Seat Counters - 2024/25

[M18CTID]

Judging by the Salford sales, it won’t! :-)

I think that game easily sells out still. It’s 18 days away and once Christmas is out of the way, a lot of families will snap them up IMO

 

[jrb]

Why is everyone so arsed? A few empty seats so what..

It’s not about empty seats. It’s about City fans who want to watch City, but are being priced out of doing that by expensive match day ticket prices.

 

[jrb]

It’s not people being arsed about a few empty seats.

It’s supporters being arsed watching the people that run City managing to disconnect our local support to the point where our attendances are going down after 6 titles in 7 years.

They have managed to kill the atmosphere at home and away games with their tourist first policy and now seem intent having the stadium empty.

Maybe the penny will drop for them that empty seats in 52k capacity stadium means thousands of empties in a 61k capacity stadium.

Not to mention the over zealous stewarding that has become apparent again after the Showsec debacle a few years ago on ESL1.

It seems City are intent on alienating their legacy core support with high ticket prices and stricter stewarding.

 

[There is a Light]

Spurs fans protesting about ticket prices before the Liverpool match.(defeat)

‘I don’t care about Levy, Levy doesn't care about me,’ one banner read, referencing recent ticket-price hikes and plans to scrap some concessions.

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Fans of all the big six clubs + others seem to be aligned on this. I would love to see a boycott by season ticket holders at all clubs on the same day, no resales, just don’t attend. It would be a powerful message to send. The clubs work together on ways to rinse fans (reducing concessions seems to be on the agenda currently). In the same way, supporters need to work together to show we won’t stand for it. I think and hope we’ll see a lot more of it.

 

[M18CTID]

Why is everyone so arsed? A few empty seats so what..

Mate, I think the point is that City’s pricing and ticketing policy is all over the place which in turn is pricing out a lot of fans who would like to go, and even if they aren’t priced out previously “sold out” matches are suddenly showing loads of availability just a couple of weeks or so before games but by then some fans will have made other plans. The practice of offloading thousands of home league match tickets for each game to third party ticket agencies before the start of the season instead of sticking some of those tickets on sale to members back in the summer is coming back to bite them on the backside for games like Forest at home which was never going to see thousands of tickets sold by 3rd party agencies because it was a midweek match in December. They can get away with that for derbies and matches against Liverpool and Arsenal as the tickets will shift no problem but whoever thought it would work for games such as Forest in midweek during winter needs to have a word with themselves.

The Everton game on Boxing Day should be a sell out no problem as Boxing Day is a hugely popular day for football fans in this country but the same thing has happened again, presumably because this time a lot of tourists who might’ve bought tickets from these 3rd party agencies can’t get a flight over at that time of year. As it happens, those returns from agencies have been selling quicker than the Forest returns but hundreds and hundreds of tickets remain because it was also one of the games that City offered a guaranteed refund if season ticket holders put their seats on the exchange before a certain date. Some of those have been snapped up but no doubt a lot of fans are put off going with their kids due to the prices. It’s £104 for an adult and child so £208 for a family of four. Some fans will stump up because it’s Christmas and they want to treat their kids but not everyone will. If those tickets were £20 cheaper for both adults and kids then I’m sure they’d all sell out.

 

[Fordyboy46]

first time in nearly 50 years of watching City i feel completely apathetic to actually attending, it is only habit and going with people that is keeping me in the groove, i feel a complete disconnect to the experience. I want to watch City at home with people who are passionate about City, who are there for the right reasons, i don't want to sit behind orientals cheering the opposition, recording the game through their phones while real City fans cannot afford to attend, Saturday at Villa Park there was a similar incident to the Liverpool one, albeit this time it was Croatian fans and just 3 of them but again in their national colours, they were not Blues.

Totally agree, we've got so many ' fans' now that have zero emotional attachment to the club, it makes for a totally shit matchday experience. For us older lot the Maine Road days will always be the best even if we were a piss poor outfit 90% of the time

 

[carlosthejackal]

Why is everyone so arsed? A few empty seats so what..

For a Boxing Day fixture! If that doesn’t ring alarm bells for the club then nothing will .

 

[Fordyboy46]

I think that game easily sells out still. It’s 18 days away and once Christmas is out of the way, a lot of families will snap them up IMO

I still think 20 quid for an adult is too steep for this game. Why couldn't we have done a tenner adults for once, for such a low key game

 

[M18CTID]

I still think 20 quid for an adult is too steep for this game. Why couldn't we have done a tenner adults for once, for such a low key game

Isn’t it cheaper than that for members?

 

[Fordyboy46]

For a Boxing Day fixture! If that doesn’t ring alarm bells for the club then nothing will .

Exactly, a boxing day fixture used to be one of the highlights of the season, looks like thousands of blues are fucking this one off. Not good at all