How many on Thursday ?

[Mark Garrett]

We're playing Juventus, it's our most glamour home tie of the group, we have just beaten Chelsea at Eastlands, we're 4th in the lge, the tickets are very reasonably priced and the club have made a great gesture of a 3 for the price of 2 offer. Attendance should be 40,000 plus really and hopefully a very good atmosphere.

[the_georgian_genius]

Some lad on Bluemoon has said we had sold 32k so far. Hopefully we can get 8,000 odd tommorrow, don't know whether that 32k includes a full juventus allocation as i've heard they have sold out, so that would be 35k in total.

Should really be just under full house this.

[john68]

Televised and sandwiched between Chelsea and Newcastle home games. Affordability must come into it for some...3 games in a week is a big ask for family men...also the kids are at school the next day....Not expecting a huge attendance.

[paulh]

32k to be fair my seat is south stand upper near front. my work commitments changed monday enabling me to go managed to get my seat monday

[sandman]

I cant see it being over 33k, we rarely sell out on weeknights, not usually even close.

[john68]

Just slightly Doomie (tangential) to this topic....Something I have noticed over the years of taking rags to the swamp is how small the ratio of children is to adults. There are kids but not really that many in relation to older people. Through their ticketting policy and possibly their arrogance, the rags seem to have badly neglected their next generation of fans.
City on the other hand have worked hard on this for many years, starting with the Junior Blues and continuing with the strategies to attract families and children.

The ratio of kids to adults at CoMS is extremely high and will always have an effect on week night gates.

[ronk]

8pm on a Thursday is a killer. I'd been looking at getting over for a game but there's no feasible way to make the last flight and the even the early flight the following day would be far to late to make work (I only work Friday mornings at the moment, and cover isn't an option).

[ashton287]

Think 30K, Poznan will be the biggest attendace i think with loads of them buying seats in our end.

[blues-clues]

Just slightly Doomie (tangential) to this topic....Something I have noticed over the years of taking rags to the swamp is how small the ratio of children is to adults. There are kids but not really that many in relation to older people. Through their ticketting policy and possibly their arrogance, the rags seem to have badly neglected their next generation of fans.
City on the other hand have worked hard on this for many years, starting with the Junior Blues and continuing with the strategies to attract families and children.

The ratio of kids to adults at CoMS is extremely high and will always have an effect on week night gates.

Two things:
1 Dont you have any standards?
2 Dont the London Cabbies object to you knicking their rides?

[john68]

My attitude to taking rags to the swamp is simple....I love it...they give me their money and i spend it on City. I make certain that they are aware that their hard earned cash goes directly into the city coffers and i often thank them for financially supporting City. That usually goes down a treat.
There are so many funny stories, some I have previously recounted on here about my trips to the swamp and cab encounters with rags.
The American girl who wanted to know what a real madrid was.
The Irish rags who turned up on the wrong day and flew back out before kick off.
The irish rags who didn't know where Manchester was, flew to Birmingham, booked a hotel there, got a return train ticket before checking whether there were any return trains, got my cab to Brum and missed the last 20 mins of the game.
The Japanese guys who spoke no English, that I taught to say red shit...and they shouted it out at the swamp.
The guy from Sheffield who asked if all cab drivers were city fans, cos he'd only been twice and had been abused both times. (It was me previously too).
The numerous rags I have (innocently?) taken to the cricket ground.
The foreign rags I have told I can't take because it is illegal to take anyone in a rags' shirt...and they beleive this shit.

I love rags in my cab...

[Goaters 103]

My attitude to taking rags to the swamp is simple....I love it...they give me their money and i spend it on City. I make certain that they are aware that their hard earned cash goes directly into the city coffers and i often thank them for financially supporting City. That usually goes down a treat.
There are so many funny stories, some I have previously recounted on here about my trips to the swamp and cab encounters with rags.
The American girl who wanted to know what a real madrid was.
The Irish rags who turned up on the wrong day and flew back out before kick off.
The irish rags who didn't know where Manchester was, flew to Birmingham, booked a hotel there, got a return train ticket before checking whether there were any return trains, got my cab to Brum and missed the last 20 mins of the game.
The Japanese guys who spoke no English, that I taught to say red shit...and they shouted it out at the swamp.
The guy from Sheffield who asked if all cab drivers were city fans, cos he'd only been twice and had been abused both times. (It was me previously too).
The numerous rags I have (innocently?) taken to the cricket ground.
The foreign rags I have told I can't take because it is illegal to take anyone in a rags' shirt...and they beleive this shit.

