<font size="-3">(obviously we'll have to beat Walsall at first, but...)</font> To draw a weaker side from the other end of the country (Cheltenham?) on the fourth round of the FA Cup and proceed to the fifth round, or to draw one of the giants (Chelsea, Man Utd...) and lose (quite likely)? Apparently in FA Cup games the home and away sides share the ticket money equally, so that it doesn't really matter (financially) if we're home or away? <font size="-3">Unless we play against one of those giant clubs...</font>
It does matter on that basis though, because the ground with the higher capacity and likelihood of filling up, will bring in the most revenue, so a big club away from home would be better. of course you could edit your post and cover that scenario and make me look foolish!!
Away v Man U / Chelsea etc Big money, honourable defeat and concentrate on winning league games avec un clean sheet.
RE: Away v Man U / Chelsea etc How much money could we possibly get from those games, though? Big teams like Man U or Chelsea would play their reserve teams anyway (just like Arsenal did against Donny Rovers), so they definitely wouldn't be playing in front of a full stadium... Surely we would get a 7000+ crowd even against Cheltenham, and then when you add the possible winning bonus to that, would that be more profitable than losing one of those big away games?
Worst case scenario away v Chelsea. They laik their stiffs and a crowd of 30,000 gets in, paying £20 + each. We get 40 % of that. We can then concentrate on the league. Anyway, we budgeted to get knocked out in the first round so it's all a bonus.
Any tie shown live on TV guarantees £150k and if we draw Man United or similar at home, I'd expect us to have over 20 tho, sell a few more pies, programmes and that. a replay would be a bonus. my choice would be the Blunts at home. cos our record against them is unbelieveably good.
small 'easy' team at home. Pick up another £60,000 in prize money to add to the £80k we'll have already made from the cup's prize fund add in a bit of money from gate reciepts and march on to the next round and the possibility of yet more money (£90k this time).</p> If we were really lucky it would be againt a non league team and would be on sky.</p>
