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SPLIT THE KOP - Villa

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Mighty Whites

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We are playing at Deepdale in the Qtr Final of the FA CUP, just 90 mins from Wembley, an unbelievable achievement and the biggest cup game since 1966 for PNE!

Lets reduce Villa to the minimal tickets possible (they will be very loud regardless of numbers) and give our fans the chance to see something historical at Deepdale !

This is a wonderful event and we have a chance! Something magical is happening under Hecky, lets back him and the boys and pack Deepdale with PNE fans (not Villa)!

Let’s roar the boys on to success (and win on Pens) ! 😎

PNE
 
Mighty Whites said:
We are playing at Deepdale in the Qtr Final of the FA CUP, just 90 mins from Wembley, an unbelievable achievement and the biggest cup game since 1966 for PNE!

Lets reduce Villa to the minimal tickets possible (they will be very loud regardless of numbers) and give our fans the chance to see something historical at Deepdale !

This is a wonderful event and we have a chance! Something magical is happening under Hecky, lets back him and the boys and pack Deepdale with PNE fans (not Villa)!

Let’s roar the boys on to success (and win on Pens) ! 😎

PNE
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Whilst I like the idea we couldn’t even sell all our tickets in a Lancashire derby in the previous round, will all the spice of the Osmajic / Hannibal incident and at only £20 a ticket.
 
raefil said:
The club tried it, a good number made dickheads of themselves so those nobs wrecked the idea altogether for the majority who behaved
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And that’s the reason it probably won’t happen - not cost or loss of revenue as several were saying last night.
 
Dick Dastardly said:
Let’s sell out the Kop and take their money. I think it lifts our players when there’s a better atmosphere. All our season ticket holders will have a chance to buy their own seats and surely we’ll sell the rest.
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I think so too. We have no grift with Villa, and I am happy to accomodate their fans. Not really for the money, but like you say , for the atmosphere. We were about 3000 home fans short of capacity on Saturday, but it was quite obvious to those that went that the missing 3k were not required to create a fantastic atmosphere.

Give priority to season ticket holders and those that went on Saturday and the rest , I'm afraid, will have to watch on their TVs again. I actually dont think anyone who really wants one will have a problem getting a ticket anyway with the 3 sides open to home fans. The FA Cup is not the draw to the new generation of fans that it is to my generation, and sadly there are many nowadays that prefer the comfort of their armchairs to the live atmosphere of a seat in the stands

Also, as has been pointed out, we have a minority that will always ruin it for the majority by shaming the club with their antics next to the way fans.
 
chorleythehord said:
I think so too. We have no grift with Villa, and I am happy to accomodate their fans. Not really for the money, but like you say , for the atmosphere. We were about 3000 home fans short of capacity on Saturday, but it was quite obvious to those that went that the missing 3k were not required to create a fantastic atmosphere.

Give priority to season ticket holders and those that went on Saturday and the rest , I'm afraid, will have to watch on their TVs again. I actually dont think anyone who really wants one will have a problem getting a ticket anyway with the 3 sides open to home fans. The FA Cup is not the draw to the new generation of fans that it is to my generation, and sadly there are many nowadays that prefer the comfort of their armchairs to the live atmosphere of a seat in the stands

Also, as has been pointed out, we have a minority that will always ruin it for the majority by shaming the club with their antics next to the way fans.
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From the data I can gather, We had 12,115 home fans on Saturday. (Which should have been more.)

We have 17808 approx home seats.

It was therefore lot more than 3k short.
5693 to be more exact.
 
chorleythehord said:
There have been issues with police and stewarding on previous occasions - cant recall exact issues but it was a problem for the club
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I honestly don't remember any problems at all.
I know the club say that splitting the kop increases the work of the stewards and police, but when it's been split I don't remember any problems.
 
IanBogie9 said:
From the data I can gather, We had 12,115 home fans on Saturday. (Which should have been more.)

We have 17808 approx home seats.

It was therefore lot more than 3k short.
5693 to be more exact.
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the last time we had a complete sellout in a cup or league game was v Liverpool in 2021 when 22,131 attended .

The crowd on Saturday was 17,761, some 4,370 short of that . Assuming Burnley sold out , all those seats would be in the home end. However I have taken in to account additional segregation issues for the Burnley game due to their neanderthal dingle following, no plastic scousers in the home end and differences in hospitality offerings. So 3,000 fewer home seats sold than were sold for our previous recent biggest attendance . 😉
 
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