base. What happened to the #together campaign or This is our City? We now have even more cringe in and around the stadium at what financial cost? Because you can be sure it's being loaded onto your ticket price. This extension will be a disaster if they don't stop and think more about people than the balance sheet. We are raking it in with media money and sponsorship deals. Yet ticket prices are still rising yearly. Germany has a better model. Pep wants a stadium full of noise/fans. He says it often. It won't happen with these deaf and blind executives who are working for the club. We need to let them know. Acquiesce will encourage more rises and bad decisions like Madrid at home last year.
 
Dexter Morgan said:
It's greed pure and simple. Some non City fan has the job of squeezing every penny out of us. They will move on to another job eventually and leave behind a disengaged fan base. What happened to the #together campaign or This is our City? We now have even more cringe in and around the stadium at what financial cost? Because you can be sure it's being loaded onto your ticket price. This extension will be a disaster if they don't stop and think more about people than the balance sheet. We are raking it in with media money and sponsorship deals. Yet ticket prices are still rising yearly. Germany has a better model. Pep wants a stadium full of noise/fans. He says it often. It won't happen with these deaf and blind executives who are working for the club. We need to let them know. Acquiesce will encourage more rises and bad decisions like Madrid at home last year.
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I sympathisise with all whjere money is tight mate, I really do, and I strongly believe that there should be a way to accomodate working class fans as part of the stadium expansion. But it's too simplisitc and emotive to call our pricing "greed". The Sheikh didn't buy City because he was at York away or because he hates Man United. It's a business to him. Not only does he (through his pyramid from Khaldoon down) have to ultimately generate a profit for himself, he also has to satisfy the ever changing FPP style rules too. I know our match day revenues lag behind our competitors and part of being the well-run business that we are is that we have to raise that revenue.

This is all part of the package I'm afaid.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I know the point is that people want cheaper tickets. I do understand that. But I do think some of that desire ultimately comes from fans who are petrified of us showing empty seats on TV.

£30-40 for an adult and £20-30 for a child is not a bad price for an FA Cup Quarter final.
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costing me near 200 quid for travel and tickets, for a game live on tv, this game won't sell out, loads left and nothing selling, unless of course the club do the great giveaway to people who don't even support City
 
Over 3000 empty seats at Sincil Bank last night.

I paid £25 for my ticket for a Tuesday night mid-table League Division 1 fixture. The walk back to my house (up Steep Hill for those who know Lincoln) took me 25 minutes.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Over 3000 empty seats at Sincil Bank last night.

I paid £25 for my ticket for a Tuesday night mid-table League Division 1 fixture. The walk back to my house (up Steep Hill for those who know Lincoln) took me 25 minutes.
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League 1/2 prices are generally to rip off away fans with the vast majority of home fans paying around half the cost with season tickets.

Bradford has the most extreme difference due to the stadium size.
 
fathellensbellend said:
costing me near 200 quid for travel and tickets, for a game live on tv, this game won't sell out, loads left and nothing selling, unless of course the club do the great giveaway to people who don't even support City
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On Saturday there will be half a dozen coaches at least from Scotland and other places that have junior football teams. You see them wearing their club crests on tops when going through the blue car park. I applaud this initiative by the club but I'm interested to know how much per ticket they paid. Most support the red teams. We won't convert them. Do we do this for local kids? You know the ones who actually support City? We must subsidise hundreds of tickets in the family stand. As I said it's all good and with well intentions but how about helping those of us who are watching on TV this Saturday. I'd love to go.
 
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Dexter Morgan said:
On Saturday there will be half a dozen coaches at least from Scotland and other places that have junior football teams. You see them wearing their club crests on tops when going through the blue car park. I applaud this initiative by the club but I'm interested to know how much per ticket they paid. Most support the red teams. We won't convert them. Do we do this for local kids? You know the ones who actually support City? We must subsidise hundreds of tickets in the family stand. As I said it's all good and with well intentions but how about helping those of us who are watching on TV this Saturday. I'd love to go.
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it's bullshit, help every fucker bar the people who actually care
 
Dexter Morgan said:
On Saturday there will be half a dozen coaches at least from Scotland and other places that have junior football teams. You see them wearing their club crests on tops when going through the blue car park. I applaud this initiative by the club but I'm interested to know how much per ticket they paid. Most support the red teams. We won't convert them. Do we do this for local kids? You know the ones who actually support City? We must subsidise hundreds of tickets in the family stand. As I said it's all good and with well intentions but how about helping those of us who are watching on TV this Saturday. I'd love to go.
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Spot on, no problem with kids from Scotland, Ireland or wherever coming to games but you look out for your hard core local support and your potential future local hard core support who are basically an afterthought from the club. With all our success in the last decade or so we could have completely cleaned up with local support under 20 but haven't even though its understandably better than it was. I genuinely don't believe City understand their support despite the myriad of surveys and post Pep we will see a drop off and it's all down to the short sighted greedy bean-counters at the Etihad.
 
