WoodfordWall":328h55an said:£15 for a televised cup-replay is a bit of a liberty. Should have offered season ticket holders a discount, other clubs do. Hopefully the greed will be rewarded by a low crowd.
£15 for a live game of football against higher league opposition in our newly upgraded grandstand or even seeing the grandstand full from the other parts of the ground is really not that bad. A competitive game and not a friendly tippy tippy affair is what the FA cup should be about.
And thank you, you’ve brought up my bugbear of higher clubs giving away tickets for next to nothing so I can answer.
When we played Liverpool, although I can’t remember the pricing there was much said about how cheap it was to visit Anfield. Sadly though, this is/was not due to Liverpool wanting as many Argyle fans (or any lower league fans) to have that experience. It was simply because Liverpool or Man United or whoever in the premier league do give away cup tickets as part of the season ticket price. As these teams cannot guarantee a home tie it would still befall the Liverpool fans to purchase away tickets but really, my bugbear is that any competitive game at Anfield, Old Trafford etc should come at a premium rate. So why do the Prem clubs do it? It’s because when they sell their away allocation for next to nothing and as they’ve already given away their allocation as freebies they have less to pay out for clubs that might well need that money more than they do.
I bet, we make more money from having Exeter down at home park than we did in the Liverpool tie (extra seats notwithstanding).