Actually I thought it was a brilliant piece of marketing. It was only mocked by the old sky4 fans because due to their abundance of glory hunters they can fill their stadiums for every game, or so they say.
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Actually I thought it was a brilliant piece of marketing. It was only mocked by the old sky4 fans because due to their abundance of glory hunters they can fill their stadiums for every game, or so they say.
IanBishopsHaircut
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'We've not sold out our Season Tickets'
The cladding on the stadium looks too boring'
'49 million for Raheem Sterling'
Blah Blah fucking Blah
We are supporters of one of the most rapidly rising superpower in world football...We have a fantasic team...A stadium that is incredible...A youth facility to rival any in the world and a benevolent owner willing to plough billions into East Manchester...
Absolutely beggars belief the negativity on here sometimes
We get enough shit from rivals...never mind our own fans wading in
HelloCity
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Bollocks. Seen enough of your posts to know you're a rag. They're full of snide digs and piss takes.
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That's fair enough mate, and I agree. But I don't like being shouted down for expressing an opinion that can be deemed as negative by blues on a hair trigger to pop at other blues they don't see eye to eye with.
The issue of ticket prices is my single biggest concern with City at present.
I think it's harming the atmosphere, and pricing out longstanding blues.
It's also going to make the expanded ground harder to fill.
This is something which should pull us all together, as it makes City, City.
Last season, in our opening fixture against the dippers, the cheapest adult ticket you could get your hands on was £57 - and that was in the family stand with a child in tow. Most adult tickets were well into the £60s.
http://www.mcfc.co.uk/news/tickets-...city-v-liverpool-25-august-ticket-information
What will the prices be like when we face Chelsea next month?
Where does this end?
This is something I really worry about, and I shouldn't have to fucking scrap with other blues to defend myself simply for showing some perceived negativity before they even reflect on my points.
I know there are undercover rags on here. But I don't think they're the type that give a shit how expensive our tickets are, and the pricing out of blues. In fact, they'd probably celebrate it given they could wank each other off on Twitter to the empty seats it'd leave.
These are the kind of discussions that are better had in person, I suppose. Because on an anonymous internet forum, ulterior motives are always suspected when critical opinions are voiced.
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Believe what you want. Couldn't give a flying fuck. You're of no significance to me whatsoever.
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
I have absolutely no doubts that he is a Blue.
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£1750 tickets, others well above £1k. Mine was £800 this season. Among the most expensive individual tickets in the league.
The 300 quid tickets are a great thing, but they're an exception, and they're a smaller percentage of our overall season tickets.
Our pricing is becoming an issue, IMO, and I don't think I'm the only one who sees it that way.
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To be fair to the club, they have added thousands more £299 tickets compared to last season, as well as thousands of £380 tickets - we are comfortably the best priced team in the country - the whole league needs a re-think though, City are just the best of a bad bunch price-wise!
squirtyflower
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you're being disingenuous there, and you know it
the prices quoted there are for the Level 2 hospitality suites with access to new bars, food outlets plus they get parking, programmes and three cup games thrown in
not really measuring the same thing are you
in order to accommodate fans that wouldn't want to buy that package a new stand was built and those fans were given first dibs, quite rightly, in the new stand
of course i'm now added to the list of posters 'who can fuck off' because they disagree with your point
squirtyflower
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I think you will find that there are a lot more tickets below £400 than there are above £1000
not exactly an 'exception' or a 'small percentage' as you are claiming
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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.
No your not the only one at all, thousands see it at every prem club but its probably too much revenue for the bean counters to lose.
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Cheers mate, I appreciate it.
I know that there is also more tickets priced £500 & £600 than there is the higher prices.. what agree with are the match day ticket that can be as high £60+ what need to looked at by all premier teams
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Doesn't mean he also doesn't think you're a bellend. He just agrees that you're a blue bellend!
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You might want compare our prices with the rest of the Premier League remembering that we have been in the top 2 the last 4 years
And if you swap that £1750 for the dearest 'normal' S/T, which I think is £920, our rank rises to 11 in that criteria
And if you swap that £1750 for the dearest 'normal' S/T, which I think is £920, our rank rises to 11 in that criteria
Matty
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Annoyingly I actually quite liked that as an analogy, albeit a flawed one as the extra seats being added (certainly the cheaper ones) will allow more "Vimto concentrate" fans to attend games, those who couldn't afford to do so previously.
You are correct though in that it's classic Partridge!