Topic: League cup draw

[xRedmanLFCx]

Shite draw.

[LFCStephen]

Happy with that for selfish reasons!

Anyone with both always so far be safe I'm sure (although famous last words given our TO sometimes!)

[swoopy]

2nd leg at home on 24th/25th Jan.

Us and United are playing on Saturday 21st, Hull Sunday 22nd and Southampton are due to play on Monday 23rd. Will they move their game given it's scheduled for TV?

They'll probably move Southamton's game back to Saturday.. maybe it'll have to forego TV given there isn't a free slot on the Saturday now

[RedPat]

2nd leg at home on 24th/25th Jan.

Us and United are playing on Saturday 21st, Hull Sunday 22nd and Southampton are due to play on Monday 23rd. Will they move their game given it's scheduled for TV?

Hull are live on tv on Sunday the 22nd I think we are certs for both Tuesday fixtures with the Southampton league game on Monday the 23rd being re arranged

[xRedmanLFCx]

Hull are live on tv on Sunday the 22nd I think we are certs for both Tuesday fixtures with the Southampton league game on Monday the 23rd being re arranged

Why will the 1st leg not be on a Wednesday?

[Titi Camara]

Haha the Guardian headline at the draw....

[PHIL.]

Chances of getting a final ticket with all home games if we get through?

[RedPat]

Why will the 1st leg not be on a Wednesday?

last season both legs against  Stoke were on Tuesday that's the logic I'm following anyway.

[swoopy]

Chances of getting a final ticket with all home games if we get through?

Ballot (unless your a STH with all in which case prob cert?)

[PHIL.]

Ballot (unless your a STH with all in which case prob cert?)

Not a STH sadly.

Would love to watch the Reds at Wembley.  Never been before. 

[ScubaSteve]

Ballot (unless your a STH with all in which case prob cert?)

Would rather take my chances in the ticket sales first come first serve than a ballot.

How did it work last season for the final?

The villa game was a ticket sale and not a ballot

[Paullfc95]

Should be ok for the away leg with Derby?

[LFCStephen]

Chances of getting a final ticket with all home games if we get through?

Last year 3 matches got you a final ticket, 2 was a ballot

[RedPat]

Be the same for league, just over 3k, they'll get whole lower annie road most likely

Why do we give them the whole Annie road lower and we only get a league allocation ?

[willfc]

Why do we give them the whole Annie road lower and we only get a league allocation ?

We have 20k more seats, and we gave Stoke basically the whole lower annie last season

[Luke 17]

Was only £18 last time hopefully they charge something similar again.

We got 3,099 last time and they went on sale to those with Bournemouth an Chelsea away guaranteed.

[lfcrule6times]

do you think many spares will be floating about for the away leg you reckon?

[Redman0151]

Ballot (unless your a STH with all in which case prob cert?)

STH and members were in the same ballot last year, fingers crossed they do the same again

[Knickers]

Chances of getting an away ticket having been to Spurs but not Leeds?

[Paullfc95]

Southampton game scheduled for Monday 23rd is being moved to Sunday lunchtime. Still leaves both them and Hull playing Sunday 22nd so 2nd leg could still either be Tuesday or Wednesday.

[RedPat]

Chances of getting an away ticket having been to Spurs but not Leeds?

No chance the criteria will be based on away League cup credits.

[Knickers]

No chance the criteria will be based on away League cup credits.

Alright thanks

[didopich]

Last season 3 homes got you Wembley and 2 got u a ballot but this year the extra 8k at in the new stand may change things although isnt 5-6k of those hospitality so they wont be many picking 3 on those

[AA3JM21]

all hospitality members are guaranteed the final aren't they?! Will lessen members allocation for sure

[Tiger Tony]

all hospitality members are guaranteed the final aren't they?! Will lessen members allocation for sure

Not sure. Maybe only higher level now. We will hopefully find out

[RedPat]

Not sure. Maybe only higher level now. We will hopefully find out

Reds Premier club and the new dugout ie the so called low level hospitality (even though the cheapest dugout is just shy of 4 grand a season) are only guaranteed a ticket to semi finals and finals where LFC receive an allocation of over 23500 tickets the contract further states  that if LFC receives fewer than 23500 tickets the purchase of such tickets may be subject to selling criteria and/or ballot and no guarantee is given that you will be able to purchase a ticket.

[Priest078]

A chartered train to Southampton would be nice

[GeorgeB]

Personally If we do get to the final I think it will Be like last time 3 homes guarantee 2 gets you in ballot just this time round the people on 2 will have a less chance

[Tiger Tony]

Reds Premier club and the new dugout ie the so called low level hospitality (even though the cheapest dugout is just shy of 4 grand a season) are only guaranteed a ticket to semi finals and finals where LFC receive an allocation of over 23500 tickets the contract further states  that if LFC receives fewer than 23500 tickets the purchase of such tickets may be subject to selling criteria and/or ballot and no guarantee is given that you will be able to purchase a ticket.

