The club has this culture of constantly firefighting. All you hear from the club nowadays is spin. Rather than trying to convince concerned fans that they're in a small minority, they need to focus on addressing those concerns. I just don't understand why ticketing has become such an ordeal. For decades it wasn't an issue. We went to Wembley in 2008 without all the revolutionary automated systems that were definitely going to improve things infinitely. The only problem then was meeting the demand, or prioritising who got tickets and who missed out. We've now got significantly less demand, which is another important but separate issue and yet even when it's been outsourced to a third party who specialise in ticketing, people still seem to be having serious trouble. I can only assume they're not taking this contract very seriously. I can't believe Ticketmasters infrastructure isn't able to cope with hundreds or even thousands of hits at once. There must be plenty of concerts and festivals which use their platform in similar circumstances. Maybe we're not paying them enough to care; I dunno. Whatever the reason for the issues it just shouldn't be anywhere near this complicated. Everything around ticketing at City is such a fuss and I can't understand why. What are the benefits of the changes that led to this? People even predicted that Wembley tickets would be a nightmare. The club seem to have acknowledged their problem by appointing a third party. Hopefully the problems can be sorted out so that the process just works like it used to with no bother. We really don't need to give fans any more reasons not to come.
I assume the reason we've outsourced the ticket sales, is simply the fact that we (or more accurately the SMC) no longer employ enough ticket office staff to do it ourselves.
although there are some who will claim that Wednesday came from the same place as the Owlerton Piggery slaughter house - they've both called each other the pigs for as long as I can remember although pigs and united seemed to have stuck as has blades / blunts
I just watched Danny Dyers football hooligan's video on YouTube which was about Hull and was embarrassing. They picked out about three incidents and made out there was a massive hooligan problem. There were lots of hooligans in the 60s for a few decades. Shaun was in the programme and talked realistically about what went on but I bet he was embarrassed about all of the rubbish talked about around his clips. Most of the trouble I saw was quite isolated. I remember City playing Wigan - I don't know if it was the FA Cup when we got beat 3-0 but we had a lot of fans there. They were leaving the ground through a big car park and about 1,000 Wigan fans were marching down the street to confront City's normal fans when about 30 City Psychos charged into them from a side street and they all scattered.
They seem to be having a great deal of difficulty getting their heads round the fact that we've already been to a play-off final at Wembley and we sold it out.
I'm not going to Wembley I still really don't want to get promoted, because I think if we do Ehab wil stay and have a lovely success of his membership scheme, (I know lots disagree...which is fine) but obvioulsy I'm not able to watch City hoping we'll lose, in fact even watching it on TV I'll want us to win Ideally I want us to win, but refuse promotion Anyway I'm comfortable having no nose, but a spiteful face. Genuinely hope you all have a good time...if you can ever figure out how to buy tickets
I wouldn't read too much into what the plan shows currently. Over 15% of pass-holders are corporates and their seats haven't been allocated yet, as they're being handled by the club, rather than Ticketmaster. I expect about 5,000 of the available seats will suddenly disappear when they're allocated on Monday.
