Seat Counters - 2023/24

[Didsbury Dave]

Get it posted!!!! So the new fans can see it wasn’t ’always like this’

Doomsday, 2011

bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk

Pretentious? Moi?

 

[Greenandblue]

It's partly season tickets holders not bothering, or exchange ones that don't sell, but mainly (i) club holding back chunks for offsite hospitality that are unrealistically priced and don't sell and (ii) club giving big chunks at discounted prices to the tout sites, who can't shift them for the lesser games, but can cream it for the big matches. They still count as "sold", but we're left with empty seats. Games are all marked "sold out" months in advance, so even if they're late released it's hard to plan at short notice.

Tonight with that weather, the opposition, the timing, the transport issues, at those prices, was always gonna be a hard sell. Fair play to those that did go. The team deserves a full house cheering them on, the club deserves empty seats for its short sighted policies and prices. They can't release those blocks at discounted rates late in the day, or they'd upset those who paid full price. The club can also sell hospitality more easily because a game is "sold out". It's not. Chelsea is similar, Liverpool was exactly the same.

If the team in charge of sales had a mandate to fill the ground, they'd fill it easily, with right pricing and sensible sales policy. They're making a bit more money the way they're doing it.....but probably damaging the brand with casual observers and empty spaces. That's the choice.

We got the win, we'll be there in full voice for the crunch games to come. (paying through the nose for it!)

 

[Franny 1234]

I was on the city stadium tour the other day and one of the main reasons given for extending the ground was so that we can host champions league finals and international finals

I heard that on my first stadium tour 9 years ago and on my last tour 2 years ago. CTID

 

[johnnytapia]

My seat wasn’t empty.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

My seat wasn’t empty.

Mine was. I sat in my dad’s and then sneaked down to the corporate area in the second tier at half time so my Ukrainian lad could see the players and Pep closer up in the second half.

 

[Franny 1234]

I sit in level 2 South stand and from where we sit the ground looked fairly full
Obviously there was empty seats scattered about but not to Obvious.
I've seen it worse 100 times more. CTID

 

[levets]

Doomsday, 2011

bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk

Pretentious? Moi?

Was this the first Doomsday? I remember you did an update. Fantastic read and gets me revved up even now!

 

[goater1985]

I set off from Urmston at 5:45pm and hadn’t parked until 7:20pm.

Absolute chaos on the roads.

God knows how people who aren’t local managed!!

Absolute chaos wasn't it. Left preston at 5 and I'm minutes from motorway, arrived on car park at City at 7.20, then had massive queues to get in M1.

Got sat down just in time for opener. Took my 7 year old to his first night game, not great for the travel experience.

3 points though

 

[Manchester_lalala]

I don’t think it was that bad considering the rain which led to being damp and cold. Disgraceful pricing still.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Was this the first Doomsday? I remember you did an update. Fantastic read and gets me revved up even now!

That was the first, written I think just before the FA Cup semi Final 2011.