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

[manclad]

Has anyone yet received these tickets? Sorry if already covered…

My ticket has just arrived in the lunchtime post.
Sorted!!

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

Does anyone know whether they are sending confirmation of the free coach times?
Got my ticket and requested a place on 1 but just the ticket has arrived?

When we played Watford and free coaches provided it was a separate email from Thomas Cook Sport who the club used then

Not sure with this one as supplied by the FA

 

[M18CTID]

Level one was showing as sold out earlier so that's another 1200 tickets added.

@M18CTID , these must be the missing tickets we discussed.

I was originally taken aback by the numbers added but it seems they weren't originally earmarked for City fans as @fathellensbellend has spotted that our allocation is now over 36,000! So these were clearly for neutrals originally. Despite the prices, I think there's a better chance of those selling than the £65/£45 ones in the blocks of the upper tier still to be released. From the ticket page of the official site showing our updated allocation:

"The Club has received an allocation of 36,207 tickets located in the East end of Wembley Stadium."

 

[fathellensbellend]

I was originally taken aback by the numbers added but it seems they weren't originally earmarked for City fans as @fathellensbellend has spotted that our allocation is now over 36,000! So these were clearly for neutrals originally. Despite the prices, I think there's a better chance of those selling than the £65/£45 ones in the blocks of the upper tier still to be released. From the ticket page of the official site showing our updated allocation:

"The Club has received an allocation of 36,207 tickets located in the East end of Wembley Stadium."

there has to be a plan to actually shift the tickets though, sales have virtually ended. Wembley's concessions are shameful, unless you are in the cheap seats its nigh on impossible for a family to afford it. I think City should sacrifice some of their gate receipts and actually cut the prices of the remaining tickets, give some of our fanbase a break, in the grand scheme of things it will be peanuts

 

[berryblue]

Another 1800 tickets released in blocks 121 and 122. That seems a lot?!

One of my friends and family asked me to get a ticket in one of those blocks but didn't show as available. Don't know why they do that. Shabby behaviour.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

the allocation is now in excess of 36000, unfortunately all the new tickets released are 80 quid, sales are down to a trickle, not sure how they envisage selling these.

Some of the best seats in the stadium too. Why do they do that? Mad.

 

[M18CTID]

there has to be a plan to actually shift the tickets though, sales have virtually ended. Wembley's concessions are shameful, unless you are in the cheap seats its nigh on impossible for a family to afford it. I think City should sacrifice some of their gate receipts and actually cut the prices of the remaining tickets, give some of our fanbase a break, in the grand scheme of things it will be peanuts

Agree about sales slowing down dramatically but they must feel they have a better chance of shifting those £80 ones than the Level 5 tickets still to go on sale. Either way, now that these Level 1 tickets have been made available, at least they can't now be given to the scouse twats to sell!

 

[Lee the Blue]

There isnt a snowballs chance in hell all those £80 tickets will get shifted at all unless the club is giving them away. The club will be lucky to shift 30k for this game - 36k with added so many tickets at £80 is a pipe dream.

 

[Corky]

There isnt a snowballs chance in hell all those £80 tickets will get shifted at all unless the club is giving them away. The club will be lucky to shift 30k for this game - 36k with added so many tickets at £80 is a pipe dream.

Giving them away would cost the club £71 per ticket.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I was originally taken aback by the numbers added but it seems they weren't originally earmarked for City fans as @fathellensbellend has spotted that our allocation is now over 36,000! So these were clearly for neutrals originally. Despite the prices, I think there's a better chance of those selling than the £65/£45 ones in the blocks of the upper tier still to be released. From the ticket page of the official site showing our updated allocation:

"The Club has received an allocation of 36,207 tickets located in the East end of Wembley Stadium."

I know how this works actually. It's the reason why Stoke's allocation was supposedly increased by 2000 a few weeks before our final with them.

If you take out the middle tier, the stadium is divided into two. But a number from each side are ring fenced for the FA for member clubs, sponsors etc. When you apply for an FA ticket through that scheme you have to tick which club you support and they allocate them on that basis. If any aren't taken up, like Stoke's 2000, they then go to the clubs. I got a ticket for the Wigan final using that method through a mate who works for a premier league club. They could apply for up to 6 I think, and I got 3 of them.

If you remember, I said that this had happened on the first day of sales. I know because I bought tickets in block 120 on the first morning, but a whole square section in that block were already unavailable.