VillaChris Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Probably the same as the Emirates (and us) they announce season ticket holders in the attendance even if they don't turn up. Bony's a strange one, he does score goals but Swansea still look much better with Michu upfront. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 So how many season ticket holders have we got, as there was only 24k there yesterday and 7k of them were Sheffield Utd fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 O.k maybe for just league games. Or maybe we don't do that method any longer. Arsenal do it without question, the attendance is always 60k even when there's a couple of thousand empty seats there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 From a purely practical point of view it is probably easier to calculate how many tickets you sold compared to how many people actually turned up to the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Old Trafford looked very empty today, yet the crowd was announced as 73k (only around 2k off capacity), strange. IIRC their season ticket holders have to compulsory purchase all the cup game tickets as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 It just shows you btw what a psychological hold they still have over us that they still came to VP a month ago and took the mick with 3 nil that should've been much more. Since then they've lost to two decent sides and the games they have won they were lucky to at Hull and Norwich. Us, beaten before we got on the pitch. Again. No idea how we break the hoodoo but whoerver the manager is will be a hero in my book...MON briefly threatened it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Old Trafford looked very empty today, yet the crowd was announced as 73k (only around 2k off capacity), strange. IIRC their season ticket holders have to compulsory purchase all the cup game tickets as well. Yep. They have to buy FA cup and Champions League tickets too. They can opt out of buying League Cup tickets but the default setting when you buy a season ticket is that League tickets will also be included. Under 16s can buy a season ticket which is just for the Premier League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Avenue Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Well villa park didn't look like 24k to me yesterday. Upper trinity was shut, and I've never seen the holte so empty. Looked about 18k to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Man United need an A star manager to replace Fergie, like a Mourinho or Ancelotti. They got a b - in Moyes and we're seeing now even top 4 is looking remote under him. I do have to chuckle at those United fans not wanting Mourinho due to his poor football and lack of club values, can't see it being worse than Moyes's style of play. Big players weren't exactly queueing up to sign for them in the summer, I said before I think the top class ones like Fabregas were waiting to see what life after Fergie would be like and whether it would be Liverpool like in the early 90s as top players don't like joining sinking ships so don't get why they'd all run now to sign in the January window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 It's been said a hundred times by now, but no superstar manager wanted to be the guy who followed Fergie. Plenty of them will be willing to be the guy who follows Moyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I expect utd to try and spend their way out of this mess during January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 5, 2014 Author Moderator Share Posted January 5, 2014 I expect utd to try and spend their way out of this mess during January.The Glazers? Good luck with that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 It's been said a hundred times by now, but no superstar manager wanted to be the guy who followed Fergie. Plenty of them will be willing to be the guy who follows Moyes. Without a doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakid007 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 All I want from this season is villa to finish about 10th and Man U not to get in top 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heid3ster Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I expect utd to try and spend their way out of this mess during January. The Glazers? Good luck with that! I guess in Moyes's post-match press conference he trotted out the old "There's no good players available in January" line, according to the Guardian. Of course, he couldn't any find good players in the summer either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The_Rev Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 The law of averages is really starting to bite them in the arse, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 (edited) I guess in Moyes's post-match press conference he trotted out the old "There's no good players making themselves available in January" line, according to the Guardian. Of course, he couldn't any find good players in the summer either. words in bold added. it's not that there aren't good players about. the good players don't want to be part of a dive-bombing Man Utd team. Ferguson's left. Core of the squad is about to retire. major restructuring imminent. Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool look much more like they are on an upward curve. players like Edison Cavani would once have been on Man Utd's radar, now they're in the same market as Newcastle and Tottenham, but they have already hoovered up the French and Spanish leagues last winter and over the summer. Edited January 6, 2014 by Con Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 players like Edison Cavani would once have been on Man Utd's radar, now they're in the same market as Newcastle and Tottenham, but they have already hoovered up the French and Spanish leagues last winter and over the summer. That's not true at all. Manchester United generally shop in the £20-25m bracket, which is way below what Cavani went for and about what they paid for Fellaini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Call me crazy but I think our game against them at Old Trafford this season will be the best chance we've had of winning there in decades. Despite our dreadful home form we're pretty decent away (more so than many other seasons in fact) and United haven't been this poor at home for as long as I can remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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