I love rags in my cab...

Top stuff John. I always used to delight in giving wrong directions to the day trip Rags in Manchester from around the globe, who when they asked for help were sent on the tram towards Bury, or off to Maine Road telling them to go sightseeing in Moss Side too.

[brite blu sky]

My attitude to taking rags to the swamp is simple....I love it...they give me their money and i spend it on City. I make certain that they are aware that their hard earned cash goes directly into the city coffers and i often thank them for financially supporting City. That usually goes down a treat.
There are so many funny stories, some I have previously recounted on here about my trips to the swamp and cab encounters with rags.
The American girl who wanted to know what a real madrid was.
The Irish rags who turned up on the wrong day and flew back out before kick off.
The irish rags who didn't know where Manchester was, flew to Birmingham, booked a hotel there, got a return train ticket before checking whether there were any return trains, got my cab to Brum and missed the last 20 mins of the game.
The Japanese guys who spoke no English, that I taught to say red shit...and they shouted it out at the swamp.
The guy from Sheffield who asked if all cab drivers were city fans, cos he'd only been twice and had been abused both times. (It was me previously too).
The numerous rags I have (innocently?) taken to the cricket ground.
The foreign rags I have told I can't take because it is illegal to take anyone in a rags' shirt...and they beleive this shit.

I love rags in my cab...

Legendary

[blues-clues]

My attitude to taking rags to the swamp is simple....I love it...they give me their money and i spend it on City. I make certain that they are aware that their hard earned cash goes directly into the city coffers and i often thank them for financially supporting City. That usually goes down a treat.
There are so many funny stories, some I have previously recounted on here about my trips to the swamp and cab encounters with rags.
The American girl who wanted to know what a real madrid was.
The Irish rags who turned up on the wrong day and flew back out before kick off.
The irish rags who didn't know where Manchester was, flew to Birmingham, booked a hotel there, got a return train ticket before checking whether there were any return trains, got my cab to Brum and missed the last 20 mins of the game.
The Japanese guys who spoke no English, that I taught to say red shit...and they shouted it out at the swamp.
The guy from Sheffield who asked if all cab drivers were city fans, cos he'd only been twice and had been abused both times. (It was me previously too).
The numerous rags I have (innocently?) taken to the cricket ground.
The foreign rags I have told I can't take because it is illegal to take anyone in a rags' shirt...and they beleive this shit.

I love rags in my cab...

Good man! Top answer!
I guess you knew my Q was slightly tongue in cheek but as it provoked the best post of the day I am glad I asked.
I guess the price you charge is regulated by the coucil or some such bollocks. It would be great to pull up outside the swamp and tell the punter
John "That'll be £50 please"
Punter "What the fuck I am not paying that what a rip off"
John "Wait until you get inside chum then you'll realise that £50 on a taxi ride is the best deal you will do all day!"

[john68]

I suppose the sweetest irony is when rags' day trippers ask whether it is easy to hire a taxi back to the city centre after a match.
I have to tell them that even though we have over 1,000 licensed taxis in Manchester, it is a criminal offence for us to ply for hire outside the swamp.
"We are licensed for Manchester....The swamp is not in Manchester."

Then they think I am really winding 'em up...when I'm not.

[Beeks]

35,212

not bad for a televised Thursday night game

[blues-clues]

35,135

And we have a winner! Close anyway 35,212 according to auntie beeb.

[The Foggy Blue]

Nice number. Well done all. Wish i was there....

[9secondlegend]

35,212

not bad for a televised Thursday night game

ive already had the red cunts on facebook on about the fancy dress (blue seats)

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[the_georgian_genius]

I thought it was more than 35k

[john68]

It will probably not enter their tiny little minds to correlate that the empty seats were all around the Juve fans in the away section. I thought it was a pretty decent turnout from the City fans.