KingsbayYHPE

Cups suck ass.

retired_jmeshew

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by John Wards:

Get one of the old firm away and your minted.

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Yep it's like winning the lotto as an LLM

retired_sara maria

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by iajafer:
Cups suck ass.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Except when you knock CraigO out of FA cup contention.

KingsbayYHPE

We got ManUre away in the FA Cup, 4th round, and it netted us nearly £900k...

...but Cups still suck ass.

retired_marcias

bleh, I always like the cups...well, except when I lose in the 1st round...in which case they're obviosuly just a distraction from the league and I of course deliberately extracated myself from the cup

retired_chinadoll0743

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Originally posted by John Wards:

Get one of the old firm away and your minted.

It happend in *real* life to Brechin City, they got rangers Away when they were in the 3rd and they are now in the 1st division, I think they got about 500k too. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Nope, we didn’t get anything near that amount unfortunately because Rangers seasontickets didn’t include that game and not that many Gers fans wanted to pay £25-30 to see us play them off the park.

If they had dropped the home fans ticket price down to about £10-15 they would have got a big attendance but in the end there was around 25,000, about 5,000 of us from Brechin. I’m pretty sure it was Rangers lowest attendance for a long time.

And we could have won the game if it wasn’t for their German keeper. The ground looked deserted, a bit like Murryfield will next season when Hearts hold their 'home' games there

retired_marcias

Not quite as bad as Queens Park at Hampden though :p

retired_tchockfan

I scored somewhere around 3M Euros in gate receipts in the first round of the CL at AC Milan. That was about 4 years worth of income for the club in one hit, so the score was somewhat irrelevant.

As for domestic cups, I haven't noticed much of a windfall. But then I haven't played in the English leagues for a long time, and I think the money's better there.

retired_ash2884

I've mixed opinions with the Cup,
Whilst I've never gone beyond the 4th round of the FA cup (Or SFA cup for that matter) I do find if your not likely to get promotion that season or are struggling with debt, it is good to get an away cup draw to a popular team. With the 400k I got with a forth round away tie with Everton, I managed to improve the clubs fiscal position to allow the board to double my wage budget and this intern lead to a team being assembled that gained promotion the next season and allowed me to invest in my under 19 squad. Without this cup injection, we would have run at a loss that season and I would have had to cull players rather than sign new ones.

retired_jmathias

I think that cup runs only pays off if you are playing in one of the BIG countries. Because when I played in NI, the cup match towards higher placed teams braught me 2K GBP max.
And I bet, that any other coutnry with small stadiums has this.