Ball 32 this Sunday - Liverpool in FA Cup

[Barry the bird boggler]

Plus side

Good home draw
Good atmosphere (for a while at least)
Money from possible telly appearance
Brief air of perhaps...

Down side

Possiblity of being on the telly (and at a stupid time)
Plastics come back out of the woodwork
4000+ away fans
Embarrassing scoreline
No cup run again

[Ryn]

Plastics come back out of the woodwork

Except this time they will have Liverpool shirts on.

[TFF]

Plus side

Good home draw
Good atmosphere (for a while at least)
Money from possible telly appearance
Brief air of perhaps...

Down side

Possiblity of being on the telly (and at a stupid time)
Plastics come back out of the woodwork
4000+ away fans
Embarrassing scoreline
No cup run again

I don't really see a down side tbh. Belting draw.

Telly? Great
Plastics? Full ground. Miss 'em tbh
4000+ scousers? Decent atmosphere for once
Scoreline? We've got nothing to lose
Cup run? Let's stay in the league.

[No Fixed Abode]

Bet there will be lots of Pool fans in the home ends.

[Norfolk Royal]

Bet there will be lots of Pool fans in the home ends.

Bet there won't.

[Negative_Jeff]

What a privilege it will be to welcome these Scousers to our humble little stadium once again. A nicer bunch of fellows you couldn`t wish to meet.

[sandman]

Bloomin' Plastics turning up when we're successful. Oh well we'll be in League 1 Next season. Failure, that'll show 'em.

[Wimb]

Bloomin' Plastics turning up when we're successful. Oh well we'll be in League 1 Next season. Failure, that'll show 'em.

Then they'll all come out of the woodwork for those glamour auto-windscreens shield matches against the likes of Lincoln

[Magnus]

If you're that desperate to support an unloved side get yourselves down Scours Lane.

[FiNeRaIn]

Might give this one a miss, don't fancy 4,500 scousers taking the piss telling us how they've won every cup going and we are nobodys all game.

We'll get hammered too, liverpools only remaining tournament they can win so expect them to play a full strength team.

Crap tie for us.

[SWLR]

Might give this one a miss, don't fancy 4,500 scousers taking the piss telling us how they've won every cup going and we are nobodys all game.

We'll get hammered too, liverpools only remaining tournament they can win so expect them to play a full strength team.

Crap tie for us.

Yes, Yes and Yes..... however if we win, oh joy-of-joys.

[rhroyal]

Might give this one a miss, don't fancy 4,500 scousers taking the piss telling us how they've won every cup going and we are nobodys all game.

We'll get hammered too, liverpools only remaining tournament they can win so expect them to play a full strength team.

Crap tie for us.

Why do so many people talk about 4,000 scousers? It's obvious half the south stand will go to us.

[Dirk Gently]

Might give this one a miss, don't fancy 4,500 scousers taking the piss telling us how they've won every cup going and we are nobodys all game.

We'll get hammered too, liverpools only remaining tournament they can win so expect them to play a full strength team.

Crap tie for us.

Why do so many people talk about 4,000 scousers? It's obvious half the south stand will go to us.

In the FA Cup it's 15% allocation for the away team - which means that Liverpool will be entitled to 3,600 - but as we can't segregate the South Stand other than with 2k in each half of it then Liverpool will get the whole South Stand - 4,200

[brendywendy]

Might give this one a miss, don't fancy 4,500 scousers taking the piss telling us how they've won every cup going and we are nobodys all game.

same applies to almost every team in teh league

are you sure youre getting the whole supporting RFC thing?

We'll get hammered too, liverpools only remaining tournament they can win so expect them to play a full strength team.

scary mary!!!!
of course we all only go to the games we think we should win

[FiNeRaIn]

I'm bored of seeing us lose, this is a sure defeat. Can't be arsed.

It wouldn't be bad if we had at least a bit of momentum or quality capable of pulling off a shock.

We are the best tie liverpool could have hoped for, more so then lincoln,etc

[Barry the bird boggler]

Of course there could well be the debut of Gunnar Heidar Thorvaldsson to look forward to, you never know he may single handedly take the Liverpool defence to pieces over and over again.

[Mad Dog's Ghost]

This draw is a financial lifeline. Given the fact that we're told RFC is utterly skint, this should provide us with a £1m revenue. Which might, just might, be invested in the team. Or am I totally deluded.

[Wycombe Royal]

This draw is a financial lifeline. Given the fact that we're told RFC is utterly skint, this should provide us with a £1m revenue. Which might, just might, be invested in the team. Or am I totally deluded.

Where did you pluck £1m from?

[Mad Dog's Ghost]

If average ticket price is say, £25, that's £600k. And I suspect this will be on telly. Would that not push revenue up to about the million mark?

[Dirk Gently]

This draw is a financial lifeline. Given the fact that we're told RFC is utterly skint, this should provide us with a £1m revenue. Which might, just might, be invested in the team. Or am I totally deluded.

Where did you pluck £1m from?

Wow! Even if we sold all 24,200 seats at £25, that's only £726,000, of which we get only 45% (£326,700). (45% to each team and 10% to the FA Cup "fund").

Yes, add hospitality, programmes and catering to that, but then take off policing, stewarding and other staffing etc.

Even if televised, you're still way, way short of a million!