Goaters 103 wrote:At the very route of all this is this membership scheme, supposedly "for the fans" and trumpeted as being designed "with their help" which then comes out and wants £35 off each Adult, and £20 for each child, for the right to do what? To join a queue to buy a ticket to the stadium, sometimes at £57 a pop - Im sorry but what the fookin fucl is that?
For a family of four you are looking at over £250 cost to see the Liverpool game. That is a pisstake.
The club can dress it up in City points, 10% club shop discounts and some fan bloke they appointed any way they want, but its just too much Im afraid and like the sudden pricing out of fans on tier 2 of the East and West Stands, it again leaves a very sour taste in the mouth.
When the club was up financial shit creek a few years ago, those people sat down the side on tier 2 were some of the first to put their hands up and stick with the club, yet unfortunately short memories have appeared within City. Many simply don't have the financial means to meet the cost in a perverse way maybe having seats empty for the Liverpool game may get the message across.
Slim wrote:Oh Wonderbro, if you are saying 4 home UCL games, why have you multiplied them both by 8?
AG7 wrote:5 pages of this shit and no one remembers it's a Monday night game ... that alone knocks off a few thousand regulars who come in from our of town (like me) or have shift work which doesn't always fall in a way to allow travel to the game or from the game late night or an early start the next morning ...
Second, the game's on TV, so those paying Sky that much (not quite £1500 an year) but still quite a bit definitely consider ...
Third, of course £57 being the cheapest ticket ain't that cheap exactly ... again add travel and parking and food/drinks it all just adds up ...
So what if we haven't sold (yet) ... or even if we don't sell out ... the competition is between the boys wearing blue and the opposition ... what matters will be the goals scored vs the goals conceded and points taken ... not if we sold out or they sell theirs out; why do everything turns around into we are better fans than their fans business? I think such shit suits fans of those clubs who can't compete on the pitch ... so next time they tell you any such non-football shit or stat about their club i.e. fans in Thailand or shirt sales in Combodia ... just show them that golden patch on your shoulder!
ant london wrote:I don't disagree with the views of many that the prices are becoming prohibitive and are continuing to exlude more people from matchdays. However, I think the shit being flung toward the club is pretty unfair. Yes, that Liverpool price is ridiculous but we all know that the club is fighting to stabilise its financial position for reasons wholly outside its control.
They could say, fuck it, we will just scale down and accept that UEFA and the cartel but they have clearly decided they want to keep winning and that means squeezing every ounce of juice out of our (relatively) limited revenue potential (compared to Utd, Real, Barcelona, Liverpool, Juventus etc) in international marketing terms, merchandising and matchday revenue. It's shit that this prices people out but I think it's clear the club are doing what they can to make things affordable for things like cup games etc so a family of 4 can go for reasonable prices....I don't see any other Top 6/8/10 PL clubs doing things like that and our prices still remain amongst the lowest in terms of cheap seasoncards etc.
However, I've just come back from a couple of trips to Australia and watched quite a few games of Aussie Rules Football there and I have to say, they have one ticketing idea which I think is pretty decent and is something City should try.
Each club essentially has several different types of membership. Not like ours where you either have a seasoncard or you have membership which gives you a window to purchase tickets but instead memberships which entitle you to a number of match tickets per season. This, I believe, could be as few as 3 games or 5, 7, 10 etc. Clearly the cost is significantly lower than the full season ticket and you still have to do some online legwork in terms of applying for tickets for individual matches but I think this could be a way to go for; those who live further away and cant get to every game, those who can't afford to go to every gam or those who just don't want to go to every home match. It would, IMO, be a way of keeping "real" fans engaged and able to go to games and to make sure we sell out. I thought it was a pretty decent model.
ant london wrote:
However, I've just come back from a couple of trips to Australia and watched quite a few games of Aussie Rules Football there and I have to say, they have one ticketing idea which I think is pretty decent and is something City should try.
Each club essentially has several different types of membership. Not like ours where you either have a seasoncard or you have membership which gives you a window to purchase tickets but instead memberships which entitle you to a number of match tickets per season. This, I believe, could be as few as 3 games or 5, 7, 10 etc. Clearly the cost is significantly lower than the full season ticket and you still have to do some online legwork in terms of applying for tickets for individual matches but I think this could be a way to go for; those who live further away and cant get to every game, those who can't afford to go to every gam or those who just don't want to go to every home match. It would, IMO, be a way of keeping "real" fans engaged and able to go to games and to make sure we sell out. I thought it was a pretty decent model.
Ted Hughes wrote:It would be a nice idea but there's one obvious flaw. Some poor cunt from Cornwall or Cork buys a ticket to see 3 games, sorts out a plan for his or her time off work etc for each one, then each time it gets a bit closer to the game, Sky moves the fucker to Sunday or even Monday night. So they end up paying for 3 games they can't attend rather than one.
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