FA Cup SF | Liverpool | Sat 16 Apr 15:30 | Travel, Ticket & Pub Discussion

[tolmie's hairdoo]

If it's your passion and hobbie in life you find away .if you watch Crewe Alex it's about £25 a game ,on this occasion£30 with no travel costs carnt be used as an excuse.obviously if you go to every game the costs add up and up but as a one off game you carnt complain about this one ,

If it's your passion and hobby you find a way?

Not sure how old you are, married, kids, mortgage, wealthy, etc?

But that is so far removed from the reality.

If any Blue earns £400 a week and they pay £200 for the week to watch two games already, they would put food and bills before City or anything else, regardless of passion.

I've made some very tough decisions this season, myself. It's not a question of going to every game, it's a question of what someone's own circumstances can afford at that time.

It's not £30 for the day for the majority who would not be attending alone to any game, then they must also factor in food, etc.

Let's call it a dad and their child, it's closer to £100.

 

[There is a Light]

Too many people on this thread making excuses for not going to the semi final. Semi finals have been at Wembley for 15 years now. This seasons semi finals have been scheduled for Easter weekend since August. A lot of tickets are not dear in todays prices and travel can be free. There are trains if you want one via different routes which work out cheaper than the West Coast line. It's no wonder our support is not respected.

I’m not going because I have tickets for a gig that I booked last year, hotel booked etc. The point still stands that the novelty of Wembley has gone and repeatedly taking 34,000 to the other end of the country just isn’t going to keep happening, when it’s not even for a final. It’s just as well we didn’t draw Palace as we really would have struggled to sell out. City are unique as most clubs have that novelty value, are local to London or have a huge southern fan base to call on (United, Liverpool). I do seem to recall Chelsea failing to sell out against Southampton a few years back though and there wasn’t a peep from social media about it. It would be interesting to see how the likes of them, Arsenal, Tottenham etc would fare if they had to sell 34,000 tickets for a Manchester stadium 21 times in 10 years (I can’t think of any other club in history who have had that many Wembley visits). I think it would be the same hard sell as we are experiencing.

 

[xgorton]

Well I must be a part timer then we will be at our holiday home Easter drinks and watching on the box,also the 11th of this month will 60 years to the day I watched my first City game home with Birmingham aged 10 that was 1962.My first semi final was v Everton 69 at Villa park followed City home and away for 60 years.

 

[There is a Light]

Well I must be a part timer then we will be at our holiday home Easter drinks and watching on the box,also the 11th of this month will 60 years to the day I watched my first City game home with Birmingham aged 10 that was 1962.My first semi final was v Everton 69 at Villa park followed City home and away for 60 years.

Sort it out mate, you’re clearly not committed enough.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Isn’t this what we moan about other clubs fans? When they criticise our fan base off for not selling out tickets?

Yet blues are doing it to our very own fan base on here.

 

[Blue Mist]

Isn’t this what we moan about other clubs fans? When they criticise our fan base off for not selling out tickets?

Yet blues are doing it to our very own fan base on here.

And there are 2 threads where posters are worried Atletico won't sell out, home or away.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

And there are 2 threads where posters are worried Atletico won't sell out, home or away.

They can just go on RAWK if they want to see that. No need for it to be on our own forum.

 

[Katsunari Takayama]

Isn’t this what we moan about other clubs fans? When they criticise our fan base off for not selling out tickets?

Yet blues are doing it to our very own fan base on here.

What we have on here is a small but very noisy bunch of old timers who because they find it too inconvenient (can’t be bothered) to go to Wembley seem to be almost willing ticket sales to go poorly and hence validate in their eyes their rather disingenuous stance on money, the FA, train travel, traffic problems etc

How many posts have we had with people claiming we won’t get anywhere near selling out and risible scare stories about our end being awash with dippers or meek and mild blues being set upon by gangs of marauding scousers. Hasn’t happened before, won’t happen this time.

We’ll sell out, any dippers in our end will be dealt with, and result permitting everyone will have a great day out.

These same fans will then , from the comfort of their armchairs, set their sights on other oldies issues and be the first to moan on here after the game that they’re “embarrassed” that for the first few mins of the 2nd half our end looked empty and start having a pop at youths singing songs on the concourse and taking drugs (!!!!!!) rather than supporting the team blah blah blah

 

[M18CTID]

Too many people on this thread making excuses for not going to the semi final. Semi finals have been at Wembley for 15 years now. This seasons semi finals have been scheduled for Easter weekend since August. A lot of tickets are not dear in todays prices and travel can be free. There are trains if you want one via different routes which work out cheaper than the West Coast line. It's no wonder our support is not respected.

While I agree with some of the comments people have been making, I can’t agree with that last bit. Do people actually think that it’s always the same fans of Liverpool and United, for example, who attend semi final after semi final? I’ll let you into a secret - they aren’t. Amongst their support they will have the same can’t be arsed/can’t afford it/novelty has worn off brigade who decide to give it a miss, so others will take up the slack.

Fact is that a lot of City fans who aren’t bothering with this game have earned their stripes many times over down the years by attending games that are far less attractive than this one and will have jumped through hoops to get to those games. You can’t generalise every season ticket holder who isn’t going as someone who isn’t worthy of being a fan because many of them will have been there and done it many times over.

 

[Corky]

8 games in April, all important.

Some people are too sensitive, we had 60k empty seats at TNS, our first European away for a decade and closer than Wembley.