When Is The Club Going To Stop Selling Tickets In The Home End To Away Fans?

[ysmsa]

Tourists, day trippers, football fans, new City fans with loads of money, and more school kids.

The atmosphere at the Etihad will be rocking with high pitch Children's voices shouting.... " "Come on City!"

Hopefully, they are the future

I'm mid to late 50's and probably younger than a lot of our hard-core support.

I honestly can't be arsed singing and jumping about anymore, there to watch the game, go mad when we score and gripe when we don’t.

The demographic of the average PL fan has changed and younger fans don't go in numbers as they did. Those that do are probably with their legacy fan parents.

The PL need to wake up because in 25 years there will be no one going through the turnstiles when todays 50+ year old fans stop going!

 

[I'm not really here]

The PL need to wake up because in 25 years there will be no one going through the turnstiles when todays 50+ year old fans stop going!

Unfortunately they won't, they're only interested in the here and now, how much money they bank before someone else takes over.

They couldn't give a shit about the state they leave in English football in when they retire.

 

[fathellensbellend]

I don’t disagree with any of the points being made but if we all binned off the Champs League, who would be there to support the team.

I think the excessive pricing for the Inter game is doing lasting damage

A Shit season and a fall off in crowds is the only message they will understand, i remember when we played Villa in the cup 2011, i think 25000 were in attendance, the club sent stewards up to us in CB3 to try and get us to sit in the North stand so it looked better on the tv. The biggest problem you have is when execs who earn a million pounds a year they have no concept of cost, they will look at tickets at 72/82/92 quid as reasonable, and if you actually got them to reduce them, it wouldn't be anything realistic. City used to be a club that looked after the fans, now it looks for new fans, and if you don't like it, so what, they don't care

 

[Beaker]

Surely the execs looked at the crowd the other night and thought about the bad image this projects. Irrespective of spreadsheets and revenue data, it looks piss poor. If you’re trying to make a ticket to City a valuable commodity, having thousands of unsold seats isn’t going to do it.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

The PL need to wake up because in 25 years there will be no one going through the turnstiles when todays 50+ year old fans stop going!

completely agree with this point. You only have to look at our match going crowd. Other than in ss1 there are barely any groups of young people going to games.
I’m not talking teenagers either, I’m talking people aged 18-35.

The only time you see that is for cup games now. It’s mainly people aged 50 and over. As you say a lot of younger fans are legacy fans going with their parents. When they stop going who’s going to replace them?

There’s no long term thinking at all.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

completely agree with this point. You only have to look at our match going crowd. Other than in ss1 there are barely any groups of young people going to games.
I’m not talking teenagers either, I’m talking people aged 18-35.

The only time you see that is for cup games now. It’s mainly people aged 50 and over. As you say a lot of younger fans are legacy fans going with their parents. When they stop going who’s going to replace them?

There’s no long term thinking at all.

Your final paragraph is diametricly opposite to the the cultural thinking in Abu Dhabi and the UAE.

There is a strange disconnect in place which i dont really understand.

Most odd.

 

[East Level 2]

I don’t disagree with any of the points being made but if we all binned off the Champs League, who would be there to support the team.

I think the excessive pricing for the Inter game is doing lasting damage

Inter was the first game and the club pushed it as a repeat of Istanbul. It was the glamour home game and priced accordingly. But the club should have realised the other three games needed to be much cheaper and announced the prices at the same time.

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

A Shit season and a fall off in crowds is the only message they will understand, i remember when we played Villa in the cup 2011, i think 25000 were in attendance, the club sent stewards up to us in CB3 to try and get us to sit in the North stand so it looked better on the tv. The biggest problem you have is when execs who earn a million pounds a year they have no concept of cost, they will look at tickets at 72/82/92 quid as reasonable, and if you actually got them to reduce them, it wouldn't be anything realistic. City used to be a club that looked after the fans, now it looks for new fans, and if you don't like it, so what, they don't care

It's about time the fans did something
We need a proper protest.
A walk out of the ground after 70 minutes if that what the cost is that week.
Not just city but all fans.
Look at the rises they have introduced at the swamp.
All real football fans need to come together

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

From a commercial perspective it is better to have the stadium only 90% full at high prices rather than full but with prices 20% lower for instance.

Not long term. I'm sure we all got the bug standing on the Kippax as kids, and it stays with you. Would everyone be going now, if they hadn't got the bug then?

Where's the next generation of supporters coming from if they can't afford to get into the games?

Make no mistake, a season or two of being wank and the day trippers won't be seen for dust, who picks up the slack then?

 

[mexico1970]

You're not a proper blue unless you allow the club to shaft you whilst you say nothing.