...what would you do? Cup tickets have to be at the standard matchday prices unless agreed to by both clubs. Now we have a lot of season ticket holders entitled to "free" tickets for this game. I'm petty certain that unless Rochdale agree to them being free (possibly in exchange for the offer being extended to their own season ticket holders) the club will have to pay in to the pot for those tickets at what ever price they would be. If you were running Rochdale, knowing over 10,000 of the tickets had already been "sold" would you agree to lower prices for everyone, or would you insist on standard match day prices and then subsidise/provide free coach transport for your fans? Either way it would cost your fans about £20-25, but unless your subsidy on the coaches came to £50,000 you'd be better off taking £20 ticket prices and subsidising your fans yourself knowing we'd have to pay for it than having £10 tickets. Let's be honest, outside of those entitled to free tickets, how many more people at our end are going to be buying tickets to this one? Nothing against Rochdale, we know the gate is going to be down on league games, and we know the ones most likely to turn up are the ones entitled to the freebies because they were the ones that bought passes earliest. Would anyone think it was wrong of them to make the most of it for themselves? I know I'd be looking at it and saying I wanted our Cat C prices if it was me. (I might cheekily ask for Cat A prices as well just to see what the reaction was like)
