Yep, exactly the same. A boat load of aggravation to get there. Buses, trains or automobiles it takes ages and is a pain. It's most of your day to go to the match and back from 14 miles away. For big matches there will be thousands more next season....

Wed 14th Newcastle (A) (1st leg of semi)
Sat 17th - Scum (A)
Tue 20th - Bode (A)
Sat 24th - Wolves (H)
Wed 29th - Galatasaray (H)
Sat 1st - Spurs (A)
Wed 5th - Newcastle (H) 2nd leg
Sat 8th - Dippers (A)
Tue 11th - Fulham (H)

Your totally right. Everything about going to a game has become harder and harder over the last 5 years. The parking restrictions, the traffic getting to the game. The metro link is a joke. I've gone from (5 years ago) parking a mile away from the ground easy walk to the stadium ( can't do that now) to driving to Prestwich metro link and getting two trams to the stadium, and even in the last month the Prestwich metro link car park has reduced its spaces massively, so finding a spot is a pain in the arse. It's becoming a mission just to get there for me.

Quote from: Hesperus on Yesterday at 07:46:55I have to agree with you on the club wanting more corporates and less ordinary true fans. The messaging from the club over season ticket attendance over the last few seasons has me seriously questioning if I want to renew for next season. Being a City fan since birth, for over 50 years, through thick and thin (still more thin) I never thought I'd say that.

They brought in a system to make it easy to swap tickets and then made it much harder. It is incomprehensible now. I have a complicated job. I expect my private life to be easy so that I can relax and enjoy it. It's really all the same thing. It is very difficult to just turn up and enjoy a game with friends in peace.

It is harder and harder to just turn up and enjoy the game with your friends these days. The travel, the organisation in the stadium, and the attitudes of staff make it near impossible, unless you all pay through the nose for it. I used to turn up an hour before the game and have a chat with people. But that is too much to ask now it seems.

Ruthless Pep

I have to agree with you on the club wanting more corporates and less ordinary true fans. The messaging from the club over season ticket attendance over the last few seasons has me seriously questioning if I want to renew for next season. Being a City fan since birth, for over 50 years, through thick and thin (still more thin) I never thought I'd say that.

Quote from: Hesperus on January 10, 2026, 17:29:26What happened?

I don't want to go into too much detail because of other individuals involved. However, I was in a hospitality area for a change and I saw someone I know, an 'ordinary' season ticket holder treated with utter disrespect by a member of staff for using the facilities and I walked out in disgust. There has been a few incidents lately that makes me convinced that the club no longer wants the fans that supported the club for decades. They want corporates and wankers in half and half scarves who buy merchandise. This area itself used to be an area for 'ordinary' season ticket and ticket holders and is now corporate. Just because someone doesn't pay 3k a year for their ticket doesn't mean that they can be talked to like dirt.

3-0 City

Good to be away first leg

Silverware on the horizon