FA Cup Semi Final draw - Brighton

We are stuck with Wembley but the price for semi finals should be capped as per away tickets in the premier league, unless you go corporate.
 
paulchapo said:
We are stuck with Wembley but the price for semi finals should be capped as per away tickets in the premier league, unless you go corporate.
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Agreed, lost count of the amount of press articles I've read over the past few years bemoaning attendances at FA cup games with very little criticism of ticket prices. Not saying a £30 cap would fill out stadiums by any means but it would certainly help. I genuinely don't know many fans who dislike the cup at all but with normal season ticket prices, away ticket prices, travel prices etc a good proportion of fans will have to pick and chose the games that they attend.
 
Francis Crawford said:
So what if we only take 22,000 for our 5th trip to Wembley this season !

It’s still 4000 more than what attended the fa cup semi final replay at villa park between Crystal Palace and Utd in the 90s!, and that was with around 6000 palace fans included as well !

Just get ur local div red to explain that one when going on about our following?
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Will still be 22000 more than United or liverpool have taken to Wembley this season.
 
The fact pints of Camden Pale Ale in the stadium are £6.20 should be justification enough for holding Semi Finals elsewhere, I'll be getting to the ground as late as possible on Saturday!

Would be nice to see this thread return to people buzzing about Saturday and discussing drinking routes rather than moaning or worrying about empty seats, what will be will be.
 
mikemcfc123 said:
Agreed, lost count of the amount of press articles I've read over the past few years bemoaning attendances at FA cup games with very little criticism of ticket prices. Not saying a £30 cap would fill out stadiums by any means but it would certainly help. I genuinely don't know many fans who dislike the cup at all but with normal season ticket prices, away ticket prices, travel prices etc a good proportion of fans will have to pick and chose the games that they attend.
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That's it, unless a London club gets there other fans have travel costs, possible accommodation before you start on any food or drink. It's a semi final so even if you win you have to do it again for the final. If we hadn't been for years we would have sold out no problem as it looks like Brighton will. You only have to look at the 1999 play off final to see that, we sold 46,000 and could have sold more if given a bigger allocation. Less than six weeks ago we took 35,000 to Wembley. If tickets were £30-35 and you got a coach for £20 we would have sold out.
 
mikemcfc123 said:
The fact pints of Camden Pale Ale in the stadium are £6.20 should be justification enough for holding Semi Finals elsewhere, I'll be getting to the ground as late as possible on Saturday!

Would be nice to see this thread return to people buzzing about Saturday and discussing drinking routes rather than moaning or worrying about empty seats, what will be will be.
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Exactly, page after page posters explaining why they can't make it.
Stay positive Blues.
 
Blue Mooner said:
No getting away from it, this will be embarrassing, Pompey and Sunderland sell out a Check a Trade trophy and we can't sell out a semi-final. In one sense I do get it, ticket prices are high, the time is the worst you could get, making it very difficult for fans to get home, BUT, I'm still amazed at the apathy for a Wembley trip and that the extended fan base can't pick up the slack getting the chance to go to a Wembley trip that ordinarily they might not have the points for. Slightly hypocritical in that I myself am not going, similar to SiMCFC I have two kids one just over two and the other 11 months and a wife that has given me loads of slack attending games this season, and yes, I'm hedging my bets for the Champs League and FA Cup Final & trying not to take the p*ss.

That said, its absolutely killing me that I won't be there, and given we get 55k for every home game I don't believe for a second that that there aren't plenty of fans out there who could go but simply can't be arsed.

No players more than our own deserve the backing of our fans and it will be tragic if they're only supported by 20k fans, it sends out completely the wrong message to potential players out there that we might want, debating which club to join, about our club and the passion of its fans. If there is no barrier to you attending you should be there, end of.
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Just gonna put it out there that this is my favourite post on Blue Moon ever.

"I'm not going for my own reason but the rest of you should be embarrassed for not going"

Classic
 
I might be wrong, but I would think that maybe fans going Wednesday would also go and get semi-final tickets as well, some people would of thought fuck paying 2-50 more for a ticket, I get mine at ground, and some think fuck going online as its shit, I go to ground on Wednesday and get mine, so you never know we could sell another 4k on wednesday
 
By the time Saturday night comes around we'll have shifted 30,000 tickets.

But whatever, we've got both legs of a Champions League game coming up, potentially another cup final after the cup final we had earlier in the season. Starts to touch £1,000 for all these games if you're a family of four. We've managed to cap away tickets in the Premier League, let's start capping tickets for all competitions in all leagues. If the tickets for the semi & final were priced between £10 and £45 they'd go like wildfire, but the FA will never allow it so games will continue to be played in front of half empty stadiums. Simple as really.
 
I remember when Wigan used to charge us £25 and give us that whole end behind the goal, which we filled with about 5k. Then one season Whelan put the tickets up to £40 and we only took a third of that number. Next season it was back to £25.

Semi-finals at Wembley kicking off at 5:30 with a northern team involved and asking silly prices are ridiculous and the quicker the FA realise this the better. So I won't be in the least embarrassed to see loads of empty seats because that might help hammer the point home.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I remember when Wigan used to charge us £25 and give us that whole end behind the goal, which we filled with about 5k. Then one season Whelan put the tickets up to £40 and we only took a third of that number. Next season it was back to £25.

Semi-finals at Wembley kicking off at 5:30 with a northern team involved and asking silly prices are ridiculous and the quicker the FA realise this the better. So I won't be in the least embarrassed to see loads of empty seats because that might help hammer the point home.
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The club missed a trick. We are the richest club in the world, they want our support, how about supporting us by helping us out a bit?
 
paulchapo said:
The club missed a trick. We are the richest club in the world, they want our support, how about supporting us by helping us out a bit?
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We have a very rich owner but we are not the richest club in the world, that honour goes to the swamp.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Fair enough. It’s just that Brighton in a semi final would probably be at Arsenal or the new Spuds ground so all the criticism of KO time and getting in and out of London would still be true.
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Yep,while that is a pain,my thinking is more down to sentiment and the fact it devalues the stadium as a reward venue.
 
Rolee said:
It should but the problem is it won't, it will be used as a stick to beat us with.
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You never know - it just might. Why? Well think back to the 2012-13 season when we were being charged £62 for Arsenal away and we didn't take up the full allocation. What started as little more than a piss-take of our support in the media when reporting the story morphed into something else which got picked up by the Football Supporters Federation and the Twentys Plenty campaign was launched which resulted in fan groups of all clubs coming together which further down the line a few years later led to a £30 cap being imposed on Premier League away tickets.

The weird thing about that Arsenal game though is that it was only because of the club's own hastiness in returning some of the tickets that led to us becoming the catalyst for cheaper PL away tickets. At the point that the unsold Arsenal tickets were sent back, there was still a week or so to go until the match but because it was just after Christmas the sales were a little sluggish, and I've little doubt that we would've sold out the full allocation anyway. However, it was reported as an organised boycott by City fans (which it wasn't - it was just down to individual choice) which wasn't a bad thing as it led to something more significant that travelling fans up and down the country could benefit from.
 
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