FA Cup vs 4th Place?

Are you having a fucking laugh?! The capital one cup, yes, I'd agree. The FA Cup? Jog on.

 

Have you got the viewing numbers, have you? For TV? Cause I'm 100% sure that if Everton vs Swansea was the semi-final of the FA Cup, more people would be watching that than Everton vs Swansea in the league. No question.

 

That's hardly a judgement. The reason there are less viewers is simply because of season ticket holders. Simple. If you're a season ticket holder for a premiership, championship or even league one team, are you really gonna want to pay extra money, on top of the price of your season ticket, to watch your team play against a team who are in a worse division than your own?

 

Ah that's true.

Even so, if your team comes up against a team in your league, why would you pay extra on top to go and watch it, when you can watch it at another time for free? Only other reasons would be if they're a team you enjoy watching, or if you're missing the other game in the league and don't mind spending the extra on another game.

Either that, or it's the quarter final or later in the competition.

 

Like I said, it's still down to season ticket holders. They have to pay extra to see a game that they can see at another time without having to pay extra on top of the season ticket. Who wouldn't say yes to that, unless it's a team they like, etc, like I said in my other post.

 

Not necessarily. The crowd number isn't as high, no. But you have to look at season ticket holders. Everyone pays extra to watch a cup game, whereas season ticket holders don't to watch a league game. If they've bought the season ticket, obviously they're going to go then rather than to a cup game. Therefore, the attendance will naturally be less for a cup game than a league than. That doesn't mean that more people choose to watch a league game.

 

No it doesn't, not in the slightest.

I'll put it in a different context, to see if that helps. You've paid for a ticket to a band's concert a couple of months ago. All of a sudden, an opportunity to go watch the same band, with the same supporting artists, at the same location, comes up. Would you really pay the added £30 to go and watch that, knowing you have the same ticket for another time? I'd say not.

Obviously this is a different scenario, but say you're a frequenter to concerts, and you spend a lot of money going to watch concerts, then you're in a similar situation.

 

Exactly. Especially if you're team was playing poorly. Only the die hard season ticket holders, and others who may have nothing else to do, or whatever, would pay the extra.