You can understand where he's coming from though. If everyone had paid say 15 quid, that's 37,500 pounds in lost revenue.

BUT it wouldnt be that many who would atttend if the game wasnt free.

How many do you think we'd take? The sad thing is that for some clubs, eg Sheffield, every penny counts.

If it wasnt free tickets for us, i would imagine they wouldnt have had to move it to BL? so that would have saved them quite an amount of cash there. But, as people have said, the extra revenue from added people going due to it being free and spending their money on food, drinks, programmes etc may well make up for it, and more.

They didn't move to Bramall Lane for us. We aren't even the first game there.
Do you honestly think everyone, even the majority of folk will spend 15 quid or more on food and drink INSIDE the ground?

Quite a few would, plus kids wouldnt have been £15 they would be about £5, so whatever they over spend, the others can under spend? if you get what i mean?

Even if they did, the Eagles wouldn't see a penny of it.

We don't get a penny of the drinks, food revenue etc at bramall lane. The Main aim is to build up the team and fanbase at BL. Even the crowd we got last sunday just shy of 3,000 will help massively as we usually average 900-1,100 at DVS. The powers at be at Sheffield United want us their for the long haul and hope to see CC semi finals, 2013 world cup and maybe even the magic weekend at the ground but this will only come when they regain Premier league status as the intentions are of taking the overall stadium capacity to just over 44,000 from the 32,000 it is now. Having 1,000 of your fans paying in full rather than 3,000 for free would of been alot more benefical but just the way it is.

When we played thatto heath in the last round that was free and only 600 was there. However if that was all paying gate then that would of helped them so much. Just the way it is. Swings and roundabouts and its daft of Ashton to moan about it imo. Whats done is done and having hopefully around 5,000 there on saturday will be excellent nonetheless for the club.

I hadn't really thought about it in that way. It is the ideal venue and ideal location for a CC semi-final double header. Once its been extended it would be a great place for the magic weekend!

Having the magic weekend in Sheffield would be a backward step imo. The city is not a patch on Cardiff or Edinburgh and Yorkshire is already packed with Rugby fans. We should be taking it to places where there is scope for growth for Rugby league. What about a magic weekend in France? That would be more beneficial for the game of RL imo.

The challenge cup semi final double header would probably work well in Sheffield though as most of the likely semi finalists could take a big following there.

What does everybody think?

I dont see how having the magic weekend in Edinburgh is such a forward step. Its nothing more than a weekend away for the fans. I would rather we held the magic weekend where more people would go. The crowds at Cardiff and Edinburgh have looked poor on TV. Its the one game of the year were i really cant be bothered going. TBH it wouldnt bother me if we scrapped it all together.

As a long standing Sheffield fan, the magic weekend idea wouldnt work. The city isnt passionate enough about the sport (yet) and its not Edinburgh or Cardiff in terms of scenery and variety, plus most of the city centre is being renovated at the mo and car travel in the city centre is terrible on a good day. A Challenge Cup semi is deffinately the aim.

Following up an earlier point, when Wigan came out of the hat, United were desperate to have it at the Lane, it just had to be Saturday instead of Sunday (due to Wednesday v Pigs footy match). Otherwise it would have been Friday night at DVS (which no-one wanted).

I have 1 ticket spare foc if anyone wants it.

They have had there free round last time out.

Indeed we did, but that wasnt fair on Thatto Heath and isnt fair on us this time. It stinks to high heaven to be honest.