Seat Counters - 2023/24

[jrb]

Credit to the City Matters Reps for talking to the club about the match day ticket prices and getting the club to reduce the cost of the match day ticket prices for the Brentford game, which is a step in the right direction.

Hopefully the club have noted the growing unease amongst City fans about the cost of the match day ticket prices?

 

[bluesmith]

Why wasn’t the same pricing applied for the Burnley game?

Maybe because they knew they'd make more money selling 800 tickets at £61 than selling all 1600 at £30?

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Credit to the City Matters Reps for talking to the club about the match day ticket prices and getting the club to reduce the cost of the match day ticket prices for the Brentford game, which is a step in the right direction.

Hopefully the club have noted the growing unease amongst City fans about the cost of the match day ticket prices?

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It’s good to see someone publicly speaking up for the fans. This is what we need the supporters club and other groups to be doing regularly.

 

[Tbilisi]

Credit to the City Matters Reps for talking to the club about the match day ticket prices and getting the club to reduce the cost of the match day ticket prices for the Brentford game, which is a step in the right direction.

Hopefully the club have noted the growing unease amongst City fans about the cost of the match day ticket prices?

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Fair dos.

The team need a stadium full and rocking, last night was fucking awful crowd wise.

 

[Tbilisi]

I almost stayed at home last night and watched on TNT.

Pissing down, transport issues rushing after work but old habits die hard and I always think that when the club have slow days numbers wise that its my duty to turn up.

 

[Corky]

Credit to the City Matters Reps for talking to the club about the match day ticket prices and getting the club to reduce the cost of the match day ticket prices for the Brentford game, which is a step in the right direction.

Hopefully the club have noted the growing unease amongst City fans about the cost of the match day ticket prices?

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The club makes sure it sells the surplus away tickets before the Exchange tickets at £51 in the same block get sold.

The game started at £49 for the cheapest adult and the was a rise to £51 except the away 3rd tier.

I doubt one fan influenced the pricing strategy, just the fact that they actually gave most of the £30 tickets away for Burnley.

 

[East Level 2]

Exactly.

At least the Brentford tickets are cheaper, including the tickets Brentford decided not to take.(info posted by bluesmith), which is a step in the right direction.

Hopefully the club will do a full scale review of match day ticket prices in the Summer and come up with more affordable tickets for families, under 18's, etc, for certain less attractive matches next season?

Burnley was scheduled well in advance and City might well have expected a greater take up of tickets by away fans as Burnley is so close.
Brentford was arranged at short notice and they were never going to take the full allocation.
Did this play a part?
Ticket prices in general are way too high and have been for some time, however those employed by the club are charged with generating as much income as possible so they don't give a shit about who buys the tickets. This is the case at many well-supported clubs and is likely to continue while we are the best team in the land and all the world, and while the PL is such a global attraction. - And while our nauseating neighbours remain in our shadows of course.

 

[M18CTID]

The club makes sure it sells the surplus away tickets before the Exchange tickets at £51 in the same block get sold.

The game started at £49 for the cheapest adult and the was a rise to £51 except the away 3rd tier.

I doubt one fan influenced the pricing strategy, just the fact that they actually gave most of the £30 tickets away for Burnley.

Not sure I agree with that to be honest. The club priced the Burnley returns at £61, got pelters for it from fans and social media accounts with large followings, and subsequently priced the Brentford returns at £30. I'm pretty sure if fans had just sucked up the Burnley pricing and not complained then the Brentford returns would've been priced at the £51 it costs to sit in most other parts of the stadium.

Don't forget that the very visual protest in 2016 against the pricing for PSG at home in the CL QF led to cheaper pricing for the game against Real Madrid in the semi-final that same season. If fans put up fuck-all resistance then we'd be getting rinsed to an even greater extent. Fan activism works and has been shown to work on numerous occasions down the years.

 

[jrb]

Burnley was scheduled well in advance and City might well have expected a greater take up of tickets by away fans as Burnley is so close.
Brentford was arranged at short notice and they were never going to take the full allocation.
Did this play a part?
Ticket prices in general are way too high and have been for some time, however those employed by the club are charged with generating as much income as possible so they don't give a shit about who buys the tickets. This is the case at many well-supported clubs and is likely to continue while we are the best team in the land and all the world, and while the PL is such a global attraction. - And while our nauseating neighbours remain in our shadows of course.

I'm sure ticket prices will remain high until the Etihad is expanded. Demand-supply-Etihad not big enough atm.(for the majority of the matches) Let's see what happens if anything when City have an extra 8000 tickets to sell and seats to fill.

 

[Corky]

Not sure I agree with that to be honest. The club priced the Burnley returns at £61, got pelters for it from fans and social media accounts with large followings, and subsequently priced the Brentford returns at £30. I'm pretty sure if fans had just sucked up the Burnley pricing and not complained then the Brentford returns would've been priced at the £51 it costs to sit in most other parts of the stadium.

Don't forget that the very visual protest in 2016 against the pricing for PSG at home in the CL QF led to cheaper pricing for the game against Real Madrid in the semi-final that same season. If fans put up fuck-all resistance then we'd be getting rinsed to an even greater extent. Fan activism works and has been shown to work on numerous occasions down the years.

It is solely down to sales and the club having to give them away for the same 1.5 blocks for Burnley.