Only 2nd round ticket holders should get a ticket

[Canterbury Blade]

Couldn't get a United end ticket for the visit in early '93, so sat in the end with the Man Utd fans.

Two memories.

1. Chatting very nicely to a man from Wales, a family from Dorset and a couple of pleasant elderly ladies from Surrey.
2. Watching Giggs, McClair and Cantona do their pre match warm up by juggling footballs and being able to do things with their feet and head that I couldn't do with my hands. I glanced over at Tom Cowan warming up and felt very afraid. And in those days we were in the same league!!

UTB

 

[Clarkey87]

If you've been to any game this season, home or away, the club should give you a big fucking medal - As some small recompense for the unadulterated shite that has been served up over the last four months.

Fixed that for ya

 

[mattbianco1]

we are entitled to 12000 , if we can sell them

Correct. Entitled to 15% and it holds >77k so 11,500+

We'll take 7/8k

 

[Tyler Durden]

This is correct. As a result we'll get about 8000 and sell out. I understand the OP and maybe its right. I simply couldn't be arsed to go on Saturday because I've fallen out with them a bit at the moment.

Just read Tyler's post above mine and you can't really argue with that logic can you?

Nope

 

[Keef Chedwyn]

They don't have to justify to me either, they should however only have a chance of a Man Utd ticket after those that went to the Oldham game.

We get it, you went to the Oldham game on Saturday. Give yourself a pat on the back.

If I see you in Manchester I'll buy you a pint for being a Blades legend.

 

[Latters]

All the stay aways on Saturday should NOT be able to get a ticket until those that went to the Oldham game on Saturday have had a chance to buy one. That should help encourage people to attend the earlier cup rounds in future seasons.

I've been shopping at Aldi lately. Should Asda refuse to serve me if they have some decent offers on to punish my disloyalty?

You say the low attendance against Oldham was detrimental to the club's finances yet think excluding supporters is somehow beneficial? Sounds like a right crock of shit to me.

 

[spongebobblade]

We get it, you went to the Oldham game on Saturday. Give yourself a pat on the back.

If I see you in Manchester I'll buy you a pint for being a Blades legend.

AHERM....... I went Saturday too.


Pint of Carling please

 

[spongebobblade]

AHERM....... I went Saturday too.


Pint of Carling please

On second thoughts I wasted an afternoon watching utter shite in blustery cold weather supporting the team I love with snot dripping off my top lip hoping we might sneak it and draw a glamour tie away to one of the big boys like Man Utd...........

Make it a fuckin barrel

 

[ListerBlade]

I've done 1 game this season (Crewe away), and probably won't do many more. Got 10,000 loyalty points, no membership this season, never had a season ticket, work a job that requires pretty much every weekend unless I book it off as holiday, yet if the tickets are available I might go, and might even invite my Derby supporting mate if possible, if not, I'm not too fussed. As is how I feel about Sheffield United at the moment, I can take it or leave it. I've got that much going on, that I just view the Blades with such apathy at the moment. But I wouldn't mind doing Old Trafford again as my only other visit was the FA Youth Cup Final.

Judge as you will, I have my reasons. But I absolutely respect those guys who go week in week out regardless, and fair crack to anyone who fancies going to this game, especially in the last few years of turgid crap that has been dished up, but I won't be playing the bigger blade than you game. Each to their own. If you can, and want to, go, if not, plenty of others will I'm sure.

One thing I've found over the last few seasons of decent cup matches at higher opposition, watching some top level pro's in the flesh is a joy. And I'd like to think Manchester will fancy scraping a 1-0 win and play a full strength team to do so

 

[Jehovah]

I'm going and I don't even support Sheffield United

 

[Keef Chedwyn]

AHERM....... I went Saturday too.


Pint of Carling please

On second thoughts I wasted an afternoon watching utter shite in blustery cold weather supporting the team I love with snot dripping off my top lip hoping we might sneak it and draw a glamour tie away to one of the big boys like Man Utd...........

Make it a fuckin barrel

I would've said yes but then you started milking it...

 

[spongebobblade]

I've done 1 game this season (Crewe away), and probably won't do many more. Got 10,000 loyalty points, no membership this season, never had a season ticket, work a job that requires pretty much every weekend unless I book it off as holiday, yet if the tickets are available I might go, and might even invite my Derby supporting mate if possible, if not, I'm not too fussed. As is how I feel about Sheffield United at the moment, I can take it or leave it. I've got that much going on, that I just view the Blades with such apathy at the moment. But I wouldn't mind doing Old Trafford again as my only other visit was the FA Youth Cup Final.

