FA Cup QF Draw | Bournemouth (A) | Sun 30 Mar 4:30pm

[aka blue jambo]

Doable .. now just need a ticket :)

 

[TheGhost]

Does anyone think the tickets might drop as far as 28k points?

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

Same old story. Did we expect any different?

 

[shemnel]

* sits holding Cityzens membership, waiting.... *

I'm gonna get the chance, right? right?!


Points-holders to the left of me, rich-tourists to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with tens of thousands of City fans who'd love to go to a league or cup away game that isn't Wembley

 

[CityBrat64]

£35 is what Bournemouth are charging their fans so it will be the same

Cheers,hadn't seen that

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

Worst possible time for our fans, with work on the Monday. They never show any consideration towards the supporters especially those travelling fans.

 

[69FACUPfinal]

Worst possible time for our fans, with work on the Monday. They never show any consideration towards the supporters especially those travelling fans.

Absolutely stinks. But did we expect anything less.

 

[fitzy blue]

Does anyone think the tickets might drop as far as 28k points?

It will drop lower than that.
Remember it's around 600+ extra tickets
than the league game and it's FA cup scheme members first.

 

[didsburyblu]

It will drop lower than that.
Remember it's around 600+ extra tickets
than the league game and it's FA cup scheme members first.

Plus it's mother's day! Hopefully a few will be forced into family activities

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

It is five miles from my house, but the chance of getting a ticket is less than a night in a penthouse suite with Michelle Pfeiffer.

Mind you, I might give it a try….. (not the Bournemouth game, it’s on telly and parking is a bastard)

 

[Maccblue]

Does anyone think the tickets might drop as far as 28k points?

Definitely we get 600+ more than the league game plus the ko time will put a few off

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

16.30 Sunday. Just fuck off will you.
How the hell is that fair on fans trying to get home?
Also, they have shafted Bournemouth as they play Tuesday. WTF is going on here.

 

[TheGhost]

It will drop lower than that.
Remember it's around 600+ extra tickets
than the league game and it's FA cup scheme members first.

Everyone that’s on 28k+ points will be in the FA Cup Scheme, so I’m not sure if that will make much of a difference.

 

[fitzy blue]

Everyone that’s on 28k+ points will be in the FA Cup Scheme, so I’m not sure if that will make much of a difference.

Got a mate on 28k + points but skipped the cup schemes for the first time this season.
Wether he fancied this one or not he won't be getting a ticket with his points.

 

[deafmanstevo]

It is five miles from my house, but the chance of getting a ticket is less than a night in a penthouse suite with Michelle Pfeiffer.

Mind you, I might give it a try….. (not the Bournemouth game, it’s on telly and parking is a bastard)

Can't you get a ticket in the Bournemouth end ?

 

[Kippax77]

Can't you get a ticket in the Bournemouth end ?

Have you got 6 fingers?

 

[Alfie Budd]

16.30 Sunday. Just fuck off will you.
How the hell is that fair on fans trying to get home?
Also, they have shafted Bournemouth as they play Tuesday. WTF is going on here.

Bournemouth’s home PL game against Ipswich has been moved from Tuesday to Wednesday to accommodate the cup TV schedule. Brighton v Villa also moved back 24 hours.

 

[blue corby]

Wolves were allocated 1945 tickets in the last round , that’s a good 6-700 more than a league game , prices were only £30 so hopefully be something like that this time .

Just checked and City got 1307 tickets for the league game .

 

[chesterbells]

You misunderstand a little- it isn't just for the professional teams. Live football has a massive impact on lower league (level 9 for example - 14 divisions) and knocking a small number off the crowd can be devastating. I know when Macc Town were in League 2 if United played live on TV on a Tuesday it would reduce the crowd (which was already only 1500) by about 10% (150). What's 150?? A couple of grand at today's rates and that matters to lower crowds. To extrapolate, at level nine that may be a loss of just £200 but this money adds up. Should we just say bollocks to it and let teams go to the wall because they aren't as 'big and important as us' - cos they are as important to the regulars who go even if only a copole of hundred. As Haaland rightly says "stay humble"

I take your point mate, and I didn’t know that level of detail. I wouldn’t argue with anything you’ve put there. Only to say I wasn’t advocating teams “going to the wall”. I was thinking aloud about whether full time pro teams couldn’t still exist as semi pro teams for example. I certainly wasnt wishing teams to vanish.

 

[chesterbells]

Last Saturday watched Preston v Burnley on TV, headed off to Highbury to watch Fleetwood v Notts County then hone in time for City v Plymouth. If Carlsberg did Saturdays finished in Cleveleys Spoons. A loss a draw and a win for my three favourite teams, but watch all three in one day was amazing. Got away with it as my missus was on a night out with her slimming club or I would have had the phrase football widow used in our house.

Some day that :-)