Sneaky increase in ticket prices

[jrb]

It’s not where we should be at though, is it. The club is much more than a business - it’s a community asset made for the people of Manchester. At the moment large numbers of working class people aren’t benefiting from it or able to attend.

We shouldn’t just accept being priced out. Without the fans the club is nothing.

I and others posted that a decade ago. A decade later City are Champions again and selling out at the Etihad. Falling on deaf blue ears, mate.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

City Matters!

If anyone mentions a ticket price protest, you're called a Rag, told to f*ck off, told why these tickets prices are necessary, told about the limited cheap season tickets in SSL3, told about the cheap tickets via the tied in cup schemes that guarantee you loyalty points for 'away tickets', and a whole host of other reasons to make you feel like an ungrateful moaning c*nt! :-)

Oh yea city matters! How could I forget. They did a great job at the joint statement with the scousers…..

The people who you mention in the main are alright jacks that’s aren’t effected by pricing. We are now in a situation where thousands of families/ young lads who used to go to the footy (premier league games) can’t afford it. That’s not right. May as well move the ground to Qatar if they aren’t bothered about the community

 

[Stephen230]

I fully understand that it's a "seller's market", but that's way too much, in my opinion. £50 per night would be more than enough for a 3* hotel.

Unfortunately hotel pricing doesn’t involve what you or I might think is reasonable. I sometimes book a “cheap” 3* hotel near me for visitors. It’s about five miles outside town. Look at the pricing for January. A differential of £490 depending on the night for the same room.

 

[jrb]

Oh yea city matters! How could I forget. They did a great job at the joint statement with the scousers…..

The people who you mention in the main are alright jacks that’s aren’t effected by pricing. We are now in a situation where thousands of families/ young lads who used to go to the footy (premier league games) can’t afford it. That’s not right. May as well move the ground to Qatar if they aren’t bothered about the community

Not only is our match going fan base getting older, FOCs, it's getting wealthier. Think about that.

 

[Corky]

It’s not where we should be at though, is it. The club is much more than a business - it’s a community asset made for the people of Manchester. At the moment large numbers of working class people aren’t benefiting from it or able to attend.

We shouldn’t just accept being priced out. Without the fans the club is nothing.

It was a Cook thing introduced in 2008. No price lists published since, and this season the same game has been increased in price 2 or 3 times.

Club means vey little to this mob, ESL/WSL, the brand (slaves/cattle) and the Product are paramount.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

It was a Cook thing introduced in 2008. No price lists published since, and this season the same game has been increased in price 2 or 3 times.

Club means vey little to this mob, ESL/WSL, the brand (slaves/cattle) and the Product are paramount.

David Conn wrote about what was to come. Much as I loathe him, he was on to something in, “Richer than God”.

 

[Centurions]

Playing devils advocate, surely the club are looking out for the fans with very reasonably priced season tickets, not to mention spending the money to expand so more season tickets can be bought?

Yes, it's unfortunate if you can't afford a season ticket in the first place but City aren't ran as a charity.

 

[jrb]

We give the cult stick, and rightly so, but when FSG announced they were going to raise season ticket and match day tickets across the board, over 10,000 of the cult walked out during a game at Anfield.

The announcement saw season tickets in the new main stand reach a staggering £1,029 with individual games seeing a number of seats priced at £77.



A plan was swiftly set in motion. Fans were urged to leave their seats in the 77th minute league meeting with Sunderland in protest of the rise from £59 tickets to £77.

And so, on February 6, 2016, with Liverpool 2-0 up against Sunderland, an estimated 10,000 people made their way to the exit in the 77th minute.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

One of the main benefits of being in an OSC Branch is helping each other to avoid excessive ticket prices. There will also be at least one person in each Branch with a thorough understanding of the ticketing system that sometimes helps to avoid paying excessive ticket prices.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Playing devils advocate, surely the club are looking out for the fans with very reasonably priced season tickets, not to mention spending the money to expand so more season tickets can be bought?

Yes, it's unfortunate if you can't afford a season ticket in the first place but City aren't ran as a charity.

Your second sentence sums it up. Basically if you can’t afford a season ticket you can’t go to premier league games and you should just accept that… so that’s basically huge swathes of greater Manchester priced out.

There’s a tiny number of affordable season tickets, which are near enough impossible to buy, if you aren’t already a season ticket holder. They’ve also increased prices everywhere else in the ground and match day prices…

No one’s saying run it as a charity either. Reasonable priced match day tickets isn’t a crazy ask. How can you justify £70 tickets?