That figure of 72% doesn't take into account half season ticket holders who were eligible as the figures were obtained last October.
If we get to the final Half ST holders will have to miss out to ensure as many STH as possible get a ticket. There won't be many who miss out if 28,500 is accurate for this season. I'd guess the allocation for the final will be about 27-28k. If the FA have given 31,000 for the Semi they can't possibly justify taking more than 4000 tickets from each team.
In fact, Greg Dyke has promised to give each team in the final 30,000 tickets this year. If that is true then all STH would get a ticket I would imagine.
on Twitter the official account stated that purchased a half season ticket for 2015/16 season is classed as a 'Season Ticket Holder' and there is no such thing as a 'half-season ticket holder' so they do not differentiate between the 2 at all.
from 26th feb this year ....
The FA is to help more fans of the two Emirates FA Cup Finalists to attend English football’s showpiece match – with more than 57,000 tickets now going directly to those supporters.
An FA Board proposal to increase allocations for the competing clubs has been agreed.
Currently, the two clubs are entitled to 25,500 tickets each. Increasing this number to 28,650 tickets per team is a significant step forward and is equivalent to 80 per cent of the available seats rather than the previous 71 per cent.
Read more at
http://www.thefa.com/news/the-fa-cu...for-emirates-fa-cup-final#EHHaH9QQrLTe1Xhd.99
so the 28,650 is an increase of 3,150 for each team in the final, no way they'll up it any more. so thats 28650 minus players tickets, sponsors, shareholders etc etc before they even get near season ticket holders.
a daft amount will go out to those that I've mentioned but the biggest bugbear is the amount of freebies that will be handed out by the fa etc, those that get the stick i.e. 'football family' as bad as it is that they get tickets do have to pay for them but there be a lot more than a couple of K on an absolute freebie.