ticket prices for semi- final

christopp said:
For me its simple, as a teacher, I cant justify going there on a sunday and getting back at a ridiculous time, waking up hungover and having to teach, think i would be fired lol. Plus its a semi, it costs a lot for a game that doesnt end with a trophy being lifted. At the same time, if it was on the saturday I would be there as ive only been able to get to wembley once before so I would love to be able to go but sometimes city cant always come first.
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Just do what i'll do. Plan something simple for the Monday morning they can be getting on with while you sit drinking lots of water. Same again for the Friday after the derby
 
fathellensbellend said:
didnt say anything was wrong with it, just stating a fact, everton and sunderland would fill their allocation easily, for whatever reason we have become apathetic has a fan base, when you recall when we got to the play off final against wigan at maine road, or the day we won promotion at blackburn, it seemed despite getting smaller crowds we were more up for it, or even further back at villa park against Ipswich, in the past we would have dreamt of playing at wembley, now it appears for whatever reason huge parts of our support are not that bothered.
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everton and sunderland dont get to finals pretty much every year though, or have champions league games. after a few years they would be exactly the same as us. huge numbers of our support are bothered, but its a very expensive day out. I'm gonna bet we will be close to selling out, 33,000 is near enough maine road capacity i.e. our core support. i can't understand why you are criticizing our fans.

im gonna bet swell we will be twice as loud and passionate as those arsenal fans
 
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Corky said:
It went to phone sales in 1999 so you could not queue on the final day of sale, and it was a lottery who got through.
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Is my memory playing tricks on me - i thought Wembley 99 had one day of sale..? I got in the queue at 3am and got my ticket 11am. Sure that was "day one" and that the last people got theirs that evening. Maybe i'm just old and sleep deprived?!
 
Logic says don't go to this one, as if you lose you miss out on a long disappointed journey home, however if you win there is another more important Wembley trip a month later.

However if thinking logically going to Brighton or QPR in the league cup on a Tuesday night would not happen either.
 
kippaxkid74 said:
Is my memory playing tricks on me - i thought Wembley 99 had one day of sale..? I got in the queue at 3am and got my ticket 11am. Sure that was "day one" and that the last people got theirs that evening. Maybe i'm just old and sleep deprived?!
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Season tickets first day, members second, then a few days later on sale to people with 2 stubs via phone I think.
 
kippaxkid74 said:
Is my memory playing tricks on me - i thought Wembley 99 had one day of sale..? I got in the queue at 3am and got my ticket 11am. Sure that was "day one" and that the last people got theirs that evening. Maybe i'm just old and sleep deprived?!
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Whilst there was a day like that, I remember going down to Maine Road a day or two later when they put a batch on sale to anyone with 4/5 ticket stubs. I picked up a couple for mates that way. I seem to remember they made the announcement and I was down at Maine Road in my lunch hour I think. It was busy but the queues were only maybe minutes and people were passing around ticket stubs.
 
kippaxkid74 said:
Is my memory playing tricks on me - i thought Wembley 99 had one day of sale..? I got in the queue at 3am and got my ticket 11am. Sure that was "day one" and that the last people got theirs that evening. Maybe i'm just old and sleep deprived?!
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You might be getting mixed up when we got scum in the fa cup we queued up at 2am for that but can't remember queuing all night for 99 one
 
Didsbury Dave said:
Whilst there was a day like that, I remember going down to Maine Road a day or two later when they put a batch on sale to anyone with 4/5 ticket stubs. I picked up a couple for mates that way. I seem to remember they made the announcement and I was down at Maine Road in my lunch hour I think. It was busy but the queues were only maybe minutes and people were passing around ticket stubs.
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ah right, i just remember the main sales day for season tickets, didn't realise (though i guess i must've done at the time!) it had more days.

