The reality is they would rather say to their lawyers "Here is £200k, go and sue someone for us. We would rather look hard.".
It would be lovely if SISU were to turn around and say - because we are getting a nice wedge from the Arsenal game, here is the £30,000 we owe you Higgs. They could make themselves look a lot better to the fans with something simple.
What a wonderful gesture that would be by seppala and fisher?
Will it happen?
No
The Arsenal sell out was almost assured on their part as they were inclusive on their season ticket deal and I'd imagine they have a lot of ST holders !
Think that any extra tickets the club would have to pay Arsenal for any unsold from the allocation.
Losing enough money as it is.
Except its not a boycott that hurts them is it, they still get the money as Arsenal will sell out.
If its not out of spite then why not sell a portion on general sale and test the waters, if the signs aren't good then don't take up the remaining on offer. Would be much more sensible don't you think?
With respect to the fans who want Arsenal tickets but may not actually get them have you been on a NOPM stance this season or avoided earlier rounds?
Hence put a portion on general sale to test the waters to see how they sell. If this was strong it would be a fair bet considering our support there not so long ago that they would sell, no?
Tynan Scope was asked the question at last nights SCG meeting as to why the club did not take up the top tier allocation and the answer was that Arsenal wanted paying for all 3500 seats whether City sold them or not. They wanted a decision by Wednesday so they had time to sell them to their fans if we didn't take them. Basically club was not willing to take risk of being left with hundreds of unsold tickets that they had had to pay for. Llast season we took 8000 so even if we had taken same amount there would have been a fair number unsold and being on a Friday etc the number would have been lower. Tynan said Arsenal were very inflexible and had City been able to gauge the demand better later in the week they may have made a different decision.
Tynan Scope was asked the question at last nights SCG meeting as to why the club did not take up the top tier allocation and the answer was that Arsenal wanted paying for all 3500 seats whether City sold them or not. They wanted a decision by Wednesday so they had time to sell them to their fans if we didn't take them. Basically club was not willing to take risk of being left with hundreds of unsold tickets that they had had to pay for. Llast season we took 8000 so even if we had taken same amount there would have been a fair number unsold and being on a Friday etc the number would have been lower. Tynan said Arsenal were very inflexible and had City been able to gauge the demand better later in the week they may have made a different decision.
This is my point, doubt many will admit this though.
With respect to the fans who want Arsenal tickets but may not actually get them have you been on a NOPM stance this season or avoided earlier rounds?
I know which is quite disheartening. This is why I feel they dont do enough to sway support their way. Not only would it look good on them, it may persuade higgs to do business with their share?
Well I am lucky to have been to all 3 rounds so far which is always great being the FA Cup
With respect to the fans who want Arsenal tickets but may not actually get them have you been on a NOPM stance this season or avoided earlier rounds?
So anyone that draws arsenal away is not in for a money spinning tie then ??
With respect to the fans who want Arsenal tickets but may not actually get them have you been on a NOPM stance this season or avoided earlier rounds?
This was the worst game to have for any hardcore NOPM people (there are still a few around) because even if you had decided not to go to Arsenal it is the realisation that this is the biggest pay day of the year for them whether you like it or not.
While I agree with the sentiments of what your saying Robo, its not as simple as that is it. If the full allocation was sold out and people couldn't go you would understand that season tickets/stubbs should be first priority and that its just tough luck. However, this is not the case here, the club has cancelled their full entitlement before even knowing if it could sell them, no tickets were ever on general sale before they declined the additional tickets. This in my opinion stinks of either spite or stupidity. Its one or the other.
Tynan Scope was asked the question at last nights SCG meeting as to why the club did not take up the top tier allocation and the answer was that Arsenal wanted paying for all 3500 seats whether City sold them or not. They wanted a decision by Wednesday so they had time to sell them to their fans if we didn't take them. Basically club was not willing to take risk of being left with hundreds of unsold tickets that they had had to pay for. Llast season we took 8000 so even if we had taken same amount there would have been a fair number unsold and being on a Friday etc the number would have been lower. Tynan said Arsenal were very inflexible and had City been able to gauge the demand better later in the week they may have made a different decision.