Judge as you will, I have my reasons. But I absolutely respect those guys who go week in week out regardless, and fair crack to anyone who fancies going to this game, especially in the last few years of turgid crap that has been dished up, but I won't be playing the bigger blade than you game. Each to their own. If you can, and want to, go, if not, plenty of others will I'm sure.

One thing I've found over the last few seasons of decent cup matches at higher opposition, watching some top level pro's in the flesh is a joy. And I'd like to think Manchester will fancy scraping a 1-0 win and play a full strength team to do so

We will cross the penines in our thousands mate for a variety of reasons. Some will never have seen us play at Old Trafford or even against Man Utd. Some will want to see the likes of Rooney etc. Some will see it as just a fantastic day out like at Spurs and Villa but all of us, yes all of us will have that ounce of hope that we just might do something a little bit special like Bradford at Chelsea. Then one day we will announce to our grandkids. "I was there"

 

[spongebobblade]

I would've said yes but then you started milking it...

Mi mam always said if you don't ask........

 

[WORKSOPBLADE]

8,500 will be the allocation. Think we'll sell em out with loads of non blade wives/girlfriends going !! (Not mine btw!)

My lads are 16 & 12 and have only seen us there in the youth cup final. Thought they'd be bang up for it but even they are apathetic towards it. Having seen us at plenty of games this season as ST holders, away and in the cups even they are bored with our performances and scared of the potential whipping.

I've seen enough crap over the years to be used to it. But for them to feel that, this is the real worry !
We really do need to turn things around before we lose loads of the young uns again like we've done in the past.

(We'll be there though)

 

[SUFC Guy]

I have supported the sheffield blades for many a year so I'm going and not having anyone spout tosh about pre-requisites 'cos they ain't got enough loyalty points themselves !

Go Blades Team!

 

[WORKSOPBLADE]

Couldn't get a United end ticket for the visit in early '93, so sat in the end with the Man Utd fans.

Two memories.

1. Chatting very nicely to a man from Wales, a family from Dorset and a couple of pleasant elderly ladies from Surrey.
2. Watching Giggs, McClair and Cantona do their pre match warm up by juggling footballs and being able to do things with their feet and head that I couldn't do with my hands. I glanced over at Tom Cowan warming up and felt very afraid. And in those days we were in the same league!!

UTB

Same here,l went with a Man U ST holder in their end. Seem to remember Franz Carr having a blinder. We lose 2-1 ??

 

[spongebobblade]

8,500 will be the allocation. Think we'll sell em out with loads of non blade wives/girlfriends going !! (Not mine btw!)

My lads are 16 & 12 and have only seen us there in the youth cup final. Thought they'd be bang up for it but even they are apathetic towards it. Having seen us at plenty of games this season as ST holders, away and in the cups even they are bored with our performances and scared of the potential whipping.

I've seen enough crap over the years to be used to it. But for them to feel that, this is the real worry !
We really do need to turn things around before we lose loads of the young uns again like we've done in the past.

(We'll be there though)

Deep down we all dread a thumping Worksop but like you say, to those of us who have witnessed so much heartache it becomes like water off a ducks back after a while. We are easy to tell. While some will blub we just shrug our shoulders and carry on supporting our beloved drivel

 

[Bladepicker]

If it was going to be tight to get tickets I could see some logic in a loyalty point plus Oldham attendance combo simply because anyone who decided to pay to watch us in a shite cup game on a cold Saturday before Christmas probably deserves an extra special reward - I certainly didn't go!

As it is doubt we will sell out. Credit the OP too for reminding my of cup matches in years gone past where on entering the ground first thought would always be - keep your stub!

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

I want to go just to witness the incredible volume of booze our supporters will contribute to the occasion.....I think that's how you spell booze isn't it?!

 

[dingledog]

all this ' I'm a bigger blade than you' crap, if you have enough points you will have an opportunity to buy a ticket. If you don't, it simply means you have not previously been the biggest blade in the world.

 

[Jon Bon]

What about tickets for those locked out of Old Trafford at 1.30p.m.when we were top of the Prem ( or was it 1st division)? ( that game when Best went round Reece every Saturday night on Match of the Day for about 20 years!!

Every time I see that clip I imagine it in an alternative universe where Hockey snaps him in two before he gets to the box. The same universe where Gordon Jackson says 'Danke' at the end of The Great Escape and they get on the bus and ride into the sunset.

 

[Canterbury Blade]

I've seen United at Sealand Road, Fellows Park, The Old Show Ground and Springfield Park.

