Empty seats at St Mirren a week on Sunday, as the Paisley club provide Celtic will a reduced allocation for the visit of the Scottish Champions.
The Celtic Ticket Office today confirmed that they have received a REDUCED allocation of 1,389 tickets for the trip to Paisley on Sunday 25 August. The match has a 12 noon kick-off and is live on Sky Sports.
Both Hearts and Hibs have hosted theRangers and Celtic respectively in the first fortnight of the new season. Hearts doubling down on their ‘putting out own fans first’ policy that has provided them with lower crowds against the Glasgow sides than any other visitor from the Scottish Premiership to Tynecastle.
Empty seats there and also at Easter Road last weekend when Celtic were in town. Apparently this was down to disgraceful sectarian chanting from theRangers fans last season that resulted in Hibs reducing the capacity for both theRangers and also Celtic.
Dundee Utd are back in the Scottish Premiership this season and it will be interesting to see if they too maintain their policy from their season they went down and reduce the away allocation for the Glasgow sides.
Kilmarnock could easily accommodate all their supporters in the main stand and the stand opposite while giving Celtic and theRangers the stands behind the goals, as they did for many years, without trouble.
St Johnstone gave theRangers THREE stands for a Scottish Cup tie a few years back but reverted to empty seats first after a revolt from their own support. There’s new American owners at McDiarmid Park so it will be interesting to see if they too buy into this empty seat nonsense.
There will be NO fans of theRangers at Celtic Park on Sunday 1st September because club currently based at Hampden could not give guarantees to Celtic that the away section at Ibrox would be ready for the game at the start of January. But there will be no empty seats as 2500 Celtic supporters will snap them up.
At some stage Sky Sports is going to make their feeling known on this and it is not going to be pleasant for the clubs in the Scottish premiership. Bums on seats are better than leaving them empty and it certainly makes for a better spectacle for the broadcaster who is paying good money.
For those who say the TV deal is too small, you are correct but we do ourselves no favours by lessening the spectacle, something like a proper game was shown by Sky on the opening day in the Dundee Derby and the Edinburgh equivalent also falls into that category.
Best of luck to St Mirren and Kilmarnock in their European ties this evening.
🎟️Tickets for the William Hill Premiership away fixture vs. St Mirren on Sunday, August 25 (12pm KO) are now on sale to eligible Season Ticket holders.
The Club received a reduced allocation of 1,389 tickets for this match.
— Celtic FC Tickets (@CelticFCTickets) August 15, 2024
Meanwhile Adam Idah was speaking to the Celtic fan media at Celtic Park this afternoon, here’s everything that was said…
£35.00 a ticket ? No thanks, they can keep them. It’s a dump anyway .
We charge them the same and then st8ck them behind a big steel post
Do your homework .these clubs are not losing money..the police cost,the stewarding cost and damaging is alot higher for an additional 1000 fans paying £30.
Nonsense.
What rock has this website been liveing under for the past year or so????
This isnt new news at all. St Mirren have put supporters first over the prevoius old firm home games… catch up will you
Not an issue if you fill your tiny little stadium Iain, but we all know that you won’t. Deep down you know that too. Maybe the St Mirren part-time supporters will show up and prove us wrong.