Stand against prices

We are seen as old style fans. We have a few beers and a pie that's it.
City want fans to spend hundreds of pounds every visit, well we do but not in the club shop. We spend it on tickets, travel cost, beer, food sometimes a stay over.
Now it's getting beyond a joke pay 35quid to get a matchday card. Spend hours on line trying to get tickets, than you can't get tickets sat with each other, only singular seats at ridiculous prices.

This season is going to be the first season in decades where I have been to so few matches. It's looking to be around 6 home and away. We would normally do around 15 games but we just can't get the tickets or the price is to high.

It's a bloody shame as it also means we don't get to see each other much nowadays as we are all over Kent. We all use to park up near Medway than car share to the game. Us FOC all retelling the same old stories of being shit and travelling all around the country and the scraps we use to get in, good old times.

We didn't get many points we got our tickets by hook or by crook. For over a decade got tickets though a company that supplied the materials for the pitches. That company always had 4 tickets together. We even got 'away' tickets as the also had 4 tickets at villa park

The club seem intent on forcing out all us FOC and our kids and families. From season ticket holders to fans living miles away on matchday membership.

We simply don't spend enough at the club, for decades the club wanted us and our pennies.

My City clothing comes from China but mostly of Vinted get some great bargains of there if you like the old stuff.

I'm not sure how much notice the club will take.

Us working class fans are fading away just like our City tattoos
 
Will every one on here be at the Cup game against Salford??

I do feel a lot of Blues have given the club’s admin an open goal to take the piss on home tickets with the obsession on away tickets and ticket points. The Club didn’t need to divide and conquer. Fans did it for them.

Just a few suggestions:
Use the Face Value ticket pages and not the official ticket exchange. The latter reinforces overpricing fans for tickets.

Take advantage of Blues making cheap or free tickets available like against Forest.

Join your local OSC Branch if you aren’t already a member. Share spares amongst members.

Join WhattsApp Groups with mates for sharing spares.

Just a few thoughts
 
Last edited:
There could only be succesful pressure applied if it was done on a national basis through the FSA . Clubs in the championship do not even have the £30 tickets for away fans and if we were to find ourselves back down there, for whatever reason, we would be a prime target for very high prices. Presumably there must be some presence from the OSC at the FSA but I must admit I have never heard anything fed back about any proposals to challenge the clubs on their pricing strategies. German fans have shown that the clubs will back down in the face of protests but it has to be every club involved and has to involve a lot more than waving a banner outside the ground . Personally, I would be getting the tennis balls out at every game and stopping all games in the top two leagues on 30 minutes (on the basis £30 is more than a fair price for tickets) until the clubs agree to actually engage with fans (and not in the way city fob fans off with city matters) and/or reconsider their policies on pricing.
 
It will never happen but would be interesting if all fans boycotted a game just once to see the effect this would have on the club/game,the publicity it would gain would be useful.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top
✖
  AdBlock Detected
Bluemoon relies on advertising to pay our hosting fees. Please support the site by disabling your ad blocking software to help keep the forum sustainable. Thanks.