I would say the lesson to be learned here is as follows:
If we have a match in the FA Cup against a lower league club likely to bring several thousand AND the match isn't moved from 3pm on Saturday for television, then please make ONE of the upper tiers open from the outset, and reserve the...
It isn't though. In their view, they are selling tickets and they've responded with reasons why they are doing it this way.
Anyway you hardly ever go so why do you care?
Bit glib. The guy doesn't have to respond to every little petty issue fans have with the club, and in the grand scheme of things, this is absolutely trivial.
Surely if that was the case, they'd not have bothered keeping them both shut for this length of time? I'd have thought they'd have opened the ESU when sales were within 2,000 of a sell out and with a couple of weeks to go before the game!
What are the running costs of opening up these closed tiers? How many additional sales are required in order to justify opening them? These are the facts we don't have available and yet we probably need before we can be quite so arrogantly dismissive of opinions such as el punal's. Pure...
Cheers. Slightly on the low side, but far from the embarrassment that some are prattling on about. That was the gate the last time we made the SIXTH round, and included 8,000 away fans.