With less than four days to go there are still plenty of tickets available for Celtic’s League Cup tie at Ibrox.
Of course there will be no Celtic fans in attendance after the latest childish stunt pulled off to keep Ibrox social media sweet.
Unfortunately for Andrew Cavenagh the battle cries haven’t been followed up by ticket sales.
Despite 98% of fans renewing Season Tickets and selling to 700 new Season Ticket holders tickets remain on sale for Sunday’s match.
Normally at this time of year Ibrox fans would be spending around £160 on Europa League home match tickets.
Thanks to a defeat from Jablonec there will be no European football at Ibrox this season but thousand of loyal bears have turned their back on tickets to see Scotland’s most successful club.
In March Celtic fans paid £54.50 and £43.50 for concessions to the Scottish Cup tie at Ibrox.
Sunday’s match is priced at £48 for home fans only but tickets are still available throughout the ground.
Season Ticket holders then My Gers members were given the opportunity to buy tickers.
IBROX TICKETS FOR SALE IN ALL AREAS
Ibrox Season Ticket holders were allowed to buy an additional ticket but were still unable to sell out.
Three SPFL wins on the bounce has convinced most Ibrox fans that the Staunch Revolution is back on course.
A total spend of around £38m resulted in being knocked out of the Europa League and the UEFA Conference before the group stage matches. There will be no epic Ibrox Thursday’s this season.
Even Russell Martin got through two Champions League qualifying rounds before getting battered last season by Club Brugge.
Domestically McInnes’s expensive side trail Celtic by five points after five matches. Trips to Celtic Park and Tynecastle are around the corner.
Having campaigned to ban Celtic fans from the Free Broomloan there doesn’t appear to be much demand from bears to fill those seats.
The day after losing to Jablonec it was announced that Celtic were being allocated just 300 tickets for the League Cup tie.
That was followed by silence from both clubs until September 4 when the SPFL announced that there would be no away fans at the cup tie or the Premiership matches this season.
From the moment that they announced Celtic were getting 300 tickets for the cup tie it was inevitable that there would be no away fans at Celtic Park on September 20.
PETTINESS BEHIND TICKET DECISIONS
The classic deflection tactic has backfired spectacularly.
At Ibrox they are throwing everything at the League Cup tie. A win on Sunday and McInnes is two matches away from a trophy.
A cup defeat and the pressure is cranked up on McInnes as he returns to Celtic Park where he chucked away last season’s SPFL Premiership title.
Celtic head to Ibrox with far more of a scoring threat than they took to Ibrox for the Scottish Cup tie in March.
On the back of a midweek trip to Aberdeen Kieran Tierney and Callum McGregor missed the Scottish Cup tie. Things got so desperate that Joel Mvuka appeared as an 80th minute substitute, staying on throughout the extra-time.
Captained by Liam Scales Celtic dug in to take the match into a penalty shoot-out.
James Tavernier won the toss to choose end then another toss to take the first penalty.
The social media team at Dublin Airport were quick to react to Captained Disappointed sending his final Ibrox penalty over the bar.
And the sight of 7,000 celebrating fans in the Free Broomloan triggered thousands of Ibrox social media accounts.
As their anger exploded their Directors wilted into cutting Celtic’s allocation of tickets.
Not for the first time Ibrox Directors are discovering that the brave words of their keyboard warriors isn’t backed up by fans spending money on their beloved club.
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