The FA ‏@FA 46s Hull City's #FACup Sixth Round Proper tie with Sunderland will be shown live on @ITV on Sunday 9 March: http://the-fa.com/jDRCXc You can merge this if you want, just getting it out there so people see it straight away.
Hull City Official ‏@hullcityteam 1m Ticket prices for the QF tie vs @SAFCofficial are: £20 Adults / £15 Seniors (65+) & 16-22 Year-Olds / £5 Under 16s / £1 Under 10s #UTT Seriously City? ****ing put some deals on, let season ticket holders in free, get a decent attendance for ****s' sake!
We have to charge the same as the Sunderland fans, it's the FA Cup, they have to agree prices and they get 45% of the gate money.
So if we want to lower prices/give tickets (say to season ticket holders) away for free, Sunderland have to agree/do the same?
£20! **** sake City, we have a chance of making a cup semi final and plenty of people simply won't be able to afford it.
Its only £20, its an FA Cup Quater Final at home and if we win we are at Wembley, don't remember many other City cup runs, nothing to moan at here I'd have paid double that to see the glorious Tigers at this stage of the cup in the past.
10,000 on a Monday night against Brighton. Now a Sunday afternoon, on ITV. Think a lot will stay in with the family watching it rather than pay that to watch us play Sunderland. Sadly I'll be back at uni so won't make this one.
I agree. People probably paid a lot more for the quarter final game at arsenal the other year. And like you say, if we was league two at this stage people would pay double. It's a premier league team, they could easily just charge standard match day prices
Possibly, it depends on what we wanted to set the prices at how the discussions went with Sunderland. Last night we charged adults £15, while Brighton gave their tickets away free, I suspect in the circumstances, they'd have agreed for us to drop the prices. Still, if we can't sell out an FA Cup QF at £20 a pop, we should be ashamed of ourselves. If it was an away tie at Arsenal, it would be £60 a pop and lots of people would be complaining that they couldn't get a ticket.
Effect on Sunderland traveling support a week after an expensive Wembley Cup Final weekend? Will they fill North Stand?
Actually, I hadn't thought about that, it probably will have an effect, but I suspect they could fill most of it anyway.
