We will sell out every league game at the Etihad with no problem at all
They haven't just spent all of that money on a whim you know, they do measure demand and much more accurately than some bellend rags on Youtube
Not sure that's true mate. Was in 2013/14, but I think we found it harder last season. Certainly a lot of games reached much closer to the date of the fixture before selling out.
And I think that's due to City pushing the supply/demand economics too much.
They've priced out a shit ton of blues who can't afford a season ticket and used to attend several individual fixtures a season, they're relying on the day trippers and fair weathers to make up a larger proportion of the individual ticket sales now. The type that aren't arsed if they have to spend £60 quid on a ticket for a league game because it's a one off expensive, they'll probably go in the club shop and buy some expensive tat as well. And they're the first to drop off when things aren't going swimmingly.
It's almost besides the point to me anyway. We're just looking a raw numbers when we sell out.
I made this analogy recently, but imagine the Etihad is a glass, and the club's core support is some Vimto concentrate (the core support being the people who'd follow City whether we were doing great or shit, whether they had a season ticket or could only afford/manage a few games a season). Well the football tourists and the plastics are water, they dilute the Vimto. But you need some, they're an inevitability. But you have to get the balance right. The club has increasingly given the impression that it doesn't care how diluted the Vimto is, as long as the glass is full.
It doesn't seem to matter how increasingly watered down and tasteless our nice cold drink is, as long as the glass is full.
This is the slippery slope we're on at present, and I don't like it, frankly.
