We have sold 1,031 tickets since yesterday morning.
I think what I was trying to say is paying hundreds of pounds of tickets worth it for the prospect of a final ticket? It’s wasted money, especially when the tickets aren’t used. In previous seasons I’ve been able to pass them on free but that’s not an option anymore.
To be fair mate. It’s your free choice. People fall in and out if love with football at different stages of life. Work, money, family has to come first. I’m lucky now as I’m retired. Perhaps you’ll come back one day as well. City is a drug for me.
I go to most league home games and a few aways a season. I love going to watch City. Just saying it’s taken one season off the cup scheme to realise it’s a bit of a waste of money if you can’t make the games.
Signing up for a cup scheme isn’t buying a ticket for a specific game. You don’t know the time or date, what your personal circumstances might be six months later or if any transport will be running. The idea that the club should be finding yet another way to punish loyal supporters strikes me as preposterous. It isn’t always about being a points whore
Yeah, my recollection when they were brought them in was that you were paying to buy tickets in an earlier window than those who had a ‘free’ membership. All could buy, but you could buy sooner with the paid version - so if a game had high demand you had better choice of seats/chance of a ticket. Isn’t it still the case that those who have a membership without the £35 can still buy match tickets if there are any left after the paid members window?
I'm a very long term SC holder and have yet to decide if I'm going to renew next year (numerous reasons) but, if I don't I do hope to attend a couple of games here and there although. it'd be easier to do that being a paid member I'll not be chucking £35 at City just for the privilege, I'll just pick up odds and sods & if I can't I won't.
That’s fine if we’re assuming people are doing that on purpose, for the points I suppose.
I think this game will sell out, going off how many are currently shifting. After today, there are still 16 days of sales to go if you include the day of the match itself so we only need to average around 750 tickets sold per day from hereon in for it to sell out. It will be somewhat bizarre that an early round FA Cup tie against 4th tier opposition is going to hugely outsell an important CL group game and a League Cup semi-final against far more illustrious opposition
It just shows how much more appealing weekend and specifically Saturday 3pm kick offs are.
Definitely mate. Obviously, pricing comes into it too but the Salford prices - while cheaper than Galatasaray and Newcastle - are significantly higher than the previous round and it still looks like it'll sell out.
The number of match-day fans attending a game this season must be huge.
Slightly off topic but a lot was made of the difference between the price in the 3rd round and the next one but it’s not really about the level of the opposing team. City have just decided in the last few seasons to heavily discount that first FA Cup game, I assume to try and grab people’s attention as everyone is distracted by Christmas and then start preparing to return to work/school whatever. Maybe the club just see it as a way to start the year with a cheap game. The 4th round prices are just normal really but it looks like a hike because of what they do in the 3rd round.
Mirrors my view too bud, fully agreed.
I agree 100% for the FA Cup as I know a few people on the cup scheme who don't bother with Salford and Exeter etc
Our three previous CL games attracted crowds of 50k,Napoli just short.Last night should have been similar given the jeopardy but the noise around crowd trouble and problems at the Swamp clearly put people off ( I considered sacking it for that very reason).
Must confess it's almost impossible for me to get to evening games now, so any cup game at City that's on a weekend afternoon, we're there, irrespective of the opposition. Probably others like that too. We were there for Exeter and will be for Salford.
