Please explain 'pathetic argument' ?? I'm not 'arguing', I'm trying to help you understand the economics. The club has to pay 45% of ticket revenue to the away team. If the game was included in season tickets, at, say £15 per seat, we would have to pay 45% of 23,000 x £15 (£155,250) to the away...
Yes it is a problem - it depends on the competition rules - if it's included in STH, I suspect each seat will have deemed to have been sold at the usual rate for that seat for the game, which in turn would be used to calculate the amount payable to the away club. So if we included it in STH we'd...
Quite........could equally have been Fleetwood Town.....how are the club supposed to manage demand (and associated costs) of arranging stewarding, trains, P&R etc when, with notionally 23k tickets 'sold' but they have no idea how many will turn up......
Problem is if the club go all out to sell it - £10 tickets, kids for quid etc etc and get a full or near-full house and then CH uses the game as a run-out for the benchwarmers and U23s, there would be even more complaints. Suspect most going last night knew what to expect so they probably got it...