ticket prices for semi- final

edinburgh123 said:
This puts me off bothering going on the Champs Lge scheme with my son. My son can never go (school) and I miss the odd one. Only do it to gaurantee tickets for the final but (assuming we qualify) I would think it not that hard to get one for the final even if not on the scheme (appreciate it will be more of a novelty but I think the overall price and distance to travel will put loads off!
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Disagree mate. If we reach the CL final the tickets will be like gold dust
 
Shocking if we can't muster up selling more than 30k for this. We have a lot of fans who have become complacent, I know plenty of mates who just can't be arsed. I know some fans will genuinely have their reasons not to attend but overall, not selling out is poor. Northern clubs such as Everton, Newcastle, Leeds who are similar sized clubs wouldn't have a problem selling out if they regular trips to Wembley.
 
Pezzer2 said:
Shocking if we can't muster up selling more than 30k for this. We have a lot of fans who have become complacent, I know plenty of mates who just can't be arsed. I know some fans will genuinely have their reasons not to attend but overall, not selling out is poor. Northern clubs such as Everton, Newcastle, Leeds who are similar sized clubs wouldn't have a problem selling out if they regular trips to Wembley.
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Nothing to do with complacency, it's to do with money, some fans have only enough money for one trip & are gambling on us reaching the final. Btw when was 30,000 traveling fans shocking ??
 
Pezzer2 said:
Shocking if we can't muster up selling more than 30k for this. We have a lot of fans who have become complacent, I know plenty of mates who just can't be arsed. I know some fans will genuinely have their reasons not to attend but overall, not selling out is poor. Northern clubs such as Everton, Newcastle, Leeds who are similar sized clubs wouldn't have a problem selling out if they regular trips to Wembley.
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I'm not so sure. If this was Leeds' or Everton's 9th trip in 6 years they would probably struggle too. Newcastle may be an exception.
 
I dont think it's money. It's an issue with our fan base and whether we like it or not it's probably linked to the same reasons that fans who have season tickets seem to be picking and choosing games leaving empty seats at home fixtures. To some extent we have been spoilt and I think some fans take it for granted. People that go to semi should be given priority for final if we get there. I genuinely think the game increase to our home capacity didn't help. It brought a different type of fan and alienated many others.
 
ballinio said:
Nothing to do with complacency, it's to do with money, some fans have only enough money for one trip & are gambling on us reaching the final. Btw when was 30,000 traveling fans shocking ??
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Some fans will have genuine money issues but a load of blues have just lost interest, I know at least 10 lads who could easily go and would have snapped your hand off for tickets a few years ago, novelty has worn off and they're happier staying in the local boozer. In comparison to other clubs I think it's a poor turnout regardless of us being there regurlarly in the last few years.
 
David White said:
Not many. We didn't even come close to selling out against Arsenal the last time we had them at Wembley. I took my 3 kids (instead of usually just 1 of them), plus my sister along with the 4 of us that go every week.

Like has been said earlier, we don't have that many 'occasional' fans to supplement the big hardcore following we have.

I'll be there on Sunday, and at the final if we make it and the Community Shield if we manage to get there.

Long and short of it is that taking 25k people to London, on the weekend of the Marathon for a game that should be played at a mutally (in)convenient location is pretty decent. I'd love it to be full, but I won't lose any sleep if the red-pen wankers are saying we're shit fans.
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Quite agree. Don't care what other fans/media think. I was there when we were shit and I'll be there Sunday as will thousands of other blues
 
It had to happen sooner or later, but the Rag press, namely United's mouthpiece, the *Daily Fail*, has picked up on It......

*City struggle to sell out FA Cup semi-final*

No link, but it's on News Now Man City.

I fully expect It to feature on Talk Shite at some point, and in the Mirror, Sun, Star, and all the other Rag tops.

It's started.
 
City hating 'journalist' Mike Keegan has just had an article put on the Daily Mail saying we still have 2000 tickets we can't sell. what an asrehole. I know he comes on here too. Think his username may simply be Mike Keegan but may be wrong.
 
And here lies the problem, just like the CL.

TV runs football.


However, the FA’s head of professional game relations, Andy Ambler, recently went into detail on the reasons behind the scheduling of the semi-finals.

Ambler said that while transport and travel for fans are considered, the final decision lies with the broadcasters.

In this instance, the BBC had first pick and opted to choose the Chelsea v Tottenham match and a 5pm Saturday kick-off time.
 
Not having the excuses highlighted on that article.
Marathon has nothing to do with ticket sales.
Date gives you an option of not having to stay overnight.
Children going to school.
Surely if they are that tired they will sleep on the way back.
 
Anyone with a purchase history can now buy ,so just bought 4 tickets together very surprised they have gone on open sale , and a lot of blues probably havent realised they can now purchase , why havent the club been pro-active and contacting supporters on their data base ? Quite sure there are a couple of thousand like myself who never thought would qualify to buy a ticket. Unfortunately i am a jinx my last few Wembley trips were Wigan , Arsenal , Rags (both charity shield) Chavs (full members cup) and Spuds (FA Cup final replay) so my 100% losing record has to change , apologies in advance.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
Anyone with a purchase history can now buy ,so just bought 4 tickets together very surprised they have gone on open sale , and a lot of blues probably havent realised they can now purchase , why havent the club been pro-active and contacting supporters on their data base ? Quite sure there are a couple of thousand like myself who never thought would qualify to buy a ticket. Unfortunately i am a jinx my last few Wembley trips were Wigan , Arsenal , Rags (both charity shield) Chavs (full members cup) and Spuds (FA Cup final replay) so my 100% losing record has to change , apologies in advance.
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No offence mate but I hope you miss the plane, boat, train, bus.... : )
 
Pezzer2 said:
Some fans will have genuine money issues but a load of blues have just lost interest, I know at least 10 lads who could easily go and would have snapped your hand off for tickets a few years ago, novelty has worn off and they're happier staying in the local boozer. In comparison to other clubs I think it's a poor turnout regardless of us being there regurlarly in the last few years.
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Everyone I know is going, as excited as ever.
 
The comms from the club could have been better - I told a mate at the Hull game it had gone on sale to Cityzens and he couldn't believe it. The lack of comms mean many have just assumed wrongly that they wouldn't qualify. I'm sure that's had an affect.
 
According to report that between 1500 and 2000 not sold then 31000 have been sold which is a lot more than 20000 some scare monger we're posting on here. More will sell over the day or so and don't think it's a bad effort considering its Sunday kick off and other problems highlighted particularly the problems with kids getting back late with school on the Monday and its semi not a final.
 
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