Viktoria Plzen v City (Tuesday 17 September)

[Tonster]

that's fine but give the away side a half decent allocation, a safe and sensible one that lessens the problems I've highlighted.

Again, they have given 5% of capacity as per UEFA rules. Part of the advantage of playing at home is to maximise that advantage (minimal away support) why would they give more than they have to? Wouldn't expect us to do it, they will sell out their end no problem.

Being the sort of person I am I can see both your points of view. They should be allowed to play on their home ground because not to do so loses them an advantage but they should maybe allocate a few more seats to the away fans, say 1,000, that would have been fairer really. Yes, they are sticking to UEFA's ruling but sometimes rules can be bent a little. Can see lots of City fans watching this in Prague or Plzen in bars so I hope it works out properly for everyone. The touting and the people trying to make a profit from the tickets are the main concern for me. That is not nice.

Totally agree regarding touting etc but you can't set rules based on travelling support and the fact loads booked before knowing the ticket situation. But even if we'd had 1000 tickets there would still not have been enough and the same problems would arise.

Same arguments arose when we played Ajax and we had nearly 5x the amount of tickets so where do you draw the line?

 

[lancs blue]

Well there were more than a 'handful' of fans there when I was there and, of the ones who were in front of me, a few bought at least 7 tickets so, the point I was making was, if they had only got 350 tickets, with the ones that were buying at 9.00am plus the ones who were buying online all the tickets would have gone by 10.30!! In other words there MUST have been more than 350!!

So maybe more than a handful of fans are on 13,000 points? :-)

If there's more than 50 fans (less than a 100!) who have over 13,000 I'll show my arse in the gay bar in Prague!

We'll have to discuss this over an 80p pint in Czech Republic! You can pay though.

I'll take a bet on that. I've got over 14300 points and I know from when Superbia was offered first season that there were over 45 with more points than me so I'd be very surprised if there weren't 3/400 at least with over 13000 points which would be born out by 500+ tixs today selling out almost immediately after dropping to 11500.

Mr Harper could be in trouble here! I have 13,300 pts and was about 160 on the Superbia invite list so I'd estimate around 250-300 with 13k or more.

 

[allan harper]

Tonster you're on! Not a chance there's 300/400 with that many points! Every time we ask at the ticket office (I know their track record) they always say there's not many with more than 13'000 points.

We speak to loads of blues and they all same the same, can't be many on or over 13'000 points.

In the queue today at the ticket office the general opinion of those around my mate was the same.

 

[Tonster]

If there's more than 50 fans (less than a 100!) who have over 13,000 I'll show my arse in the gay bar in Prague!

We'll have to discuss this over an 80p pint in Czech Republic! You can pay though.

I'll take a bet on that. I've got over 14300 points and I know from when Superbia was offered first season that there were over 45 with more points than me so I'd be very surprised if there weren't 3/400 at least with over 13000 points which would be born out by 500+ tixs today selling out almost immediately after dropping to 11500.

Mr Harper could be in trouble here! I have 13,300 pts and was about 160 on the Superbia invite list so I'd estimate around 250-300 with 13k or more.

Heh heh, I'll bring my camera :-)

 

[allan harper]

If there's more than 50 fans (less than a 100!) who have over 13,000 I'll show my arse in the gay bar in Prague!

We'll have to discuss this over an 80p pint in Czech Republic! You can pay though.

I'll take a bet on that. I've got over 14300 points and I know from when Superbia was offered first season that there were over 45 with more points than me so I'd be very surprised if there weren't 3/400 at least with over 13000 points which would be born out by 500+ tixs today selling out almost immediately after dropping to 11500.

Mr Harper could be in trouble here! I have 13,300 pts and was about 160 on the Superbia invite list so I'd estimate around 250-300 with 13k or more.

I'll be shocked if that figure is more accurate then mine, 160 on the that list? Where's the list mate, I've been invited on it so as my mates, never seen a list number?

 

[mancitymick]

got ours but its a bloody disgrace that we have such a small allocation.
if they join the CL with a small ground they should move the game or give us a minimum of 1000 tickets.

Sorry, but why is it a disgrace? It's their home game and they've qualified on merit, why should they have to move it to accommodate more City fans? Do you think the CL should be the sole preserve of the "big clubs", that seems more like the attitude we criticise the rags for.

it is a disgrace. for a start it immediately promotes touting. it also incites trouble, maybe not us but some clubs will go there and away fans will buy in the home end. should that be a group decider etc there could be bother, especially with the effects of 80p beer.
we could talk all day about the "big club" syndrome but this is now big business and if any club wants to capitalise on uefa's greed and join in they have to meet that level of critiera. you can bet if crawley town fluked fourth in the prem uefa would definitely get their game moved.

I have to agree in parts with what Bill has said. Maybe they should be given the option of give the away team a bigger allocation, for arguments 1500 or move grounds

 

[Chappie]

The fact it did not sell out untill the 11500 criteria kicked in indicates that there are less than 300 supporters in the 13000 plus category

 

[allan harper]

If there's more than 50 fans (less than a 100!) who have over 13,000 I'll show my arse in the gay bar in Prague!

We'll have to discuss this over an 80p pint in Czech Republic! You can pay though.

I'll take a bet on that. I've got over 14300 points and I know from when Superbia was offered first season that there were over 45 with more points than me so I'd be very surprised if there weren't 3/400 at least with over 13000 points which would be born out by 500+ tixs today selling out almost immediately after dropping to 11500.

Mr Harper could be in trouble here! I have 13,300 pts and was about 160 on the Superbia invite list so I'd estimate around 250-300 with 13k or more.

You're just saying that cause you know I've got a cute arse x

 

[kbb]

I have 12700 and have missed only one game in last 5 years - admittedly before that I didn't do all aways - I reckon there's a couple of hundred plus ahead of me but was panicked that 13000 was needed at start of day.

 

[allan harper]

The fact it did not sell out untill the 11500 criteria kicked in indicates that there are less than 300 supporters in the 13000 plus category

Me too.

There's not a chance that all 600 tickets went on sale to us, not a chance.