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Hence the cancellation of a game last season (I think) when the trains were on strike.

Make every one with a ticket watch the ‘Owen return’ clip for an hour before ko.

Maybe the slightest tad harsh? However, fully behind making him feel like he is when he rocks up next month.

Not what Eddie said yesterday like, not that you can ever fully trust his injury updates…

Yes. 4:30pm.

Couple of thousand seems like a lot? Dunno. Suppose we’ll see next week.

As has been pointed out, there’s probably not very many people at all in pots 4 and 5, so wonder if there’s any need to actually ballot it?

By himself?

You’re right in that Osula was definitely encouraging against Birmingham, but surely no-one would look at a decent/good performance against League One opposition and think he needs to be playing ahead of a bloke that’s scored 10 goals in under two seasons? Having said that, if the change we were making in the game was to RW, there’s more of an argument. Although I’d still almost certainly just shift Gordon over and get Barnes on.

Cup scheme cash taken Monday.

Of course. Barnes has significantly impacted a number of games off the bench for us. As yet, Osula hasn’t impacted one (off the bench), albeit he has had far more limited opportunity.

Ndiaye knackered for a few weeks at least with medial knee ligament.

Ah, that actually makes more sense as the postage is not per ticket, just per transaction. So I retract my previous accusations on this. Love to know what service we’re getting for our £1.90 like.

The postage is the £1.90 (per ticket…)

Take it you got your two together?

Well alright then, it needs further tiers underneath that.

Surprisingly until the disaster against Bournemouth our recent record in the 12:30 Saturday ko was excellent. Not sure about early on Sunday like?

They know people like seeing Man Utd get beat though.

Well both home and away ballots really. Alright, the away ballots are only for ST holders with fewer points. But my main point is the whole argument for bringing in home ballots was people complaining that they couldn’t be available at a certain time when the sale went live, and the club decided that was fair enough and introduced the ballots. You’d get the similar type arguments if they introduced something like what it seems Chelsea do, ‘I can’t get into home games cos I haven’t got the time for resale, so I can’t get any points’. I’ll point out that I’m not advocating this argument, just saying that the club have listened to it already. Having said all that, I agree there needs to be some form of tiered membership, however that comes about. And given it’ll be impossible to come up with a ‘fair’ system for everyone, maybe they do need to just decide on a method and upset some people.

They listened to that argument enough to bring the ballots in…

The question I’d have is how do you start it off? I’m guessing it’s something like ‘these members have been to X home games so that makes them eligible for this away game’? The complaints you’ll get with that, is people saying ‘well I can’t get to home games, cos I can’t win a ballot’. You and others will point out (with plenty of justification) that you have to invest the time in the resale to get the home tickets. But you’re just going to end up with the same complaints that we had pre-ballot, where people say ‘I’m not free at X time to join a queue, so what am I supposed to do?’.

Is this the Italian version of backshift at Nissan?

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the criteria, and fwiw as a ST holder I do think some members have been shafted this time, it does show the club pretty much can’t win when demand is outstripping supply so ferociously. As you say, there was a fair bit of whinging last time from some ST holders about some members getting access ahead of them. Now you’ve got members whinging cos that’s been reversed. Fans have a right to whinge if they feel they’ve been hard done to mind, but somebody is probably always going to feel hard done to, so we just go round in this circle until we reach a point where demand doesn’t exceed supply.

Yeah. That’s what a combination of good genetics and clean living will get you.

@Heron was there any chat/thoughts amongst Wor Flags regarding the Man City display before the Madrid game? Unnecessary?