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.
 
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