The magic of the FA Cup

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Brogue » 17 Jan 2023 19:41

Mid Sussex Royal I expect a lot of Surrey Reds have got hold of tickets who have been to Reading in the past.

I don't think the club got the numbers wrong - just the way the tickets were sold.

if you look at it, we have amongst the worst away following in the league (less than 1k average) and add that to the KO time. live on free TV, lack of trains back, and the fact its not a novelty playing there I can understand the allocation.


Plus January is a tight month for a lot of people after Christmas and all that. although the game isn’t until the 28th - after payday, hotels and tickets need to be purchased now.

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Brogue » 17 Jan 2023 19:42

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It’s ok, he’ll just invent some hypothetical set of circumstances and decide that is how these things work….


There is no hypothetical theory. We buy the tickets, anything we don't sell goes back to the home club. All we did was box ourselves in by buying 3k rather than 9k. If we sell 6k, that's what we sell, the rest go back to United. We don't lose out on money, all we've done is sold more tickets and the rest have gone back to United.


What makes you think that is the case ?


Yeah are tickets on sale or return? Not heard of this before.

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Nameless » 17 Jan 2023 19:45

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There is no hypothetical theory. We buy the tickets, anything we don't sell goes back to the home club. All we did was box ourselves in by buying 3k rather than 9k. If we sell 6k, that's what we sell, the rest go back to United. We don't lose out on money, all we've done is sold more tickets and the rest have gone back to United.


What makes you think that is the case ?


Yeah are tickets on sale or return? Not heard of this before.


Probably a reason you’ve not heard….

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Conservative_dad » 17 Jan 2023 20:35

Tinpot club, can only take 3000 away. :lol:

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by AthleticoSpizz » 17 Jan 2023 20:36

50k coming up from Berkshire and our surrounding counties in the home ends tbf


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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by YorkshireRoyal99 » 17 Jan 2023 20:37

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It’s ok, he’ll just invent some hypothetical set of circumstances and decide that is how these things work….


There is no hypothetical theory. We buy the tickets, anything we don't sell goes back to the home club. All we did was box ourselves in by buying 3k rather than 9k. If we sell 6k, that's what we sell, the rest go back to United. We don't lose out on money, all we've done is sold more tickets and the rest have gone back to United.


What makes you think that is the case ?


A mate of mine who was at Huddersfield Town a few years ago said that they didn't sell out their allocation of tickets when they played Rochdale away in the 4th round (granted it was only a couple of hundred or so) and they sold them back to Rochdale at what they bought for.

Could have been misinformed as it was only a player, but always just taken that for what it was as they had more inside information than what I did.

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Conservative_dad » 17 Jan 2023 20:49

AthleticoSpizz 50k coming up from Berkshire and our surrounding counties in the home ends tbf


You could just about fit your average home attendance in the East stand* at OT



*the scoreboard end without the quadrants

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by AthleticoSpizz » 17 Jan 2023 20:52

Looking forward to your first team coming on in the second half to appease that 50k home county homers

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by leon » 17 Jan 2023 21:08

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AthleticoSpizz 50k coming up from Berkshire and our surrounding counties in the home ends tbf


You could just about fit your average home attendance in the East stand* at OT



*the scoreboard end with all the Cornish


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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Conservative_dad » 17 Jan 2023 21:40

AthleticoSpizz Looking forward to your first team coming on in the second half to appease that 50k home county homers


Can't imagine that we'd have to use them!

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Snowflake Royal » 17 Jan 2023 23:22

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AthleticoSpizz 50k coming up from Berkshire and our surrounding counties in the home ends tbf


You could just about fit your average home attendance in the East stand* at OT



*the scoreboard end without the quadrants

Are you seriously trying to tell us Utd are bigger than Reading?

No way!? :roll:

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Orion1871 » 18 Jan 2023 07:40

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by LUX » 18 Jan 2023 08:54

just another Glory Boy, trying to get reflected respect..

Really should switch to Arsenal at the moment.


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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Brum Royal » 18 Jan 2023 09:28

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What makes you think that is the case ?


Yeah are tickets on sale or return? Not heard of this before.


Probably a reason you’ve not heard….


I'm sure when we've been to OT on previous allocations that tickets were sale or return, hence the 3k normal away corner or the 9k entirety of the upper tier bit. There's no way to segregate that upper tier hence why you get the option of 3k or 9k for tickets. I fully understand RFC taking the 3k option this time, but agree it should have been done on Royalty points (games like this were the exact reason for having the system after all). For what it's worth I didn't even bother, have been to OT 5 times previously and refuse to pay £46 a ticket.

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Green » 18 Jan 2023 10:10

Has anyone mentioned that Charlton took 9000 fans up there in the 3rd round and made a jolly good beano of it?

If not, then that ^

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Conservative_dad » 18 Jan 2023 10:36

Green Has anyone mentioned that Charlton took 9000 fans up there in the 3rd round and made a jolly good beano of it?

If not, then that ^


Charlton >>> Reading

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Nameless » 18 Jan 2023 10:48

Green Has anyone mentioned that Charlton took 9000 fans up there in the 3rd round and made a jolly good beano of it?

If not, then that ^


And their ticket price was …… ?

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Stranded » 18 Jan 2023 11:36

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Green Has anyone mentioned that Charlton took 9000 fans up there in the 3rd round and made a jolly good beano of it?

If not, then that ^


And their ticket price was …… ?


28 quid for adults and a tenner for kids.

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by Silver Fox » 18 Jan 2023 12:41

Green Has anyone mentioned that Charlton took 9000 fans up there in the 3rd round and made a jolly good beano of it?

If not, then that ^


Why did Charlton take 9000 to Man United v Everton?

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Re: The magic of the FA Cup

by boycey » 18 Jan 2023 12:54

3000 lads better than 9000 foam hand wavers.
GMP going to have their hands full by all accounts.

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