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Going to this but also got tickets for Carlisle v Stockport in the League 2 Play Off Final at Wembley as well. That's a 13.30 KO and we are a 16.30 KO so it's going to be tight I reckon. Think we'll end up leaving the match at Wembley a bit before full time just to ensure we get to Stamford Bridge in time.

Reminded me of Titus Bramble on a bad day tonight.

He's a Chelsea fan. The Spurs connection was down to him being mates with Levy. A group of us bumped into him in a pub not long after he bought us and he told us then that he was actually a Chelsea supporter.

We were in Row T in the Gallowgate Upper in Monday night (2nd row from the back) and there's probably around 300/400 who stand continuously up there. Also noticed more people now appear to stand in the Strawberry Corner these days as well. The amount of people who now stand in the Gallowgate Upper combined with those who already stand in the SC could probably fill the entire corner as it is and that's before you consider the amount of people in other parts of the ground who would prefer to stand. Hopefully the corner is just the start of a bigger standing project.

I'm already stressing about getting tickets for next year's Champions League games. Ironically away games will be more accessible as I'll just use my dad's season ticket with over 160 points on it but home games are going to be chaotic. This stadium expansion needs to happen, and needs to happen fast. Whatever size it goes to still won't be anywhere near enough but it will make things marginally easier. The chances are with us being in pot 4, that we'll get 1 "super club" in our group and another very big club. Personally I'd love Real Madrid. Never seen us play them before and a trip out there would be unreal. I assume the Bernabeu would be fully completed by then as well. I think we'd take 10k+ there regardless of allocation. Just so excited man!

We'll see tomorrow I suppose. Still don't know why they would put a Liverpool supporting referee in this position. He's clearly going to be wanting Brighton to win which could clearly affect his judgement. There's a big pool of PL referees and only 1 game scheduled for tomorrow. It just feels so unnecessary.

Went to school with his dad. He was a thick charva as well so it figures.

I'm sure it'll already have been mentioned on this thread but we have a truly abysmal record in the PL v these. I remember beating them at home last season when we went 2-0 up early on but other than that I'm struggling.

Agree. It's not the missing out of Champions League that would bother me so much, it's more letting Liverpool in that would irritate me.

I hope we well and truely put these spineless bastards to the sword next week.

2nd goal looked offside? Frustrating when you think back to the Isak one they disallowed v Liverpool which looked far more onside than that.

This won't go down well.

They only had 25k season ticket holders back then, although they were capped at that number out of a 44k capacity. They had a few 35k crowds under Roy Hodgson for unattractive midweek games when they were in mid table.

No discount but don't pay any booking fees.

I was at all those games. Crushed to within an inch of my life at Roker when O'Brien scored but I still wouldn't want them back up. I want them to suffer in the lower leagues for years to come, losing money year in, year out, having to beg bigger clubs to borrow their players. When we were down there and they were in the PL I never once heard a mackem say they wanted us promoted so that they could have the derby back. Clearly that match is more important to a lot of our fans than it is theirs, but for me I'd be happy never to play them again as a result of them never getting back into the PL again.

I said on here back in October that it was the worst Championship in years. I'd watched a few games by then and the standard was worse than I can ever remember. The 4 teams in it much of a muchness. There isn't one team you could say are better than the other 3. I'd actually put the mackems down as slight favourites, the reasons being they sneaked in on the last day which will give them a huge boost as they probably didn't expect to be there and secondly they are probably the in form team with the momentum behind them. Whoever comes up out for the 4 are going to be in for a torrid time next season unless they can dramatically overhaul their squad.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one then. For me your season ticket guarantees your seat for the home league games, and usually they'll give you first refusal on it for home cup games. As an extra perk season ticket holders get their seat at a reduced price compared to someone paying match by match. A supporter who has been to every League Cup game, from round 2 onwards should always be ahead of a season ticket holder who wasn't interested until the Semi Final stage when it comes to dishing out Wembley tickets. In my opinion of course.

There should be a set amount of tickets set aside for public sale for every single match in my opinion. Make the game as inclusive as possible. When I say a set amount I'm talking under 5% of the overall allocation but tickets should be available to all. I know supporters who couldn't even buy a membership because they were all sold out. At present there are non members getting tickets for home and away games ahead of members, courtesy of ST holders getting tickets for them so it's not like it's not already happening. As I say, your season ticket guarantees 19 home games and nothing else. They also get it at a cheaper cost per game than supporters who are members or public sale.

Brentford not up for this at all.

What loads of season ticket holders keep forgetting is that all their ticket guarantees them is 19 home league games. Anything on top of that is an added bonus.

Stupid rule. Look at the away section at Barcelona, or Real Madrid, or Bayern Munich or umpteen other European venues where away fans have to watch from behind netting or a perspex screen. We'll be sampling that next season without a care in the world! Away fans don't know how lucky they've got it here, unless you are unlucky enough to be in the away end at Goodison.

Southampton was shite! Couldn't believe how bad it was. Leicester was better but not as good as your typical home PL game. Bournemouth and Crystal Palace both dead as well.

All the home League Cup games were flat tbf. Even the Semi Final was apart from the last 5 mins. Different mix of crowd in for them.

Definitely something the NUST should be taking up with the club I think. Tbf even the season ticket holders I know agree with this.

Just been talking about ticketing in general with a mate this morning after he was given queue number 27,000 odd for Leicester today. Surely the sensible thing to do now is to take membership privileges away from season ticket holders (ie allowing to buy extra home tickets) and reduce their season ticket price by the £30 or £35 the extra membership fee costs that's been added to it. They already have their seat. They don't need another one and members should be in front of them in the queue for home tickets.