Jonas

We under sold ourselves building the pre extension SJP to 36,500 and I'm guessing it was a lot more expensive to do the extension after that than if we did it at the time. We have to avoid being in the same situation we are now where we cant extend. Provided expansion is possible, and obviously money is no object, alls well. Regarding stadium naming, ideally Saudia, Aramco, Sela would do a Wonga and buy the rights to the name but not change it. If only to trigger the usual suspects where we could then fire back "you didn't mind when Wonga did it" .

Where I'm at. Am always wary of backlashes rather than licking me lips.

Hate these completely meaningless embelishments to stadiums. The twin towers at Wembley were functional. The arch -a semi wank of creativity.

Gone over the threshold from no chance and no nerves (98 and 99 finals) to having some pesky outside hope and some nerves now.

£12 was the average ticket price over 30years ago going off some of my stubs and that includes Barnsley and Coventry. It was a tenner to watch a beamback at the Platinum club 31years ago. Its a wonder they remain a loss making operation. The average price would be higher but they do insist on lying about attendances. At the least they've either cheap tickets or thousands who regularly don't turn up and in actual fact its both.

Dirty Dan definitely serving Angie the divorce papers then

Amongst the many misgivings I've had about the rules is that placing more importance on the fanbase revenue stream by restricting others, was only going to hurt fans.

Booked Joelinton for a shirt pull so thought that was the gage. Brighton had to have gotten away with the same thing 20x thereafter. Either without the same punishment or without even a foul. Seemed just pot luck which of their injury feigning on the ground he bought and which he waved on - probably based his lotto numbers on it or something. Helped make an already wretched game worse to the point it shouldn't have been possible to lose control so laboured was it but he managed it.

What would we expect of any replacement though. It would have to be better than challenging for the CL every season and two cup finals. Its a big ask. Its really stale right now, we know the reason why and if were forbidden from doing anything about it there is the arguement that a change in manager could freshen things up but with our squad I highly doubt it personally.

More absoutely classic pre cup final NUFC stuff. That's now, since getting to the last four finals - Played 20, Won 3 (unconvincingly)

Don't think its an exaggeration that 90% of the games I've seen against Brighton have been absolutely dire affairs.

So add Swansea. Take away Bradford and Wimbledon as it was the Intertoto. I make that 33 clubs have more European pedigree than them - so joint 34th with Coventry and Hull. Some going that.

Crushing competitiveness out of your own league for 40years with 1.5 other clubs was perfectly alright though.

Totally agree its a different era now. So this is probably redundant but historically if you left out league one their average since the 70s is probably lower still as their gates in league one would have been way better than what they got in the 80s. 15-16k was a good crowd for them then/ In the first six years of Premier League football they sold out (28-40k capacity) to not selling out 32 times to 82. 12 of the 32 were at 28k capacity. Someone posted that their 12th historically and that feels right.

Comes up smelling of roses every time. Not surprising with the amount of pruning he does.

In the last 40 plus years 26k is about their average attendance.

Trelford Mills the VAR official.

Our record since getting to the last four finals - Played 19, Won 3 (unconvincingly)

Must have got my wires crossed, was listing teams that had played in Europe, wasn't sure how many games. Don't know what the 4 is about.

St Johnstone, Kilmarnock, Raith, St Mirren definitely have, got to imagine Dundee too, did Gretna not? *forgot Stoke before, so 32 teams (at least - Sheffield United, Burnley not sure about) (not including Wimbledon and Bradford in the intertoto)

They'd become at least the 31st club from England to have played more games in Europe than Sunderland if that happened. Would love to know what the equivalent of that is in other countries for perspective....and frankly a laugh

I've seen us win there more than lose in the flesh. Wont be going to this so for that and some other equally meaningful reasons - a narrow defeat will have to do.

We've infiltrated every facet of their lives. Ticket offices, club stores, policing and stewarding, away fans and now furnishing the foyers. But especially their brains.

Agree with the principal and on the freshness but from a different perspective, Forest and Bournemouth and some others to a lesser extent are the only thing this season has going for it. The championship and relegation places - the two main things - are all but sorted by mid-Feb - how many seasons can that have been said of. On the other hand the top 4 is a very artificial construct and I'd imagine if there'd been a top four scenario most seasons would have multiple teams feasibly in with a shout at this point.

Beat a good team that's above us, gone up to 5th, seven goals, cup final on the horizon but how dare a game of two halves transpire. Football doesn't work as logically as if you're 4-1 up at half-time then it must be something akin to 8-2 at the end. Overwhelming majority of the time when a games won at half-time the second-hal fizzles out and the losing team gets momentum