Shrewsbury Town writes to Wolves saying they have been left ‘shafted’ by the ticket price reduction for the FA Cup Third Round fixture.
Wolves have priced the match at £10 for adults and £5 for concessions, but Shrewsbury chairman Roland Wycherley has taken issue with it.
He argues that this reduces the financial windfall for cash-strapped lower league clubs like Shrewsbury (currently up for sale), after deductions like FA cuts, costs, and VAT, claiming they’ll earn more from an earlier round against South Shields.
Wycherley calls it disrespectful to the competition and visiting clubs, but Wolves insist the pricing benefits their own supporters, denying links to fan unrest over ownership, while normal Premier League tickets cost between £32 and £71.
Shrewsbury Town have written to #Wolves to say they strongly disagree with the club’s pricing ahead of the third round FA Cup match at Molineux. 🏆 #WWFC have priced the match at £10 for adults and £5 for concessions, with Shrewsbury saying they have been left ‘shafted’ with… pic.twitter.com/StE15sivlt
— Talking Wolves (@TalkingWolves) December 14, 2025
Wycherley said, per the Daily Mail: “The FA take 10 per cent, then the stewarding and policing costs come out, the VAT gets paid and the two clubs split what’s left between them.
“The pricing belittles the competition and is disrespectful to the visiting club. They’ve already stropped replays and when the FA introduced the £10 10 years ago, it was as a minimum and not a maximum.
“We’ll end up making more from our match at South Shields in the first round. We’ve written to Wolves to say we strongly disagree but what can we do?
“Yet again, the lower league club gets shafted. It’s not our fault Wolves are reducing prices because the fans are up in arms about their owners.”
A Wolves spokesperson said: “While we respect Shrewsbury Town’s view, our responsibility as the home club is to act in the best interests of our supporters, and that has guided the ticket pricing for this game.”
Twitter users gave their reaction as Shrewsbury writes to Wolves saying they have been left ‘shafted’ by the ticket price reduction…
@HLTCO: Not sure that kicking off about ticket prices being more affordable is a hill worth dying on to be honest.
@NorthBankRyan: Even more reason to boycott that game now – fuck ‘em.
@_jwynny: They do realise if it was any more no one would show up 😭 they’re just trying to rip their own fans off
@Darren_J96:
“Fuck my fans and affordability, I want more money”
Hell of a stance from him 😅
@irishwolf99: How much of a cock must their chairman be for me side with Fosun? Shrewsbury a fellow working class club. £10 frankly should be the standard: people wonder where the Magic of the Cup has gone… Sales would be immaterial to us, so we may forgoe our half as a goodwill gesture
@stevep_1973: It’s ok, Shrewsbury can charge what they want and make their money in the fourth round…
@APriceless316: Fuck Shrewsbury – it’s not Wolves’ job to line their coffers 🤷🏻♂️
@stfc_harry: Bloody hell Roland you don’t help yourself at all if this is actually true. You wonder why a big group of our fans don’t like you anymore and wanting higher prices doesn’t help with that at all 🤦♂️
@bowbrookshrew: On a weekend of fans being up in arms about high WC pricing only our pillock of a chairman would be trying to increase the price for match going fans🤣🤣🤣 Absolute whopper !
@laneyditch: Pricing seems bang on to me. Hardly a draw to get home fans in? What’s he moaning about anyway, he could get a good draw in the 4th round 🤣 couldn’t resist that one sorry 🏳️
@KBizz1e: Clubs can’t do right for doing wrong… Great pricing from Wolves. If they charged full price for a cup game against a L2 team then the place would be empty.
@jackstringer19: Shrewsbury have made Fosun look like the reasonable ones. Unreal PR own goal.
@TEdwards2494: I think we should be boycotting this game and putting our money towards a donation to Shrewsbury so they don’t lose out because our owners are useless.
@andybullyuk: Shrewsbury need not worry about ticket prices , They need to worry if any Wolves fans turn up in the 1st place 👍🏻
@bowbrookshrew: We had an opportunity 5 years ago to beat Liverpool on their own patch, we took our eye off the task, concentrating more on moaning about money and lost. Here we are making the same mistake again. Only our chairman could do that…… #Salop
@_callumfowler: Moaning about tickets being too cheap is a new one
@willthomas67: I mean his last comment is spot on regarding the Wolves owners but I’d much rather pay £10 and get to watch my team away than £20+ like we do currently in League 2. How about we don’t shaft each other.
@johngibbonsblog: The FA Cup needs to decide what it is. Is it trying to be the Greatest Cup Competition on Earth or is it simply a redistribution tool to the lower league. Because trying to do both is killing it
@tommydavros: Fucking hell. Im all for lower league clubs making money from cup draws. But certainly not at the expense of cheap ticketing. Cheeky cunt.
@Jord260497: I absolutely despise these small clubs who think its down to Premier League clubs to generate their income for them.
@ZaaanderSmith: They must be the first club to moan about tickets being cheap surely? What a weird take 🤣 the form Wolves are in if they charged full price the stadium would be empty. Fair play by Wolves £10 great value 👏
@joeecfc1905: My goodness me. How the hell can you moan about tickets being too cheap? That’s a new one… fair play to Wolves for not ripping their fans off especially with the season they’re having