Seat Counters 25/26

Didsbury Dave said:
It's Seat Counting Season now. Liverpool FA Cup to come on sale very soon too, and then possibly a WEmbley Semi final and some big European games. We Seat Counters live for these days. The games come thick and fast. We need to rotate the squad carefully over the next few weeks.
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DD, we stand today not merely to offer a conventional vote of thanks, but to record in the annals of our own history a profound and enduring gratitude to those who have brought us to this moment. God bless all the seat counters.
 
Norbiton said:
What? Surely professional seat counters should be the first to be told
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I think that it's the Seat Counters telling them now. Look how many posters have been stressing that they need to do exactly what they've just done with the extra tickets. I reckon they actually use this thread now to make their decisions easy. We are like hiring a crack team of real time Data Analysts, except we do it for the love of the club, not money.

We used to be anti-establishment. Now we've become part of the establishment. They're selling hippy wigs in Woolworths, man.
 
Marvin. said:
Last season City submitted data for the CL Group games to City Matters last season showing that a lot of seasoncard holders were not going to group games. 20k out of 37k were going.

We also know that last season City had 140,000 matcday memberships so your matchday experience is likely generalised around the ground i.e., matchday fans are taking the place of seasoncard holders. That has pluses and minuses associated with it.

I wouldn't put the explanation as 'just aren't interested'. I would say that there are a lot of fans who can just afford a season ticket but can't afford the Cup tickets on top, and the travel. And there's also a lot of fans who live outside Greater Manchester who can't get home after a midweek game, or don't fancy driving back home in the small hours when they have children, and work next day. You are suggesting fans don't like CL football, I suggest its awkward for a number of reasons. The data on season ticket numbers are a matter of fact, but the reasons behind the numbers are a matter of opinion.
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as a sample size of 1 I would offer the following opinions:
- midweek games are are complete ballache to get to/from. We (family) do it for prem games cos we’ve paid for our SC and to us the Prem is the the most important competition by far
- we’ve given up on most UCL games for a number of reasons. There are too many, they’re often shit games and after the way we were treated in Istanbul we detest UEFA with a passion. Having said that, I’m going against Madrid in the hope of seeing them humiliated à la treble season. And if we get to Budapest I’ll no doubt be there too. So I guess I’m a reluctant and hypocritical UCL attendee. I suspect I’m not alone.
 
jrb said:
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www.dailymail.co.uk

Hundreds of tickets still available for Madrid vs City

Pep Guardiola's side travel to Madrid for their last-16 clash this evening, in what has become a staple fixture in the club season - with the European giants having met in each of the past four campaigns.
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No way am I clicking on the Daily Mail but it's madness that this is even a story. This is how far this "empty seat" obsession has come in football now. Unbelievable. Attendences have always fluctuated massively in football and nobody cared until the last few years. Same with cock-waving about who is the "biggest" club.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
No way am I clicking on the Daily Mail but it's madness that this is even a story. This is how far this "empty seat" obsession has come in football now. Unbelievable. Attendences have always fluctuated massively in football and nobody cared until the last few years. Same with cock-waving about who is the "biggest" club.
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With the way Madrid are playing, playing City again in the CL, and those ticket prices, it’s no wonder there are still hundreds of tickets left. I wouldn’t pay any of those prices to sit in the Madrid home end if I didn’t have an away ticket and I was in Madrid.
 
jrb said:
With the way Madrid are playing, playing City again in the CL, and those ticket prices, it’s no wonder there are still hundreds of tickets left. I wouldn’t pay any of those prices to sit in the Madrid home end if I didn’t have an away ticket and I was in Madrid.
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Interesting that there's basically a "Tourist Tax" on the tickets, ie if you aren't a member you pay a miles higher price. Logical in a tourist City if you are part of the attraction circuit I suppose.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
No way am I clicking on the Daily Mail but it's madness that this is even a story. This is how far this "empty seat" obsession has come in football now. Unbelievable. Attendences have always fluctuated massively in football and nobody cared until the last few years. Same with cock-waving about who is the "biggest" club.
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Real Madrid and Barca rarely sell out matches in any competitions which is not surprising when you see the ticket prices. For example I bought a home ticket on the day of the game from a kiosk for one of our matches with Barca. The only one of our games with Barca that sold out (96,000) was the pre-season Joan Gamper game and I think the tickets were only about 10 Euros. The fanboys don't realise this because they never attend matches.
 
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