So how many?

[yerwot?]

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.

 

[1961_vintage]

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.

 

[LongsightM13]

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.

Pretty sure my first ST in 105 was £400 when I moved there during the Sven season, so more than doubled in that time

 

[Stoned Rose]

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.

 

[edinburgh123]

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

 

[1961_vintage]

Taking the loyalty of fans for granted is happening, the consequences, not yet, but the clock's ticking.

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.

 

[ysmsa]

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.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

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?

I was more concerned about what was going on on the pitch and how the club can fix that.

 

[Blue Maverick]

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.

Have you tried getting print at home etc, you need to phone the Samaritans after trying to get through to City.

 

[mdj0520]

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.

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.