Man City Tickets

[Wizard]

Brendy I am quite venomous. I wish I was going.

[leicsRoyal]

Probably because the majority appear to have got tickets in the Home ends. If it all kicks off on Sunday, be prepared for much more moaning!

We're the home end, we're the home end, we're the home end of the ground!

[Mr Optimist]

Maybe I am simplifying things a little but anyone who wants to go, can go, and there are tickets available, admittedly in the Home End.

I have jut logged on to City's on-line ticketing system and registered me and my eldest who wants to go as well. Tickets purchased in the third tier of the East Stand for a total of £27.50..no booking fee.

So we will go in the home end, not wearing colours, and watch the match from there. Not ideal as we would have preferred to be with the other RFC fans. However, we will get to see Reading in an FA Cup Quarter Final for only the third time ever in the club's history and all it took was 5 minutes on-line. The only downside being I didn't have the opportunity to whine like a b*tch for a week!

[Royal Lady]

^^ yeah and you're just another one proving that we could have sold wayyy more than 2,800 tickets in the "away" end.

It all boils down to WHY RFC fans are having to buy tickets in the Home end - it's either RFCs fault, Man City's fault, both their faults, the fault of the FA - but whoever the fault lies with, the situation SHOULD (and COULD imo) have been avoided.

[URZZZZZZZZ]

Can I make a request? Could fans going in the home end take some video of the Reading fans? I have always wondered how noisy we actually do sound to home fans. Something like this when we're celebrating at the end would be grand!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqJ0ptiS1MI

[RobRoyal]

now i understand peoples frustrations, (though i dont really understand teh frustrations of those who got their tickets tbf)and i understand that its clear now we should have asked for more tickets here, and that many loyal fans will miss out-though not if its actually very important to them cos theyd just go and sit in the home end



but the above three statements are all pretty much made up personal hyperbole.
you dont know any of that, and until you do, its a bit daft getting all riled up about it.

Brendy i think the people who were most worried were those who were so desperate that they managed to get tickets. I'm still annoyed about having to stay up till after midnight and fight online for them on a Monday night.

Also going to watch such a crucial game and not being able to cheer on your side is a massive turn off. Its not all about the football - you can get a much better view on ESPN than you can from citys lower tier by the way! Its about the songs and tribalism and being proud to represent your little club against a club that typify all thats wrong with football. (Not their fans though who surely deserve the billions but the lieks of Ballotelli etc). If you sit in the home end you miss out on a lot.

Agreed. I've twice sat in the Eastlands home stand sitting with a friend and had a pretty underwhelming time. To see the away support going mental at Lita's double and not being able to join in was gutting. The most special thing about this game for me was the prospect of sitting amongst 4000 or more travelling Royals for the first time in ages.

[brendywendy]

no you dont know, thats my point.
you cant sell tickets to an away game on monday, when you dont know who your oponents would be.
what i assume stopped them selling on thursday was they were waiting for the tickets to be in the ticket office to give top the people handing over their money- why that decision was made, or by whom is again just speculation.
admittedly a fulsome statement from the club may have reduced the ammount of speculation about. ill happily criticise the club on that.

Booo club BOOOOO

Sigh. Point me to where I've said that they could start selling tickets on Monday. I'm pointing out that the club knew that they were in the next round either at City or Villa on Monday.

City were selling tickets by Wednesday. If RFC really needed to have the tickets available in the ticket office before they could start selling them then, as mentioned previously, they could surely have got them couriered down. What about all the other days that were available to them. Friday, Saturday and Sunday to spell it out for you.

I'm guessing we are going to have to disagree on the points banding especially as you seem to keep losing sight of that particular point.

As for the Boo club BOOO comment. That's laughable. I've been following the club for a lot of years and will hopefully continue to do so. Doesn't stop me criticising something that I think is wrong.

no need for the sigh, im simply attempting to have a n0rmal conversation here,
against my better judgement,

the club didnt know if there would be a replay in our game or theirs, or what day this would mean the mancity/villa game would be moved too, probably a tuesday night, and under those circumstances decided it was too risky to ask for more.
is that the right decision, on what basis was it made etc? are all valid points to bash the club with.
but personally i can see exactly why they were reluctant.


the BOOOO actually comment was me criticising the club , and not at all sarcastic or meant to wind you up.
i thought that was made totally clear from the line above it:

admittedly a fulsome statement from the club may have reduced the ammount of speculation about. ill happily criticise the club on that.

