The Creeping Gentrification of City

gkmcfc said:
OJ Blue said:
OP has a point which is similar to the one I made last week.

I don't have a problem with Cup Schemers getting priority or kids getting in with parents etc. but the kick in the bollox is the Cup Schemers getting priority ABOVE people with more loyalty points, this is different to the criteria set out in 2011 hence why people are kicking off.

What's the saying? 'Until the pips squeak'?

Got us by the bollox from here on in, the snidey ploy is to get more ST holders on the Cup Schemes next season, more like THEM every day.


Cup schemers were prioritised last time. In fact they were promoted to the top regardless of points

I know, but the criteria was cup scheme OR loyalty points, now it's both. Goalposts moved once more.
 
Got a few family members who've had season tickets for years. One of them is well on the ball, who like me was in all 3 cup schemes.

One of the others had never previously enrolled on the cup scheme. Until I pointed out that although he might be ok for a Semi final ticket, he probably wouldn't get one for the Final.

Net result of this conversation, him and his mates all enrolled. All have attended every home FA cup game, all are eligible for tickets for the Semi & the Final if we get there.

If we get to the final, unfortunately I can see a lot of disappointed blues with thousands of points, but no ticket.
 
I've never looked around 216 and thought "look at that posh ****." Not even to St. Helen's Blue.
 
Happy to put £500 in a touts pocket for a Wembley trip but not £15 - £20 supporting the club in earlier rounds? Not much sympathy here.
 
CC1 said:
Santiago Street . said:
I pay about £650 for my ST, don't go away much, aint a points whore so I bought gold not platinum and as such I only have about 3500 points.

How fucking poor is it that people in my boat who've forked out £650 aren't guaranteed a semi final ticket yet some little spoilt Hooray Henry who's been to 1 or 2 games where he spends most of his time playing on his ipod can jump the queue based on nothing more than some marketing exec's plan to "enhance the brand" by attracting bourgeois parents prepared to overindulge their offspring to the nth degree. So I'll have to splurge probably the best part of £500 sorting a ticket for the semi and god willing the final

Plenty of people bigging up City's role in the community, funding colleges, building footy pitches in East LA (ffs) etc but as the old adage goes charity begins at home which in a football club's case should mean the fans who've been there through the hard times. I'm lucky that I can afford to pay over the odds occasionally for special occasions but how many thousands of dyed in the wool blues are there who are missing out on the glory days by what seems like an almost deliberate campaign to ostracise working class fans from City

People will no doubt counter with the old "our prices are amongst the cheapest in the PL" argument. The cheapest Bentley in the showroom is still fucking dear.

Sort it out City before we have a ground full of chablis sipping, Leica clicking, Guardian reading consumers, there only to be entertained. And people wonder why the atmosphere's bobbins these days.

Sorry mate, I have to ask, how many seasons have you paid for a season ticket? The platinum season ticket has only been going for a couple of years so it's not just down to this that you haven't got enough points. There are thousands of city fans who have had season tickets for years who witnessed crap football year after year and who DO go to away games in all weathers and even went to YORK away!! It is these fans that are, quite justifiably preventing those with only 3500 points going to Wembley!!

Correct.
 
Can anyone provide specifics as to when we can start buying Chablis at the ground? Will I need to move my seat to a box or can I get it on the concourse? What vintages will be available? Will I get the full bottle if I buy two large glasses?
 
OJ Blue said:
gkmcfc said:
OJ Blue said:
OP has a point which is similar to the one I made last week.

I don't have a problem with Cup Schemers getting priority or kids getting in with parents etc. but the kick in the bollox is the Cup Schemers getting priority ABOVE people with more loyalty points, this is different to the criteria set out in 2011 hence why people are kicking off.

What's the saying? 'Until the pips squeak'?

Got us by the bollox from here on in, the snidey ploy is to get more ST holders on the Cup Schemes next season, more like THEM every day.


Cup schemers were prioritised last time. In fact they were promoted to the top regardless of points

I know, but the criteria was cup scheme OR loyalty points, now it's both. Goalposts moved once more.

It has been both for the last 2 years.
 
A season ticket is for league games, the cup scheme is for cups. Would it be fair if a season ticket holder not in the cup scheme with 10000 points who didn't attend one cup game got a semi/final ticket before a cup scheme member with 2000 points who attended every round?
 

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