It's a disappointing draw, but we have to make the most of it and try to get through.
My suggestion for the club is that it should run cheap coaches in order to encourage people to travel, say £10 a head. You'd probably get about 20 coaches on that basis and potentially be able to recover the additional cost of the transport from CAFC's share of the extra ticket receipts, depending on the ticket prices. It would give the occasion a bit of momentum and it needn't cost the club anything.
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The club would only lose out if nobody extra travelled and it had given up the profit on the usual travellers' fare, but that's negligible next to its revenue split from the total receipts.
And in any case you could make the argument that the usual travellers deserve a break anyway.
You wouldn't recover that from extra away ticket sales, hence I'm suggesting something that can be justified by a business case - albeit with a little tweaking around the actual figures.
We are the left side we are the left side of the plane...
The cost of a coach to Sheffield should be £900-ish. The more people travel overall the higher the average loading per coach. In practice you should be able to sell 48 seats per coach, so at £10 that's £480. After the first few coaches that would go anyway, every adult passenger generates the marginal match ticket revenue of £7.50, so for these coaches you get 48 x £17.50 in total, which is total revenue of £840 - loss of £60 per coach.
Now, not every passenger is an adult and we don't know what Wendies will charge. Plus the club would otherwise probably charge £22 (based on yesterday) and might make £1k profit on running four coaches, against, say, a £1,600 loss on these four at £10 fare. Maybe it ends up £5k down on the deal, but against that it still has the income from the Wednesday fans which offsets it, a bit of goodwill from its own supporters and maybe at the margins increases its chance of getting the prize money for winning.
I'd say that was worth the risk. But I accept if Wednesday charge less to get in or the coaches are a bit dearer the numbers may need tweaking. It's the principle I am putting forward. Even £15 coaches would help, although I think £10 is the optimum.
I agreed with him I was on one of those coaches to Blackburn that left stupidly early and got to the ground 20 mins before kick off not leaving us any time to have a proper drink.
If we can take 7k plus to fulham for a 3rd round game we should take a few k to Sheffield for a game to get to the quarters.
So long as it's on Sat and priced reasonably by Wed of course.
In 99 we took 4k to Cov easily at this stage.
Coach travel isn't to everyone's taste, but no one is suggesting making it compulsory. The reality is that it's the only economical way of boosting the numbers. And we've taken large numbers by coach to dozens of games in the past, so it's nonsense to suggest it couldn't work on the basis that not everyone would use it.
just remember what happened when the club provided coaches to Boro and Blackburn
we lost both games
You know what, I'd plump for the temperance option. :-)