Nobody is bothered or flapping about empty seats visible on the TV. As a fan base we've gone past that ridicule now. This is solely about ticket prices that are effecting our match going fan base when tickets become available in cup competitions and rescheduled PL games. £30 for an under 18 ticket on Saturday is yet another slap in the face for City fans. Huddersfield in the FA Cup showed if tickets are priced correctly 'City families' will buy those tickets and come to the game.
 
Dexter Morgan said:
On Saturday there will be half a dozen coaches at least from Scotland and other places that have junior football teams. You see them wearing their club crests on tops when going through the blue car park. I applaud this initiative by the club but I'm interested to know how much per ticket they paid. Most support the red teams. We won't convert them. Do we do this for local kids? You know the ones who actually support City? We must subsidise hundreds of tickets in the family stand. As I said it's all good and with well intentions but how about helping those of us who are watching on TV this Saturday. I'd love to go.
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They won’t be paying fuck all. It will be whoever is responsible for tickets at City shitting their pants that there are hundreds of unsold tickets due to pricing fuck up.

Solution is to ship in hundreds of kids from Scotland to fill the seats.

It’s like they are deliberately trying to sabotage the club.
 
Prophet of Doom said:
They won’t be paying fuck all. It will be whoever is responsible for tickets at City shitting their pants that there are hundreds of unsold tickets due to pricing fuck up.

Solution is to ship in hundreds of kids from Scotland to fill the seats.

It’s like they are deliberately trying to sabotage the club.
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I’m basically on repeat with this, but surely the answer is to fill those seats with kids from local schools.

I really don’t understand the policy of which schools/ sports clubs they pick. My sister is a teacher in south Manchester, in quite a deprived area and as far as I know, they don’t get any tickets. I get sometimes you’ll get schools from other areas, but it’s not consistent.

There’s loads of young kids in Manchester who can’t get to any city games.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I’m basically on repeat with this, but surely the answer is to fill those seats with kids from local schools.

I really don’t understand the policy of which schools/ sports clubs they pick. My sister is a teacher in south Manchester, in quite a deprived area and as far as I know, they don’t get any tickets. I get sometimes you’ll get schools from other areas, but it’s not consistent.

There’s loads of young kids in Manchester who can’t get to any city games.
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Don't want to have a go at City in the Community who do a great job but the Manchester United Foundation seem to be spreading their wings a lot more these days, have upped their game and are a lot more prominent in the local area, who's to say they have noticed that City don't regard potential local support as a priority and are seizing on this possible weakness.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I’m basically on repeat with this, but surely the answer is to fill those seats with kids from local schools.

I really don’t understand the policy of which schools/ sports clubs they pick. My sister is a teacher in south Manchester, in quite a deprived area and as far as I know, they don’t get any tickets. I get sometimes you’ll get schools from other areas, but it’s not consistent.

There’s loads of young kids in Manchester who can’t get to any city games.
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They would prefer to ship them in from further afield. Probably think most local kids have already made a choice on who they follow. Kids from further afield probably spend more on food and merch.

Also avoids red teachers going on social media telling their red mates that City are dishing out tickets to local schools.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
I’m basically on repeat with this, but surely the answer is to fill those seats with kids from local schools.

I really don’t understand the policy of which schools/ sports clubs they pick. My sister is a teacher in south Manchester, in quite a deprived area and as far as I know, they don’t get any tickets. I get sometimes you’ll get schools from other areas, but it’s not consistent.

There’s loads of young kids in Manchester who can’t get to any city games.
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I agree, but if the tickets were priced right, there wouldn't need to be any seats to fill for games like this.

I don't know which **** is responsible for setting the prices, I doubt it's Soriano, but they need a fucking reality check with the finances of ordinary people. This game should be £20-30 an adult and £5 for kids - get the ground packed with local and vocal support.

I'm sick of these questionnaires asking about the match day experience - look to engage with your fanbase over more fundamental things you bellends - shite tram service, police / stewards targetting home fans and the extortionate ticket prices!

Is there no official fan representative group that speaks to the club??
 
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