Cup game tickets

[Bakewell Blade]

Very poor attendance today and I think it was probably down to the season ticket holders. I know the match was on a sunday and being a cold day aswell, but I can't see why united don't just throw in the 3rd round cup tickets in the season ticket, it's the same with the 1st round of the carling cup

Mind you having said all that I'm not suprised people don't bother turning up to watch that performance today. I thought both teams showed a lack of ambition and the one player I was most dissapointed in was jamie ward, who I see as currently our best player at the moment. It was unlike him to show a lack of interest but at times I thought he was absent and his final ball which can be unplayable at times as shown against Preston, was poor even from set pieces.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Look around the country and i suspect virtually every other game was down on attendance too.

No-one gives a shit about the FA Cup anymore

 

[yorkshirecoast]

Very poor attendance today and I think it was probably down to the season ticket holders. I know the match was on a sunday and being a cold day aswell, but I can't see why united don't just throw in the 3rd round cup tickets in the season ticket, it's the same with the 1st round of the carling cup

Mind you having said all that I'm not suprised people don't bother turning up to watch that performance today. I thought both teams showed a lack of ambition and the one player I was most dissapointed in was jamie ward, who I see as currently our best player at the moment. It was unlike him to show a lack of interest but at times I thought he was absent and his final ball which can be unplayable at times as shown against Preston, was poor even from set pieces.

Completely disagree r.e. the attendance. Decent turnout all things considered. 3k more than the massive Pigs.

 

[Santos]

I think it would be impossible for SUFC or any club to 'throw in the 3rd round cup tickets with the season ticket'* baring in mind all proceeds from FA Cup games get split 50/50**, therefore it'll be very unfair on say QPR who would have only got 50% of money from none season ticket holders and their away support today i.e. pittance!!! The way around this would be for SUFC to make up the short fall, but why should they?

* Before anyone mentions it, it is my understanding that at Man Utd to get a season ticket you have to agree to automatically buy any home FA Cup & League Cup tickets, which seems well out of order, perhaps a silver lining for the Man Utd fans today!

** EDIT - I think it may actually be something like 45% to each club with 10% going to the FA.

 

[Santos]

Completely disagree r.e. the attendance. Decent turnout all things considered. 3k more than the massive Pigs.

Anyone have the figures on the away support from Palace & QPR? Warnock was making out they took a lot on Sky earlier, QPR - 1,000 maximum?

 

[Bakewell Blade]

Ok so if you are saying that attendance is ok, but what about how many season ticket holders didn't take up the club on their cheap seats. Around me on the kop there were a lot of season ticket holders not present.

I suppose there were a lot of people who took up the offer of cheaper tickets who wouldn't normally have turned up which boosted the attendance but I just felt if those supporters were in adition to the however many season ticket holders we would have a very very good attendance, even for a tie that may seem not so appealing such a qpr

 

[Santos]

Ok so if you are saying that attendance is ok, but what about how many season ticket holders didn't take up the club on their cheap seats. Around me on the kop there were a lot of season ticket holders not present.

I suppose there were a lot of people who took up the offer of cheaper tickets who wouldn't normally have turned up which boosted the attendance but I just felt if those supporters were in adition to the however many season ticket holders we would have a very very good attendance, even for a tie that may seem not so appealing such a qpr

Yep, it would have been a good crowd but if you wanted to include FA Cup games in season ticket price then a) you wouldn't be allowed to do so b) the club would make less profit than they did today.

 

[sitwell]

Ours was the lowest priced game of the round ,all the prices and availability were in the Mail yesterday.

 

[Bubbleburp]

Would have been two more season ticket holders there today if we hadn't been thwarted by the damn weather......as a lot of others were I'll assume.

First time I've had two unused tickets on my mantlepiece ... :-(
Should have known really ...we ended up with the tickets because the ticket office informed us that our seats had been sold ...then changed their mind....and said they'd send tickets to confirm ... what a palaver !!!