So they are ok for domestic finals then. European finals they may well struggle. Even CL/Europa finals in a 70000+ stadium normally gives around 20000 per team.

In summary, more tickets will be lost from the general pot for domestic finals. The infamous Parry numbers game from Athens 2007 said 5-6k are used for corporates/sponsors/players/ex players and other 'commitments'. Expect this to be more like 8-10k now. Towards the higher end of that figure if it's a Liverpool v Man U final.

Thankful I have away credits in all cup competitions. All homes unlikely to ever guarantee a final ever again.

However, people need to remember these people have paid a lot of money up front for ALL HOMES IN ALL COMPETITIONS. If I had paid £4k for one of these I would expect a guaranteed final ticket to be honest.

[Redman0151]

Reds Premier club and the new dugout ie the so called low level hospitality (even though the cheapest dugout is just shy of 4 grand a season) are only guaranteed a ticket to semi finals and finals where LFC receive an allocation of over 23500 tickets the contract further states  that if LFC receives fewer than 23500 tickets the purchase of such tickets may be subject to selling criteria and/or ballot and no guarantee is given that you will be able to purchase a ticket.

Mental that, expect our final ends to be full of even more tory gobshites and whoppers

[RedPat]

So they are ok for domestic finals then. European finals they may well struggle. Even CL/Europa finals in a 70000+ stadium normally gives around 20000 per team.

In summary, more tickets will be lost from the general pot for domestic finals. The infamous Parry numbers game from Athens 2007 said 5-6k are used for corporates/sponsors/players/ex players and other 'commitments'. Expect this to be more like 8-10k now. Towards the higher end of that figure if it's a Liverpool v Man U final.

Thankful I have away credits in all cup competitions. All homes unlikely to ever guarantee a final ever again.

However, people need to remember these people have paid a lot of money up front for ALL HOMES IN ALL COMPETITIONS. If I had paid £4k for one of these I would expect a guaranteed final ticket to be honest.

Might be a couple of thousand extra around this season for the final seeing as there is no cup sponsor I am sure Capital one, Carling,Worthingtons,Coca Cola, etc got a shit load of tickets for the final when they sponsored the cherished League cup.

[Billy Elliot]

Mental that, expect our final ends to be full of even more tory gobshites and whoppers

Loyalty for sale.

[RedPat]

So they are ok for domestic finals then. European finals they may well struggle. Even CL/Europa finals in a 70000+ stadium normally gives around 20000 per team.

In summary, more tickets will be lost from the general pot for domestic finals. The infamous Parry numbers game from Athens 2007 said 5-6k are used for corporates/sponsors/players/ex players and other 'commitments'. Expect this to be more like 8-10k now. Towards the higher end of that figure if it's a Liverpool v Man U final.

Thankful I have away credits in all cup competitions. All homes unlikely to ever guarantee a final ever again.

However, people need to remember these people have paid a lot of money up front for ALL HOMES IN ALL COMPETITIONS. If I had paid £4k for one of these I would expect a guaranteed final ticket to be honest.

The dug out is a shit deal really it's only a grand less than the higher level hospitality and you don't get into the away ballot and won't automatically get European finals.

[Billy Elliot]

However, people need to remember these people have paid a lot of money up front for ALL HOMES IN ALL COMPETITIONS. If I had paid £4k for one of these I would expect a guaranteed final ticket to be honest.

Not arsed how much they've paid.  They shouldn't have any more right than a person whose paid for £9 tickets for every round of the competition.  There's loads of reason why our final crowds are so shit, this is just one of them.  After paying my money for each round of the competition I'd like a guarantee that I'm not sat next to some prick in a suit on a corporate jolly for the top bantz.

[carl123uk]

Why do we give them the whole Annie road lower and we only get a league allocation ?

League cup you have to give 10% of your capacity so the minimum we have to give them is 5.4k. Can't see them wanting the full allocation though.

Fa cup should be interesting as you have to give 15% so assume we will just give teams the whole anny road end

[kalle-anka]

Personally If we do get to the final I think it will Be like last time 3 homes guarantee 2 gets you in ballot just this time round the people on 2 will have a less chance

This sounds about right.

Remember only 3% with 2 matches last season was unsuccessful in the ballot!

[ripsaw19]

A final would probably be 4 games guaranteed. STH with 3 guaranteed and members with 3 into a ballot. Loads will have the 3 home games so they'll make sure the away credits for one game are used as well

[Claire.]

We've got a semi final to win first, boys and girls!

Yep!

Though just a warning, the trains are fucking shite again

[PaulKS]

For those who asked (cba to quote), I think there will be a few spares for this.

Plenty of people wont be able to make the trip down especially not long after xmas

[pyroparty]

Brutal draw. Fuck sake. Desperate for a good evening game, gonna need to get lucky with a fa cup replay.