Recap of previous 41 pages for new readers: + The semi-final is on Sunday 13th April, kick off 4:07pm (live on BT Sport). + Away game versus Manchester United postponed as a result. + Winners will be playing for a Europa League place if Arsenal are in the final (and they finish top 4!!!). + The final will be Saturday May 17th (Same as Magic Weekend - FC Vs KR). Tickets: + 32,011 tickets have been allocated in the same side of the stadium as 2008 (East). + FA say that 96 match tickets will remain unsold for BOTH semi finals as a mark of respect to the Hillsborough victims. + 2 tickets per adult/senior season pass and 1 per concession (as long as they've attended at least the previous 2 seasons). + Prices £60, £50, £40 and £30. (£10 reduction on concessions.) + £60 tickets given to corporates, players families, etc. + Window for email applications has passed. Confirmation of said forms began on Tuesday 25th March (no confirmation of forms dropped off). + Once confirmed, tickets can be picked up 48 hours later. + Applications (10,000 of them) being processed in order of price band (£50 first) and all pass-holders have been successful in applying for seats in their chosen band. + No known order of processing (surname, stand, date/time of application) other than price band. + In person purchases are as follows: 25th - 26th March – South Stand Season Card holders only. 9am-7pm (Tuesday), 9am-5pm (Wednesday). 27th March – Saturday 29th March – East Stand Season Card holders only. 9am-7pm (Thursday), 9am-4pm (Friday), 9am-3pm (Saturday). 30th March – 1st April – West Stand Upper & Lower Season Card holders only. 9am-5pm (Sunday, Monday & Tuesday). + You can find your seat here: http://www.mapaplan.com/seating-plan/wembley-stadium-chart-london/wembley-stadium-london-seating-plan.htm + You can see your view here: http://www.wembleystadium.com/TheStadium/ViewFromYourSeat.aspx + General sale begins on Thursday 3rd April (further details to be released - must have attended at least 2 matches already this season). + Only 19,000 tickets sold so far. + More details to be released regarding out-of-town supporters. Travel: + 100 Tiger Travel coaches travelling down on the Sunday (8am departure - £31 per seat) + Extra trains also running: http://eastcoast.presscentre.com/New...MBLEY-43d.aspx + Parking at Wembley is £65 Coach/Mini-bus, £30 cars and £15 blue badge holders. Opponents: + Sheffield United also sold 19,000 of their inital allocation. + They only 2,500 tickets left. + All season ticket holders (with over 2,500 points) could apply for 2 per pass.
They did it 2 for every pass holder with over 2,500 loyalty points, but I've no idea what that means.
Our support has never been great numbers wise. Just over 1000 fans at Stoke yesterday for a Saturday 3pm kick off is piss poor.
Stoke isn't a very attractive away, it's a ****-hole, it's usually a **** game and we don't often get a result. Yesterday was no different, but to only get a few hundred more than we managed for a midweek game in East London a few days earlier is disappointing.
The support was great yesterday in quality terms. Lots of noisy raucous time-served fans getting behind the team, let down of course by a large body of flaskers gaping passively in the middle of the loud support down at the bottom and up at the top. Enjoyed it yesterday even though we lost.
Couldn't get time off for WHU in midweek. Had I been there, I would have been frantically gesticulating/ abusing 'Nobes' as he took his pen in front of us. Our flaskers gaped on impassively, seated : nowt to do with them.
Can we create a petition to ban said items at matches? I remember being at Middlesbrough away a couple of years back on Boxing Day and the people behind me asked me to sit down so they could see. I promptly refused and told them stand and support. They moved (suppose it's better than them getting a steward involved).
Agree with that ^, the singing on the concourse before kick-off was brilliant - our support drowned out the supposed fervent Stoke support for the full 90 minutes, they only time they made a noise was when they scored. I'm guessing the Stoke fixture didn't have enough glamour for many of our ''new'' Premiership support.
It's one of the Premiership Shibboleths: - West Ham fans demand and expect quality football - the Britannia is a deafening cauldron - everyone wants to see LFC back at the top - the North East is football 'hotbed' Well strike out the Stoke one- it was very quiet yesterday.
"+ Sheffield United also sold 19,000 of their inital allocation. + They only 2,500 tickets left." Eh? That must mean they've sold about 28, 000 tic then? Perhaps our current owner might consider hiring the services of Adam Pearson to drum up support/ enthuse the fans, as the people currently running the club appear to embroiled in their name change vendetta against the council rather than talking up the game, the city and our club (Hull City AFC) ?
Someone on CI posted that they'd sold 19,000, but the Blunts OWS tonight says they have only 2,500 left.
