stevegrant

Tickets went on general sale yesterday at 3pm, so members definitely had an opportunity. From the OS:

You'd like to think they'll have fixed that by 14th March, tbh

And we're done. Sold out

Less than 100 left now

Blocks 420, 421 and 422 are now on sale.

Would assume they've been told by Spurs to sell the level 4 blocks in order, so that if we don't sell them all, they can segregate it and sell more tickets to home fans, which is fair enough. As it is, I expect us to sell them all anyway so it shouldn't matter.

Pretty sure that doesn't matter in the slightest now, after Klopp decided that none of the first team squad will be involved and he won't even be there himself.

Yep. Looks like the following games have been confirmed for Tuesday: Oxford v Newcastle (live on BBC) Cardiff v Reading Birmingham v Coventry Derby v Northampton still provisional, Shrewsbury are saying that nothing has been agreed for their game at Liverpool yet.

I'd be very surprised if ours was on the Tuesday, considering Spurs play at 4:30 on Sunday. I'd love to see Mourinho's reaction to that bit of scheduling

Our own capacity is irrelevant here. Looks like we've sold around 1500 so far, assuming all the grey seats have been sold and not just held back for some unknown reason - a couple of the blocks have suspiciously large sections of entire rows that aren't available when the trend is usually for blocks to fill up from the aisles inwards. For the first morning, I think that's pretty decent, especially considering the date, time and TV status of the game are not yet fixed, and a lot of people won't be able to buy until they get home from work this evening.

Exactly my thoughts too...

Had we charged £25 for the original tie, I doubt anybody would have batted an eyelid about that, or then the replay being charged the same amount. It's only in the context of the fact that Saints did a season ticket holder offer that their pricing now looks in any way nonsensical.

All their tickets were sold to season ticket holders. From the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust statement on the pricing:

I'm led to believe that we actually charged Spurs £20 a ticket, as per the "non-ST holders" price in home areas, but Spurs themselves decided to subsidise tickets for their fans.

Noticeable on the article on the OS that we emphasise that the prices are set by Spurs, so you suspect we're not overly impressed either. That said, I'm sure in the past that FA Cup ticket prices had to be agreed between the two clubs because the revenue is shared... Suspect 5690 is the maximum Spurs would give us on a "sale or return" basis, i.e. we wouldn't have to pay for any unsold tickets. Suspect that's probably a fair allocation, though, I'm not convinced we'd sell 9000 at 10 days notice, unless of course tonight's draw gives us Pompey away again

The Premier League era began in 1992, Charlton returned to the Valley that same year and didn't gain promotion to the Premier League until 1998.

Twice, we lost in consecutive years, 1-0 and 3-0. The 3-0 was the Forster air kick game, the first PL defeat there was a Yohan Cabaye goal from distance. Palace are the team we have the most PL away wins against, with 6. Selhurst is obviously our favourite away ground, having also won there 5 times when Wimbledon were playing home games there. We only have two grounds where we have a 100% record in the PL era: Bradford City (2 from 2) and Reading (1 from 1). We have 5 grounds where we have lost every PL visit: Barnsley (1), Birmingham (3), Oldham (2), Portsmouth (2) and Swindon (1) Plus a load of others where we've not won in the PL era: Arsenal (21 ), Burnley (5), Charlton (6), Derby (6), Wigan (1)

Well it happened last season, we rather stumbled over the line after that win against Wolves.

And that's despite everyone knowing that the upper tier there is about 3 miles from the pitch. Probably fair to assume that the only reason we've got 3000 for that game is because it's basically impossible to segregate that area to a smaller number, so West Ham will offer the full 3000 on a sale-or-return basis (i.e. no risk to the away club if they don't sell out) to everyone.

The competition rules state they'd have to offer us up to around 9,000 (15% of capacity), but it would be fair to assume that a significant part of that big allocation would be on a guaranteed-sale basis (i.e. the club would have to pay for them all regardless of whether they sell them or not), so there's pretty much zero chance they'd actually take that allocation.

Sort of. The club isn't allowed to charge the away team more than they charge home fans for the same type of seat. If they're doing a "season ticket holders for a tenner" deal for us, they have to offer the same to Spurs. Fair to assume that all of their 5300 allocation will be sold to season ticket holders, hence the £10 price for them. As for away allocations, I had a lengthy phone call with the ticket office manager a few weeks ago when the Palace tickets went on sale (I'd bought in block T getting an unobstructed view, only to find that the club cancelled my ticket and moved me right into the corner because they'd incorrectly put the full allocation on sale when we'd not taken it) and they have their reasons which I would say are flakey at best.

Wonder whether the players have decided they've been playing well in that away kit and so would prefer to play in that when they get the chance.

Also wrong, unless you're somehow assuming that the entire Leicester lineup failed to complete a single pass to a team-mate.

It's still wrong. We only accounted for 42% of the total possession of the game, our passing accuracy value only reflects our own attempted passes, it takes no notice of the 58% of overall possession Leicester had. If "21% of our possession found a home", our passing accuracy would have been 21%.

I'm pretty sure 52% passing accuracy means that only 52% of our passes were accurate, tbf.