So how many?

[Utter bobbins]

Looked pretty full to me from 20 mins in but then again I’m not a sear scanner

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I suspect people heard you were coming and decided to stay home. Weather may have played a part as parts of the country were flooded and maybe people didn’t want to risk it. Deferred season tickets which the club is struggling to sell. Said it before we don’t have vast loads of tourists wanting to fill the void. But this is what pisses me off in that tickets get siphoned off for big away games yet these same people never want to watch Palace at home. mind you for £50 a seat I wouldn’t either. Third tier of south stand should be match day tickets only, no season card holders and every seat priced at £25 for adults and £10 for under 18‘s. First come first served with seats opening up three weeks before a game.

Haha, had not factored in my own attendance!

Like the third tier, South Stand suggestion, would be incentive for many on the day

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Loads have deferred this season, that’s hot to be a huge part in attendances.

Got to be a factor, although I also deferred but my seats and seemingly still being sold on a match by match basis.

 

[jimharri]

If you don't fill your seat, either with your own arse or somebody else's, for something like 80% of games, you should lose your season card for the following season. Understand that not everyone can make every game, but put it up for exchange of you can't go.

I know a fella living over here that has a seasoncard, and he gets over to about half the games. He's spending a tidy amount every season going to these games. More than a fair proportion of blues who are fortunate enough to live within relatively easy travelling distance of the stadium. Why should he be punished for living a long way from the stadium, when he's spending thousands every season?

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

The usual excuse of S/T holders not turning up for a variety of reasons doesn't hold water in this instance as the away section of SS3 was available to home fans and those seats are not sold as season tickets.
There looked to have been at least a third of seats available in that section.
How does the ticket exchange work? Are tickets put up for sale together with other seats available on the day or are they in a separate area of the web site?

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.

 

[LongsightM13]

Just when the club are coming under fire from everywhere with the “empty seats”’jibe it’s like this season they’ve done everything in their power to make it worse. Buying tickets got harder, getting in got slower, access has got worse. I’m no Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells and find 90% of fan whines to be embarrassing and often misplaced, but this season someone has fucked up on a massive scale.

That is a very fair assessment. The entire ‘matchday experience’, as they like to call, it has deteriorated by some margin for many average punters this year.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Loads have deferred this season, that’s hot to be a huge part in attendances.

I have deferred my seat. Went to Burnley game on a free ticket courtesy of a mate. He couldn't make Palace game either and offered me another freebie last Wednesday. I told him I'd let him know Thursday but I decided to go fishing instead. I watched about half the game on my phone. I made the right decision not to go I think, and I won't be paying £60+ for a match ticket anytime soon, that's for sure.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Just when the club are coming under fire from everywhere with the “empty seats”’jibe it’s like this season they’ve done everything in their power to make it worse. Buying tickets got harder, getting in got slower, access has got worse. I’m no Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells and find 90% of fan whines to be embarrassing and often misplaced, but this season someone has fucked up on a massive scale.

(Tongue in cheek time or EB trying to bring a little perspective back as we just lost a game really not a war)

And still there are no Meat and Potato pies and only fries not proper chips like we used to get!!!

 

[mdj0520]

We have 3 season cards. My wife, myself, and then one of her brother's ideally.

We had our first kid last June, who was born with a fully treatable disability but requires a lot of work getting him into a brace before bed, so a babysitter is out of the question - we take it in turns going, so one of our tickets is always free. Her brothers are in uni a couple of hours away so can't make every game.

In previous seasons, whichever one of us was going would just take the free season cards into town and hand them off to friends who would meet us. Not anymore as we don't have a printer at home and the tickets are on our phones.

I can't be bothered faffing about with the club's shambles of ticketing. So blame them that our three seats are rarely filled.

We will probably give up two of them next season anyway as this is the most disengaged I've ever felt from the club. Sick of all the moaning directed at fans when the club is actively trying to make it more difficult to fill the ground.

For this season, you want my three seats filled, get the club to send us cards.

 

[hammocity]

that’s just south stand level 3. This is happening around the whole ground regularly.

