Seat Counters - 2024/25

[Dodge]

They won’t give a shit. Probably sold 10,000 tickets at an extra £15. Obviously, £150k. Versus not selling 1,000 tickets at say £45 = £45k.

Which flattens the atmosphere and we'll see Pep Arms outstretched, giving it the big 'un, asking for more from the crowd.

Sorry, but it's the one thing about Pep that really irks me.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Which flattens the atmosphere and we'll see Pep Arms outstretched, giving it the big 'un, asking for more from the crowd.

Sorry, but it's the one thing about Pep that really irks me.

Bizarrely, I was given tickets to the Tunnel Club the night Pep did this, when Haaland broke the goal scoring record vs West Ham. I managed to start a chant of Come on City that spread around the ground. My greatest achievement in life lol.

 

[Beaker]

Which flattens the atmosphere and we'll see Pep Arms outstretched, giving it the big 'un, asking for more from the crowd.

Sorry, but it's the one thing about Pep that really irks me.

Yep, also for the long term sustainability of the club it’s not good. I appreciate that the likes of Sorriano don’t give a single shit about what happens to City in the future, but you’d like to think that Sheikh Mansour and Khaldoon do. Somebody invested in the long term future of the club need to get a grip of these creeps they’re allowing to run the show, and do it fast.

 

[Mike N]

Which flattens the atmosphere and we'll see Pep Arms outstretched, giving it the big 'un, asking for more from the crowd.

Sorry, but it's the one thing about Pep that really irks me.

He’s got every reason to want more from the crowd. Our home support is regularly terrible.

Forget about the tourists, new fans, etc, there’s at least 30,000 ‘proper’ fans in the ground. The majority don’t actually support the team until we are 4 up. Same as at Maine Road where the sound of moaning was often louder than the chants.

 

[jrb]

Its funny you should mention stewarding. After a recent game I had a few words with a steward who had picked on my wife who is a blue badge holder. He was stopping her from walking along the rows to meet me,walking the same way along the rows as hundreds had done minutes before, but because of her difficulty in walking she was slow. After I was walking away from him after giving him a piece of my mind another steward approached me telling me not to shout at the steward, which I wasn't. He then followed me up 20 steps towards the concorse deliberately escalating the situation. I stopped at the top of the steps to tell him he was deliberately escalating the situation then I carried on down the steps to the concorse he followed still shouting and acting like some street gang member . On the concorse a supervisor appeared, obviously alerted by this young steward following me. I carried on walking towards the exit. He shouted after me to leave the stadium. As I was heading towards the exit I thought this was unnecessary and just a show of power. After I thought about this, my view is that if I had stopped whilst being followed onto the concorse and engaged these prople further I would have been forceably ejected from the stadium by these people one of who would not have been out of place in a street gang. If I had been contacted by the club and reprimanded or banned for a few games I would have cancelled my direct debit and never gone in the ground again. In fact it has chipped away at my matchday enjoyment and supports peoples view that we are not seen as supporters but on a par with pay as you go at supermarkets.

When the club start giving private security stewards official City jackets, giving them the impression they are official City stewards, you know the club is up to something. These were big lads. The kind of lads you see on a night club, bar, or pub, door in the city centre.Those big f…..s would have dragged anyone out forcibly without hesitating. The way City stewards, private stewards, and GMP are currently picking off fans on the terraces is escalating, and is a worrying trend implemented by the club.

 

[jrb]

He’s got every reason to want more from the crowd. Our home support is regularly terrible.

Forget about the tourists, new fans, etc, there’s at least 30,000 ‘proper’ fans in the ground. The majority don’t actually support the team until we are 4 up. Same as at Maine Road where the sound of moaning was often louder than the chants.

Fans on here have constantly posted how they have tried to start chants off, but people around them just look at them in silence, or even tell them to shut up. When you are surrounded by tourists, day trippers, football fans, people who do not support City, but are just there for the match, how do you expect songs to get started in other parts of the ground, apart from SSL1, and blocks 111,110, 109?

When City played Hamburg the whole stadium was supporting the team.

Soriano and his team have sanitised the Etihad, filling seats once filled with legacy fans, with tourists, day trippers, football fans, and fans of other clubs that City are playing on the night, Real Madrid. Feyenoord, etc.

City’s match ticket selling model is based on Barcelona’s, Real Madrid’s etc. Price out legacy fans, and fill those seats with new and wealthier City fans, and football fans, who will pay more for a seat.

 

[Luddite_Blue]

The Club are greedy. That said, a big part of Everton tickets unsold are the season card hoarders who shoved their guaranteed refund tickets on the Ticket Exchange in their several thousands.

What do you mean by the term season ticket hoarders?

Traditionally Boxing Day had high attendances but a 12.30 kick off time is basically shit.

An issue City have with long standing season ticketholders is a significant number have moved away from Manchester. So if they've moved over 100 miles away and weren't visiting relatives in Manchester, what sort of time are they being asked to leave home on Boxing day? It's a far cry from a 3pm kick off, visiting relatives and getting the 42/53/105 to Maine Road.

As has been mentioned, City know all of this so should be pricing this game so it sells out.

I do also wonder if the second sale 3 weeks before becomes well established, whether for lower demand games City will sell the tickets cheaper 3 weeks before than at the start of the season.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

or even tell them to shut up.

Seriously?? If someone at the ground ever told me to shut up for trying to start a song I don't think I would ever go to a game at home again.

 

[Mike S]

What do you mean by the term season ticket hoarders?

Traditionally Boxing Day had high attendances but a 12.30 kick off time is basically shit.

An issue City have with long standing season ticketholders is a significant number have moved away from Manchester. So if they've moved over 100 miles away and weren't visiting relatives in Manchester, what sort of time are they being asked to leave home on Boxing day? It's a far cry from a 3pm kick off, visiting relatives and getting the 42/53/105 to Maine Road.

As has been mentioned, City know all of this so should be pricing this game so it sells out.

I do also wonder if the second sale 3 weeks before becomes well established, whether for lower demand games City will sell the tickets cheaper 3 weeks before than at the start of the season.

192/53 (or skip the 53 if the weather was ok and save a few pence)

 

[Tim of the Oak]

What do you mean by the term season ticket hoarders?

Traditionally Boxing Day had high attendances but a 12.30 kick off time is basically shit.

An issue City have with long standing season ticketholders is a significant number have moved away from Manchester. So if they've moved over 100 miles away and weren't visiting relatives in Manchester, what sort of time are they being asked to leave home on Boxing day? It's a far cry from a 3pm kick off, visiting relatives and getting the 42/53/105 to Maine Road.

As has been mentioned, City know all of this so should be pricing this game so it sells out.

I do also wonder if the second sale 3 weeks before becomes well established, whether for lower demand games City will sell the tickets cheaper 3 weeks before than at the start of the season.

I’m thinking of “hoarders” who attend half or fewer Prem games.

There is a another issue of some Blues seeing we are playing shite and pressed the Ticket Exchange button.

I’m all for cheaper match day tickets. I’m just pointing out that there are other issues affecting the crowd, as well as price. The occasional fans are just going to fill in the gaps when they can see us against Liverpool in a few weeks.