Boro have paid for the tickets our club would suffer. Man U would be happy with the outcome as they could sell to their fans instead and still make plenty of dosh.
Man Utd Pricing in Telegraph
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No. This isn't true. We have taken a gamble that our fans will travel in numbers. We didn't have any choice on pricing but wanted as many fans as possible to be able to travel. Having spoken to the club about this they had to make a pretty snap decision and felt balancing things up they had to give as many a chance as they could to part of this.
S7DiscoDown
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Whist it's true Boro agreed. It was that or £30 for under 3k
So they are being held a bit to 'ransom'. They know full well we can shift more than 3k. So it's either far less fans or make them pay more. It's not 'our' fault.
It should be £30 no matter if its 50 fans or 9k. I don't see how more means a price increase. I'd actually argue that not many clubs are even charging £30 for a 4th round match.
It's actually a massive shame its not at the Riverside. It would be a sellout under the lights. It's been a while since we've had one of the genuine big guns at home (I'm pretty confident we wouldn't have charged UTD fans £46)
So they agreed to it then ?
Nosmo-King
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The club agreed to take the maximum allocation on offer to give as many fans as possible the chance to go. That does appear to be pretty obvious. If they hadn’t what an outcry there would have been.
Clearly a case of damned if they do and damned if they don’t
Emmersons_BrazillianDong
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I think the club are more interested in ensuring that as many boro fans can attend the match to be fair.
Edit * sorry I had my response open so long three others made the point before me
Nosmo-King
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All you’re saying is you are cynical about their motives. Ultimately fans will decide if they think it is worth paying to go to a ground we haven’t visited for years. Only thing the club is guilty of is trying to offer this to the widest number of fans they could.
The_Lizards_Jumpers
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Yep, and Gibson will probably spend that money on a new car, or a boatload of crisps, or something. After all he runs the club at a massive profit for himself, squeezing every last penny out the club and not spending anything on wages or new signings.
Terrible play from the club to dare to make money....
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Johnny Vincents Motorbike
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the league is more important.
9500 at Blackburn and 3,000 for the cup tie in manchester would be better for the team.
its a strange one that the price goes up with the greater numbers at old trafford - it would be interesting to see their assessment and reasoning for such a policy, and also why the F.A. allow such a policy to be occurring in their own flagship trophy, the F.A. Cup.
9500 at Blackburn and 3,000 for the cup tie in manchester would be better for the team.
its a strange one that the price goes up with the greater numbers at old trafford - it would be interesting to see their assessment and reasoning for such a policy, and also why the F.A. allow such a policy to be occurring in their own flagship trophy, the F.A. Cup.
BoroMart
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Take note, next time they come to us in the cup 48 + any year on year increase.
Capybara
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My guess is that the two allocations are in different parts of the ground. 3000 in a corner behind a goal, 9000 along the side perhaps. Whatever, £45 is still a rip-off.
afcb_acklam
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I just bought 3 adult tickets for 45 quid for our cup game..... altho u may think afcb v boreham wood is not comparable! 
BoroMart
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true, but financially the other way is better. We get 45% (well it's 47.5% - costs) of ticket receipts as the away team.
73k x average of about 60 quid (some home tickets are more expensive than 48) = 4.4mill. 45% = 1.9mill.
That will be a nice little FFP offset.
What does this achieve? Other fans getting screwed by clubs. Won't hurt Utd in any way. We're all fans, we don't benefit from our clubs playing t*t for tat.
BoroMart
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what does it achieve? Man Utd fans getting more angry with their owners, more pressure on them to play ball. If they see 90% of other clubs fans paying half what they do, the pressure will mount to change policy.
It also serves as a lesson to other clubs who consider putting prices up, knowing their fans will in turn get hit in the pocket
It is not fair punishing a set of fans. They don't make the rules over prices. Surely no set of fans have demonstrated as much as Man U over the years against their owners. They even set up a breakaway club.
BoroMart
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I agree their fans have tried standing up to the owners, well some of them, but no retribution will open the opportunity for any club to raise prices in cup games when we come to town.
