Carabao Cup - next round, moving on - draw.

[Oldgregg86]

2 hours ago, arbitro said:

Adults for £10 and kids for a quid will see us get 20000 plus I believe. Forest would bring around 5000 at those prices I think.

Come on Swag listen to the fans for once and get as many as possible in - those young lads who performed so well on Wednesday deserve it.

Makes sense and then stock  the club shop and get it emptied before xmas

Edited November 11, 2022 by Oldgregg86

[superniko]

We're away from home on the 17th and the 26th so in reality we only have 1 home game before Christmas (PNE on the 10th) until this draw was made.

Great excuse for some Christmas marketing. £10 adult and £1 kid should sell out lower tier BBE and most of JW with 5k Forest fans I'd imagine 18k or so on the gate.

Could go for something like £5 for a season ticket holder or £5 if you buy a Preston ticket too. Got a month to advertise that and might help PNE walk ons too 

As others have said, it's literally a free, unexpected hit - which might help shift some half season tickets.

Edited November 11, 2022 by superniko

[rigger]

This fixture will clash with the U21s game with Celtic, I wonder if they will allow the U21s game to be played at Leyland ? It may also mean the Rovers fielding the first team.

Edited November 11, 2022 by rigger

[chaddyrovers]

delighted to have a home game in the next round

[MarkBRFC]

30 minutes ago, rigger said:

This fixture will clash with the U21s game with Celtic, I wonder if they will allow the U21s game to be played at Leyland ? It may also mean the Rovers fielding the first team.

They will just postpone the Celtic game if needs be.

[only2garners]

I think there are two competing pressures here. The fact that this game will be one of only two home games for Rovers before Christmas, plus it being school holidays should help ticket sales. But being a few days before Christmas everyone is usually very busy with preparations, parties etc - usually the Saturday games just before Christmas have lower gates.

I would agree that making cheap tickets available to ST holders and to anyone buying a Preston ticket would be the best way forward.

[rigger]

6 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

They will just postpone the Celtic game if needs be.

It has already been postponed once, I don't know what the European competition rules are.

[MarkBRFC]

12 minutes ago, rigger said:

It has already been postponed once, I don't know what the European competition rules are.

It's a development game, can be moved as many times as we see fit.

Think the group stage games have to be completed by February.

[Mattyblue]

Just play it on the alternative night. Tuesday for one game, Wednesday the other, no?

[rigger]

8 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Just play it on the alternative night. Tuesday for one game, Wednesday the other, no?

I hope that is what happens, but with Swag in charge who knows what the outcome will be.

[MarkBRFC]

Yeah they could easily do that, i'm sure Ewood will hold up with two games in two nights with it having no action for a month.

If that is the case i imagine the game against Celtic will be more like an under 18s game if we continue the theme with our CC cup teams we have picked so far.

Anyway, I reckon it will be £20 adults and £10 kids and end up with around or just over 10k on.

Halving the adult price and making it £1 for kids could generate a pretty healthy gate I reckon with it being the Christmas holidays, but it won't happen.

Edited November 11, 2022 by MarkBRFC

[Derby Blue]

Don't ticket prices have to be agreed by both teams?

I know thats the case in the FA Cup where the revenue is split, I'm assuming the same happens here?

Plus there's a minumum you can charge in the FA Cup, think it starts at £10 for round 3 and may rise through the rounds but don't know for sure.

Having said that, with the money on offer in the Prem, its hardly going to dent the coffers at Forest if we offer tickets for £10, £15 or £20

[Mattyblue]

Not on Sky by the way (City/Liverpool and obviously Man Utd), so it’s Tuesday 20th.

[RoverCanada]

8 hours ago, Derby Blue said:

Don't ticket prices have to be agreed by both teams?

I know thats the case in the FA Cup where the revenue is split, I'm assuming the same happens here?

Yeah, my understanding is matchday revenue is split 45/45 (with the remaining 10% going into the prize fund, I think)

Some back-of-the-envelope math (assuming an average ticket price of £18; the £10 tickets were only the corners of the upper level) suggests the 40,534 attending the West Ham game netted us ~£325k. Nothing major, but that alone is maybe 8-10% of our typical annual matchday revenue...

Our first mini Cup run in a while is a nice, minor boost to the coffers... Nottingham at home on a Tuesday night in December may not be as lucrative!

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, RoverCanada said:

Yeah, my understanding is matchday revenue is split 45/45 (with the remaining 10% going into the prize fund, I think)

Some back-of-the-envelope math (assuming an average ticket price of £18; the £10 tickets were only the corners of the upper level) suggests the 40,534 attending the West Ham game netted us ~£325k. Nothing major, but that alone is maybe 8-10% of our typical annual matchday revenue...

Our first mini Cup run in a while is a nice, minor boost to the coffers... Nottingham at home on a Tuesday night in December may not be as lucrative!

Certainly not when swag charges £35 a ticket. 

[arbitro]

The Forest game has been confirmed for Wednesday 21st December and in fairness the prices are decent. With adults at £12, Seniors £5, 18-23's £5 and under 18's £2.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2022/november/23/forest-cup-clash-confirmed/

[tomphil]

Great prices i was expecting them to try and fleece a big away following as usual.

[Mattyblue]

The closeness to Christmas will have helped them see sense you’d think.

Forest fans have found it hard to come by away tickets this season for obvious reasons, so I imagine they’ll fetch plenty with a huge away end to go at…

[Upside Down]

That is genuinely surprising. 

[arbitro]

Forest have been given an initial allocation of 4,319 tickets for this match and fully expect to sell them. The article I saw doesn't say whether more will be available if needed.

[only2garners]

You would expect Forest to sell plenty of tickets. They're cheap and this will be the first game since the World Cup break for them. I would probably expect that they will be playing a strong side too, as it can be used as a pre restart game for them.

I'm sure the upper tier will be available if they can guarantee enough sales to make it worthwhile for Rovers.

[tomphil]

8 or 9k home fans and 5 or 6k away fans i'd wager.

[Sweaty Gussets]

Forest have sold 5k and have been given another 750. 

[windymiller7]

I was going to go to this, but after that shit show on Saturday (plus the one at the Turd) there's no way I'm paying to sit freezing my chegs off at Ewood for this one!

[Uddersfelt Blue]

We’ve done pretty well in this competition and the team deserve to be given a chance to redeem themselves after some shocking performances in the league. A good result could get us back on track.