Booo club BOOOOO

see, thats me happily criticising the club

City were selling tickets by Wednesday. If RFC really needed to have the tickets available in the ticket office before they could start selling them then, as mentioned previously, they could surely have got them couriered down. What about all the other days that were available to them. Friday, Saturday and Sunday to spell it out for you.

city didnt play till wednesday night did they?or do you mean they started selling as soon as the game finished?
it seems to me that RFC were under the impression that a further allocation would be forthcoming, and as soon as we found out it wouldnt be we withdrew all the Initial allocation gubbins, but that does mean that we thought there would be more coming, which means that my points band comments still stand. on thursday it looks like we went back and asked to be surprised to find th eanswer was no.

should we have arranged a courier? yes- have no problem criticising the club(s) over that
and their obvious lack of/slow communication with man city too.


were decisions made that were wrong, and should be learned from- yes, i have no problem with that either
but they were made with good intentions, and after some attempt at reasoning at aleast.

[brendywendy]

Brendy I am quite venomous. I wish I was going.

so do i my friend, so do i.
just not quite as venomously as you.

[Mr Optimist]

now i understand peoples frustrations, (though i dont really understand teh frustrations of those who got their tickets tbf)and i understand that its clear now we should have asked for more tickets here, and that many loyal fans will miss out-though not if its actually very important to them cos theyd just go and sit in the home end



but the above three statements are all pretty much made up personal hyperbole.
you dont know any of that, and until you do, its a bit daft getting all riled up about it.

Brendy i think the people who were most worried were those who were so desperate that they managed to get tickets. I'm still annoyed about having to stay up till after midnight and fight online for them on a Monday night.

Also going to watch such a crucial game and not being able to cheer on your side is a massive turn off. Its not all about the football - you can get a much better view on ESPN than you can from citys lower tier by the way! Its about the songs and tribalism and being proud to represent your little club against a club that typify all thats wrong with football. (Not their fans though who surely deserve the billions but the lieks of Ballotelli etc). If you sit in the home end you miss out on a lot.

Agreed. I've twice sat in the Eastlands home stand sitting with a friend and had a pretty underwhelming time. To see the away support going mental at Lita's double and not being able to join in was gutting. The most special thing about this game for me was the prospect of sitting amongst 4000 or more travelling Royals for the first time in ages.

Sat in the Home End for the Everton game aswell. I know what you are saying about not being able to (outwardly celebrate) but I still had an inner warm feeling that I can only imagine incontinence sufferers feel, but cannot tell anyone about!! Loved listening to the Evertonians slagging their own team around me and they were all very generous in defeat in the end.

[leicsRoyal]

Brendy I am quite venomous. I wish I was going.

so do i my friend, so do i.
just not quite as venomously as you.

Wizard, Brendy,

Get yourselves up there, plenty of tickets to go round in the home ends. If we pull off the unbelievable how great would that be to have more of our fans around the stadium celebrating after the City fans have long gone.

I certainly won't be saying ' I wish I had been there '

[Royal Lady]

Bendy - shirley (hope you don't mind me calling you that) even if we didn't know if we or the other game would go to a replay, we could still make decisions on how many tickets we'd ask for?

Tuesday night game - xxx amount
Sunday afternoon game - xxx amount and then when we knew who and when we were playing, we asked for the number of tickets in accordance with what we'd pre-planned.

[Para Handy]

Brendy, I'm not trying to argue about whether they should have asked for more tickets. I'm arguing about the points banding.

Here's the bit from the official site for you..

"City took the decision to quickly go on sale and made seats available in surrounding areas immediately after their own match with Aston Villa"

My previous post should have said RFC knew they were in the next round on Tuesday not Monday btw.

[brendywendy]

Bendy - shirley (hope you don't mind me calling you that) even if we didn't know if we or the other game would go to a replay, we could still make decisions on how many tickets we'd ask for?