I did think this was going to be the case, thanks Ash, it sounds harsh not to offer them to our own fans but if your guaranteed of getting the bigger pay day anyone would take it.
The issue I have is, there are people on Facebook and Twitter who are moaning at the Club for not selling enough tickets, but haven't been to an earlier round for instance, now while I appreciate some are sticking to NOPM, if you haven't been able to purchase a ticket up to now it's because you haven't been to an away game, a home fixture, a previous FA Cup round, a member or a season ticket holder and while I can appreciate that some will stick to NOPM as there reason (Fully understand) there will be some armchair fans who will feel annoyed, yet couldn't be bothered to go any game this season, but want to go to the BIG cup fixture, it's wrong in some cases, but I understand that isn't the case for NOPM folk.
The issue I have is, there are people on Facebook and Twitter who are moaning at the Club for not selling enough tickets, but haven't been to an earlier round for instance, now while I appreciate some are sticking to NOPM, if you haven't been able to purchase a ticket up to now it's because you haven't been to an away game, a home fixture, a previous FA Cup round, a member or a season ticket holder and while I can appreciate that some will stick to NOPM as there reason (Fully understand) there will be some armchair fans who will feel annoyed, yet couldn't be bothered to go any game this season, but want to go to the BIG cup fixture, it's wrong in some cases, but I understand that isn't the case for NOPM folk.
The question is could you guarantee that we would of sold the next batch of tickets?
The question is could you guarantee that we would of sold the next batch of tickets?
The issue I have is, there are people on Facebook and Twitter who are moaning at the Club for not selling enough tickets, but haven't been to an earlier round for instance, now while I appreciate some are sticking to NOPM, if you haven't been able to purchase a ticket up to now it's because you haven't been to an away game, a home fixture, a previous FA Cup round, a member or a season ticket holder and while I can appreciate that some will stick to NOPM as there reason (Fully understand) there will be some armchair fans who will feel annoyed, yet couldn't be bothered to go any game this season, but want to go to the BIG cup fixture, it's wrong in some cases, but I understand that isn't the case for NOPM folk.
So basically it's not our fault blame Arsenal! Did they give a reason as to why they didn't set the onsale date for general sale before this deadline so they could gague interest? Their stated reason for not taking up the full allocation was that only 1K had been sold but at the point they stated this only ST holders had any chance of purchasing them.
The issue I have is, there are people on Facebook and Twitter who are moaning at the Club for not selling enough tickets, but haven't been to an earlier round for instance, now while I appreciate some are sticking to NOPM, if you haven't been able to purchase a ticket up to now it's because you haven't been to an away game, a home fixture, a previous FA Cup round, a member or a season ticket holder and while I can appreciate that some will stick to NOPM as there reason (Fully understand) there will be some armchair fans who will feel annoyed, yet couldn't be bothered to go any game this season, but want to go to the BIG cup fixture, it's wrong in some cases, but I understand that isn't the case for NOPM folk.
Wait. What?
I can buy now if I've been to away games? When did that happen?
I've bought all my tickets from the away club though, does that still count?
robbo the stance is for me nopm applies to sixfields..league games should be in cov
While I agree with the sentiments of what your saying Robo, its not as simple as that is it. If the full allocation was sold out and people couldn't go you would understand that season tickets/stubbs should be first priority and that its just tough luck. However, this is not the case here, the club has cancelled their full entitlement before even knowing if it could sell them, no tickets were ever on general sale before they declined the additional tickets. This in my opinion stinks of either spite or stupidity. Its one or the other.
I dunno to be honest, they were forced to make a decision based on Arsenal. If Arsenal know they can sell out the stadium with just home fans they are not going to wait to see if Cov can sell 8000 tickets before pulling the plug. Its an unfortunate series of events yes, but I dont think the club can really be blamed for refusing the extra tickets.
5 of us bought away tickets for games through the away teams website, so we have no record on ccfc database...
And yet there were complaints when it was first moved to a Friday that no one would go. No respect to CCFC from BTSport, etc etc. Let's face it when we have these games there are always some that miss out.
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