Seat Counters 25/26

[Wirral Blue8]

Thanks Marvin. I try to be positive about football because I have a lot of negative things going on in the rest of my life. I understand why people are frustrated at ticketing and transport but i think there is a malaise in the whole country. I was on a packed bus with Spurs fans on Sunday night. They had just seen a great match but most of them were drenched from the rain. I spoke to some and all they wanted to talk about was "escaping from London" which they described as "a shithole." They were also moaning about tourist fans and daytrippers! These were local working class Spurs fans who lived in Edmonton (where I stayed overnight). To be fair the area is desperately impoverished (as bad as anywhere in Manchester).But, for me, football is an escape so I try to be upbeat.

I think there is a malaise generally across Europe with life being hard and expensive and football is such an escapism from it all at the moment

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I think there is a malaise generally across Europe with life being hard and expensive and football is such an escapism from it all at the moment

Spot-on. That's why I try hard to remain positive about football. It has always been an escape from reality. That's how it started. It is arguably the only positive thing about the UK at the moment. I go to a lot of away matches to areas which are not on the tourist maps. I think many people would be shocked to see how bad things are in some parts of the UK.

 

[Wirral Blue8]

Newcastle count

728 first tier
2276 second tier
third tier not on sale

Tickets remaining for tomorrow night's League Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg v Newcastle.
Newcastle have sold out their 5,359 allocation and so attendance will be about 46-47k

Level 0: 547

Level 1: 2,137

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

Total: 6,929 tickets left

 

[Sibierskii]

Wouldn't surprise me if the away end is half empty given the score and their recent form

 

[bainy]

Wouldn't surprise me if the away end is half empty given the score and their recent form

lol...not a chance!!

 

[supercity88]

Tickets remaining for tomorrow night's League Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg v Newcastle.
Newcastle have sold out their 5,359 allocation and so attendance will be about 46-47k

Level 0: 547

Level 1: 2,137

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

Total: 6,929 tickets left

I think that's a fantastic crowd considering how many home games we've had and the fact it's priced a little higher than it could have been (don't think the price is too bad personally). Add in that we're 2-0 up from the first leg and you'd take that for a midweek league cup semi final.

Whilst some will point to the fact it's circa 7k down on current capacity and therefore 13-14k down on the expanded capacity, I'm hopeful economies of scale will mean they can drop the price a little for an equivalent game next season and bring in more fans.

 

[bainy]

I think that's a fantastic crowd considering how many home games we've had and the fact it's priced a little higher than it could have been (don't think the price is too bad personally). Add in that we're 2-0 up from the first leg and you'd take that for a midweek league cup semi final.

Whilst some will point to the fact it's circa 7k down on current capacity and therefore 13-14k down on the expanded capacity, I'm hopeful economies of scale will mean they can drop the price a little for an equivalent game next season and bring in more fans.

 

[WestGorton]

The majority of my lot are going so looking forward to it. C'mon City and all that.

 

[bainy]

Despite my prediction this was going to be a lower crowd than gala, looks like a decent crowd after all.
Going forward, get rid of tik transfer restrictions, do deals for those in cup schemes including ticket bundles and extra 100 loyalty points per game attended, season tiks for families and get rid of half and halves!
Hopefully, a great game awaits and another trip to wemberlee! come on citeh!!

 

[Chappie]

My mole tells me that the club has taken on board the ticketing fiasco and there will be discussions and changes.(not this season)
I await the outcome with baited breath.

 

[Mike S]

My mole tells me that the club has taken on board the ticketing fiasco and there will be discussions and changes.(not this season)
I await the outcome with bated breath.

Bluemole, you saw me standing alone....

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Tickets remaining for tomorrow night's League Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg v Newcastle.
Newcastle have sold out their 5,359 allocation and so attendance will be about 46-47k

Level 0: 547

Level 1: 2,137

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

Total: 6,929 tickets left

If we get to 47,000 it will be our eighth highest ever attendance in the League Cup and higher than most recent League Cup semi-finals.

03/12/1969	Manchester United	55799	League Cup
09/11/2022	Chelsea	52148	League Cup
24/10/2017	Wolverhampton Wanderers	50755	League Cup
12/11/1975	Manchester United	50182	League Cup
27/01/2016	Everton	50048	League Cup
14/01/1981	Liverpool	48045	League Cup
22/12/2022	Liverpool	47149	League Cup
19/01/2010	Manchester United	46067	League Cup
02/12/2009	Arsenal	46015	League Cup
14/10/1969	Everton	45643	League Cup

 

[chesterbells]

Disagree. To name just a few games off the top of my head:

Hamburg, QPR, Aston Vila in 2022, Home v United on many occasions.
Liverpool in January 2019, April 2022, April 2023.
Bayern Munich, Real Madrid.

Yep, and how many other grounds ‘rock’ throughout, and on a regular basis?!

 

[Blue Mist]

The ground rarely if ever rocks, the atmosphere is generally abysmal bar the few in the south stand.

Yeh right. Please tell me your seat number and stand.

 

[.db.]

The ground rarely if ever rocks, the atmosphere is generally abysmal bar the few in the south stand.

Here’s a post by a Wolves fan from just last May:



We’ve had the Etihad rocking dozens of times over the years. This season has been the worst it’s been since the Frank Clarke season though. Even in that shit season with Pearce, we used to chant our old ‘worst support we’ve ever seen’ song at loads of visiting fans.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Yeh right. Please tell me your seat number and stand.

With a knick knack paddy whack.

 

[Ban-jani]

Here’s a post by a Wolves fan from just last May:



We’ve had the Etihad rocking dozens of times over the years. This season has been the worst it’s been since the Frank Clarke season though. Even in that shit season with Pearce, we used to chant our old ‘worst support we’ve ever seen’ song at loads of visiting fans.

That was the Friday night game, we were all pissed in SS3, I was hammered by kick off as went out straight from work mid afternoon.

Worked a treat.

 

[Ban-jani]

Tickets remaining for tomorrow night's League Cup Semi-Final 2nd Leg v Newcastle.
Newcastle have sold out their 5,359 allocation and so attendance will be about 46-47k

Level 0: 547

Level 1: 2,137

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

Total: 6,929 tickets left

Great work fella.

What could have been, we’d be knocking on close to a sell out if we’d have priced it the same as Newcastle did.

 

[Ban-jani]

Give it a rest ffs

Are you Danny Wilson?

 

[jrb]

Listen I always give the club praise when they do something right.

Just recently, I gave them credit for their pricing vs Exeter. I'm also one of the only people on here defending their decision to require purchase history for tomorrow's game.

There are lots of people on here who disagree with me, and you're absolutely welcome to debate me on anything I've ever posted. I don't ever consider it to be personal.

But please don't just tell me to shut up.

You should know him by now.
You won’t get a reasoned discussion with him, no matter how hard you try.
He’ll just tell you to shut up, you are ungrateful, and he will start being abusive, etc.
You are wasting your time.
Don’t worry, you aren’t the only forum member who thinks like you do, even when City do cheap cup match tickets prices, and you, me and other forum members rightly give City credit for doing that.