Thats true, but atleast you can say our Wembley attendance reflects our home attendances. They've managed to find enough plastics to fill their empty seats, unlike us. They do have a much larger fanbase, we've never really had astonishing attendances apart from back in the day when you crammed as many as would fit into Boothferry.
Yes but if they're sensible and do one per season pass and then first priority for general sale to those who got priority this time AND went to the semi, most will be happy and it would be fair. IF IF IF we get to the final. I have a bad feeling about worrying a bout the final, and the fact that I've got an each way bet that would pay off handsomely. We are therefore bound to lose.
24th May 2008? It's immaterial anyway. We'll get 25,000 tickets, we'll give the same number to sponsors as we did this time, then season ticket holders will have priority as that's the contract they have with the club. After that they'll do the priority the same as they did this time but might increase it to 3 games because we'll probably only have about 4,000 tickets available. The only way they can cock it up is by letting season ticket holders buy more than one ticket, and there were enough season ticket holders on the club's facebook and twitter accounts saying it was wrong they'd been given the opportunity to buy 2 tickets for the semi that surely the club won't do the same thing for a smaller allocation.
"Would rather sit at home for the semi" Nice to tar us all with the same brush eh? Some of us cannot spare "a couple of hundred quid". I don't believe in the Champagne Lifestyle on lemonade money mentality. Some people don't have a choice, they just cannot afford it. Wait you mean to tell me Hull City AFC existed before the 16th August 2008?
It isn't. When we were bottom of the Football League with crowds of 5,000 on a good day and no chance of ever climbing the football ladder we played Newcastle away in the Football League Cup on a Wednesday night. Newcastle were top of the Premier League, we were bottom of the FL. It was £25 a ticket when we were paying less then half that to watch City on a match day. Mid week, no realistic chance of winning yet we sold our allocation of over 6,000 and as a result took the biggest away following to Sid James Park they had ever seen. It was a record I believe. If we were playing Newcastle away today in the Premier League we would not take 6,000 fans with us. Sheffield United fans have been starved of decent football for a couple of decades at least, they have slipped down the FL ladder, as we did, and a Semi Final appearance at Wembley is a massive game for them. As it us but our fans have had 'massive' games for a bit now, Arsenal at home next Sunday for example and to be fair this game is not the biggest one we have had this season. It is to Sheffield United. But not to sell out is piss poor and I do think our marketing and ticket office allocation (ie slow off the mark) hasn't helped.
Having been to the 6th round and semi I am a bit upset that I am unlikely to get a final ticket. I think the answer is a win for Wigan today. Come on Wigan!!!
I'm another that thinks the SF should be a neutral ground equidistant from both clubs, after all there has to be a footballing purpose for Elland Road.
I don't give a a **** where it is or when it is. We're in the semi final after 84 years. End of chat.
2008 was different. The winner of that game went into the premier league, this is a semi final. We sold out our play off semi final albeit it was at home and only 20,000 home tickets available, this is a semi final too, the winner of this will return to that same stadium in a few weeks for a chance at te final and the cup. People wanted to be at the play off final to say that they were there, they saw Hull City AFC reach the premier league. That's the difference.
Good point, it's not like the UK economy peaked at the start of 2008 and there's been a financial crisis with businesses going bust and loads of people losing jobs in the last 6 years is it.
If this was the final, not only would we have sold out, but we'd have sold out on the day the tickets were released and they would currently be changing hands at double face value. It's only about the money, because too many people are saving theirs for the final. I realise some genuinely can't afford to go, but this game could be done for £60, it's hardly a fortune for our first ever Wembley semi-final.
That's it, people are more bothered about getting pissed than supporting their club, they'd sooner spend that £60 at the pub and get rat arsed.
If the FA had tried to put the game at Elland Road then WYP would have seen to it that it was a noon kick off where we each got given 400 tickets and were made to travel on official coaches from Hull/Sheffield with tickets collected en route in Plymouth. Any more than that and we might actually attend a game and put some money into the local pubs.
