I was very surprised to see Spuds only got 31k for a plum time versus Lyon, a club that has competed in Champions League and won leagues on multiple occasions, which is where Spurs aspire to be. With their early exits from the Cups, it is the North East London club's last chance to break their trophy famine too. You would have thought Spurs would get a big turnout for a rare opportunity to see a quality continental outfit at the Lane. Maybe they should advertise on Talksport? It will be interesting to see our attendance v Sparta, a tie which is dormie one. I'm guessing we will get under 40k, which is understandable when we have feasted on top European opposition at the Bridge for so long and we've had a lot of football this season. But our phenomenal away support, particularly away from home, never ceases to amaze me, despite our dislike of the fat ****er and that **** up front.
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WBA home.... SOLD OUT West Ham home.... SOLD OUT Man City away.... SOLD OUT Fulham away..... SOLD OUT We took about 1700 to Prague. 3000 to Swansea for a midweek cup game when 2-0 down and through the snow. 4500 to Southampton which sold out with ease. Only game we haven't sold out this season is Sunderland away where we sold 2800 of the 2850 allocation. It makes me laugh when people say we have **** support because we clearly don't.
I did not get online in time. Sold out by 11am. I will get a neutral ticket in the Putney end, in effect we will have 6/7k there as we will have 80 per cent of the 3k neutral seats
We managed to get ours... Doing City as well and hopefully Amsterdam in the next round of Europa... Some good trips. Oh and Middlesbrough
I suspect Thursday will be our lowest turnout for many a year so won't say anything yet. Once you've had a taste of the CL like they have it's hard to see the appeal in UEFA's sanitised league. Their fanbase is nowhere near as big as they believe it is though. I can't see how they'd fill 60k, I don't even see how we could tbh. If Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham and Spurs all get 60k seaters it will kill off the support of the other London clubs, no matter what spin the likes of Gold try and put on it that's the actuality. Is a kid gonna pay £10-15 pound to watch Leyton Orient v Crawley or £1/free to watch West Ham v Chelsea? Don't try and kid a kidder Gold, you know what you are doing will kill off the support of Orient and further afield possibly Southend.
I would be happy to watch Europa League if it weren't for the board chosing such a prick of a manager and the ticket prices. 30 ****ing quid? Absolute robbery. Wasn't too long ago when tickets were £15 against the likes of United, Arsenal etc. I envy German football fans at the moment, they've got it spot on.
I think the fact it was Valentines day probably didn't help matters, also I think there's a bit of annoyance about the club pushing Europa league prices up for second half of the season, I paid £40 each for restricted view seats in the shelf side east stand, its too much. Lyon are hardly the force they were 5-10 years ago either...
They also don't have a lot of ridiculously overpaid superstars, and lots of very classy home grown players. We could definately use the Bundeslieg as a blueprint for the PL.
But our phenomenal away support, particularly away from home, never ceases to amaze me, despite our dislike of the fat ****er and that **** up front.[/QUOTE] yes i assumed away support was away from home
I'm sure we could and you could too but it would require a fairer pricing scheme. This season we've seen our tipping point in terms of ticket sales/prices. The demand has finally dropped off after years of price hikes(like a lot of clubs) and now we don't sell out many games and the atmosphere has dropped off as the fans getting the tickets aren't interested in singing. The trouble is that say on average our ticket sales are down 2k a game from a £5 raise in prices, then the club is getting an extra £160k(ish) and only missing out on ticket sales of around £80k so that's a big profit for them every game. Levy's not daft though, he knows that in order to make the new stadium work we won't be able to keep putting prices up but until then we need every buck we can get.
That's just looking at the ticket prices though. Of those 2k lost, how much would they spend on programmes, merch and refreshments? Probably works out that financially not that much better off if at all; but are down on match atmosphere and support perhaps? Tough balancing act clubs face in getting the most per ticket whilst also filing the ground.
