Blunts given extra tickets cos we cant sell them

So what has actually happened here?

Have they got extra tickets from the neutral/corporate lot? How many?

 

I've been to 3 cup games, I'm not a passholder. I paid on the gate at Middlesbrough. I'm going on Sunday.

It won't be easy.

 

I'd say you deserve a final ticket more than a passholder who hasn't been to a cup game and can't be arsed with the semi as we'll be in the final and they can just go there instead.

 

Sheff Utd have released a number of corporate tickets to go on general sale. Maybe because they haven't got enough corporate types to take them up ?
Hull City, meanwhile sold all their corporate tickets (red seats, half way line) with the surplus taken up by employees of the club and family/relations/guests of the players and staff.
So whats the problem ?

 

What a **** week so far.

The way the club has handled both situations has been pathetic.

 

That's bollocks. I can't go to the semi final on Sunday as I work away, I am due back on Wednesday and will be away a month. I am a season ticket holder ( 15 years + ) and probably only make 3/4 the games a season. When I am home I go to every game, why should some one who goes to 1 or two games get priority over pass holders who can't make Sunday. Don't speak rubbish.

I expect it to be a difficult game against sheff utd, and it's not a foregone conclusion we will get to the final. However if we play as well as we all know we can, I confident we will beat them.

 

Blame the traditionalists in our ranks.

 

The ticket allocation was a fiasco. We can get 24000 fans into the ground in 1.5 hours yet it takes two weeks for tickets to get on general sale.

Season pass should be set up so that FA cup home games are mandatory, auto direct debit. Semi final game at Wembley auto purchase of middle bracket, 72 hours to upgrade or downgrade then general sale.

Easy isn't it

 

is it cos, rightly or wrongly, the City fans expect to get to Wembley for the final and they would rather pay for the final instead of paying for both?
By the same token, The Blades fans dont expect to be in the final so they are going all out shelling out for the semi instead?

 

However the tickets are allocated there's going to be some people unhappy, however there's nothing in your post to suggest you deserve a ticket more than someone that has supported the team during this seasons cup run.

 

Go on then, explain that quote.

 

they probably want to say "I was there for our FIRST EVER FA CUP FINAL"
and "I was there WHEN WE LIFTED THE FA CUP!"

 

I'd say someone committing £300+ to go to every league game in a season no matter how well we're playing is more deserving of a cup final ticket for someone who buys for our first home quarter final and first semi finals in donkeys years and spends less than £50 on the club in a season.

Plus I'm sure in the promotional stuff for this years pass (if there was any!) one of the selling points will have been priority on cup tickets.

 

Incidentally, if we win on Sunday, it'll be my first semi at Wembley too.

 

Patty hits nail on the head

 

PattySlapper - STFU, cos you're out of your depth......

 

Like I said there's always going to be people that miss out and are unhappy, it all depends on your opinion, I see the cup as different competition that a large proportion of season ticket holders do not contribute to or support, therefore they shouldn't get priority when it there's a chance of success.

If your a season ticket holder and support the team during the cup then it wouldn't bother you if those that purchased cup tickets got priority.

 

I have, and am, supporting the club during the cup run, I've been to every home game we've played this season (inc friendlies) apart from Norwich when I was at Wembley.

I do think though that anyone whose committed to paying for every league game should have priority purchase on all tickets regardless of league or cup, because at the end of the day it's the pass holders who contribute the most to the club and so we're the ones who should be looked after.