Seat Counters - 2024/25

[Paddy1234]

My last question on seats. Given that there is going to be so many unsold seats - can you sit in a different seat other than the one you are allocated? E.g. if you are up in the clouds - can you move down to a lower seat if they are free? Thanks

 

[Franny 1234]

MODS please change the thread title.
page after page of ticket allocations and third party ticket sites and very little seat counting content.
for the record keep up the great work our seat counting experts it's appreciated.CTID

 

[goatinho]

My last question on seats. Given that there is going to be so many unsold seats - can you sit in a different seat other than the one you are allocated? E.g. if you are up in the clouds - can you move down to a lower seat if they are free? Thanks

Yep. Sit where you want if no one is sat in it

 

[BringBackSwales]

Cheers mate.

My brief believes, even if found guilty of the charge brought against me, I've got a very strong case on the FBO.

Bizarrely, during our discussions, she said she recognised my mrs name. It turns out her firm are representing a mate of mine who has asked my mrs to provide a character reference for him. I had no idea he'd engaged the same firm for his case, and was working with the exact same solicitor.

He's pretty much in the same boat as me after GMP arrested him outside the Etihad for shouting "always the victims" at the scousers. GMP have applied for a banning order and despite not being found guilty in a Court of law, he's been given an instant ban from City.

It’s a fucking joke pal. Not sure how old you are but I imagine you were going when football used to be violent, now you say the wrong fucking thing you get arrested and/or banned. I get warned by a steward for putting a finger up to the Barclays premier league anthem (to be fair to the steward he said you’ll be in trouble if they catch you doing that on camera!). Fucking ludicrous what football, and to some extent society, has become. I can tell you for sure that a lot of the stewards at Brentford are jobs worth arseholes from things I’ve seen there the last 2 or 3 years. City have just become anti City fan, worse than Peter fucking fletcher

 

[Stretford Born Blue]

Here you go;
1115pm Thursday seat count.
Top tier - 1817 left.
Middle tier - 965 left.
Bottom tier - 1735 left.
Total 4517…..
Plus the blocks in the top tier that never came on sale?
Maybe sold around 27k?

 

[shnaghaicityfish]

I make you largely right. The ticket agencies buy seats but I don't think they return them. There were clearly loads of non attending season ticket holders because of the way the seats were scattered around rather than being in clumps at the back. Usually these seats sell via the seat exchange but in this case there were far more returns than sales.

But they were in great big blocks together? I saw them on the night and there’s been lots of pics on here of 100 empty seats together

 

[Dodge]

It’s a fucking joke pal. Not sure how old you are but I imagine you were going when football used to be violent, now you say the wrong fucking thing you get arrested and/or banned. I get warned by a steward for putting a finger up to the Barclays premier league anthem (to be fair to the steward he said you’ll be in trouble if they catch you doing that on camera!). Fucking ludicrous what football, and to some extent society, has become. I can tell you for sure that a lot of the stewards at Brentford are jobs worth arseholes from things I’ve seen there the last 2 or 3 years. City have just become anti City fan, worse than Peter fucking fletcher

Just turned 63 mate...and yes, seen it all over the years.

FBO's are being used as a catch-all for any football related "offences" and its an easy route for Police/Govt to gentrify our game. The Police notify the clubs who issue their own bans with immediate effect. Any "discretional" club ban longer than 1 year and your SC is gone forever, that's Club policy. The thing is, the minimum FBO is 3 years, so it's an easy season ticket grab, disguised as stadium safety protocol. That's why I'm spending shedloads on legal representation to fight the FBO, I dont really care if I get found guilty of the alleged offence. However, even if I'm successful, the Club can still decide I deserve a 2 season ban and hey presto, SC gone.

There are currently over 200 Blues who are banned by the Club, only 26 have ever been handed an official FBO by a Court of Law.

Tells you all you need to know.

 

[ysmsa]

Cheers mate.

My brief believes, even if found guilty of the charge brought against me, I've got a very strong case on the FBO.

Bizarrely, during our discussions, she said she recognised my mrs name. It turns out her firm are representing a mate of mine who has asked my mrs to provide a character reference for him. I had no idea he'd engaged the same firm for his case, and was working with the exact same solicitor.

He's pretty much in the same boat as me after GMP arrested him outside the Etihad for shouting "always the victims" at the scousers. GMP have applied for a banning order and despite not being found guilty in a Court of law, he's been given an instant ban from City.

This is the most depressing post on BM at present and I include rip off tickets, shit FA Cup Semi and all that is wrong with it etc etc.

GMP are a fucking disgrace, an embarrassment.

A decent Copper would have just told him to shut it or else....

Why the fuck do I never read of a Dipper being arrested, banned, even criticised or called out for anything?

 

[Lee the Blue]

Here you go;
1115pm Thursday seat count.
Top tier - 1817 left.
Middle tier - 965 left.
Bottom tier - 1735 left.
Total 4517…..
Plus the blocks in the top tier that never came on sale?
Maybe sold around 27k?

