I would be surprised if the crowd was affected by more than a hundred people not attending for Allam. There may be more who say so but they wouldn't have attended anyway. We've always been piss poor attended in cups. The new fans who have topped us up this season in the league have no interest in seeing Sunderland.
That's the one I meant. I'd been brought up on tales of rugby league fans boarding trains at Paragon Station for 'Wembley week-end' with photographs appearing in the HDM of BR Staff helping to load the crates of beer onto the trains! The first time City get there and we were met at the ticket barrier at 6.00 am by a posse of police wanting to search our bags.
Different laws in place for football specials and coaches, unfortunately. It is a national thing not a bias against City fans compared to rugby ones in Hull.
Two special trains and that was it - for 38,000 fans, in the country that invented the railway. I saw plenty of Hull folk having their drink confiscated at Kings X on the way back. I bet Iran is more flexible on these things than our country.
Spoke to ticket office today and between 18 and 20000 have been sold, so that's better than I was expecting actually, especially with a few days still to go.
If? It is a certainty, unless less than 20,00 turning up at the Etihad or Emirates as Sheff Utd have sold 5,000 more tickets than the KC holds. An embarrassment and a disappointment to those of us who always maintained that any signs of success would show what a football city this is. I almost hope we go out of the Cup to save the further embarrassment of people who had excuses for not going to the QF or reckoning £20 is too expensive scrambling for tickets, in fact demanding tickets, and criticising ticketing arrangements, especially when there are only 25,000 for the final.
We should only ask for 20,000 tickets for the SF- that's all the support we have. The rest are tourists and 50-50 scarf wearers who do not SUPPORT the club.
Sheffield United, charging the same as us, have less than 500 tickets left out of a capacity reduced to 30,000 because of segregation. Any illusions about this being a football city or City being a potentially big club needing a larger stadium have gone.
Agreed, I'm ****ing gutted. Taking it slightly off topic but CTWD saying City and the Allams are looking abroad when they should be looking after their core customers- untapped market etc and engaging with them. Maybe just maybe they've looked into it and thought **** me were flogging a dead horse here. It pains me to say it but Hull is a football city, but only just and not in enough numbers.
