Seat Counters 25/26

Wirral Blue8 said:
Only 32 tickets sold since 10am this morning.
Tickets remaining for League Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg v Newcastle. 8 days to go until the game and selling about a couple of hundred tickets a day. Likely about 10k empty seats for it - attendance of about 43k as Newcastle will have sold out their 5,359 allocation

Level 0: 4,308 - some 3rd party sellers have obviously returned tickets to the club.

Level 1: 3,442

Level 3: estimated 4,245 as Level 3 is now greyed out since Monday afternoon.

Total: 11,995 tickets left
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It's where a semi final of the Carabao Cup now stands in level of importance. Prices still too high as well
 
I'm travelling with a few other Blues to Istanbul end April. We promised the family that own the bar in Fatih we drank in for 5 nights solid that we'd go back to see them, so keeping the promise. A bit of a CL Final reunion.

We chose the dates to coincide with the Gala v Fenerbache derby. The family are all Gala fans so going with them to Nevidaze St for an almighty piss up.

Its as much of a nightmare to get tickets there as it is at City. To attend any Turkish League game apparently we have to get a Passolig card, which is basically an ID card. I might be wrong but I think the match ticket is loaded onto the card. I'm also told that tickets only go on sale 3-5 days before the game and its a free for all but fellow Passolig card holders can transfer match tickets to another card. Also need to get a Turkish mobile phone to receive an SMS to activate the card. Absolute ball-ache.

We'll watch it in the pub.
 
.db. said:
Turkish fans are a bit like Russian fans where they sing in as deep as voice as they can possibly put on and it’s usually wildly out of tune, like tone deaf out of tune.
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I had to smile after ready your post.

You are right.

Even though their chants are different, for some reason all the chants sound the same. It's the same with Greek fans.
 
Wirral Blue8 said:
Only 32 tickets sold since 10am this morning.
Tickets remaining for League Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg v Newcastle. 8 days to go until the game and selling about a couple of hundred tickets a day. Likely about 10k empty seats for it - attendance of about 43k as Newcastle will have sold out their 5,359 allocation

Level 0: 4,308 - some 3rd party sellers have obviously returned tickets to the club.

Level 1: 3,442

Level 3: estimated 4,245 as Level 3 is now greyed out since Monday afternoon.

Total: 11,995 tickets left
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158 tickets sold since 3pm yesterday afternoon.
Tickets remaining for League Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg v Newcastle. 7 days to go until the game and selling about a couple of hundred tickets a day. Likely about 10k empty seats for it - attendance of about 43k as Newcastle will have sold out their 5,359 allocation

Level 0: 4,204

Level 1: 3,388

Level 3: estimated 4,245 as Level 3 is now greyed out since Monday afternoon.

Total: 11,837 tickets left
 
Dodge said:
I'm travelling with a few other Blues to Istanbul end April. We promised the family that own the bar in Fatih we drank in for 5 nights solid that we'd go back to see them, so keeping the promise. A bit of a CL Final reunion.

We chose the dates to coincide with the Gala v Fenerbache derby. The family are all Gala fans so going with them to Nevidaze St for an almighty piss up.

Its as much of a nightmare to get tickets there as it is at City. To attend any Turkish League game apparently we have to get a Passolig card, which is basically an ID card. I might be wrong but I think the match ticket is loaded onto the card. I'm also told that tickets only go on sale 3-5 days before the game and its a free for all but fellow Passolig card holders can transfer match tickets to another card. Also need to get a Turkish mobile phone to receive an SMS to activate the card. Absolute ball-ache.

We'll watch it in the pub.
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By accident we also drank and ate in the Fatih area on the day of the CL final, and then using advice of the locals jumped on the Metro for the journey to the Ataturk which is of course located in the arse end of nowhere. Was cheap as chips for beer in those parts.
 
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Wirral Blue8 said:
158 tickets sold since 3pm yesterday afternoon.
Tickets remaining for League Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg v Newcastle. 7 days to go until the game and selling about a couple of hundred tickets a day. Likely about 10k empty seats for it - attendance of about 43k as Newcastle will have sold out their 5,359 allocation

Level 0: 4,204

Level 1: 3,388

Level 3: estimated 4,245 as Level 3 is now greyed out since Monday afternoon.

Total: 11,837 tickets left
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strange how these aren't selling at all
 
Marvin. said:
CL scheme members will be in the 3rd tiers but City will be trying to fill the lower tiers. If there are hundreds of empty seats in the 2nd tier, there will be more in the 3rd tier.

Sad times. This is not a one off.
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People are skint, so if it was £10 cheaper i still don't think it would tempt that many more ...
 
Marvin. said:
What do you think? This should be a wake-up call to everyone. In the era of the internet, minds can be got at and broken like never before.
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Not really

We normally sell around 52,000 tickets for the PL games, but sometimes it looks far less, mainly due to Seasoncard holders (presumably young families or elderly supporters) swerving the early kick offs and midweek fixtures.
It's all been said before, but post match transport is a huge factor, particularly for evening games, and it will be worse next season.

Different story for the CL in general and specifically this fixture, whereby the ticket restrictions have prevented neutrals, tourists and casual supporters from attending, and regardless of what some posters think, we need these people

Also, don't forget that we got 50,000+ for the Leverkusen game, and Pep rewarded our enthusiasm with 10 changes and a ridiculously lightweight selection that the other English teams would never have contemplated
 
Many reasons tonights attendance will be down

- Its January and people are skint, allied to the prices of membership/ticket buying
- The Hoops City make people jump through just to buy or even transfer a ticket
- Apathy - People are bored by the group stage of the CL
- Midweek game and parking/travelling to and from the Etihad can often be a pain in the arse
- The club has pissed off large sections of the legacy supporters by treating them the way they have over the past few years

Along with the ground not being full next Weds vs Newcastle either, youd think/hope it will wake some people up at the club but I doubt it. Games like tonight and next Weds in midweek arent the sort that the tourists can make, so the club are thus relying on the more local fanbase than theyve done everything to piss off in recent times. The result will be a gate of about 42k tops this evening
 
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