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Was 4:30pm for us a couple of years ago, but Liverpool v Chelsea last year was 3pm on police advice.

We’re on the 08:55 Saturday morning Newcastle-Bristol flight. Then getting the train from Bristol to Paddington. Train back up on the Monday. Stopping at Marylebone.

https://x.com/adillfc_/status/1887259937946124768?s=46&t=OQLMckSuatbpqWF13Al4mQ Should have been a yellow, but no more than that IMO.

Can’t see them doing Ballot 2 as you’d effectively be putting some members at a disadvantage for being unsuccessful in ballots. Could maybe do it on everyone that’s applied for a cup game.

Didn’t have the membership scheme then, well at least not in the structured format of the current one. But they did do various ballots based on a range of criteria. Personally I think they’ll try and keep it a lot simpler this time.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they keep it fairly simple: - ST holders in cup scheme - Ballot for all remaining ST holders and members (I’d guess this would be for somewhere in the range of 5-10k tickets)

Not sure it’ll matter whether you attended, as that’s essentially down to luck, but I think at worst you’d be on par with those ST holders.

Yeah, there was no cup scheme last time, they based it on whether you’d got a ticket for previous rounds (there was no ballots then either). I think ST holders that haven’t enrolled in the cup scheme are gonna have a serious problem this time. *think if you have enrolled, you’ll be guaranteed one.

They spend millions and billions on these SuperBowl half time shows, and yet one bloke with his sax is the best thing you’ve ever heard.

1-2. Wilson 90+6.

If you’re obligated, then that’s completely different, it’s just moving numbers around. But getting someone in at £5m+ to play 15-20 games is clearly a risk. One hamstring or twisted ankle and you’ve done your money for basically no return.

Not sure, but even if you could it wouldn’t make that much difference really unless you were paying an astronomical loan fee.

I would assume so. You can’t amortise a fee over the length of a contract that doesn’t exist. The amount Villa are paying for Disasi seems ridiculous. Obviously if he contributes to them qualifying for the CL again, or going really deep in it this year, you can argue it’s worth it, but…

The game having to stop 17 times for medical emergencies in the East Stand.

I suspect there probably is the demand for boxes, so they could ramp up the numbers there in any new stadium quite significantly. Where there’s question marks is the individual premium match hospitality areas, your Rooftops and Wings, that rarely seem to sell out quickly.

The thing is, as shown in this thread, what makes a stadium ‘good’, at least design-wise, is subjective. Spurs stadium is widely regarded within the industry to be the best of the best, yet some people in here believe it to be shite. So whatever they come up with (if that’s the route we’re going down), it’ll split opinion, at least to some degree.

I don’t think it’s that bad either tbh. If he hadn’t mentioned scoring four or five (which given the context doesn’t seem that bad) no one would give it a second thought.

That is true. There was a lot of ‘fucking hell man lads’ in the minutes after Kane scored 😂 I mentioned the Southampton game last week, and others have echoed exactly the same thing. However, thinking about it more, I’m now coming round to thinking that the fact we’re playing a very good team will actually help. Sometimes when we’re playing teams that we’re (probably) better than, there’s a bit of ‘howay man, we can’t lose to these’, but when we’re playing against quality, I think there’s a realisation/acceptance that they will have the ball a bit and probably create chances, so the crowd aren’t spooked into nervousness by a single chance or period of pressure. Having said that, it often comes down to just taking chances one way or the other. If Dembele’s cross-shot had gone just inside instead of just outside the post for PSG that night…

Aye, loans with obligations aren’t really loans. They’re just permanent transfers with a bit of PSR manipulation to suit either or both sides.

Enough to reduce the wages to turnover ratio by 25%+, despite the wage bill presumably increasing? Obviously none of us know the actual answer to that. And you are right, in that it’s more fun to concentrate on the actual football rather than all this malarkey.

At 96% wages to turnover ratio. Bringing in players on higher wages than the ones you’re selling. Obviously the money from this seasons CL will help enormously, and you have to assume the people in charge aren’t being completely reckless - but I’m very intrigued to see how they get anywhere near the 70% that’s supposed to be needed going forward.

Feels like they’re gambling the house on getting back into CL. Not sure that’s too clever…

What’s that, somewhere in the region of £100k - £150k per game, plus wages? Wow.

FFS, who’s given him a semi final man?