I’m in the CB level 2 so can only comment on what I can see, the South Stand definitely looks the worst from my view.

 

[Lavinda Past]

(Tongue in cheek time or EB trying to bring a little perspective back as we just lost a game really not a war)

And still there are no Meat and Potato pies and only fries not proper chips like we used to get!!!

Schoolgirl error there EB... Everyone knows they're Potato and Meat pies. Unless your talking about a new veggie option, 'no meat and potato'

;-)

 

[Eccles Blue]

Schoolgirl error there EB... Everyone knows they're Potato and Meat pies. Unless your talking about a new veggie option, 'no meat and potato'

;-)

Whoops, of course in my school days (no we did not use slates thank you!) it would have been called meat and potato even though there would have been more potato but meat was a God as we didn't get to have very much in the war....get out the violins for this poor deprived child that was!! ;-)

 

[mdj0520]

We have 3 season cards. My wife, myself, and then one of her brother's ideally.

We had our first kid last June, who was born with a fully treatable disability but requires a lot of work getting him into a brace before bed, so a babysitter is out of the question - we take it in turns going, so one of our tickets is always free. Her brothers are in uni a couple of hours away so can't make every game.

In previous seasons, whichever one of us was going would just take the free season cards into town and hand them off to friends who would meet us. Not anymore as we don't have a printer at home and the tickets are on our phones.

I can't be bothered faffing about with the club's shambles of ticketing. So blame them that our three seats are rarely filled.

We will probably give up two of them next season anyway as this is the most disengaged I've ever felt from the club. Sick of all the moaning directed at fans when the club is actively trying to make it more difficult to fill the ground.

For this season, you want my three seats filled, get the club to send us cards.

I'd also like to point out that whilst the club has made the overall matchday experience a good deal shitter, I walk past club employees dressed like butlers holding umbrellas branded with "the tunnel club" over tourists who look like they're dressed for a high society gala.

The club doesn't give a fuck about the common fan, yet there are regular threads on here where all us plebs fight amongst ourselves and blame eachother.

 

[lancs blue]

I had to miss yesterday's match as I'm self-isolating, I put my seat in EL3 on the exchange on Friday without much hope of selling it - it's never sold on there before - but I was pleasantly surprised that it was snapped up by late afternoon. I do think the bulk of the empty seats are S/T holders who for whatever reason haven't been able to make it or else they simply couldn't be bothered (not an attitude I understand but it seems to happen).

 

[LongsightM13]

I'd also like to point out that whilst the club has made the overall matchday experience a good deal shitter, I walk past club employees dressed like butlers holding umbrellas branded with "the tunnel club" over tourists who look like they're dressed for a high society gala.

The club doesn't give a fuck about the common fan, yet there are regular threads on here where all us plebs fight amongst ourselves and blame eachother.

I mentioned in another thread last week that a few fans I know seem to feel a growing ‘disconnect’ from the club and quite a few have sacked it off altogether or are seriously thinking about it, despite many being home and away veterans since the 80s and 90s. Whether that’s a result of external unconnected factors such as age, re-evaluation of priorities in the post Covid world, or simply the expense and hassle of getting to and getting into the stadium these days, it definitely appears to be a growing feeling, particularly among local ‘legacy fans’

 

[GrumpyLegacyFan]

I am sure I am going to invite hostile replies...but I just wanted to make the case for those Blues who don't have the good fortune to live in the North West. I have been a season ticket holder for 30 years - one of the 300,000 at York, and go home and away (and Europe - including Lokeren and Poznan) whenever I can. I have lived in London all that time, and have personally subsidised Virgin and now Avanti, and this season, for example have not missed a game, home or away - including some long painful journeys to see shite like Southampton and yesterday - not just the 'glamour' games. However, for a midweek game - as everyone knows, the trains stop running back to London by half time, and most of our motorways are down to a single lane for 'night works' by 10pm. Getting home at 3am to be at work at 8am, is not an ideal scenario to have to experience every other week. Before the Ticket Exchange, I used to give my card to the guy I have sat next to since we were together at Maine Road, and he will use it for free to make sure my seat is always full for the games I couldn't get to. With the exchange, if he cant use it - I will post it for sale, but to penalise those Blues who cant just jump on a tram every game, is deeply unfair (as some are suggesting, for example not allowing us to renew if we exchange more than 10 games). The shifting fixture list, the lack of parking, the queues to get in, the restrictions on bags into the Stadium for those on 3 hour train journeys, let alone the travel nightmare are enough reason for many long-distance Blues to have dropped season tickets. But for those of us still trying - If we don't bother to fill our seats when we cant go - by all means, have a go - but most of us try to make sure our seat is full, if we cant get there.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