Tuesday night game - xxx amount
Sunday afternoon game - xxx amount and then when we knew who and when we were playing, we asked for the number of tickets in accordance with what we'd pre-planned.

i dont know- it sounds like we were asked to ask for our alocation before any of that was known, and i have no idea whether there was an option that was dependant on what day it was played. nor do you.

and of course you can call me shirley

[Royal Lady]

Bendy - shirley (hope you don't mind me calling you that) even if we didn't know if we or the other game would go to a replay, we could still make decisions on how many tickets we'd ask for?

Tuesday night game - xxx amount
Sunday afternoon game - xxx amount and then when we knew who and when we were playing, we asked for the number of tickets in accordance with what we'd pre-planned.

i dont know- it sounds like we were asked to ask for our alocation before any of that was known, and i have no idea whether there was an option that was dependant on what day it was played. nor do you.

and of course you can call me shirley

Well, I'm afraid, to me, it appears that no-one was capable of making any proper decisions. Before the Everton game, we knew that if we won, we'd be playing one of two teams, so how we didn't plan for every conceivable permutation with regards to who we were playing and how many tickets we thought we might ask for, I really don't know.

[brendywendy]

Brendy, I'm not trying to argue about whether they should have asked for more tickets. I'm arguing about the points banding.

Here's the bit from the official site for you..

"City took the decision to quickly go on sale and made seats available in surrounding areas immediately after their own match with Aston Villa"

My previous post should have said RFC knew they were in the next round on Tuesday not Monday btw.

im confused and seem to arguing over nothing now.
we knew we were in th enext round on tuesday, and not who or where we were playing till late wednesday night/thursday morning.
but the point is that the club didnt realise that they wouldnt be able to go back for more until thursday at some point

[floyd__streete]

I think that the club could turn the dome into a concentration camp and Brendy would still defend RFC.

[brendywendy]

Bendy - shirley (hope you don't mind me calling you that) even if we didn't know if we or the other game would go to a replay, we could still make decisions on how many tickets we'd ask for?

Tuesday night game - xxx amount
Sunday afternoon game - xxx amount and then when we knew who and when we were playing, we asked for the number of tickets in accordance with what we'd pre-planned.

i dont know- it sounds like we were asked to ask for our alocation before any of that was known, and i have no idea whether there was an option that was dependant on what day it was played. nor do you.

and of course you can call me shirley

Well, I'm afraid, to me, it appears that no-one was capable of making any proper decisions. Before the Everton game, we knew that if we won, we'd be playing one of two teams, so how we didn't plan for every conceivable permutation with regards to who we were playing and how many tickets we thought we might ask for, I really don't know.

i think bad decisions were made, i think communication was poor between the clubs, i think that fear over the game switching to a weekday and the club having to pay for 2000 unsold tickets influenced their decisions more than they should have considering the money we are making from the cup run, and i think the whole problem was not helped by the late and short notice caused by the delay caused by chelseas involvement.

but do we know if there was an option to have permutations? or was it a case of "we need your allocation request now"? and us giving them the best guess we could come up with, based on the fact that we had no idea who we would be playing, where we would be playing,when we would be playing, or how many people were likelyto want to go based on those previous questions.
i dont know. i have no idea if you do either

[bigmike]

I think that the club could turn the dome into a concentration camp and Brendy would still defend RFC.

I dont think hes actually defending the club it looks like hes refusing to be critical armed with what to be fair is speculation rather than real facts

[brendywendy]

I think that the club could turn the dome into a concentration camp and Brendy would still defend RFC.

im as liklely to defend it regardless, as some on here are likely to attack it regardless.

and the more its attacked the more i feel obliged to try and explain the clubs decisions as i see them.

especially if the atack is based enmtirely on made up opinions and specualtion.
if the facts come out ill happily criticise the club.
in the last month alone i have made three comments on this forum that could be seen as negative toward the club in some way.



thanks big mike- thats is what i am saying.
could i employ you as my spokesperson in future?

[Royal Lady]

Bendy - shirley, it would have been prudent, even leaving it as late as knowing we were through, to have sat down next morning and worked out who our possible opponents were going to be, when the games might be and then work out how many we tickets we thought we'd need for each permutation. Once City knew they were through, they would have rung us or us them (I don't know what happens there) and the number of tickets we required would be advised then. We could have then told them that we'd have "xx amount and ,by the way Mr Ticket Office person at Man City, when is the latest we can tell you if we want more?"

I'll do it next time we get in a similar position. They just need to give me a call and I'll pop up and sort out the numbers for them.