Ticket Prices

I can't argue with the price per game for my seasoncard, who could with the squad we have? I think it works out at just under £35 per game. At £50+ per game I'd be out. I'd only pay that for games against the top six and then reluctantly.
 
BlueTG said:
Absolutely pointless contemplating one-off matches for myself now unless it’s an early cup round where they sometimes reduce prices.

To pay for a ticket and travel to the game is over 1/4 of my monthly disposable income now.
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Probably doesn’t even get a second thought by anyone in our boardroom that actual fans of the club who want to go, face that kind of thing. Only that there are people who can pay anything they put the prices up to which makes them think the prices are justifiable.
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Adult ST price for Family Stand L1 is £545 and U18 price is £135. So for 1 adult and 1 child a total of £680 or £35.79pg if attended 19 games.

Adult matchday price for Family Stand L1 is now £50 adult and £30 U18 = £80 for the casual fan. So that's a big differential of £45 more for matchday rather than ST. Plenty of room for discount IMO.

City use "elastic" pricing. The week before last 95% of the ground was £60+ for adult matchday and £40+ for U18 (and reduced to £50/£30 last week in some places).
So then you were looking at a difference of £65+ for 1 adult + 1 child. That really is taking the piss IMO.

Yes, I understand City do the big discounts from time to time and particularly for domestic cups. It's great to see nearly a full house for example for a FA Cup tie against a lower side. I think that's brilliant. I also know we have a great range of ST prices compared to the other bigger clubs.

But I continue to think City are taking the piss with matchday prices.
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Top work, but I can't see an easy solution.

If match day ticket prices were slashed then many S/T holders would give them up and pick and choose matches to attend.

Maybe the Club could put a thousand or so open to Ballot for each home game at heavily reduced prices?

I just can't see how you are gonna cater for the guy who suddenly decides he wants to go to the weekend match and take his kids, no membership, no nothing, but won't pay the high prices.

Those days are long gone and it will only become possible again when football is played in front of half empty grounds like it was when most of us starting watching.
 
loads of tickets left for Saturday, so so poor that fans want to attend but the pricing is so out of touch people cannot afford it, instead of growing our fanbase, it appears the decision makers would sooner alienate it, all this on the back of a pandemic when lots of people are financially worse off, and have got out of the habit of going to the match. I presume the seats that are not being sold would usually end up in the hands of tourists, who are not allowed to travel at the moment, absolutely clueless.
 
fathellensbellend said:
loads of tickets left for Saturday, so so poor that fans want to attend but the pricing is so out of touch people cannot afford it, instead of growing our fanbase, it appears the decision makers would sooner alienate it, all this on the back of a pandemic when lots of people are financially worse off, and have got out of the habit of going to the match. I presume the seats that are not being sold would usually end up in the hands of tourists, who are not allowed to travel at the moment, absolutely clueless.
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Spot on
 
fathellensbellend said:
loads of tickets left for Saturday, so so poor that fans want to attend but the pricing is so out of touch people cannot afford it, instead of growing our fanbase, it appears the decision makers would sooner alienate it, all this on the back of a pandemic when lots of people are financially worse off, and have got out of the habit of going to the match. I presume the seats that are not being sold would usually end up in the hands of tourists, who are not allowed to travel at the moment, absolutely clueless.
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No, the issue is all the seats left, and it isn’t that many, are all singles. So no good for a family or group of friends to go. With so many match day tickets on sale now isolated singles will always be left, that will be a problem all year because of deferals..Plus it’s the bank holiday weekend and end of the holidays.
 
blueparrot said:
No, the issue is all the seats left, and it isn’t that many, are all singles. So no good for a family or group of friends to go. With so many match day tickets on sale now isolated singles will always be left, that will be a problem all year because of deferals..Plus it’s the bank holiday weekend and end of the holidays.
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There are a big lump of over 100 in one block.

Tickets a lot of area of the ground that were £63 to start with were lowered to £50 and now some full adult tickets are £40.

So Members with match day ticket priority are likely to the full rack rate, but I can't see many others buying at this stage, you see the price and make a decision, you don't come back every couple of days checking if it has gone down, plus even at £40 it is not an impulse buy and a single seat.

The 'dynamic' strategy is anything but.
 
Corky said:
There are a big lump of over 100 in one block.

Tickets a lot of area of the ground that were £63 to start with were lowered to £50 and now some full adult tickets are £40.

So Members with match day ticket priority are likely to the full rack rate, but I can't see many others buying at this stage, you see the price and make a decision, you don't come back every couple of days checking if it has gone down, plus even at £40 it is not an impulse buy and a single seat.

The 'dynamic' strategy is anything but.
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a strategy to fleece every last penny out of the "fans" you are supposedly on the same journey with. Filling the ground should be a doddle with our fanbase and team, the decision makers don't have a clue.
 
fathellensbellend said:
loads of tickets left for Saturday, so so poor that fans want to attend but the pricing is so out of touch people cannot afford it, instead of growing our fanbase, it appears the decision makers would sooner alienate it, all this on the back of a pandemic when lots of people are financially worse off, and have got out of the habit of going to the match. I presume the seats that are not being sold would usually end up in the hands of tourists, who are not allowed to travel at the moment, absolutely clueless.
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Spot on. A family of 2 adults and 2 kids would need to shell out £200 for tickets and parking, before any food and drink or other merchandise. There's no incentive for them to come to more games. At Anfield or Old Trafford, it costs a lot less than that.

Our attitude to pricing is shockingly short-sighted.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Spot on. A family of 2 adults and 2 kids would need to shell out £200 for tickets and parking, before any food and drink or other merchandise. There's no incentive for them to come to more games. At Anfield or Old Trafford, it costs a lot less than that.

Our attitude to pricing is shockingly short-sighted.
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Have you had the opportunity to take this up with the club or does it just fall on deaf ears?
 
mayo31 said:
Try Hotel Babylon, that is good and not far from Piccadilly train station

Not sure about corporate as the hotel wiped me out
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I've changed travel to arrive at the coach station, is the premier in Portland st near the station and is it close to city center bars etc thanks
 
blueparrot said:
No, the issue is all the seats left, and it isn’t that many, are all singles. So no good for a family or group of friends to go. With so many match day tickets on sale now isolated singles will always be left, that will be a problem all year because of deferals..Plus it’s the bank holiday weekend and end of the holidays.
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I bought two online on Monday and couldn’t find two next to each other so ended up with one behind the other.
Had a look at the seating plan on Tuesday and there was literally hundreds everywhere so took a trip to the ticket office yesterday and they changed them for me.
Told it was due to season card holders putting their seats on exchange plus returned tickets from outlets.
 
Corky said:
There are a big lump of over 100 in one block.

Tickets a lot of area of the ground that were £63 to start with were lowered to £50 and now some full adult tickets are £40.

So Members with match day ticket priority are likely to the full rack rate, but I can't see many others buying at this stage, you see the price and make a decision, you don't come back every couple of days checking if it has gone down, plus even at £40 it is not an impulse buy and a single seat.

The 'dynamic' strategy is anything but.
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One of the tickets I bought on Monday was a kids at £41, it’s now selling at £20.
I feel mugged.
 
Potnbear said:
I've changed travel to arrive at the coach station, is the premier in Portland st near the station and is it close to city center bars etc thanks
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Premier Inn Portland St is five minutes from the coach station, if that. You’re within short walking distance to pretty much everywhere in the city centre from that hotel
 
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