Unoccupied Seats/No Show Season Ticket Holders (with Poll)

Spot on. It has nothing to do with anyone else why ppl don’t turn up for any given match. We don’t always make it due to health grounds. The club have their money, not sure they would want to upset their income source. Maybe they will do what the PL do, reserve the best seats for foreign nationals as they pay more.

 

As I say, I've been a season ticket holder since the ground re opened, regardless of cost so people can find it as odd as they want, it's very unlikely to change.

 

You do have a problem mate.

 

Does regularly being in the top tier of City points for away priority count as "minimum attendance"?

Asking for me and my kids?

 

As I posted you have a problem if posting on a forum at 9:30 to get a bite gets you off.

 

I just get my brother or kids to scan my ticket once they've done theirs. They are always happy to do it on the turnstiles they reckon.

 

A decent proportion will be children's tickets. Parent buys a couple for their children at £40 a season for the pair. Childen don't like it and never go. They still renew year upon year in case the children decide that they want to go after all. "Even if they only go to 3 games I've made my money back" etc etc.

 

£35 for the extra seat now. Lounging out is getting to be expensive.

 

My youngest son being one of these

 

Doncaster run that exact scheme and there are always empty seats. I suppose it's about where you sit in the ground i.e behind the goal, behind the dugout, or on the halfway line that would appeal, rather than a seat stuck away in the corners or up in the gods.

 

Maybe the club could analyse how many games you attended and if below a certain threshold, they could ask if you'll consider letting your seat go if its not being used. We probably don't have enough staff to do that and follow it up, but if we progress they may have to. The other thing to consider is how many fans buy kids tickets and then let adult friends use them?

 

That wouldn’t need staff, only to run the report showing attendance rate per ticket, it should be quite straightforward

 

Again though, how does this system even impact the club?

If the seat is paid for every game then it's paid for. Unless the ground is made bigger then the revenue is the same whether I sit in my seat, no one sits in my seat or I dont renew and someone else buys the ticket and uses the seat.

Am I missing something here?

 

And what if they say no thanks Einstein, I clearly don't want to give the ticket up. That's why I renew every year.

What then?

 

Just wait till a cold Tuesday night in December and this conversation will have little merit as less than 10,000 loyal fans will inhabit the stands at VP.