This is wonderful - Green Jacket level - commitment to the seat counting cause.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

It’s a fucking joke pal. Not sure how old you are but I imagine you were going when football used to be violent, now you say the wrong fucking thing you get arrested and/or banned. I get warned by a steward for putting a finger up to the Barclays premier league anthem (to be fair to the steward he said you’ll be in trouble if they catch you doing that on camera!). Fucking ludicrous what football, and to some extent society, has become. I can tell you for sure that a lot of the stewards at Brentford are jobs worth arseholes from things I’ve seen there the last 2 or 3 years. City have just become anti City fan, worse than Peter fucking fletcher

ex gmp who run that side of city so no surprise

 

[NPBlue]

It’s a fucking joke pal. Not sure how old you are but I imagine you were going when football used to be violent, now you say the wrong fucking thing you get arrested and/or banned. I get warned by a steward for putting a finger up to the Barclays premier league anthem (to be fair to the steward he said you’ll be in trouble if they catch you doing that on camera!). Fucking ludicrous what football, and to some extent society, has become. I can tell you for sure that a lot of the stewards at Brentford are jobs worth arseholes from things I’ve seen there the last 2 or 3 years. City have just become anti City fan, worse than Peter fucking fletcher

I watched a video on youtube by a Villa fan the other day showing his visit to the Etihad. The V and wanker gestures from the City fans towards them after we scored the winner were given to them en-masse.

For balance, their gestures to the City fans after they scored their equaliser were similarly epic.

There wasn't much concern from the stewards and police separating them at the time as they didn't seem to deem it about to turn nasty.

Those dozens of City and Villa fans didn't show much concern about their gestures either, and there it was, recorded in HD, with plenty of clearly identifiable faces from both sets of supporters, easy catches for the police one would imagine.

Videos showing those close encounters between rival fans have been posted for years by vloggers, and none of them, as far as I know, have ever resulted in prosecution, which probably explains why they are still being recorded and uploaded on youtube today.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

But they were in great big blocks together? I saw them on the night and there’s been lots of pics on here of 100 empty seats together

Yes hundreds of seats. Not 5K.

 

[BringBackSwales]

I watched a video on youtube by a Villa fan the other day showing his visit to the Etihad. The V and wanker gestures from the City fans towards them after we scored the winner were given to them en-masse.

For balance, their gestures to the City fans after they scored their equaliser were similarly epic.

There wasn't much concern from the stewards and police separating them at the time as they didn't seem to deem it about to turn nasty.

Those dozens of City and Villa fans didn't show much concern about their gestures either, and there it was, recorded in HD, with plenty of clearly identifiable faces from both sets of supporters, easy catches for the police one would imagine.

Videos showing those close encounters between rival fans have been posted for years by vloggers, and none of them, as far as I know, have ever resulted in prosecution, which probably explains why they are still being recorded and uploaded on youtube today.

It just depends whether they want to make an example of you. Tens of thousands on the pitch last game of last season, most of them on cctv, did they all get banned? No. Did some of them get picked out and banned? Yes they fucking did. Also listen to what the cunts say, any behaviour INCLUDING GESTURES will result in a potential ban

 

[Scuttler blue]

It was 2016 that was the one. 23k they got that day. We dicked them 4-0.

Like plenty of other clubs as soon as the going gets tough they drop like flies. They've got a considerable fan base outside of Brum because of their success in the 80s. Those fans don't bother until things are rosy.

We've got a decent hardcore fanbase, better than the vast majority of other clubs in the country. The dippers and rags have a number of tourists who turn up week in week out and then thousands around the country who would snap up tickets if they'd got to 30 Wembley games in 14 years and season ticket holders didn't fancy the expense.

The number of times at Wembley is one factor, so too is the ongoing dispute with the club in general over prices and tickets. The club are helping drive this apathy that many feel. I do feel like someone in the club should have been wise to how tough this would be to sell doing it the way they did. They should have put on free travel and incentivised it someway or another. But the FA Cup whilst being prestigious offers fuck all prize money so they probably didn't see it worth the investment.

Why didn't they put the city game on the Saturday if the Sunday game goes into extra time and pens the city fans on coaches will be getting home early hours of Monday morning and having to take Monday off plus the villa fans going home on the Sunday are not competing with a 100.000 fans travelling the same way as the palace fans will just be local not withstanding the London marathon is this weekend so hotels will be at a premium .....no common sense as usual by the FA and they wonder why we are not travelling down

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Why didn't they put the city game on the Saturday if the Sunday game goes into extra time and pens the city fans on coaches will be getting home early hours of Monday morning and having to take Monday off plus the villa fans going home on the Sunday are not competing with a 100.000 fans travelling the same way as the palace fans will just be local not withstanding the London marathon is this weekend so hotels will be at a premium .....no common sense as usual by the FA and they wonder why we are not travelling down

I wonder whether the club said anything to the FA about KO times or days? Is there any consultation? As always the concerns of fans seem to come last.

 

[Gray]

Seats available on the planner.

• Level 1 = 1,676
• Level 2 = 969
• Level 5 = 1,803
• Total = 4,448

Blocks not released

• 527 = 463 (as pointed out by Marvin)
• 528 = 1,159
• 529 = 1,112
• 530 = 1,054
• 531 = 482 (as pointed out by fathelensbellend)
• Total = 4,270

Allocation is 36,190 less 8,718 so sales are 27,472.

 

[East Level 2]

Should have subsidised each ticket by a tenner, total cost £300k, a good players wages for a week. Fucking fa didn’t even give concessions for kids and oaps, they are the real cunts

I' agree the FA are real cunts, but I got an FOC concession.

 

[East Level 2]

Why didn't they put the city game on the Saturday if the Sunday game goes into extra time and pens the city fans on coaches will be getting home early hours of Monday morning and having to take Monday off plus the villa fans going home on the Sunday are not competing with a 100.000 fans travelling the same way as the palace fans will just be local not withstanding the London marathon is this weekend so hotels will be at a premium .....no common sense as usual by the FA and they wonder why we are not travelling down

Wasn't there a chance Villa could be playing in the CL on Tuesday so had to have the Saturday game?

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Wasn't there a chance Villa could be playing in the CL on Tuesday so had to have the Saturday game?

Yes

 

[East Level 2]

ex gmp who run that side of city so no surprise

And the guy walks around the Etihad like he owns the place.