FA Cup SF Draw | Nott'm Forest | Sun 27 April 16:30 | ITV1

[BringBackSwales]

Do we know which end we have got yet?

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

Do we know which end we have got yet?

We have the west side

 

[bluemc]

Fan groups on both teams should coordinate a protest about the kick off time.

ITV should be protested at for the time and the FA for their greed.

15:00 at Villa park for us and the same at the King Power on Saturday for the other semi would have perfect for the fans who want to see their team in the flesh and not have to fuck about in cockneeland.

Whist you are 100% right with this, we are long past the authorities worrying about what is best for the match going fans.

The FA are no different than the clubs themselves. They'll do what they can to maximise the revenue from each and every game. Even a Wembley at 2/3rds full will make far more money for them than a game at the King Power or Villa Park.

 

[.db.]

Bloody Sunday at 4.30pm… shite!

 

[.db.]

Fan groups on both teams should coordinate a protest about the kick off time.

ITV should be protested at for the time and the FA for their greed.

15:00 at Villa park for us and the same at the King Power on Saturday for the other semi would have perfect for the fans who want to see their team in the flesh and not have to fuck about in cockneeland.

The only thing is, the Midlands’ stadiums are so pitiful in size that they’re useless for these games.

City v Forest should be at Old Trafford and Villa v Palace at Wembley.

 

[Marvin.]

Seeing Forest fans on social media expecting City to hand 1000s of tickets back, and they are hoping for them, strange because they have had monumentally shite support throughout their history

City have 37,000 season ticket holders and 140,000 Cityzens match-day memberships (City Matters Minutes, February 2025).

 

[.db.]

Swear people act like our support is like Mk dons or something even before 2008 takeover we had a bigger fanbase than teams like forest

Forest’s all-time average attendance is 18k, City’s is 31k.

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

To go or not to go. That is the question.

 

[Col12]

To go or not to go. That is the question.

Go

 

[Penworthamblue]

To go or not to go. That is the question.

Just go, you know you want to. We can both be stranded at Euston because Avanti have cancelled their trains

 

[East Level 2]

Always prefer the west side for reasons unknown to be honest.
Take my 15 years old grandson so would of preferred Saturday with school on Monday but not to worry.
Park on my drive guy paid and looking forward to another Wembley visit. CTID

Better driveway parking options on west side, and better escape route options after the game.
West through loads of back streets then drop down to the A40 then M40 and north, or north to M25 and round to the M40. - And there's always various options to the M1 (or north circ and M1) for the masochists.

 

[East Level 2]

To go or not to go. That is the question.

Go

No I can't be arsed. However I'll change my mind as soon as ticket details appear.

 

[bainy]

Fan groups on both teams should coordinate a protest about the kick off time.

ITV should be protested at for the time and the FA for their greed.

15:00 at Villa park for us and the same at the King Power on Saturday for the other semi would have perfect for the fans who want to see their team in the flesh and not have to fuck about in cockneeland.

Forest would not be interested as they giddy about a wemberlee trip...they would easily shift 40k....like us against gills. If that game would of been played at midnight we would of still easily sold out. Personally, any protest should be led by the FSA imo.

 

[117 M34]

Their membership structure is very scammy. Looks like a more expensive membership gives priority over a cheaper membership with FA cup purchase history.

You mean like platinum

 

[Marvin.]

Whist you are 100% right with this, we are long past the authorities worrying about what is best for the match going fans.

The FA are no different than the clubs themselves. They'll do what they can to maximise the revenue from each and every game. Even a Wembley at 2/3rds full will make far more money for them than a game at the King Power or Villa Park.

30k at the King Power vs 90k at Wembley. And you think 30k wins? It does on travel costs / time for most blues but it's an occasion. That's why you go to football. For the occasion.

The only decent argument against FA Cup semis at Wembley is that it dilutes the excitement of the final but at the moment there aren't big enough stadiums in England to present an alternative. The only one is Old Trafford and it's a 2nd rate stadium.

 

[Etihad]

You mean like platinum

They have 3 levels of membership: MyForest Pro, MyForest Plus and MyForest. A MyForest Pro member with no FA game attended has priority over a basic member who has attended an FA cup game.

Not 100% sure how it works tbh but I know they used to be called bronze, silver, gold. Gold was most expensive and numbers were restricted.

Forest v City NFFC convoluted ticket criteria

 

[BringBackSwales]

We have the west side

Is that deffo pal? Green Man end?

 

[Deepest Blue]

30k at the King Power vs 90k at Wembley. And you think 30k wins? It does on travel costs / time for most blues but it's an occasion. That's why you go to football. For the occasion.

The only decent argument against FA Cup semis at Wembley is that it dilutes the excitement of the final but at the moment there aren't big enough stadiums in England to present an alternative. The only one is Old Trafford and it's a 2nd rate stadium.

2nd rate? It's way worse than that.
Rag!

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Forest fans, another set of delusional fans who we have to put up with in recent seasons.

Sooner they go back to where they belong the better.

Spiteful fans

 

[BringBackSwales]

To go or not to go. That is the question.

Fucking go pal. If we get proper Blues going we get a better atmosphere. As an example the charity shield v Arsenal was mainly half and half this fans and our support was fucking shite. We need our proper fans