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All to play for after the first leg ended 0-0,first ever home European game,reduced prices,no tv coverage,kids off school,new season about to start,expensive new players on show,new strip and unreserved seating to boot. Some games are so hard to predict in terms of numbers eh ? Could you imagine the crowd if our local rag had actually shown more than a fleeting interest in whats happening away from the gerramonside minority ?
 
Meanwhile our local rag still managed to find the headline busting quotes they were really looking for when fans were quoted yet again as still not believing "City are actually a Premier a League" side whilst dredging the old chestnut passion killer of "remember were the club was" ****ing Yonks ago bla bla bla...sigh.
 
Meanwhile our local rag still managed to find the headline busting quotes they were really looking for when fans were quoted yet again as still not believing "City are actually a Premier a League" side whilst dredging the old chestnut passion killer of "remember were the club was" ****ing Yonks ago bla bla bla...sigh.

And 'Should Curtis Davies sign for a bigger club'?
The 'news' that Thursday was a sell out was tucked away at the bottom of a page, in the very last paragraph, of the half a column City received, five pages into the Sports Section, all the others were taken up by rugby league.
 
The fact is the club should not be relying on the HDM or anyone else to be bigging them up and doing their marketing for them. The club should be doing it for themselves, through all sorts of channels (including making the most out of HDM, RH) as well as directly. They aren't though; they continue to be shockingly dreadful in such areas.
 
And 'Should Curtis Davies sign for a bigger club'?
The 'news' that Thursday was a sell out was tucked away at the bottom of a page, in the very last paragraph, of the half a column City received, five pages into the Sports Section, all the others were taken up by rugby league.

What good is it publishing that its a sell out? Its not like we can sell any more tickets!

Also, there are twice as many RL teams than there are football, even if each were covered fairly and equally (which I accept they are not) then there'd still be double the RL news on there compared to football.
 
What good is it publishing that its a sell out? Its not like we can sell any more tickets!

Also, there are twice as many RL teams than there are football, even if each were covered fairly and equally (which I accept they are not) then there'd still be double the RL news on there compared to football.

Twice the teams, half the interest.
 
No one expected tickets to sell as well as they have.



Really??



Decisions were made to sell as many tickets as fast as possible, this wouldn't have been possible with allocated seats as you'd have the priority periods for pass holders and have to use the ticket office not the club shops.




A decision was made not to take into consideration the clubs passholders, the people who supported the owner to the hilt and laid out their money. Due to? wait for it, time constraints.




Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I think the club made the right decision at the time.

This^^^ is in keeping with a lot of the other drivel you post. IMO.
 
They'll be the ones with no-one sat in them.

You know what I mean OLM, Which entrance do they go in etc etc, Easy enough when the tickets have seat numbers on them. I can see loads of potential problems on Thursday because the club haven't thought it through properly. Surely they must have expected a bumper crowd yet they still started selling tickets with the south stand and upper west closed. They haven't got a clue!
 
Normally yes, but selling reserved tickets through the ticket office takes a lot longer and costs more (not ideal when there's a short turn around and low ticket prices), also moving ticket sales to the club shops for this game meant being able to sell them in the city centre as well as the stadium.

Underestimated demand = poor excuse
Takes time and costs more = poor excuse.
No priority for season pass holders= no excuse.

Shabby at it's best.
 
Really??



Decisions were made to sell as many tickets as fast as possible, this wouldn't have been possible with allocated seats as you'd have the priority periods for pass holders and have to use the ticket office not the club shops.




A decision was made not to take into consideration the clubs passholders, the people who supported the owner to the hilt and laid out their money. Due to? wait for it, time constraints.




Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I think the club made the right decision at the time.

This^^^ is in keeping with a lot of the other drivel you post. IMO.

<laugh> That's rich coming from you.

I really don't get your problem, is it really that important that pass holders get to sit in their exact seat? How did you manage when we had terracing? Let's face it if your that bothered (which I'm sure most are not) you can just get there early.

The club got this one spot on, cheap tickets available to all and as a result its sold out.

Some t**ts just love an opportunity to moan.
 
What makes you think the club would be allowed to close the away allocation to away supporters and only allow home supporters in the stands? What rule allows that?

What happens if 50 Slovaks turn up in a bus on the day of the match and want to pay on the gate? Where do you put them?

Meanwhile, in the real world...

If the match is all ticket and they travel without tickets they would not and should not get in. The number of people travelling from Slovakia for this game without a ticket is estimated at nil.
 
Underestimated demand = poor excuse
Takes time and costs more = poor excuse.
No priority for season pass holders= no excuse.

Shabby at it's best.

What's the problem though? That you wanted to sit in your own seat?

Man the **** up, sit somewhere else and enjoy our first ever European home game.