Nick
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I'm more excited about Swindon to be fair!
Local away game, decent record against them, always take big number with a decent atmosphere and the magic of the FA Cup.
What is there not to get excited about?
Yes the league takes priority and it’s a shame there isn’t the same big rush to get up the Ricoh but it’s a nice distraction away from all the troubles the club currently has.
I'm more excited about Swindon to be fair!
Can’t say I’ve ever been excited about playing Swindon, but it’s definitely a more important game to win
Well all the tickets were brought by ST holders.Well done to all 7833 going, be nice to see a few of you Saturday for another big game.
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I meant the game against them and other league games. It's hardly as if MK Dons are a team to be massively excited about either.
Well all the tickets were brought by ST holders.
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I don’t get why people don’t get it, as this match is so different from a run-of-the-mill L2 encounter, and it was always going to be a scramble for tickets. It’s not a huge deal for me to miss it, but it might be a memorable one.
The ST holder is king when buying tickets for cup ties like this, which is fine. But in my case, an ST isn’t viable, as circumstances dictate that I can’t get to very many games these days. So I use match packages instead, and I’ve missed out on MK this time.
CCFC obviously need to encourage more fans, and I guess by rewarding ST holders the idea is that more ST’s will be sold in future. But is trying to build support via. existing ST holders really the way to grow?? It’s only a hunch, but I imagine ST holders tend to be more affluent, probably a bit older and possibly leaning more towards places outside the city? When they can get hold of four tickets for a game like this (or six in the case of Wembley last year), a small group of ST holders could have 8, 12, 18 or more tickets to dish out. How many will end up with potential regular fans, and how many people will be having one-off family days out?
I don’t mind missing out personally this time. But the club has a massive task on its hands to build a bigger young fanbase. There’s a whole generation (arguably TWO generations) in the city who’ve never seen the kind of football that would get them fully committed to CCFC. The “occasionals” have to be converted into regulars. Some will have the Sky Blues as their second team, after one of the big six, and only watch the City when they feel like it. Money is tight, they won’t have an ST, and a lot of them won’t get to the MK game which is just the sort of event that could get them more on board in future.
2 or 3 tickets per ST holder would have been better IMHO.
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Looked on there some decent parking spots but where are the pubs.Got mine and my boy's ticket this morning and he'll be well chuffed and hopefully will make up for me not taking him to the Stoke game
For those driving, I use JustPark where people rent out their driveways (was excellent when I've been to Edgbaston). Looking at my account, they've got a referral programme where new users get a fiver (and for openness, I do too!). So if you register on this link, you'll basically get free parking for the MK game
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Looked on there some decent parking spots but where are the pubs.
The younger fanbase get free season tickets up to about 13 or 14 don't they if they sign up as a JSB and they will more than likely be going with an adult season ticket holder so could have gone to MK off theirs?
I am not sure it is "so different" to a normal League 2 match, don't buy all of the "bigger ground and local" stuff as we play at a local big ground every couple of weeks and struggle to fill a stand.
Bloody hell.I'm going. last away games Wolves. long time. It's F A cup, so special game. Even more special as so many City fans in the ground. Reminds me of Stoke FACup game in 87. Well worth the trip. Just wish MK Dons would give us more. 10k fans is doable if they did. Just need the City to turn up now. Enjoy
I see the old 'potential' line is being rolled out again
Tickets for Non ST holders were £17 before any fees etc in advance, you can get tickets for £22 in advance so it's not a massive difference is it in terms of price? So many people I can see are looking for a day out on the piss, so again a fiver isn't really that massive is it by the time you have had to travel down there, get your beers, get to the ground etc? I don't see the issue with rewarding ST holders with it, it went to the next priority this morning and if the allocation was bigger there would have been more there. How many of the 8,000 odd are the people in their 20's and 30's?
Obviously I'd prefer people who will be going to Swindon or Cambridge to get priority, but that would be a logistical nightmare to try and calculate which user can have access to tickets at certain times and for one game a season it isn't really worth investing in a system to do it.
I agree, as I said.We have this argument every time there's a big game. Its only fair that STH get priority, its one of the incentives for getting an ST.
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A colleague of mine who goes occasionally (lives in MK but is a Rangers fan) said block 3 - 1 &2 closed and in the past the police have let away fans then move across.If people are sitting in the home end, what stand is anyone buying their tickets in?
And neither do I, as I said! It’s just a matter of where you draw the line – for me, priority and a couple of tickets each would have been enough. Then the limited allocation wouldn't have been so much of a factor. Match package holders, who surely we want to reward as well, stood almost no chance this morning.
I definitely get why an occasional fan on a limited budget would rather spend (say) £30 on the buzz of the MK trip than (say) £25 on a home League 2 match. And ironically, it’s games like MK that might slowly turn “occasionals” into regulars, so we need to think hard about how the tickets get distributed.
Sound mate - Block 3 it is then if i cant get an away ticket on the day! Shouldn't have a problem buying on the gate as I don't have a Cov postcodeA colleague of mine who goes occasionally (lives in MK but is a Rangers fan) said block 3 - 1 &2 closed and in the past the police have let away fans then move across.
That's not how I see it at all - it's mainly just the atmosphere of travelling in large numbers to support your team. More people leads to even more people. Beer might be a slight factor for some thoughIt is MK Dons away though, it isn't Man Utd or Chelsea. We had people whinging how Stoke was a bad draw, a Premier League Team at home but MK Dons is being hyped up like it's Man City away.
I can understand why people might want a day out on the piss with their mates and make a night of it after but then it sort of rules out the limited budget and price side of it.
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