The 2 of us are going to the semi, always done the wembley trips - tell ourselves of all the years we;dve died to get to see city at wembley it feels wrong to not go now... but.. i wish we hadn#'t booked the romo and the train and the match, it comes to £250 and i got stuck paying for both us us (well, she is 74!), but my partners car died last week and got told today it 3000 to fix it, or look at new used ones at 5000. fuck. With a 6 month old baby we need a car really and we're totally skint. To say i'm getting bad evil looks off my other half for floating off to wembley for 2 days next weekend leaving him in charge of our son.. understatement of the year! First time my son has been without me in his whole life (well apart from the 3 matches ive made it to since his birth, but other than those few hours ive been with him 24/7), i feel so guilty, i wish it was all refundable, i thought i could cope emotionally about being away from him for 2 days but i think i'll cry the whole time :(
 
M19 BLUE since 66 said:
You might be getting mixed up when we got scum in the fa cup we queued up at 2am for that but can't remember queuing all night for 99 one
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nah we did, we got there between 3 and 4am, and the queue went into the north stand at the old windy corner and we sat in the corridor in there til the ticket office opened at 9, then slowly got moved along til getting served 11am.
 
I remember queueing the day of the cup final. Picked up 10 tickets as the five of us had the required 5 tickets stubs and as we had already paid to become season ticket holders, for next year, were entitled to another ticket each. From memory got there about 8:15 and collected the tickets around 8:30 at night.

Like some have said you cannot compare the two. My first time at Wembley at 33 years of age and a winner takes all match. This on the scale of importance is miles behind.
 
kippaxkid74 said:
Is my memory playing tricks on me - i thought Wembley 99 had one day of sale..? I got in the queue at 3am and got my ticket 11am. Sure that was "day one" and that the last people got theirs that evening. Maybe i'm just old and sleep deprived?!
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Saturday (day one) was the day of the mammoth queues. I joined the queue at 12-30pm and got served at quarter to midnight, how the TO managed to be so slow processing the sales is beyond me, they had all the available windows open selling tickets.
 
kippaxkid74 said:
nah we did, we got there between 3 and 4am, and the queue went into the north stand at the old windy corner and we sat in the corridor in there til the ticket office opened at 9, then slowly got moved along til getting served 11am.
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In 96 sounds very familiar scum at theirs we went out in town got pissed queued up from 2ish there was all ready about 100 there tickets office opened at 9 got tickets about 10 and I think it was a wed because we went to the konti club (Tuesday night nurse's)
 
I'll be there but I can understand blues not going, I know loads of blues who aren't going cos it's only a semi,and then have no chance of a ticket for the final,so if they have to watch the final on TV, so they might as well watch the semi on TV too.
What they should do now is put everyone in the hat and draw out names of who went to the semi final,to me that's fairer than platinum members or gold members passing on the semi,but will go to the final.
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Bloody hell Bill, where are you staying? The Savoy?!! Or is that price for the whole family? Either way I feel your pain. I'm lucky cos for me Wembley's a cheap day out. A tenner in tube fares and another £30 for the match. The pay off is travelling in the opposite direction though. I part company with roughly £100 for every home game. Like you I'm hardly on my uppers either, but it's a crippling expense and midweekers are a complete no-no these days unless it's in Europe or a derby game. Difficult to let go though when you've done it all your life, eh?!
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Hi John yes it's for the family.just totting up scared me lol.
 
And now we know why we have tourists. We need them. Either they buy the tickets or seats are left empty. Remember that next season when they are scattered around at London games in particular. If we don't buy tickets somebody else will. The club for their part have no choice.
 
But why has it come to this Bill ? What has happend to the passionate fanatical fans of yesteryear? Many have been driven out of the Etihad either by rising prices or disalusament at the way as fans they have been treated and /or took for granted .every week on Bluemoon more and more fans are voicing a negative attitude towards the club .You like me Bill probably know loyal fans who have thrown in the towel and stopped going.i recently watch a home game in a pub in Prestwich it was packed with lads who only a couple of years earlier would have been at the game .while the new owners have done many great things there biggest mistake which will have an ever lasting legacy is to drive a wedge between them and loyal longstanding fans .
 
cyber. Oh do stop moaning. You have previously said you don't go anymore so your constant drivel against the club isn't worth reading.

Start going and support or else do be quiet.
 
Manncity said:
I'll be there but I can understand blues not going, I know loads of blues who aren't going cos it's only a semi,and then have no chance of a ticket for the final,so if they have to watch the final on TV, so they might as well watch the semi on TV too.
What they should do now is put everyone in the hat and draw out names of who went to the semi final,to me that's fairer than platinum members or gold members passing on the semi,but will go to the final.
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The allocation for the final, has been increased in the last couple of years, nearer 29000, as opposed to 25500, not brilliant, but better
 
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