Just think the low attendences we are seeing in the league Cup and Europa Cup are purely down to prices and nothing to do with protests against the owners. Fans are getting wise, they wont put up with the prices the club are charging when managers are blatenly cheating them by fielding weakened teams when the star players are sitting at home fully fit and available with a cup of tea in there hands. I happen to think it scandelous that this is allowed to happen in this day and age when fans have no money and the Club is charging over 20 quid a ticket, in any other walk of life you could probably report them to the trade discriptions act for selling an inferior product, the club plays on the fans love knowing they will always turn up and it's criminal.
Now hold on there the Manager has to charter his squad through the whole season and I do not think that he played the wrong side against NT - the side on the park should have beaten them remember we started the game with 6 full internationals.
However I do agree on the Club's pricing policy especially in the early rounds when against 4th division opposition they (Club's commercial guru's) would have fully expected the second tier team - if they had reduced prices to say ten quid do you think that the attendance would have hit 40,000? I'm not sure BUT I would have thought that it would have been a good commercial 'gamble' to do so and see what the overall outcome was i.e. IF you got 40,000 then gate taking are same and the rub off on all the incidentals would havve made it a worthy gamble. If the crowd only hit say 28,000 then so what at least they tried to encourage a bigger gate - too late now as this would be the only competition that I would have tinkered with prices.
On the lighter side a spurs mate of mine said "It was a good job that you didn't play all of Hampton"!!