We have 3 season cards. My wife, myself, and then one of her brother's ideally.

We had our first kid last June, who was born with a fully treatable disability but requires a lot of work getting him into a brace before bed, so a babysitter is out of the question - we take it in turns going, so one of our tickets is always free. Her brothers are in uni a couple of hours away so can't make every game.

In previous seasons, whichever one of us was going would just take the free season cards into town and hand them off to friends who would meet us. Not anymore as we don't have a printer at home and the tickets are on our phones.

I can't be bothered faffing about with the club's shambles of ticketing. So blame them that our three seats are rarely filled.

We will probably give up two of them next season anyway as this is the most disengaged I've ever felt from the club. Sick of all the moaning directed at fans when the club is actively trying to make it more difficult to fill the ground.

For this season, you want my three seats filled, get the club to send us cards.

This is how i feel, We have three season tickets and up until this season when one of us couldnt go we could always lend the card to a friend or another family member. Now i have to get them to register with city etc and i just cant be bothered with this nonsense. So we have had several empty seats this season due to the club making something very simple much more of a hassle. I know this also applies to several who also sit round us.

Could be our last season as season ticket holders.

 

[mdj0520]

I mentioned in another thread last week that a few fans I know seem to feel a growing ‘disconnect’ from the club and quite a few have sacked it off altogether or are seriously thinking about it, despite many being home and away veterans since the 80s and 90s. Whether that’s a result of external unconnected factors such as age, re-evaluation of priorities in the post Covid world, or simply the expense and hassle of getting to and getting into the stadium these days, it definitely appears to be a growing feeling, particularly among local ‘legacy fans’

For me it's all the minor seemingly trivial micro-aggressions that are eroding at my enjoyment of going.

First game of the season for example, they want us all in early to avoid queues so offer half price booze from 1-2 (not 1 until kickoff, 1 hour and then prices return to normal the hour before kickoff). Then they don't open the bloody turnstile s until 1:30.

Ssl3 booze queues. The token system is great, but one game I'm told season card discounts are no longer a thing, the next game I'm overhearing people using their season cards for discounts.

It's just generally mismanaged and with all the little annoying things mounting up each season, they've royally fucked it with the mobile ticketing and incompetent ticket office.

Honestly, I'm getting to the point that the whole thing just seems like I'm wasting a few hours I could be spending with my 16 month old.

 

[bluestevei]

We have 3 season cards. My wife, myself, and then one of her brother's ideally.

We had our first kid last June, who was born with a fully treatable disability but requires a lot of work getting him into a brace before bed, so a babysitter is out of the question - we take it in turns going, so one of our tickets is always free. Her brothers are in uni a couple of hours away so can't make every game.

In previous seasons, whichever one of us was going would just take the free season cards into town and hand them off to friends who would meet us. Not anymore as we don't have a printer at home and the tickets are on our phones.

I can't be bothered faffing about with the club's shambles of ticketing. So blame them that our three seats are rarely filled.

We will probably give up two of them next season anyway as this is the most disengaged I've ever felt from the club. Sick of all the moaning directed at fans when the club is actively trying to make it more difficult to fill the ground.

For this season, you want my three seats filled, get the club to send us cards.

thought some1 demanded a card 1 and got it , was on facebook or mancityfans net then a few others did this and got it

 

[blue b4 the moon]

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.