If the club play this right, its a fantastic opportunity to make some serious cash and to get some extra support. Man city will be given an allocation of 5,000 thus making only 28,000 places available for City fans. As 14,000 of these go to season ticket holders, this will leave 14,000 for a game that will have a massive draw in South Wales. If the egg chasers can get 40,000 plus to watch the likes of Georgia, I am sure the lure of watching arguably the best team in the world at the moment will mean it will sell out in hours.
Make an announcement ASAP that anyone buying a ticket for the Sunderland game or a half season ticket is assured of a ticket for the Man City game should we go through. That should add 2 or 3k to the gate giving extra revenue of c.£35k, creating a much better atmosphere to that game game as well. Use part of that money (which they wouldn't otherwise have) to subsidise travel to Mansfield and possibly Sheffield Wednesday; thus increasing our chances of winning these games and creating goodwill at the same time. Don't know the exact price of a bus, but I do know 35K will pay for a heck of a lot of buses.
And if we get through (not a guarantee but we will be favourites) we are bound to clear £500k. That's money that the club will know it has some 14 days before the window closes and if spent wisely in the loan market (its a quality players someone wages of £30K a week to the end of the season) that could be the difference between going up or staying down. If we get beaten at Mansfield what have we lost? Nothing apart from a bit of face?
I appreciate that we could pick up injuries but that's football; we've picked up the odd injury in training this season-and the upside far outweighs the downside.