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Queuing up outside that shopping centre to get a train after the match is grim.

Worst away end in the league* *well probably not worse than Palace and Everton in that you’ll be able to see all of the pitch

Ballot dates announced for the April home games. Details in the Ticket forum.

Just watched it again. The exasperation in the “golf, for fuck’s sake” at the end has me buckled 😂

No real idea on the situation at Blyth, but you have to commend that bloke for the way he manages to stay respectful towards the players, whilst still passionately getting point across to them. That kind of thing is far more likely to get people to listen to you than just ranting and raving. What’s his/the issue with the manager and coaching staff @Big Geordie?

6 days

The scene from 7 mins in is one of my favourite ever bits of TV.

Easier said than done if you’re significantly in the minority!

If you’ve got a ticket tomorrow I hope you’re not sitting in front of me…

Nah, his card count has fell off a cliff since the start of the season. Didn’t actually give any out in the West Ham game on Thursday.

The issue with that was that you didn’t necessarily have to be a member to get a ticket back then, as ST holders could get extra, so plenty just got tickets via that route. Maybe it might have been better to go down that route and those that got their tickets via ST holders would just have had to miss out, but I can understand why they didn’t do this.

This is @Magdad when posting in the final thread.

Which leads to the question, would people rather go back to those running the buses controlling a portion of the away allocation and effectively pushing points thresholds back up, in favour of perceived better atmospheres?

Man City did the domestic treble in 18/19 And I think it was Liverpool v Chelsea in both finals a couple of years ago.

Needed to be two teams not in Europe due to the following midweek being CL/EL

Great form is debatable. Last away game but one they lost 7-0.

On the short list for the Arsenal sporting director job according to Ornstein.

Turned out be 1700 available, not that it particular alters your point.

Obviously a lot is down to team structure and how well they’ve defended. But to only concede 9 goals in 34 games shows any weaknesses he does have clearly aren’t as significant as some would make out.

Who he plays for is irrelevant. His ability is what we need to focus on. Should we not have signed Tino because he was at Southampton?

No, as long as he doesn’t get sent off…

Osula can’t start as CF against a PL team. He’s looked absolutely miles away. RW perhaps.

Is it really surprising that the support was muted in a game we had 30-odd % possession and little to no real chances? I understand the ‘defiance’ support argument, but that comes when you’re shit, and you know you are, so you don’t expect anything. We’re not shit now, and we go into matches with genuine hope that it’ll be better than tonight. So it’s very deflating when it’s not.

Howe - Botman and Joelinton “in and around it and we’ll see where they are for Sunday”.