Should City Offer Subsidised Away Travel?

jrb

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And follow the lead of Stoke and now Chelsea?

CHELSEA TO OFFER SUBSIDISED TRAVEL

Posted on: Sun 11 Aug 2013
Chelsea Football Club is delighted to confirm we will be offering our supporters subsidised travel to at least 10 Barclays Premier League away games this season.

Chelsea Chief Executive Ron Gourlay said: 'The support the team receives away from Stamford Bridge is always tremendous, and as a club we want to show our appreciation for the commitment our fans show week in, week out.

'Everyone knows the financial burden of following a football club and it gives us great pleasure to be able to help our fans to get to a large number of Premier League games outside London this season.'

We make our first trip on August 26 when we face Manchester United on Bank Holiday Monday, with train and coach travel already on sale to supporters for just £10.

On the day, coaches will depart Stamford Bridge bound for Old Trafford at 12.15pm, and Newport Pagnell at 1.45pm. A train will leave London Euston at 2.34pm and arrive back at approximately 2.34am. Train times are approximate and will be confirmed closer to the day.

Also on sale to season-ticket holders this Monday will be match tickets and £10 subsidised coach travel to our game at Everton on September 14. Full information can be found on the ticket information section of our website.

Subsidised travel will also be offered for Newcastle United on November 2 and Sunderland on December 4.

Just a thought. If not for the games in the North and Midlands, then for the games in London and South Wales?(obviously too late for Cardiff away)
 
They could put a special train on for us, in fact, if Mansour can buy a City plane, he can buy the fans a City train!
 
allan harper said:
They could put a special train on for us, in fact, if Mansour can buy a City plane, he can buy the fans a City train!

I like the sound of that.

The Sheikh Mansour Special to Euston. :-)
 
Chelsea need this to shift their tickets.... City don't so will not happen....

Chelsea have been doing this for the past few years....

Think the last free travel city put on was for that uefa cup game at Barnsley..
 
jrb said:
allan harper said:
They could put a special train on for us, in fact, if Mansour can buy a City plane, he can buy the fans a City train!

I like the sound of that.

The Sheikh Mansour Special to Euston. :-)

The next train arriving at platform 6 will be The Sheikh Mansour bullet train, calling at London!
 
Blue_Ketchup said:
Chelsea need this to shift their tickets.... City don't so will not happen....

Chelsea have been doing this for the past few years....

Think the last free travel city put on was for that uefa cup game at Barnsley..

TBF Chelsea always take a good away following.

They certainly fill OT every time, etc.

Chelsea have been doing this for the past few years.... ?

Regardless if City sell their away allocations, which certainly hasn't always been the case, it would be another great gesture by the club., even if it was only for games in London and South Wales.
 
City, away travel, not particularly no, and here's why:

All local transport authorities should provide free/ concessionary transport to the ground from points of national public transport terminals and park and ride locations to the ground and back. Therefore City & rags liaise with and financially support GMPTE, Newcastle with Nexus etc.

All persons in possession of a valid match ticket should have free/ concessionary travel within the local area. Getting to that local area for an away game is at your own expense as far as I'm concerned.

Away match ticket prices should be somehow capped at £25-30 It's probably not possible to actually 'cap' the price as it will be restricting business, however, the clubs should agree a set recommended price
 
Maybe United should follow Chelsea's example and subsidise travel to home games?
 

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