spam1967 said:
i don't think it does, so let me explain.
you stated this:
i think having more gloryhunting nobs at important matches is the way forward.
how are you going to fill an 80,000 seater stadium?
not with 30,000 hard core supporters.
i bet your gutted we left hyde road.;)
Do we have an 80,000 stadium? I must have missed something.
No, actually it seems we don't. We actually have a 48000 stadium that gets sold out for almost every game. Sold out, in general, by overwhelmingly, people who have been supporting City for a decent time period. The season ticket, points and City card/blue membership system is designed to cater for genuine City fans.
So, there is no problem filling this stadium.
Yet this scheme seems designed to put barriers in front of blues who want to, or can only, attend, say 3 matches. They would have bought those tickets and the tickets for the other matches would have been taken up elsewhere, maybe on general sale.
Now, some of those blues are being forced to find that money up front. Some won't be able to. Some won't be able to justify spending extra on matches they won't be able to go to.
And they are only given a week before their chance of getting a ticket to matches months in the future potentially goes up in smoke and offered up to any old gloryhunter who fancies coughing up, and whose circumstances allow them to cough up, in the hope of possibly being present at a rerun of the drama of the last two home games of last year.
Just like the same people packed the stadium, and made for the most bizarre scenes ever seen at a City home game, for the Real Madrid game.
This scheme is designed to rule blues out of going. Not get more blues in. It is designed to put barriers in front of blues and to get the tickets on sale to cash cow numpties instead, who the club are desperate to milk, as soon as possible.
What other reason is there? It's not like they are offering some sort of super discount. £40 a game is not a discount or a bargain. The games would be sold out (or as good as) anyway. And you know it. But that wouldn't get the them on open sale quickly and get new "target customers" in the seats that would generally, usually be taken up by fairly long standing (and not particularly high spending - on things other than tickets) blues.
Your logic about "how could we fill an 80000 stadium otherwise doesn't emake sense to me. Are you suggesting that we turf out season ticket holders too as that would get the new fans in that are needed? I doubt it. But you seem to be suggesting that City need to get different people than at present in a 47000 stadium as it will allow them to possibly fill a mythical 80000 stadium in the future.
I'm not sure I understand where you are coming from or how you are suggesting such a scheme will help fill a big stadium. The only possible logic I can think of is that you are suggesting that it is a positive thing that the people who usually occupy our seats are replaced for these big, important games by people who haven't been before - because that gives us more fans. If that is what you mean then it doesn't sit right with me at all.
