As far as I was aware, nobody knows what our percentage of season ticket holders is as the figures have never been released by the club. Unless you know different?No we're not? We have one of, if not the largest percentage of season tickets in the league, we are at about 75% the dippers are below 45%, the lowest in the league which means every single game they play at home theres potentially more tourists in the ground than local support. We are not even close to being in the same situation as them and there isn't a poorer choice of club to want to take example from than the dippers.
What they do with match tickets might be better than us, i'm not disputing that or trying to defend city, i,ve already expressed my anger at this latest piss take but the cost of these dipper concessions is almost halving the season ticket pool. If they had 40k+ season tickets as we do. There'd be none of that, the dipper fans would trade ticketing policy with us in a heartbeat.
Would you sooner we dropped 13,000 season tickets with the lowest points next season but then offered a tiny portion of those tickets cheap and a small window of priority?
Like I said, not defending City here just pointing out the full context. If we're going to pick a team to want to emulate, don't pick the biggest tourist trap stadium in the league
Let’s say at one stage we did have circa 40k season tickets, my guess would be it would be considerably lower than that now and dropping year on year. The hierarchy are clearly attempting to emulate Liverpool’s model of 50% or less, but they have much more favourable match day ticket prices and much fairer methods of selling them.
I hate just about everything else that club and its supporters stand for but on this subject I’m afraid they shit all over us.