Hearts only sold 17,500 for Sunday
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Trafalgar
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The empty seats in the Hearts end were embarrassing.45k was the attendance called on premier sports
Someone will be along in a minute to defend them and say its their right or some pish like that. Today should be the end of any 50/50 split nonsense
Seen one guy holding up 4 or 5 about half an hour before kick off
Noddy
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Just as well it never happened.
RaoulDuke11
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Was the 5k down to segregation? Surely not?
Kingging
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The thing is this isn't difficult and there's no need for it.
Hearts want half the North Stand. Fine. Give them it. Or even more. We'll sell out the West and South Stands easily. Just only give them half or less of the East Stand too. If they sell all that they can have the other half of the East Stand and if not we get the part of the East stand adjacent to the South Stand. The point is they can have the 'visible' seats without pretending they have a support that can fulfill a full 50/50 allocation. They obviously don't.
Hearts want half the North Stand. Fine. Give them it. Or even more. We'll sell out the West and South Stands easily. Just only give them half or less of the East Stand too. If they sell all that they can have the other half of the East Stand and if not we get the part of the East stand adjacent to the South Stand. The point is they can have the 'visible' seats without pretending they have a support that can fulfill a full 50/50 allocation. They obviously don't.
Unreal amount of tickets available outside considering it was a 50/50 split
volunteer
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Hating itself to death, to coin a phrase from the past.
Noddy
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Dunno. But they never gave "thousands away to charity".
for the rangers end?
Yes. Saw one guy holding atleast 4 tickets and then another few guys with a couple of tickets each
RaoulDuke11
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Sounds like they should’ve if they had 4k empties…
Noddy
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It's a cool story, that will probably become 10k as time goes on.
not to bang that drum again, but there’s only one way that someone ends up with so many spare
Andrew webb
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Got ticket outside Hampden and saw few others selling tickets near school/ cafe at mount Florida end
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Chocolateleftfoot
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Maybe they should have. Filled it up a bit. Still, at least they paid for the thousands of empty seats.
It's been the same for many years whenever we've been drawn against clubs - other than that mob - in both semis and finals. Hopefully that today will put an end to it. The daftest that I ever heard was from a Dunfermline supporter on a radio phone in one Saturday night complaining about there not being a 50/50 split of tickets before they were due to play us in a League Cup semi back in the 1990's.
Tons of tickets for sale outside and embassaring amount of empty seats in the south stand. Most of the best seats in the house were not used today.
Scotland, continuing to hate itself to death 2024.
Scotland, continuing to hate itself to death 2024.
leroyjohnson
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I saw two separate guys selling at least two tickets each near Mount Florida Primary School at 2.30.
That would be normal in my heyday for away/Hampden games (2008-11), but a very rare sight these days indeed.
That would be normal in my heyday for away/Hampden games (2008-11), but a very rare sight these days indeed.
rangeral
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Those seats are Debenture seats so if they don't sell by Hampden themselves they are handed to the clubs which has been the case today and yesterday
paphosranger
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No it would have been debentures not turning up. Hearts had over 19,500 supporters in today. A split was completely justified.
MrJ
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paphosranger
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The seats are bought and paid for.
RaoulDuke11
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Yer baws mate.
There’s f*ck all justification in handing tickets to day trippers at the cost of real fans.
I won’t entertain your shite on this topic any longer.
paphosranger
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Who handed tickets to day trippers? Tickets are bought and paid for.
Semi's and Final's should be an equal split whenever possible.
Fair enough, you want to act billy big baws then bash on.
Ridiculous number of empty seats in the Hearts end today. I said at the game it looked around 3/4000 thousand. Maybe wasn't too far off with that, going by official attendance.
Also be interested to know why there was a large section of empty seats in the South Stand Lower closest to the dugouts in our end. Those seats were for hospitality run by Rangers at previous games. Anyone in there today able to confirm if that was the case today? I understand the need for hospitality but, it's quite poor that seats would just be left empty if they couldn't shift hospitality packages.
Also be interested to know why there was a large section of empty seats in the South Stand Lower closest to the dugouts in our end. Those seats were for hospitality run by Rangers at previous games. Anyone in there today able to confirm if that was the case today? I understand the need for hospitality but, it's quite poor that seats would just be left empty if they couldn't shift hospitality packages.
Barca Bear
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Hospitality in the tarts south stand was empty, almost.
Our view from north stand.
Blue Lew
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Was just coming in to say the same thing, it was a shocker.
The Hearts hospitality in the North Stand was empty as well
Seen the greenock one at hampden before
Odd.
Keep it civil in this thread or expect to find some time in the cooler.
Barca Bear
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Debentures don’t just turn up.
They notify the organiser of intent.
That’s why there was a late sale to rangers fans in the east debenture section.
Our “real fans” were punting tickets left right and centre today. Buses holding up wads of them at the stadium.
stonewall Jackson
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Wouldn think it will be a problem at the final.
Once more money up front dictates what a national cup showpiece looks like.
Once more money up front dictates what a national cup showpiece looks like.
IbroxMainStand
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From the south upper I would say majority of empty seats were in the south stand today. Hearts looked to have left the first 3 or 4 rows of the east unsold so that is probably 1500 tickets left in their end.
The big empty sections in the south are hospitality and unsold debentures. The price of the hospitality options are usually £500 plus at Hampden so its not surprising they didn't sell out the Hearts section for a semi.
The big empty sections in the south are hospitality and unsold debentures. The price of the hospitality options are usually £500 plus at Hampden so its not surprising they didn't sell out the Hearts section for a semi.
Not sure that's an indication of much bud. We were in A7 right at the back and rakes of our fans clearly just pile down the first stairs that they come to.
I wasn't in my allocated either come to think of it
Govan_Guy
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This kind of a setup is a nightmare for families especially with juveniles so no thanks - we need to know our allocation from the start.
Hoojar McKinney
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First time in the the South Stand Upper today, just past the half way line towards the Hearts end. Fantastic view of the game, but plenty of empty seats and the atmosphere was a bit flat.
Will stick to the North Stand if given the choice in future.
Will stick to the North Stand if given the choice in future.
The Mols Turn
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I got off the train at Mount Florida and got speaking to a guy who was a bear and said he had a ticket in the Hearts end.
There was a few spares for our end on the way to the ground
A guy infront of me at the turnstile passed a spare ticket back for anyone to use.
There was a few spares for our end on the way to the ground
A guy infront of me at the turnstile passed a spare ticket back for anyone to use.
Coop1872
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Pretty sure there's at least one Hearts supporters club in Belfast.
@Greg Marshall
plenty of mygers members (with a season ticket and on cccs) will have missed out on today and get to come on here and read this.
if a game's mygers allocation is top down, there is just no justification to handing so many tickets to the buses. it's a scandal and today should be a watershed moment.
plenty of mygers members (with a season ticket and on cccs) will have missed out on today and get to come on here and read this.
if a game's mygers allocation is top down, there is just no justification to handing so many tickets to the buses. it's a scandal and today should be a watershed moment.
Noddy
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Aye, but that's awrite.....
Think it was more to do with a lot of folk being absolutely scunnered since last weekend
IbroxMainStand
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Some of the tickets being sold will be MyGers members tickets. If someone can't make the game then a lot of people will pass that ticket to their bus to then try and fill a seat with. All of the spares being sold aren't RSC tickets.
