So how many?

[simmo]

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.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

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

There's no easy answer.

 

[stan bowles]

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.

 

[Corky]

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.

 

[Del_Bosque]

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?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

It's a valid point. The website wasn't telling me on Friday there were seats available together for the usual away third tier, yet it was pretty sparse.

It was full, mate, but not until 3.30pm. All those tickets were sold.

 

[eastmanc]

First crowd of the season with over 53000.

No it’s not. Edit just looked it up , you are right.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

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.

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.

 

[Rammy Blue]

I thought there were a lot of empty seats yesterday, personally I’d just put it down to half term.

Oh, and as said many times, the match day experience is wank compared to what it was.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

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.

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.