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Whoever the team, wherever the ground, that’s really the key to getting a consistently good atmosphere.

Indeed. Bruno is probably at peak valuation now. Maybe one more season at a push before his value starts heading downwards. Would it be wise to sell him? Questionable.

Only got one year left on his contract come the summer, so they’ll not be able to get big money.

https://x.com/josimarfotball/status/1862059425378214117?s=46&t=OQLMckSuatbpqWF13Al4mQ Who the fuck is signing these type of deals off?

Aye, changed it at the start of the season.

Yeah, as @Wallsendmag mentioned, things happening the day of the game, especially last minute, really does create an issue to prevent the ticket just going unused now. Make sure you don’t just accept this though. If you can find the appropriate channels to go through and you get to speak to someone reasonable at the Box Office (there are some…), they should hopefully view things a bit more sensibly.

Clearly, the consequences are hugely disproportionate to what has actually taken place. Hopefully you get to speak them and they reduce the ‘punishment’ (I’d suggest it’s worth going the Trust if you’re a member). I do kind of understand why they have these draconian type punishments as the default though. We want them to reduce touting, so if someone is found to be selling a ticket on when they should be returning to the Box Office, we want that discouraged (appreciating the fact you can’t return if it’s close to the match). Anyway, best of luck, and for future reference (someone will need to confirm this) can you not just delete the ticket out of the original wallet and forward the email to the person you’re giving the ticket to so they can download?

The whole point of having people like him on Talksport is to say something controversial/inflammatory to drive interaction through people being aggravated by what’s being said. The best response is to just ignore. They hate that. As you said, irrelevant.

Any idea how they determined who got them? I’m assuming the demand massively outweighed the number made available?

Would be more than happy to take those results tbh. Obviously be a shame to see the demise of @HaydnNUFC, but he’s not even contributing the YouTube match build up threads now, so…

It’s clearly an issue amongst all major clubs in this country. Certainly is at Liverpool. Obviously no easy fix. Can’t very well start issuing a ‘cull’ of ST holders over X age, and demand completely outstripping supply everywhere makes it difficult to make any kind of commercial case for issuing new ST tickets to younger fans. Would probably need one of the big clubs to move to a new stadium that significantly increased capacity (so realistically that’s us, Chelsea, Villa or maybe Man Utd) and decide ‘right, we’re issuing 5k new ST’s to fans U25’. Wouldn’t be good for PSR, would be a nightmare to administer the logistics of picking who gets one and probably gets loads of criticism from everyone above 25. Anyone know if Spurs issues any new ST’s when they moved?

In Wings tonight.

Bottom dropped out of the dildo market.

Just seen the pricing for West Ham’s home game with Liverpool. Canny shambolic: https://x.com/westhamhelp/status/1861036621891600504?s=46&t=OQLMckSuatbpqWF13Al4mQ

Yes, from an individual club supporter perspective, it isn’t our problem. Personally, I don’t watch non-league, so am I particularly bothered how any of the clubs are getting on, not really. But equally, I don’t think just taking the attitude of ‘fuck them’ helps in the grander scheme. We could take that attitude with the payments the PL are supposed to filter down to the EFL and beyond, and where would we end up? You’re right thought that there has to be a better situation than the current mess, I just don’t know what it is.

That’s a fair point. It’s difficult to really say what the actual impact would be on attendances lower down until you actually did it I suppose. In that Orient v Southend example, it’s probably high enough up the pyramid that losing between 50-200 off the gate isn’t going to cause a massive issue. Go 4/5 levels down and maybe it does.

Because the theory is that no-one will then go to watch any lower league football because they’ll all be sat at home watching PL games on TV.

Would you go if Newcastle were on later the same day?

But Cooper has done EXACTLY the job you would have expected him to do with their squad. Even if it is the correct thing to do to boot him (questionable), the people in charge need to apologise for making a absolute pigs ear of the appointment if they didn’t want or expect what he’s provided.

In which case (assuming that’s replicated in other parts of the country) they do have a bit of a dilemma in how to align that with getting rid of the ridiculous situation where you can watch every game of your team if they’re in a lower league but not the PL. Off the top of my head, I maybe wouldn’t be averse to PL ‘Saturday 3pm’ games being moved to Saturday at 5:30 / 6pm, but having them all moved to whatever time on a Sunday isn’t it.

Yes, if the odd team like Arsenal, or nowadays Wolves, do it, it isn’t a major issue. But if we were to see more teams doing it, I think it does become an issue. I mentioned it because on first glance it looked like you had both teams in that fixture almost exclusively foreign. As mentioned, you can make the case that it wasn’t really the case with Fulham, so not quite as standout as I first thought.

No chance that Dibling stays at Southampton if/when they go down like. Imagine there’d be plenty looking at him, but you’d imagine he’d be within our scope.

Appoint a manager you know the fans won’t take to unless he gets off to an absolute flyer. See manager get expected / a tad better than expected results/points total. Sack manager. You really wonder what people running football clubs are thinking?

Not really an issue as such, but if you were to have multiple teams with hardly any players from the country you’re playing in, I personally think it would take something away from the league. The top teams are always going to have a reasonable number of ‘home’ players, not least because they’ll buy up all the best young ones, but we don’t want a league where the bottom half is full of teams that were substantially majority foreign.