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We are constantly becoming sold out at the Etihad. How long will it be before this presumed expansion of the ground. Anyone any information?

I think the second we regularly sell out for CL games will be a start...

Getting worried I won't be able to get tickets any more despite going as regularly as affordable since the age of 10.

BlueinBosnia wrote:I think the second we regularly sell out for CL games will be a start...

Getting worried I won't be able to get tickets any more despite going as regularly as affordable since the age of 10.

I'm the same mate, its getting to the point now where I need to book my tickets the second they open on priority booking

get a seasoncard quick lads. they do a finance thing for it. its what i do. if not that i know some credit cards do a no interest thing on premier league tickets

HeyMark wrote:

BlueinBosnia wrote:I think the second we regularly sell out for CL games will be a start...

Getting worried I won't be able to get tickets any more despite going as regularly as affordable since the age of 10.

I'm the same mate, its getting to the point now where I need to book my tickets the second they open on priority booking

Yeah, but I can't even get that- I've got around 500 loyalty points (or did have before the new system started, they've probably been devalued to about 30 now, from what I understand).

Seanyod wrote:get a seasoncard quick lads. they do a finance thing for it. its what i do. if not that i know some credit cards do a no interest thing on premier league tickets

I go to maybe 2 games a season if I'm lucky. I try to go to every game I can afford when I'm in Britain, Youth Cup to CL, but it's becoming out of fans like me's reach, unless we join the ISC, which is out of my budget, and also doesn't prioritise when I'm in Britain.

100k capacity, now!

BlueinBosnia wrote:

Seanyod wrote:get a seasoncard quick lads. they do a finance thing for it. its what i do. if not that i know some credit cards do a no interest thing on premier league tickets

I go to maybe 2 games a season if I'm lucky. I try to go to every game I can afford when I'm in Britain, Youth Cup to CL, but it's becoming out of fans like me's reach, unless we join the ISC, which is out of my budget, and also doesn't prioritise when I'm in Britain.

Our success is making tickets hard to get for the casual fan and those who cannot afford to go to every game.
I remember when watching the flair of Peter Reid's team in the 90's I had spare season ticket for a Wimbledon night game and was offering it for free for days, with no takers.
How times have changed.

It's only going to get more impossible to get tickets imo if what i saw and heard on my 9 year olds school playing ground last week is any barometer.The kids were staying for after school football coaching and without exaggerating all but 3 wanted to be city players during thier game.I was chuffed to hear them all say i want to be Silva,Aguero,Ballotelli or Hart the other 3 had rag shirts on but were listening intently.

i read an article recently that said the club had found a way of adding 2000 seats without any major works and that was likely to be done in the very near future, phase two would be to make one end three tiers and evened out to join the east and colin bell and this would give a further 8000+ then phase three was to even out the other end.

psut1 wrote:i read an article recently that said the club had found a way of adding 2000 seats without any major works and that was likely to be done in the very near future, phase two would be to make one end three tiers and evened out to join the east and colin bell and this would give a further 8000+ then phase three was to even out the other end.

I think I remember reading when the stadium was being built, that it WAS designed to be upgradeable to 60,000 capacity.

The sooner we can deliver on this the better for all concerned. Someone must know what in the planning stages?

gillie wrote:It's only going to get more impossible to get tickets imo if what i saw and heard on my 9 year olds school playing ground last week is any barometer.The kids were staying for after school football coaching and without exaggerating all but 3 wanted to be city players during thier game.I was chuffed to hear them all say i want to be Silva,Aguero,Ballotelli or Hart the other 3 had rag shirts on but were listening intently.

Gillie. can things get more impossible?
it's either possible ...or not.

When the stadium was built it was NOT designed to be expanded. In fact they said whilst not impossible, it would be difficult to increase capacity. I'm also pretty sure they announce just a few weeks ago, that we have no immediate plans for making the ground larger.
Maybe 'safe standing' could help

Piccs is right - if I remember rightly the roof is designed for each section to support the other - therefore any major increase in seating would involve taking the whole roof off - not a minor undertaking - its doable as are many things, it's just damn expensive - selling out the ground each week is one thing, increasing merchandise & global brand awareness are where the big bucks are

I was just thinking about this and wondered if there are any of you lot who might fancy "sharing" a couple of seasoncards next season.

As I'm going to be back in Europe it's quite likely that we'll be able to get back over for maybe 3-4 games easily next season. I know there are quite a few on here who might be in a similar position so maybe we could put our heads together and come up with something workable. Not just necessarily the overseas people but also those who can't go all that frequently.

If we can work it out I'd be happy in principle to lay out for them and we could then agree who'll take them for what matches and divvy up the appropriate portions of cost. In terms of logistics I'd be happy to leave them in the hands of my Wozza (Sister of Fu) or someone who's at every home game who people could then hook up with to collect as and when needed and then get them back to her post match. (Sorry Woz I'm volunteering you theoretically....but you could take mates too if they were "spare").

Does anyone have any appetite for this kind of idea? I'd propose getting a pair together as that seems more sensible?

Thoughts? If you are interested, let me know on here and then maybe PM me your email address

If they have to take the entire roof off to make any adjustments wouldn't it be miles easier to do it in one go rather than taking the roof off and putting it back on over and over again.

Might be a bit of a daft question - but this wont affect financial fair play will it?

Well, only to help us with increased ticket sales in future...

And yet here are are still around a 1000 seats dotted around the ground with no one sat in them every game.

all you need is spiv :-)

there is a song there somewhere

Dunnylad wrote:Piccs is right - if I remember rightly the roof is designed for each section to support the other - therefore any major increase in seating would involve taking the whole roof off - not a minor undertaking - its doable as are many things, it's just damn expensive - selling out the ground each week is one thing, increasing merchandise & global brand awareness are where the big bucks are

If they are going to build a 'liesure destination' next to the ground; would they spend fortunes/years building that then pull down half the ground right next to it, two years later? All the problems taking the roof off made ten times worse due to lack of space, new visitors/hotel dwellers looking out at a load of JCB's, wooden hoardings, workers' arse cracks etc ? Think about it.

If they're going to expand the ground, it will happen before or as part of the build with the 'liesure destination'. I would imagine the two would be part of the same structure. Either that or they decide never to expand (which means people locked out, tickets 100% more expensive)or they build a new ground. I can't see anybody building a great big, all singing/dancing posh liesure destination then having Princess Anne & Sheikh Mansour sat in the brand new hotel watching a load of blokes in hi vis jackets.