League Cup rules state that the home team must give at least 10% of capacity to the away support.
So 7400 tickets available minimum.
Club has discretion to take less though. Nobody down there will have any idea of what we’ll want. They also have no experience at all of running a big away travel operation.
Hopefully CAST can liaise with the club to emphasise the demand for tickets and coaches etc
The distribution of both match tickets and travel will be a f*** up of monumental proportions.
Sorry, think some of our fans are delusional… How can anyone truly believe 7,000 are going to rock up at old Trafford on a Tuesday,Weds,Thur in early January. We get a 0-0 draw at home and win a poor pen shot out, and a season of complete bollocks is forgotten about.
Ok, is great, been a while since we had a cup run that culminates in a decent big game. But, let’s be honest it will go no further, we will lose 3 or 4 nil, and most likely limp out like we have in so many league games. The older generation have seen us at Old Trafford on a number of occasions, so not a massive first for many of us.
I think we would be do really bloody well to sell 3,500 half the allocation. So can see no problem anybody getting a ticket. I will be one of those, but only because it’s a chance to meet up with friends in the Manchester area, who I haven’t seen in a while.
We'll sell out easily, assuming we get in the region of 7k.
Bizarrely Sky have chosen the best two games, instead of defaulting to Man U.
“best” is pretty subjective. Hard to put myself in the shoes of a neutral but I think I’d rather see our match than matches between teams that will already play each other twice in the league this season.
A second string Man U team at home to a poor L1 side is hardly going to be an enticing spectacle for the neutral.
Would you watch Man U Vs Shrewsbury or Oxford?
I would probably watch that over Southampton v City. Chance of the smaller team who are on a cup run causing an upset against a team that are a massive name but have been going through some relatively tough times.
Think ours being that only non-all PL tie gives it an angle.
Hotels are around £65 at the moment, you can book both nights seperately and bin the one that's no good. The return from Euston to Manchester is £64 if you stay out of the rush hour, the cheap tickets seem to be disappearing.
I love (genuinely) how the desperation and despair of the last couple of weeks have totally disappeared.
I hope the younger readers can find a way of getting up there and seeing this.
Aggregate score in the matches highlighted is 20-3 to Man U. And thay was when we were on par with them in the Premier league. Might be the same score in just one match this time...😄
Aggregate score in the matches highlighted is 20-3 to Man U. And thay was when we were on par with them in the Premier league. Might be the same score in just one match this time...😄
You think we will get 3??
Really hoping to go, never been old Trafford so hopeful, certainly a better stadium than Shrewsbury which was my last away
The Man U Man City game on the 14th is a 12:30 BT Sport game, so I can't see how it could be moved as that's the BT slot. If we played on Wednesday or Thursday, they couldn't move it back to Sunday as that would clash with two Sky games.
And City then play on Thursday 19th, so they wouldn't agree to it being moved to Monday 16th...
Thus I'd be staggered if our game wasn't on Tuesday
The Man U Man City game on the 14th is a 12:30 BT Sport game, so I can't see how it could be moved as that's the BT slot. If we played on Wednesday or Thursday, they couldn't move it back to Sunday as that would clash with two Sky games.
And City then play on Thursday 19th, so they wouldn't agree to it being moved to Monday 16th...
Thus I'd be staggered if our game wasn't on Tuesday
Why’s that ? If City are playing At Southampton on the Wednesday, then why can’t Utd ??
Looking at their site and the ticket prices I am guessing at around £30 on average. If there are 70k people buying tickets that's £2,100,000.After VAT is taken off it's £1.68 million. 45% of that, rounds to £750,000. I would suggest all that money, even if it shrinks to £500,000, is bonus money nobody expected before the Brighton game. Let's call it the Varney dividend. I contend that every penny of that Varney dividend should go to strengthening the squad in the January transfer window. What (realistically) would you spend the dividend on?
The Man U Man City game on the 14th is a 12:30 BT Sport game, so I can't see how it could be moved as that's the BT slot. If we played on Wednesday or Thursday, they couldn't move it back to Sunday as that would clash with two Sky games.
And City then play on Thursday 19th, so they wouldn't agree to it being moved to Monday 16th...
Thus I'd be staggered if our game wasn't on Tuesday
Why’s that ? If City are playing At Southampton on the Wednesday, then why can’t Utd ??
City are playing on Sunday 8th in the FA Cup so couldn't play on Tuesday anyway
United's FA Cup game is on Friday, so it makes complete sense to play on Tuesday and get an extra day's rest before the derby
Looking at their site and the ticket prices I am guessing at around £30 on average. If there are 70k people buying tickets that's £2,100,000.After VAT is taken off it's £1.68 million. 45% of that, rounds to £750,000. I would suggest all that money, even if it shrinks to £500,000, is bonus money nobody expected before the Brighton game. Let's call it the Varney dividend. I contend that every penny of that Varney dividend should go to strengthening the squad in the January transfer window. What (realistically) would you spend the dividend on?
£2,100,000 equates to £1,750,000 when you take the VAT out.
Looking at their site and the ticket prices I am guessing at around £30 on average. If there are 70k people buying tickets that's £2,100,000.After VAT is taken off it's £1.68 million. 45% of that, rounds to £750,000. I would suggest all that money, even if it shrinks to £500,000, is bonus money nobody expected before the Brighton game. Let's call it the Varney dividend. I contend that every penny of that Varney dividend should go to strengthening the squad in the January transfer window. What (realistically) would you spend the dividend on?
£2,100,000 equates to £1,750,000 when you take the VAT out.
Looking at their site and the ticket prices I am guessing at around £30 on average. If there are 70k people buying tickets that's £2,100,000.After VAT is taken off it's £1.68 million. 45% of that, rounds to £750,000. I would suggest all that money, even if it shrinks to £500,000, is bonus money nobody expected before the Brighton game. Let's call it the Varney dividend. I contend that every penny of that Varney dividend should go to strengthening the squad in the January transfer window. What (realistically) would you spend the dividend on?
£2,100,000 equates to £1,750,000 when you take the VAT out.
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Like I said, hard for me to be impartial though!
Something to do with TV money........
I love (genuinely) how the desperation and despair of the last couple of weeks have totally disappeared.
I hope the younger readers can find a way of getting up there and seeing this.
We will be. Mrs Baldy will enjoy a day shopping while me and Jnr do what boys do.
You think we will get 3??
Really hoping to go, never been old Trafford so hopeful, certainly a better stadium than Shrewsbury which was my last away
And City then play on Thursday 19th, so they wouldn't agree to it being moved to Monday 16th...
Thus I'd be staggered if our game wasn't on Tuesday
https://tickets.manutd.com/en-GB/categories/home-tickets
If there are 70k people buying tickets that's £2,100,000.After VAT is taken off it's £1.68 million.
45% of that, rounds to £750,000.
I would suggest all that money, even if it shrinks to £500,000, is bonus money nobody expected before the Brighton game. Let's call it the Varney dividend.
I contend that every penny of that Varney dividend should go to strengthening the squad in the January transfer window.
What (realistically) would you spend the dividend on?
United's FA Cup game is on Friday, so it makes complete sense to play on Tuesday and get an extra day's rest before the derby
That is absolutely insane and beyond disrespectful
We are the underdog! Playing against arguably the biggest club in the world!
So typical