it was not Ticketmaster that allowed sudden new membership to any Tom Dick or Harry with instant privileges to buy a Man City ticket when the fairest and sensible way would have ensured those privileges included a League game also thus increasing the clubs revenue.
also at the point of open sale 1 ticket person should have applied thus allowing everyone the same opportunity and find the time from 5pm to be sat with finger poised at the keyboard or via their phone.
it's very simplistic to say folk had 2 years to buy a membership whilst conveniently forgetting that so did those that suddenly did so once the draw had been made but they hadn't done so previously.
The positive is the club will see a virtual capacity crowd for the remaining League games of the season
This is now bordering on insanity!!
1 ticket per person on open sale? So Dad wants to get a ticket for him and a child? Phone twice and hope the tickets are close by? Husband and wife going? Log on twice?
The system was explicitly simple. 11000 people managed to work it out. And it was done to thousands of Tom, Dick and Harry's, I would guess that no more than 500 extra memberships were sold. Best part of 4000 tickets were still available for open sale, which means that at least 1000 people managed to get on even if everyone bought 4 tickets.
Of course I have sympathy for those who had maybe hoped to get from the ticket office on the Tuesday, or those who would have hoped that they would have still be available into the Monday evening, but that is the gamble.
As for the constant dig about league attendance, give it a rest! The crowd figures have slowly increased without any really big games to date. The figures for Wycombe and Lincoln over Christmas will be around 10k. We will then have Sunderland, Ipswich, Bristol Rovers, Portsmouth, Bolton etc where we will be well over average.
So please stop the constant griping, because if you can't get behind the club at this time, (4th in the league, 1/4 finals of the cup, still alive in all 4 competitions, investment and success on and off the pitch), then there really is no hope!!