Statement from fan groups ahead of new season

Do whatever you like at your Osc meeting no one gives a shit

You soured this thread by making all about Parker and the Osc which you always do and snide remarks about others which you always do
Get over it.

I don’t even know you are.

I wasn’t even having a pop at anyone but you got very sensitive. The reality was people on social media were saying Esme won’t be able to see City again whilst these Scandinavians are trying to get preferential treatment.

I hope you’ve impressed your mates with your rant. I’ve hardly been on here in months lol
 
I asked this earlier so apologies if I missed any reply but it looks like you can download the ticket to 2 phones, can you not leave a burner phone with the ticket on with someone trustworthy? Or is that rule just for changing phones and only 1 can be active?
i have my old iphone with the same apple id and the tickets on both so i give my old phone to my daughter if i cant go
 
Suspect this will be my last as a season ticket holder.

Lad is at uni and unlikely to make 10 games. I've loaded his ticket to my phone and will try and find a way to get him to 10 by taking others, but I'm basically having to think of ways to cheat the system, when all I want to do is pay for his season ticket, sell the games he can't make back to the club (who then sells the seat at a higher price) and then he'll have his season ticket available when he finishes uni and potentially gets a well paid job and wants to go to lots of games. Instead, I suspect he'll lose it, meaning he probably won't bother going when he finishes the course as he'll have got out of the habit. And if they won't renew his, they can do one for mine, which I suspect is what they want all along as that's two seats they can sell for a premium price to fans who'll also want to visit the shop, do the tour and whatever experiences the new City square can charge them for.
 
So if you’re clumsy and lose your phone 3 times in a season you can’t download your season ticket for a 3rd time so can’t attended games ultimately losing your season ticket for the following season
 
Are some of these changes even legal? Take the minimum ten game attendance one. If a person has paid their money to attend a game upfront but can't attend what right does the club have to demand an explanation, or penalise the person for not showing up? They paid for the seat it's their decision what they do with it surely?
If clubs hadn't sold themselves to tv then they might have a point, but people have lives outside of football and have to plan ahead. They do but tv then alters everything throwing those plans up in the air.
We all know this is the start of making it more and more difficult to retain a season ticket until eventually they are gone forever. Nobody likes being dictated to, attending a football game is supposed to be a pleasure not a chore.
Just about had it with city and football.
Have to go to ten games.
Max 2 season ticket downloads per season.
My dad's tickets on his phone and mine.
What if he breaks his phone
 
Do whatever you like at your Osc meeting no one gives a shit

You soured this thread by making all about Parker and the Osc which you always do and snide remarks about others which you always do
To be fair to @Tim of the Oak it was me who asked about the OSC. Yes Tim replied, as I expected because I think he probably thought it was a dig at the OSC and he always jumps to their defence.
I asked because we never seem to hear the OSC when you are ‘confronting’ the club and I wondered why they weren’t included in the statement.

I should clarify that, after many seasons as an OSC member I am so annoyed with them (over other issues) that I resigned late last season and unless I can form a branch with 1 member I won’t be rejoining! :-(
 
Daft question time.

If a phone has to have NFC to activate the scanner.

Would it work with one of those NFC enabled rings or other gadgets?

If no, fine. Just a thought.
 
I can see City backtracking on the 10 game rule "After listening to our fans".
That will then be followed next summer with a new rule that each season ticket holder must spend a minimum £100 per season in the club shop or stadium bars etc. :-(
 
Just about had it with city and football.
Have to go to ten games.
Max 2 season ticket downloads per season.
My dad's tickets on his phone and mine.
What if he breaks his phone
I suspect that a phone call would resolve that, they can probably see which phone is being used, they'll just remove the old phone and you can download again to the new one.
 
Just about had it with city and football.
Have to go to ten games.
Max 2 season ticket downloads per season.
My dad's tickets on his phone and mine.
What if he breaks his phone
Last season I got a new phone for Xmas but when I tried to download my season ticket I got a message saying it was already on 2 devices (it wasn’t). Phone call to the ticket office and they sent me a new link. No problem.
 
I think you are getting confused mate with not going on strike. I can see why some members of CM were annoyed with that but each could vote with their feet. All Branches / members were given a free hand whether to support the protests and I participated in both of those in the ground. The protests were great IMHO and you will be relieved to know I'm not taking credit for the price reductions. 1894 really excelled. That said, taking or threatening to take City to court is now a step too far for me. That was premature IMHO.

Loads of posters give Kevin P flack. I guess he can handle it. I was more disappointed with the posters / groups who felt a Supporters Club Branch couldn't lobby City officials for flexibility against the new rules. Everyone else seems to be lobbying against them.

As I have said repeatedly, I tend to stick up for the groups under fire including the flexi-gold holders who were sometimes made to feel like second class Blues.

Can you try to answer the question I posed in another thread about objections to the North Stand singing section. I could concur with the argument that singers wanted the same Blues around them for every home game. Now this doesn't seem to be a priority (10 games might be too many), is it just the Premium seats area that you object to. I know we don't have price details.

Btw, I've always said there is nothing special about OSC membership.

I hope everyone gets behind the lads on Saturday and we raise the roof.

Tim, you’ve either ignored the point I made or you missed it? I’m not going to rewrite it again.

Let’s hope the people in charge of the OSC publicly support any future fan protest if there needs to one or if there is one? Because I can tell you now, the majority of the OSC membership wanted the OSC to ‘officially support’ the last fan protests. Hopefully there will be no need for the fans to protest again?

I’ll leave it at that mate.

Enjoy the game on Saturday,
 
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I became persona non grata due to this 10 game restriction and have not renewed. In fact I will never attend another City game again. They chose to serve the divorce papers, so they can now feck off.

I do feel for those who honestly believed they could work around these restrictions, when it was blatantly obvious this was not going to be the case. So many tickets will go unused, so many fans will be denied the chance to attend, and so many seasoncards will again be lost to genuine fans next year.

In short, this is not your club anymore. It is nothing more than a money making franchise who are using the once great name of Manchester City Football Club to operate.
See you on Saturday mate.
 
Re the ticket exchange, I'm not even sure I understand it, do you have to put a ticket on there more than 24 hours ahead ? Next we'll need a sick note for not attending.

I thought they said the facial recognition wasn't going to be "in use" ?
There isn't facial recognition- the technology of the new scanners does have the capability to be upgraded to have FR installed at a later date IF City want to ...
 
So if you’re clumsy and lose your phone 3 times in a season you can’t download your season ticket for a 3rd time so can’t attended games ultimately losing your season ticket for the following season
If you lose your phone 3 times in a season you definitely aren’t intelligent enough to be allowed a season ticket.
 

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