So how many?

The current system has in effect wiped out the opportunity for fans who on the off chance fancy going at short notice.

I took my 77 year old Dad to the game yesterday using my mates ticket. He has no supporter number but was the one who got me into City many years ago. His view was it is all very different to days gone by and things look difficult just in attending. Nothing is easy to do.

The poor traffic , the search to get in , the mobile ticket not working, 20 min queue for a drink. A full on day really from 1pm and dropped him back home at 6.50pm.

I hope he comes now and again in the future but I think after the ‘match day experience’ it may be too much.
 
Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
so your answer is to increase prices? Cheaper tickets should be welcomed and be put in place throughout the ground.

the club could say if you miss 5 games we suspend your season ticket for the next 3 games perhaps

the Expensive corporate seats are the seats that we don’t fill and struggle to sell . The club also make lots of seats completely unavailable and give them to corporate/ tourist packages
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There's no easy answer.
 
I arrived at 2.25 pm and queued for 10 minutes maximum at entrance P for my seat in SS Level 1. There must be some serious discrepancies at other turnstiles around the ground because each home game this season I've just breezed in with no delays at all and in some cases felt I could have left home later and still been in my seat well in time for kick off.
 
There were about 280 seats on sale around 12.20pm yesterday, when the ticket exchange resales had gone off-sale.

Two third tier blocks had 45 and 35 unsold. Add that to the ticket exchange re-salers who couldn't sell their tickets and anyone else who didn't go or turned around with cancelled trains and motorway closures, there are bound to be gaps.

Most tickets city sold in the last week were singles for £30, and these also remained. It is just a lack of demand under current circumstances.
 
For the league games the problem is completely down to reselling returned away tickets

just close the blocks off and fill our sections up ffs

those 1 or 2 k in the away sections would would fill up the rest of the ground

have we sold a league game out yet?
 
blue b4 the moon said:
I said at the time and was shouted down that cheap season tickets would cause more half hearted fans to pick & choose games they could be arsed coming to.

Not sure what the answer is, halfway up SS3 there's people missing every game, not always the same game but unless what is perceived top match it's rarely full.

Maybe charge more and a rebate for actually attending but, I'd have visions of people bleeping in with 3 cards to make sure they didn't miss out.
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But there are easily the same number of gaps with people not turning up in the expensive areas. Where I sit our tickets are £820, I know a fair few around us who moved or sacked it off altogether when they went above £650.

Around my block (105) yesterday it was easily the poorest attended game I can remember in the Prem since Pearce’s days. I didn’t have anyone sat next to me for three seats to my left and the seat to my right was empty too. The two lads who normally sit in front of me didn’t come neither. Nobody in my block has a cheap ticket.

Within my friends and family group, around two dozen people who have stopped attending City games during the ADUG era, the main reason for them not coming anymore is the price increases of season tickets. The main chunk came when we saw the £50, £75 and £65 price jumps three years in a row.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
But there were easily the same number of gaps with people not turning up in the expensive areas. Where I sit our tickets are £820, I know a fair few around us who moved or sacked it off altogether when they went above £650.

Around my block yesterday it was easily the poorest attended game I can remember in the Prem since Pearce’s days. Nobody around me has a cheap ticket.

Within my friends and family group, around two dozen people who have stopped attending City games during the ADUG era, the main reason for them not coming anymore is the price increases of season tickets. The main chunk came when we saw the £50, £75 and £65 price jumps three years in a row.
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Gaps in the posh seats and expensive s/c seats is likely relevant to it being Palace.

I missed yesterday, as I had to be elsewhere, first domestic game I think since maybe about 2004, ticket was used by my lads girlfriend so not empty.
 
At exec. level and above, being a football "fan" is purely incidental.
A PR dept. with constraints on budget and therefore staffing levels, is of little use, apart from body-guarding the inner-circle, and issuing anodyne releases, which is how MCFC like it, apparently. The loyalty to the club by match-going fans borders on biblical, imo, though ticket prices are not just a City thing. Surely to fuck though, the admin/ticket office/ CityTV fiasco can't blunder on and on. Pointless to imagine that the legions of disaffected supporters, with genuine complaints, are likely to have them addressed. Taking the loyalty of fans for granted is happening, the consequences, not yet, but the clock's ticking.
 
