Ticket sales (38,227 Addicks Going to Wembley)

Charltonparklane said:

Airman Brown said:

Solidgone said:

Let’s not get too carried away with the support. We’ve still not sold out our allocation and with friends wanting a day out to watch some football at the national stadium and on the piss why not come along to swell the ranks. This is so much different than turning up valley every other week. 

True of any big game, though. I don’t think everyone was a card-carrying member of the supporters’ club when we had 30,000 crowds in the 1970s. Or in the 56,435 who turned out for a Second Division game at The Valley in 1958.

We’ve sold 40,000 tickets, near as damn it. Plenty of people didn’t think that was possible a fortnight ago.

Its pretty remarkable and will guarantee it will blood in a new crop of supporters for the future rather then the fkin Palace (yes Palace) and Millwall tops which frequent, Welling, bexley, Eltham nowadays

My other half works in a school in Bexleyheath and she's said it's all the kids and staff are talking about at the moment. This is a big opportunity to re-build the support. But it's up to Duchatelet whether we take advantage, or not. 

MrOneLung said:

At the start is was Sunderland have got X amount and we have got X amount where are the other 15000 tickets going. Well these are some of those. 

And a chunk of the rest were bought by Charlton fans as hospitality packages directly from Wembley. It just remains to see how many of the others will have been taken by Charlton fans receiving corporate entertainment from firms, particularly City based ones, that have Club Wembley tickets. That middle tier may not be a sea of red football shirts but could be one of red or white polo shirts on Sunday and contributing to the noise for the the team in red 

Solidgone said:

Let’s not get too carried away with the support. We’ve still not sold out our allocation and with friends wanting a day out to watch some football at the national stadium and on the piss why not come along to swell the ranks. This is so much different than turning up valley every other week. 

Should we sing “Where were we, when we were shit?”

Considering we'd sold 34k about 2-3 days ago, the figure sold must now be up around 38k?

And whatever it is we will out number Sunderland which i can't imagine many on here would've predicted.

SoundAsa£ said:

DOUCHER said:

Yep - got an email from our marketing dept yesterday forwarding on opportunity to buy club Wembley tickets for the game - about £50 each - more likely that these will be scooped up by charlton fans than Sunderland - every bit of extra help to get us over the line and promoted is all good - bought a red top yesterday - realised the last red charlton kit I bought was 92 back to the valley - don’t fit now!!! Perfect prep tomorrow though - vets match at valley - just hope there’s some pitch left after last friday COYR!!!!!!

Sunderland fans can’t buy those seats because they will be segregated.
Incidentally, they are seats only and not for the hospitality package.
And why would they buy them anyway.....they haven’t sold out their own allocation?

And if they had then there are club wembley seats at their end of the ground that no doubt would then go on sale to them.

Stig said:

MuttleyCAFC said:

It merely confirms the potential there is in this club of ours!

And yet, instead of having an owner entertaining a box of interested suitors, we have a nutter appearing on TalkShite telling the world how he's scared of his own shadow .

Maybe the young, sane Duchatelet might have seen this as the unexpected but welcome and massive opportunity it could be. He must have been right a lot in his younger years. Sadly, he is crazy now and those years have long gone.

If he invited any one of us into his office, I think we could explain how he could still turn this round and potentially make himself a lot of money, and even change the perception fans have of him. Through good fortune, not good judgement, the door is ajar for that. He tries to portray us as making him our enemy, but the truth is, HE has made us his enemy.

It probably all comes down to him being unable to accept he was wrong. He would say, I have accepted I was wrong. But his acceptance only goes to show that really he hasn't as he blames others for not communicating the plan well enough, rather than the plan that we all knew wouldn't work, because we have a better understanding of football in this country.

He won't change. And the route he is taking won't mean he sells the club at the profit he still could make, if he actually grasped what is happening. 

I wonder what the total sales revenue will be for the game?

I know a previous poster explained that 50% of the money went to EFL and then 25% will each go to Charlton and Sunderland. And the total would include match ticket sales, corporate box sales and I think perimeter advertising. Does each club get a slice of TV money too?

Anyone care to educated-guess the total that each club would get?

Gammon said:

I work in a primary school and keep hearing que sera sera and the kids asking me to sing the songs along with them 

Shame it’s not September at the start of the school year instead of end of May and near the end of it. That’s a great opportunity to get the kids totally engaged in whatever you say from now on.

Siv_in_Norfolk said:

JamesSeed said:

JamesSeed said:

For reasons even more complicated to explain than last time, I have two adult tickets available in block 544, Row 21
Just asking £60 face value.
DM if interested.

These tickets arrived in the post today. Still available, although my other three have gone. 

You going to game?

Of course he is.

He's still got nearly 200 tickets to flog on Wembley Way.

I estimate our share of the revenue to be about 2 mill. 

I reckon the crowd will be in excess of 80,000. Phenomenal achievement by Charlton fans, IMO

roseandcrown said:

just imagine we win on Sunday all these come back fans get the bug back. The Rat sells in the summer and we have new owners who back Bowyer sensibly. Just imagine the feel good factor it could really take hold and galvanise the whole club. 

Rosie how many times do I have to tell you the Belgians going nowhere.

One thing we can all take take away and remember from Duchatalet’s tenure is to...........NTAMWYT.

“NEVER TRUST A MAN WITH YELLOW TEETH”

Valiantphil said:

I estimate our share of the revenue to be about 2 mill. 

That sounds too much, given the revenue split. There are also costs for the use of Wembley and staging the semi-finals (and quite possibly player bonuses to pay). I understand that when Millwall were promoted they made a lot less than that.

Selling 40k is a fantastic achievement