I cried on Leppings Lane on Boxing Day, was yards from the ball after Don Givens missed, saw Hopkins last minute goal, watched us not turn up in Cardiff and endured corporate Wembley ale prices to drown my Burnley sorrows

I've travelled home late into the night after Tuesday nights in Ipswich, Tottenham, Peterborough and Northampton.

I've seen us win at Anfield, draw in Rotterdam and lose at virtually every London ground.

I've had to sit in the away end at Highbury, Old Trafford and last year Scunthorpe and Chesterfield just to see the Blades.

I've still got Keith Edwards autograph, my Junior Blades membership card from 1981 and both my Ajax and Space invaders Hobbott team shirts. And God knows what rests in my Mums loft.

I've had cats called Dearden, Deano and Edwards. And there is no blue anywhere in my house.

I consider myself a United fan, a loyal one and a Blade. Yet my loyalty points will be lower than the average 15 year old. I moved away in 1993 and simply life, a wife and a 408 mile round trip sadly prevent me from getting more loyalty points.

Does this lack of points mean I'm not really a Blade and should hang my head in shame?

Oh and before I'm judged please consider that I will be at the JJB stadium on Boxing Day, which has not gone down well with the missus, and the points as with all the others over the last ten years will be on one of my mates accounts.

Loyalty is more than the points on a card..

UTB

 

[grafikhaus]

Fucking hell, it's Hull all over again! Look, we'll do extremely well to sell our allocation however big it is. By the time it's played we'll have flogged anybody who isn't nailed down and - considering it's Man. U and the utter contempt that the TV companies hold the fans in - it will probably be played at midnight on the Friday (after The Great British Paint Drying Watch).

This 'bigger Blade than you' is tiresome. We've got 90 minutes left in the FA Cup and the only aim is to avoid humiliation (even tho' Man. U will probably play their under-13's Ladies team).

 

[stringjunior]

Fucking hell, it's Hull all over again! Look, we'll do extremely well to sell our allocation however big it is. By the time it's played we'll have flogged anybody who isn't nailed down and - considering it's Man. U and the utter contempt that the TV companies hold the fans in - it will probably be played at midnight on the Friday (after The Great British Paint Drying Watch).

This 'bigger Blade than you' is tiresome. We've got 90 minutes left in the FA Cup and the only aim is to avoid humiliation (even tho' Man. U will probably play their under-13's Ladies team).

A quality post from a quality poster

 

[wizadry]

I didn't go on Saturday because it was works Christmas do, we went to Manchester to the comedy club all paid for, now what would any sane person do? I didn't go to the first round either and I had a free ticket. Is it really that hard to see though why I will be going to Old Trafford when it's much more attractive and a lot better value for money? The only thing I'm pissed off about is that McCabe will get a substantial payout and we'll see fuck all for it but I'm taking my lad because it might be his only chance to see OT in his life time, I know, depressing isn't it

 

[Chezzy Blades]

I've been to every game this season and will have no trouble getting a ticket for OT, but I have to agree with others that the OP is the biggest load of bollocks i've ever seen.

Yes, those of us with the most loyalty points will get first dibs on the tickets, that's how a loyalty point system works, but to only allow people have attended game X to go to our highest profile game of the season? That's ridiculous. How do you know these people's reasons for attending? Who are you to judge them?

Do you think Spurs away or Villa away would have been the nights out they were if people who didn't attend the first round games were told they couldn't have tickets? What utter rubbish.

 

[S5Blade]

Will all depend on prices I reckon, MUFC probably won't sell out, its just after xmas so hoping that pricing reflects this, 10/15 quid and we will easily shift 7/8k, more than 15 quid and we will struggle to sell 5/6 I reckon. Will be there regardless, never been to OT!

 

[RMBlade]

We've got 90 minutes left in the FA Cup and the only aim is to avoid humiliation (even tho' Man. U will probably play their under-13's Ladies team).

Probably 230 minutes + penalties left after 0-0 in both games and there is no way we will win a penalty shootout!

 

[Whiston Blade]

Every time I see that clip I imagine it in an alternative universe where Hockey snaps him in two before he gets to the box. The same universe where Gordon Jackson says 'Danke' at the end of The Great Escape and they get on the bus and ride into the sunset.

Here is Jackson getting on the bus bound for Old Trafford, he was first in line at the ticket office and has over 1M stupidity points.

 

[blade too long]

print them ,,, and they will come
as we are playing in the field of dreams
if we print 12000 tickets our fans will go
the sheer thought of singing greasy chip butty amid a sea of blades at old trafford will be enough

I reckon we could sell 15000