I cannot understand anyone not able to go to the game not in some way getting their ticket into the hands of someone who can use it, either their mates, contacts, exchange scheme or whatever. No need to make a return on it either - just give it away ffs.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
But there are easily the same number of gaps with people not turning up in the expensive areas. Where I sit our tickets are £820, I know a fair few around us who moved or sacked it off altogether when they went above £650.

Around my block (105) yesterday it was easily the poorest attended game I can remember in the Prem since Pearce’s days. I didn’t have anyone sat next to me for three seats to my left and the seat to my right was empty too. The two lads who normally sit in front of me didn’t come neither. Nobody in my block has a cheap ticket.

Within my friends and family group, around two dozen people who have stopped attending City games during the ADUG era, the main reason for them not coming anymore is the price increases of season tickets. The main chunk came when we saw the £50, £75 and £65 price jumps three years in a row.
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Pretty sure my first ST in 105 was £400 when I moved there during the Sven season, so more than doubled in that time
 
I went to the ground in the week on my day off to sort one for my youngster sat next to me.

Got sorted within 2 minutes and the lad on the ticket office was sound as a pound tbf.

What I can’t get my head round is the fact it isn’t possible to sort out yourself online or over the phone. The lad confirmed this to me, as did the woman when I did the same for Southampton.
 
There are excuses for some. I got to the train station and the train was bloody cancelled. And I had already let the missus have the car for the day so that was two seats left open. Still, to all the environmentalists out there - “use public transport” my arse
 
bellbuzzer said:
Taking the loyalty of fans for granted is happening, the consequences, not yet, but the clock's ticking.
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Only if there is a £'s impact. And right now those seats are sold, regardless of whether they've got someones arse on them, the TV revenues are dwarfing everything, so jobs a good un if you are the one running the Club from your SAP and Excel models.

Taking the fans for granted is not something that is going to change anytime soon I fear.
 
Mobile ticketing is a complete and utter fuckin disaster.

The casual fan has disappeared overnight.
Many fans are getting in late (nowt spent at the bars)

Ticket resale should only kick in when a game is sold out.

The Club won't admit it but it's a complete fuck up, turning money away and definitely restricting the capture of new match attending fans.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Just for explanation, I decided to go yesterday and spent almost an hour on Friday morning trying to buy two seats together, anywhere in the stadium.

The best I could do was one seat apart in the second tier of the North Stand and because the receipt said they were a resale, assumed that somebody who was part of a regular trio, was coming on their own.

Thankfully, that was the case, and the person sat between us happily shifted across.

Seen numerous empty seats threads (not my intention for this to morph in to another)

However, from my vantage, there were scores of doubles and rows vacant all around the stadium, running in to thousands, irrespective of what the attendance announced was yesterday?

The entire South Stand from bottom to top was the worst populated I had seen it, yet I couldn't buy two together for love nor money.

Is it really the case we have so many season ticket holders who just aren't turning up, as I had never really thought it was a huge issue, but my issues on Friday trying to buy just two tickets outside of the website's recommendation of the last row on tier three of the Colin Bell, left me wondering yesterday what is going on and how the club can fix it?
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I was more concerned about what was going on on the pitch and how the club can fix that.
 
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1961_vintage said:
I cannot understand anyone not able to go to the game not in some way getting their ticket into the hands of someone who can use it, either their mates, contacts, exchange scheme or whatever. No need to make a return on it either - just give it away ffs.
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Have you tried getting print at home etc, you need to phone the Samaritans after trying to get through to City.
 
1961_vintage said:
I cannot understand anyone not able to go to the game not in some way getting their ticket into the hands of someone who can use it, either their mates, contacts, exchange scheme or whatever. No need to make a return on it either - just give it away ffs.
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See my previous posts. In previous seasons that's what we did. It was as simple as texting a mate or family member to meet you at the ground.

This season I can't be fucked. Now you have to get them to sign up to be a matchday member or some shit and transfer it or go online and list it. I don't care if it to takes 5 minutes or 20, I can't be fucked with it.

You want my three seats filled every home game, get the club to send me three cards.

That's another thing that fucks me off, is all the holier-than-thou fans who can't possibly imagine that other fans might have other shit going on in their lives more important than worrying about an empty seat at a football stadium.

I don't give a single shit that one of our seats was empty yesterday because the club doesn't.
 
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