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Home European Attendances

Blyth said:
And you have to realise why.

We’ve never taken the cups seriously in all my lifetime.

We’ve been either fighting relegation or going for promotion.

We’ve never had a cup scheme and there’s never been any chance of going to Wembley so there’s no jeopardy of missing out.

We’ve put our shit teams constantly.

The mags absolutely nailed it, taking it seriously, fear of missing out and a cup scheme.
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Last seasons cup pissed me off, I had to buy six seats and they kept only putting out a block at a time. It was complete Micky mouse. I had about theee messages asking me had it sold out as it had said so on the website as no tickets were there to buy. I could understand that when we were in league one and were trying to manage staffing costs but as a premier league club it makes no sense. I hope the club learn something and don’t do that again it strangles sales. We need a scheme and we need something in place for Europe also.
 

Locke Lamora said:
The Eagles don't sing live either.
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Not entirely factually accurate. They do augment them although I don’t think Joe Walsh does and I’m fairly certain Michael McDonald didn’t. I’d argue it might be fairly common practice. Saw Beth Hart last week and there’s was all kinds of electronic jiggery pokery going on with her vocals.
 
Surely it’ll just be tickets sales for season card holders first, to a certain date, then other people have the opportunity to buy a ticket
 
Lord Alfred said:
You’re living in the past marra. I paid £1 to see Sunderland win the cup at Wembley, same year I saw David Bowie at the Rink for 95p and had a few pints in the Park Inn at 12p a pint. Things move on. My Wembley ticket last year was £500 and I paid £400 to see The Eagles in Manchester while sipping beer at £6/pint….and I’m as working class as they come. £50 ticket for a top European game is fair and reasonable.
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Pints sound cheap
 
Lord Alfred said:
Average of £50. There will be seats in hospitality costing hundreds. How much would you expect to pay for four home Europa league games? They might be Milan, Leverkusen, Marseille and Benfica. Surely no-one would expect to get those four for £100 in total. If we don’t maximise revenues we don’t compete.
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I’d expect about £100, yeah. Just because SAFC get better doesn’t mean our fans get richer.

If it was £50 per match I wouldn’t go bar the Pot A team (and I’ve done basically every domestic cup tie bar the pizza thing since the early 90s).
 
AndrewP said:
I meant the £6 ones at an event these days.
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That was in Manchester bars, I try to avoid buying in the venue as much as I can without spoiling my night. Got my worst pint ever in the AO Arena and it was £9.95. Took it back twice and even the third one they served was well under par. Food offerings there are even worse.
 
I'd crawl over a bed of punji stakes to see us play the 2nd best team in Moldova in European competition. Can't see us having any bother shifting tickets.
 
42 said:
Those prices are ridiculous given that theres only 1 big name team amongst them.
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Yep. We will be a bit more sensible but at the same time we need to generate as much income as poss. The club will want at least £5m in ticket sales for the four group games.

Thats why it would be a good idea for the club to put the tickets on sale now and allow a DD option split over 3 months.
 
Hank Scorpio said:
Yep. We will be a bit more sensible but at the same time we need to generate as much income as poss. The club will want at least £5m in ticket sales for the four group games.

Thats why it would be a good idea for the club to put the tickets on sale now and allow a DD option split over 3 months.
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Keep reading that line on here n dont like it.

I was us to be professionally well ran without squeezing every £ from long suffering fans.
 
Lord Alfred said:
Aye, gave our season tickets up when I had an issue with my sight (now resolved) so the only way to get them for the play off was hospitality. Got to say though the Wembley Diamond package with inclusive food and drink and great seats was a fantastic experience.


That was the case the last time I saw us in Europe, we beat Vasas of Hungary but lost out to Sporting Lisbon. Bizarrely the home league game against Carlisle attracted a bigger crowd than either of the European games.
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Because they upped prices for the European games the attendances were poor, people resent having their eyes taken out. As people have been sayingthe club have to be careful not to make the same mistake again.
 
Ticket or no ticket (likely to be no ticket tbh) i will be doing at least 2 if not 3 of the away games just for the sheer hell of it and hopefully all 4 home
 
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