24/01/18 LADBROKES PREMIERSHIP.RANGERS v ABERDEEN.IBROX - GLASGOW .Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes issues instructions (Photo by Craig Williamson/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Kilmarnock will only have around 300 fans at Celtic Park for Saturday’s Scottish Cup tie.
SFA rules allow away clubs to claim 20% of tickets for away matches in the Scottish Cup but a combination of reasons seems to have killed off support from Ayrshire for Derek McInnes’ side.
Whether they sell 1 or 10,000 tuckets Kilmarnock will pick up a 40% share of the ticket money will around 40,000 Celtic fans having tickets for the game.
On Celtic AM Hamish called in his pal Callum to give a Killie perspective of the cup-tie
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I think a lot of Kilmarnock supporters will use every trick in the book when it comes to Celtic.
If the game was at Ibrox, all patter aside about any sort of alliance there or whatever. We played them in midweek in December when we were rotten and we took 600 up on a Wednesday night when we were on a poor run of form which I would say is a pretty healthy crowd.
We’re struggling to sell 300 tickets for Saturday! On the same day we have sold out for Tynecastle, again we get a lower allocation, I think about 600 tickets. We sold that out in a couple of hours and we are struggling to take 300 plus to Parkhead which is really disappointing.
The fact of the matter is, folk can blame the big bad songs, the big bad pole in the away end or whatever but it’s not that, it’s because our record up there is pitiful.
Kilmarnock, last season under Derek McInnes are the only club to have inflicted a domestic cup defeat on Brendan Rodgers, leaving the hoops boss with a record of six cup final wins from seven campaigns.
Despite that early season win Kilmarnock went out in the quarter-finals of the competition at home to Hearts. In the Scottish Cup last season they went out in the quarter-finals to Aberdeen on the day that Neil Warnock left his job as manager of the Dons.
Kilmarnock go into tomorrow’s match on the back of three home matches this year, beating St Mirren at home but losing to Ross County then drawing 0-0 against Motherwell in their last match on January 8.
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Agricultural hammer-throwers managed by the worst moaner in Scotland. Hope we take 5 off them and get to listen to greetin’ face complain about a wrongly awarded throw in.
I’m giving the biggest moaner to Mr Cunt CleMOANt Paddybhoy67 !
Disappointed, but teams like this know how to work it to there advantage and rewards from the SFA.
All home games gate money should go to the home team then it would sort out all these clubs that milk the system
Does no one realise its such a poor crowd because the game is at 5.30 on a Saturday NIGHT! There’s so many other things people do on a Saturday night that take precedence over a football game. Putting games on at thar time will kill the game up here. Saturday afternoon for the football is the traditional time, that’s great, but Saturday evening is family time.