It’s not clear but the economics of it suggest the pay a price to the club so they can then sell on for considerable profit. Eg. If they bought a row of tickets on Saturday at a tenner each and sold on as packages for £100+ then there really only needed to sell a handful to make money.No what im.saying is these agency's obviously buy these tickets from city at a price ,,,now if these agency's don't sell said tickets what happens to said tickets ,,,that's right they stay empty
This has to be the reason why there are so many seats (especially lately) and seats together remaing empty
Can’t help but think if the criteria was more organised this would’ve sold out properly.39 just gone on sale for Newcastle tomorrow, which had been sold out since Thursday
A view of the match, goals, and empty seats around the ground from the Exeter away end in SSL3.
Warning. There is quite a bit of squealing and laughing from a female Exeter fan as the goals go in. Lol! Not the person filming it.
Couldn't agree more. I'd also have allowed people to buy extra tickets.Can’t help but think if the criteria was more organised this would’ve sold out properly.
The club left it over a week to put it on sale to members with just over a week’s notice to the game, making it almost impossible to organise time off work etc.
For example:
Monday - Cup Scheme
Tuesday - ST Holders
Wednesday - Members
Also advertising it as sold out for a week even though 3 blocks were returned and additional tickets appearing on the site.
That Hartlepool game was the Tueart headbutt sending off and another goalfest. It was a small crowd, often the case at Maine Road, though we had a good average crowd in 1976.So the attendance for the Exeter game was almost double the 26,863 who attended the Third Round Tie v Hartlepool in 1976 (when football was cheaper and there was literally nothing stopping you from just turning up on the day)
Funny that......
Wasn't he Tueart's best man or the other way round before that game or have I just made that up?That Hartlepool game was the Tueart headbutt sending off and another goalfest. It was a small crowd, often the case at Maine Road, though we had a good average crowd in 1976.
Yeah I remember the gameThat Hartlepool game was the Tueart headbutt sending off and another goalfest. It was a small crowd, often the case at Maine Road, though we had a good average crowd in 1976.
The club aren't worrying about a bit of banter about empty seats for FA Cup third round games. CL knock out games, derbies and big games against rivals, all the rest will sell out. It's a stadium built for a club that expects to have a dozen huge games every season.You only need to see the “Road to Wembley” video the club put out about the FA Cup run in 2011. We had tiers closed for every home game, including the Reading game that was a quarter final. The official attendance states online it was 41,150 out of a capacity of over 47,000 against Reading.
There’s more people coming to watch City now consistently than any time in history, and a few empty seats doesn’t take away from the fact we’re regularly getting over 50,000. I think the problem will come with the expanded North Stand, right now the ground is about right for where we are. We’re mostly filling it or close to and selling out a good few Premier League games.
They’ll have to significantly lower the price and offer very cheap season tickets next season I think. No shame in it, we get good numbers generally, but it’s about knowing your limits and what your fans can afford.
When you look at some of the ticket tout partner sites, you can see the seat numbers that are set aside and they’re often in chunks of seats in certain areas of the stadium (mainly, it seems, Colin Bell 102, 137, 138 and 139 and the North Stand).It's all digital. City can sell tickets through agencies or through the club's ticket office. They dont need some runner taking a load of paper tickets to an agency. This idea that if City are selling tickets through an agency, they dont have any control of those tickets is just stupid.
Lots of my group take their kids to games like the FA Cup games against Exeter, Salford etc. For some lapsed ST holders, it’s the only game they come to now.I used the extra seats critirea for Exeter to buy tickets for some friends to bring their 7 year old lad to his first game.
He absolutely loved it and has been watching the highlights on repeat ever since.
Think we've got another Blue for life there and I'm sure there's loads more on the back of the game.
They’ll worry if/when closed stands appear in the newspapers. The CL knockouts, big games etc. will likely sell out at the same prices in a 61,000 stadium. Everything else won’t be close unless they drop prices significantly (ignoring Exeter’s pricing).The club aren't worrying about a bit of banter about empty seats for FA Cup third round games. CL knock out games, derbies and big games against rivals, all the rest will sell out. It's a stadium built for a club that expects to have a dozen huge games every season.
Yes they can. They're ticket agencies. The ticket won't go unsold just because City offered it through an agency.When you look at some of the ticket tout partner sites, you can see the seat numbers that are set aside and they’re often in chunks of seats in certain areas of the stadium (mainly, it seems, Colin Bell 102, 137, 138 and 139 and the North Stand).
On some of those sites, you can select ‘10+ tickets’ together.
City can’t then sell those seats to regular fans if they’re already set aside for agencies.
City can't sell tickets the agency has, but they can sell them if the agency returns them. We see all the time big blocks of tickets going back on sale a few days before a match. They are usually at the top of the 3rd tier, or down near the corner flag in the North stand.Yes they can. They're ticket agencies. The ticket won't go unsold just because City offered it through an agency.
So the attendance for the Exeter game was almost double the 26,863 who attended the Third Round Tie v Hartlepool in 1976 (when football was cheaper and there was literally nothing stopping you from just turning up on the day)
Funny that......
You've taken my post far too literally mate as I was only playing devil's advocate in response to some posters trying too hard to find a problem with the spare seats.Football was dead in the 70’s and 80’s plagued football hooligans at almost every club and at almost every match home and away. There were very few women, kids or or families who attended the matches. It was mostly men, young men. Football was totally different then. You can’t compare it. If you removed most of the women, kids, families, hospitality fans, tourists, football fans, etc, and had only men, there wouldn’t have been 52,000 there on Saturday, if we’re making a genuine comparison. Exeter also brought over 7000 fans, which didn’t happen in the 70’s and 80’s FA Cup games, bar the big clubs.