at least you're consistent ! - supporting crap teams !

Dont like to leave ESO on his own,I also support crap teams

what's the capacity of Hillsborough nowadays ? in the good old days when I used to go up to follow the mighty Spurs or Canaries it was quite substantial,holding it's fair share of Cup semi finals etc along with Villa Park etc
Holding the FA cup semis at Wembley is a joke IMO

Easy - Wembley cost 495 billion pounds to build so they have to play them there. Plus where else could you hold City v United and get all the fans who want to see the game into the stadium?

Stoke v Bolton could be held at Old Trafford if it wasn't for the money issue. The fans will still cough up I suspect. At some point the cost of tickets and travel will break even the most dedicated fan's bank balance and they'll stop going. But for now, football will keep milking the willing cow.

If only rugby league had this problem. We have problems getting anybody to turn up to any Challenge Cup game, except the final.

We need a bit of confidence in our product.

If we keep trying to avoid other events, we'll end up kicking off at 12 pm on a Thursday night.

It will be at 3pm...

Hillsborough holds 39,000, though hasn't been anywhere near full this season, we had 37,000 in for the last game of last season, the police and the "safety advisory group" wouldn't allow us to use the North West Corner (segregation issues).

FA Cup semi finals being played at Wembley stems back to '93 when we ANNIHLATED Sheff Utd at Wembley (2-1, after extra time

). The FA had said Arsenal vs Spurs (I think?) would be played at Wembley but we'd have to play our semi final at E**and Ro*d, as you can imagine the Sheffield folk kicked up a fuss and it got moved, and I think they have pretty much been at Wembley ever since, obviously not when the old one was being knocked down and the new one built.

As for it being the only ground to get all of City/Man Ure fans in, maybe if the FA gave them a fair proportion of tickets!! They've been allocated around 34,000 seats each which means almost a third of Wembley's capacity will be taken up by the corporate prawn sandwich brigade, which I think is a joke, punishing the proper fans (I'm informed Man U do have some!) certainly in City's case.

Due to the game still taking place at 3pm on the saturday I now have a groupon voucher for 2 adults and 2 children for the game. It was £6 but i'll give it away for nothing 7 post it if anyone knows someone who will take full advantage of it!

just send me a PM.

Theres a massive market to be tapped into here,SWFC got 16,004



for there game last night,Thats a drop of near 21,000 people from the 37,000 they got roundabout the same time last year



Surely there all sporting fans,Lets get them to rugby.

It was actually 16,014

which is a miracle in itself considering the dross that's been on show this season. The 37k was a one off as everyone knows due to the relegation shootout between us and Pal, your boys will be lucky to even have one of those this season!!

The answer to the Eagles problems,Play really rubbish and get in a relegation scrap and we will get more fans

Are we to infer from this that you wanted the kick-off time changing because you couldn't come at 3 pm ?