FA Cup 24-25

[The Bear]

All this romantic replay stuff is absolute nonsense. No-one goes out there playing for a replay. And Tamworth would have had a much better chance of going through by taking Spurs to penalties than going away to Spurs. 

[Goober]

Just now, The Bear said:

All this romantic replay stuff is absolute nonsense. No-one goes out there playing for a replay. And Tamworth would have had a much better chance of going through by taking Spurs to penalties than going away to Spurs. 

Tamworth would 100% take a replay at Spurs over going through to the next round

[purpleronnie]

Just now, Goober said:

Tamworth would 100% take a replay at Spurs over going through to the next round

Nah

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Ref has a widow's peak to end all widow's peaks.

[Tommy Fresh]

2 minutes ago, The Bear said:

All this romantic replay stuff is absolute nonsense. No-one goes out there playing for a replay. And Tamworth would have had a much better chance of going through by taking Spurs to penalties than going away to Spurs. 

Financially I'm sure they'd rather a replay than lose in extra time or on penalties.

[leicesterisme]

1 minute ago, purpleronnie said:

Nah

They definetly would, the money from 45% of the gate receipts at Tottenham is huge

[Tommy Fresh]

Or they let lower league sides give up home advantage if they want

[Bert]

I’d be on the pitch at full time berating the ref at full time if I’m the Tamworth gaffer and taking every punishment possible 

[Bilo]

5 minutes ago, Goober said:

Tamworth would 100% take a replay at Spurs over going through to the next round

 

3 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Financially I'm sure they'd rather a replay than lose in extra time or on penalties.

Absolutely. They could have won this game AET and had the most famous day in their history, and then lost 2-0 in front of 5000 at Plymouth in the next round.

[The Bear]

5 minutes ago, leicesterisme said:

They definetly would, the money from 45% of the gate receipts at Tottenham is huge

Depends. The replay would have to be shoehorned in for a midweek game (which Spurs don't have any available to them in the next 4 weeks anyway) and you'd get a probably 50% full stadium, if that. 

Edited 12 January by The Bear

[Scotch]

3 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Or they let lower league sides give up home advantage if they want

100%! FAR more beneficial to them as a club than to get beat in the next round. 

[leicsmac]

...hasn't it come to a pretty pass that there is even discussion about whether or not a lower league team would want the prestige of beating a high level Prem team at their own ground or instead draw with them/get drawn away and get pumped in the match/in the replay for the purpose of money?

[Super_horns]

Scrappy first  goal sums the Spurs performance up.

 

Very fortunate.

 

Looking at the Arsenal v Man U game - home side in their special cup kit.

[Scotch]

Just now, The Bear said:

Depends. The replay would have to be shiehirbed in for a midweek game (which Spurs don't have any available to them in the next 4 weeks anyway) and you'd get a probably 50% full stadium, if that. 

50% capacity is 31k. At say £20 a pop (very conservative estimate) and them getting 45% of that.... that's just shy of 300k! That is MASSIVE to a team like Tamworth. 

[UniFox21]

4 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

...hasn't it come to a pretty pass that there is even discussion about whether or not a lower league team would want the prestige of beating a high level Prem team at their own ground or instead draw with them/get drawn away and get pumped in the match/in the replay for the purpose of money?

Sadly in this version of football memories are only worth so much when it's in comparison to keeping a club running and the extra money

[Raj]

Hope Man U shut the Arse twats up

[Kasey Keller]

What’s that monstrosity arsenal are wearing 

[Daggers]

 

[Bilo]

10 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Depends. The replay would have to be shoehorned in for a midweek game (which Spurs don't have any available to them in the next 4 weeks anyway) and you'd get a probably 50% full stadium, if that. 

Nah, they'd get at least 45k in for that. 

 

45,000 x £15 average (taking into account concessions etc) is £675,000 of which Tamworth would get 45%, which is about £300,000. And that £15 average is very conservative for a club like Tottenham wanting to get bums on seats for very lowkey opposition midweek.

 

That probably keeps a club like Tamworth running for the best part of a year, and that's not even taking into account the TV money.

Edited 12 January by Bilo

[Super_horns]

Just now, Kasey Keller said:

What’s that monstrosity arsenal are wearing 

It’s to promote knife crime .

[burleighfox]

Completely undeserved result all round this.

[leicsmac]

2 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Sadly in this version of football memories are only worth so much when it's in comparison to keeping a club running and the extra money

...and isn't that a damning indictment.

[Tommy Fresh]

6 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

...hasn't it come to a pretty pass that there is even discussion about whether or not a lower league team would want the prestige of beating a high level Prem team at their own ground or instead draw with them/get drawn away and get pumped in the match/in the replay for the purpose of money?

Not as if we're talking about well off clubs squabbling over a few quid, this is money that could keep these clubs running comfortably for years 

[The Bear]

There's no way Tottenham would charge £20 for a freezing cold midweek night game against a non-league side, with the likelihood of a heavily changed and young team, and expect to get anywhere near 20k people turn up. 

 

Especially when lack of midweek slots mean that Spurs might be forced to play Sun/Tue/Thu with the replay being on a Tuesday. 

[ramboacdc]

That Arsenal kit is god awful.