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Don’t think it’s ever been officially released anywhere, but mid thirties would seem a sensible estimate.

Yep. You kind of assume Liverpool and Man Utd are like 80/90% ST holders but I believe the reality is actually nowhere near that. Think I read Villa actually have the highest % of capacity as ST in the PL. Although can’t remember the figure and guess that could have been overtaken by Bournemouth or Brentford

That’s kind of where it’s a bit mad tbh. We could probably shift 60/65k ST’s no bother. However, I’m not convinced we’d sell that out every single game once we’re established in European competitions* *assuming we expanded and kept ST sales at like 45k

You have to factor in that if (when) we reach a stage where we’re regularly competing in the Champions League, there’ll be times when bog standard league games just don’t have the same appeal as they do right now. Playing at home to Crystal Palace at 2pm on a Sunday after you’ve just played Real Madrid on the Wednesday night, simply won’t have the same vibe/energy as near enough every league game does now. Could we fill 60/65k for some games? Absolutely. Would we always fill it regardless of opposition/circumstances? I’m not so sure. If you’re lucky enough to be able to attend all/most games at SJP at the moment, then savour it, because it’s a pretty unique situation at the moment, and it won’t always be like this.

Van de Beek still alive?

Possibly why he didn’t play against Fulham. Said he’d trained the day before so, physically at least, he could have played some part. Howe possibly realised he’s one of those players that needs to feel bang on to be effective. Hopefully after a solid week of training he’s at that point now.

Yeah, I agree that is becoming an issue, particularly with regard to how youngsters are supposed to get on the ladder. I don’t blame them for not implementing it straight away post-takeover though. I think reviewing it after a full season of being ‘good’ again would be sensible

It’s not quite every game that requires loads of points, Brighton and Wolves went down to 15 this season, but equally, it’s highly unlikely Southampton (or any other game) will drop to Members sale.

BBC and Sky had that figure on there match reports. Someone must have made a mistake somewhere.

That attendance figure has to be wrong. According to this article they sold nearly 30k ST. Even if they don’t count those that didn’t turn up (I thought they did?), there’s absolutely no way over half of them didn’t bother to turn out. Odd. Edit: Twitter says it was 35k, which would seem more likely

13,900 seems a bizarrely low attendance for a league game. Obviously various contributing factors but I assumed they actually had more ST holders than that figure?

If he went to Forest, I’d give him a reasonable chance of keeping them up. They’ve signed some decent enough players. Would obviously take him a while to get his methods working, and might well be too late by then, but he could definitely make them hard to beat, and they’ve got some reasonable attacking players, so you never know. Having said that, sacking Cooper already would be fairly shite given what he’s done for them, but that’s the way it seems to go now.

His lack of self-awareness when doing interviews like that is truly astonishing

If that’s true the manager is an idiot. I know he’s an important player for them, but he’s not good enough to playing when he’s not fit enough to be taking part in warm ups. Anyway, again, Sven Botman….

Apparently. And gave up as soon as it went 0-2. He’s a coward. We saw that with numerous instances when he was here (granted he was very young). The worst being the feinted ‘headbutt’ incident when he squared up to Gary Cahill at SJP Anyway, Sven Botman’s great and he’lll only get better.

Referring to Mitrovic, who is, IMO, the biggest coward in the PL Edit: reading back, original post was ridiculously badly written (blame the ludicrous London traffic that has had me on a bus for the best part of 13 hours today…)

Tremendous. Had half half an hour or so against the biggest coward in the PL, which was enough to make him cry off.

Yeah, it’s not on. They were worried rail strikes might get called making it difficult for people to get there. They were right…

Omar Richards. Was at Reading and looked a decent prospect then, bizarrely, Bayern decided to take him as his contract was up. Played about five games last season and they decided he wasn’t good enough. So became one of Forests 135 signings this window. Don’t think he’s played for them yet, not sure why?

They’d find their ticket didn’t work…

5 yellows in 7 matches in good going…

If the Tube was to be part of the strike I reckon this would be gone as well. Doesn’t look like they are though. Tbf I wouldn’t fancy trying to get to Brighton if the trains that run from the city centre to the ground weren’t on.

Everton tickets on sale this morning

No, although the tone of the journos referring to his injury would lead you to come to that conclusion.

Out of interest, what do you get out of being in your seat two hours before ko, when, presumably there’s hardly anyone else there, and not a lot happening on the pitch?