 

[SwissBlade]

Yeah i'm with you all the way on this Bakewell, see my comments in the Match report thread.

Very disappointed, didn't we used to get more for the FA cup games when we played the 3rd round a week later in Jan?

I always used to enjoy the league games on the New Year weekend (or New Years day)... not sure if moving it a week earlier has had much impact or if people can't be arsed... the players couldn't be arsed so why should the fans!

Anyway, heres to stuffing QPR away and having a decent cup run!!!

 

[Sensiblade]

there is no guarantee of a home fixture in any of the cup rounds, we could get drawn away every round we play in. So putting a cup game in with the season ticket is pointless really IMO.

 

[Blade]

Most people were paid pretty early in december, if you were a fan who went to qpr and leicester away you're looking at having spent around £150 on those two games once you pay for your ticket, travel and drinks/food. Even the home game against preston costs most people money in travel and food/drink even with a ST.

We've just played QPR in the last few weeks, they didn't bring that many, it's freezing cold and I'd say dangerous outside the ground if you're not steady on your feet (injured, disabled or elderly).

Added to all this it's a very expensive time of the year, one which has been poor to most people financially with many taking paycuts, taking work paying less or finding themselves out of work - a lot of people will still be paying for christmas in easter this year.

All reasons for why the attendance wasn't great today, I wouldn't worry about it too much and I think it's wrong to blame poor attendance on season ticket holders who have already pumped good money into the blades this year. Taking Strafford's view I'd equally say it was probably down to the other 400,000 blades we have in Sheffield that didn't turn up

 

[Dog Blade]

Most I know who didn't go didn't mention price, cold weather or the fact that it was the FA Cup.

The majority sentence seemed to be 'I'm struggling to be arsed to go and watch that shit with my season ticket never mind go when I haven't got a ticket....don't know if I'll bother at all next year'...

Agree on Jamie Ward Bakewell, looked completely out of it today. Hope it isn't on the back of this 'agent stuff'. Hopefully he'll be played as a centre forward again one day too...

 

[Blade]

i was going to mention the way we've been playing but was trying to take a new year leap away from negativity, it is of course one of the main factors.

 

[dingledog]

I think the 11,000 multipilied by £10 is why they dont include it with the season tickets.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Reasons for me - it's been an expensive time recently, coupled with a degree of couldn't-be-arsedness. If I lived in Sheffield, I probably wouldn't miss a home game, but as I don't I feel well within my right to not go to games such as these that fall outside of my season ticket. Attending Swansea at home in the Premiership season also evaporated a lot of interest I used to hold in the early stages of the cup.

That said, I thoroughly enjoyed the game at the Orient last season, and will almost certainly be making the relatively short trip (again) to Loftus Road for the replay.

 

[Stafford Blade]

as a season ticket holder that didn't go today my main reason was the fact the last few home games have been absolute shite! maybe if we got a manager that had any idea how to play some attractive football there might have been a few more there................

 

[sitwell]

At least you didn't have to indulge in any pointless chat with any players ;-)

 

[Grecian2000]

as a season ticket holder that didn't go today my main reason was the fact the last few home games have been absolute shite! maybe if we got a manager that had any idea how to play some attractive football there might have been a few more there................

I love the FA Cup, by far my favourite competition and the one I would most like us to win.

However, yesterday I was sat at home and missed my first home tie since 1964. This decision was arrived at during half time the previous Monday having watched another tedious and uninspiring performance. There were four of us, all season ticket holders, and price, weather etc. had nothing at all to do with it.

This season I will not be attending any away games for the first season since that same season and next season even the home games are likely to be a thing of the past. This Blackwell fella has saved me a fortune and is by far my other halves favourite ever "manager" (I use the term very loosely).

 

[GainsboroBlade]

I was at the Lane yesterday and it is crap watching a game in a empty Bramall Lane.

 

[Stafford Blade]

I was at the Lane yesterday and it is crap watching a game in a empty Bramall Lane.

Might have to get used to it if Blackwell keeps turning out teams that play garbage football!