[BFC SITE] Manchester United Cup Tie Confirmed

I can see it being full. I suspect it’s a rare chance for many who don’t have an ST to actually get to a game. I know a couple of people through work who are United fans and will probably take their kids if they can get tickets (1 of them is from Tarn as well which makes me want to spew).

 

They're leaving it pretty late to put tickets on sale....

 

We shifted 6k in 4 hours against Liverpool.

Sore subject for some I know, but they will get sold.

Plus club did say they will put on sale when they physically receive them.

 

Hopefully on sale in time to pick up before the match on Saturday so not to have to get them posted or make an extra journey down.

 

It's amazing that in this age we still have to wait for the postman to physically deliver paper tickets in order to sell them on and post them out again. Surely there could/should be a way of selling electronically and dispatch direct from Utd or e-ticket.

 

I know for a fact United do e tickets for away fans so don't know what the difference is here

 

I don't understand it either , you can get e tickets for home games but not away games. I'm not that tech savvy so I'm sure there is some technical reason behind It

 

That`s no good for us Luddites.

 

Financial suicide for Barnsley not to agree to the £40 if they get an equal split of all tickets.

 

I genuinely don't get why ticket prices are so high in professional football.

Owners are often billionaires, and wage bills so immense, that surely the difference between a 250k gate and a 230k gate (numbers plucked from thin air) means completely nothing.

 

This. I wanted to buy now and pick up on Saturday (unless of course, it's electronic)

 

Absolutely no chance of them fielding much more than the BSM game at Oakwell. Top 10 in prem don't field a full strength team unless they are either drawn against another prem club or minimum qtr final stage when they start eyeing the silverware.

So 100% not parting with £41 to watch this one.

 

I'd rather watch us play an under strength side if I'm honest, more chance of winning. I'm not really going there to watch Man Utd's top stars anyway.
£41 is a rip off but I'll pay it for the experience of watching us in a top stadium in front of a huge crowd. We don't get the chance very often.

 

So if it was you 20,000 grand dont mean ought,if tha wins lottery I'll be thi mate.lol couple of hundred a week I'll wash ya car,

 

Because you're an order of magnitude out. £40 x70,000 = £2.8m (I know not every ticket will be full price).

 

Yeah I was plucking numbers out of thin air.

There's no way there'll be 70k people there though - I'd plump for 50k tops.

50k x £40 = 2m.
55k x £30 = £1.65m

So they're 350k down - which is the weekly wage of Marcus Rashford.

 

There's no chance they'll only get 50k. Literally zero chance.

 

Now make it 70k, which it will be, and multiply it by 20 odd home games.

 

The only empty seats will be whatever we don't sell.

 

But you're including season tickets in that - I was referring to cup games against ***** opposition mainly. I should have probably made that point in my initial post.

I guess I'm rambling a bit, but I was just trying to make the point when a staff wage bill is probably north of 300m, that charging folk an extra tenner for a league cup game isn't on the register.