It's marginally better than when first released. The "Price Highlights" are misleading & inaccurate. It doesn't encourage new "members as there will be a joining fee for anybody who isn't currently a season pass holder. Any scheme that forces children & the elderly to pay more so that adults can pay less is fundamentally wrong. I'll be playing no part in it. I'll await the Trusts' survey.
We will have one of the weirdest looking crowds on TV next season, all the corners packed and not many in the middle of any of the stands. Pure lunacy
Just wondered what our supporters who live abroad with season tickets think about the new scheme. I probably get to 6 or 8 games a season and have absorbed the increases in price for concession tickets over the last few years to sit in W4. Now we are to pay a monthly charge that is about £100 more per season for the privilege or be shuffled off to the corner. Unfortunately this is far too much of an increas for me so will reluctantly have to give up my season ticket and will resort to buying on a match by match basis if I can be arsed!
Least when we get promoted, all the plastics and PL fans will then get the best seats. Good for them!
A direct debit has the facility to take more than one month's payment if one isn't paid. That is why they are used and not a standing order. But your point about if being mote complicated than it is worth is a valid one. I fear for the future of the club if we don't go up. Apart from the drop off of support that entails we have a lot of fans for whom the scanning of a ticket is a complicated task they need assistance with so this set up will be a problem for them.
I believe they're looking at monthly, quarterly or annual payment options, there won't be a discount for not using the one they want you to use. To be honest, I think the payment aspect is the least of their problems, little kids obviously don't pay for their own and you can't really exist nowadays without a bank account.
I am not saying you are wrong, as Bruce has made some proper bloopers over the last 2 years, but there have been times when, as a businesslike chairman he should have looked at the options, weighed up the probable risks and invested further and if he had of done that Bruce would, in my opinion, of scraped us over the line in The PL and would have had us in the top two in this league. I also think, as many said at the time, that all of the name-change aggravation and other malicious issues did nothing whatsoever to help Bruce push his teams on. The owners have a huge responsibility for failure to achieve targets, not just Bruce, although they should have replaced him in May 2015 at the very latest, before that in my view.
They should have ditched it but no , this is basically the original scheme then with a few very small differences
And I don't disagree with much of what you say - however I do believe the Allams have given Brucie more and more money and in the end have got nothing for it - how much do you think we will get for Huddlestone Diame Hernandez Livermore and snodgrass - significantly less than the £33 mill or so we paid for them and so far he's got us relegated and so far we are some way from being promoted again
As a 'little kid' I paid for my own admission to City out of my pocket money and later from my paper round. I paid at the turnstiles on a match day like everyone else and like football fans had been doing since the game was invented. I'm sure not every 'little kid' who goes to City today goes with their parents. What about teenagers and those under 25 ? Are they supposed to sign up to 12 monthly payments to watch their local football club ? And the payment aspect may be the least of the clubs problems but it is still an issue. Not everyone wants another direct debit coming out of the Bank account. Make if difficult and expensive for kids to attend and they will find something else cheaper and more accessible to do. We will lose a generation of future supporters. The scheme is ill thought out and unnecessary. If they seriously want to cut the cost of attending football simply cut the price at the turnstile. Its not rocket science.
A meeting of all supporters? Where, the KCOM? To be fair you will be able to use a large pub in a few years time. Why don't all of you non-Trust, non-OSC posters organise something instead of taking your potshots at the Trust? Although I'm sure the Trust will do something on your behalf.
This. I was thinking that. Go up and it'll be full or near as. Stay in the Championship and weird. Keep the ****iing bands and halve the pricing of the bands for OAP's and the under 22's. ****ing simple I'm setting up my own company called Raspberry. Pay me, pay me now.
I do not disagree with you as my posts elsewhere clearly show; I think Bruce has spent poorly, but he does have managers himself. My real point is that no one seems to heed that old adage: Don't spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar Maybe more than an ha'p'orth, but in relative terms ...
Little kids have to go with an adult, you can't buy a pass on your own until you're over 14 and I wouldn't refer to teenagers as 'little kids'. Of all the things to criticise this scheme for, the way you pay for it has to be the weakest, there are far bigger issues to be addressed.
I understand what OLM is saying and believe he is right, by and large; but I think you also have a very good point as they should make it as simple and as accessible as possible for all ages and payment abilities - they will, to be fair, by stating the pay for the day ticket as an alternative, but this price will be ramped up and smacks of the much criticised utuilities pre-payment meters. (I know gas and electric are life saving and football isn't, but ... ) The bottom line is that they are exploiting concessions and that is something repugnant to me.
