David Kelly

There was still 8000-10000 tickets remaining at 12. I'd imagine most people in today's section would have got theirs by then (there was certainly no queue at that time). So anyone in section 4 should have a very good chance of a ticket. The only weird thing is that they don't let anyone in any of the ballots know they have a ticket until ballot 7 is done. You would think it's very possible there should be nothing left by section 6 & 7 which are non season ticket holders.

It's tacky like dog shit.

I've no doubt there will be some but I'd be willing to bet everything I have there'll be season tickets that aren't used for a ticket for this.

Can we have a ban on anyone who posts any Junior fucking Turner songs on here please.

Fucking hell that is pricey.

Is that the club wembley thing? From what I understand with that you get tickets for both finals and the FA Cup semi. As well as England matches, NFL and concerts too. If that's the case, you'd easily be able to make money on those tickets.

Is getting forward balls to run onto Maxi's strength? For me one of the biggest problems, and I certainly noticed this on Saturday, is that he always seems to want the ball to feet so he can beat 3 players before he gets a shot/cross in. And that's one of a few reasons he's not fitting in with the way we play any more. I do think he's trying to do the tracking back and pressing but for every time he remembers to do it, there's at least one more where he forgets. It's just not his game and to be fair to him, I think it's actually taking away from what can offer. There's absolutely no way we'd sign him now though, and it is a shame really because when we were dogshit, he was really all we had to look forward to. I'd certainly go with Gordon on Saturday, he imediately looked more comfortable with the role than Maxi. My concern would be that if we do drop Maxi, he goes in a huff and we're a player down for the rest of the season. After that it won't matter because I don't see any chance of him being here next season.

Horrendous news, fingers crossed for him and all of the others missing/trapped at the moment.

Well we got five tickets this morning no problem for our end behind the goal. I really don't think anyone who is down to period 4 has anything to worry about at all. There's best part of 33k tickets and we only have about 31k season ticket holders in total. There's not a chance every single one of those season ticket holders will go for a multitude of reasons (can't afford it, at work, can't be arsed with the travel, just don't go to away games). They reckon about 3-4k will get lost to coporate and staff so that still leaves about 29k tickets available. Bear in mind that period 5 is still season ticket holders, so they must know that there must be a reasonable amount who qualify for period 5 but not 4 or they would just have not bothered with the period 5 bracket. The only reason period 4 will be a ballot will be down to availability fo certain areas/seats together. I'd actually be very surprised if anyone in period 5 doesn't manage to get a ticket as well. It's also worth noting that aparently there is only around 12k who have any points whatsoever.

I love Peppers although less so now that they've stopped selling cans.

Don't allow kids in.

Suspected as much 😄 Think they do a Camden Hells and maybe a neck oil.

Pacific is child friendly and have plenty of screens if you're wanting somewhere central in the town. I don't know what you consider decent beer, and I can't stand that craft shite that's popular these days. They certainly have better options than Carling and Fosters though.

Apparently they are confident that any season ticket holder who wants a ticket will get one. Particularly bearing in mind there's virtually no chance everyone who is eligible will be able/will want to go. I'm in the first section though so happy with the way they've done this. The only slight issue is that you can only get seats together for the up to six tickets you buy at once. There's about 15 of us going down so we'll be in at least three different groupings. But that's hardly the end of the world.

I don't disagree with any of that Craig, including the bit about Shelvey who arguably has been treated better than he deserved for the output we've had from him for large parts of the last 7 years, but I'm delighted to see the club showing respect to former players. My feeling is though that we have a real chance this season to leap forward at a greater speed than anyone expected and it's just a bit disapointing we haven't jumped at that chance, especially when the risks of losing the likes of Bruno and Botman to teams who are playing in the champions league will get greater and greater the longer we aren't able to offer that.

My concern with the transfer window played out perfectly in a mini version last night. The three substitutions were made and with one of them being Willock we had no other options to bring on in midfield when they were getting well on top and threatening to make it a very nervous last ten minutes. And then Bruno gets sent off and we have no one to replace him (even at a lesser standard). So now for the next three games we have three central midfielders for the three positions on offer. We have no options off the bench if it's not working or another one of them gets injured/suspended. It may be fine and and the extra wide option of Gordon along with Isak and Wilson getting fitter and fitter, might get us through, but it could also be that it seriously derails our bid for champions league football next season. I'm not saying that I'm unhappy with the business we have done (ins and outs), I'm not saying that I'm not delighted at where we've got to in such a short space of time. I'm just disapointed that for whatever reason, we've not been able to build on it further in this window particularly in a season in which Liverpool and Chelsea in particular have massively disapointed and allowed us an opportunity to do something which could have huge implications on how we can finance our aims going forward.

Well we seem to think we have addressed the concern of an injury to Tripps with Ashby no? For me the middfield has started to look a little jaded in recent weeks and we now have no other options to bring in anyone who's not already playing. That's got to be a bit of a concern. If Bruno is out for any length of time we are massively fucked. But then again, to bring in the level of player who can cover for Bruno was never goung to be likely this window.

I think we're taking a real risk in terms of going for Champions League qualification if we don't have a midfielder come in. We all knew we were short at the begining of the window and although Shelvey has played very little this season. selling him certainly doesn't help matters. And I don't buy the theory that bringing Gordon in allows us to move Joelinton back more centrally. We've had Maxi pretty much fit since before the world cup so we already had that option (Isak further increased the options too). I'm certainly not going to whine on like an Arsenal fan as we're in a fantastic position (hopefully even better after tonight) but I think this would be the first failure of the new regime if we don't bring anyone else in. It might be that we carry luck with injuries and form and Bruno, Joelinton, Longstaff and Willock can carry us through the rest of the season. But even if that happens I think we will have been shown a little wanting this month in our recruitment.

The question is just what Howe considers our best side. There's at least 9 players locked in.

Obviously if Howe picked a team similar to the Sheffield game I wouldn't be conifdent of scoring, but any realistic team and I'm confident. Very few games against premier league opposition are cake walks, but if we can't be confident there is something seriously wrong with us.

A bit better finishing over the last few games and we'd have had another game this weekend and would be 2 points behind City. The goals will come whatever team Howe picks and I fancy Southampton will think they need to have a lead tonight so will come at us. 3-1 to us.

Train booked immediately after the draw was made.

Hotels already booked.

Who is Craig Russell?

Bruno, Trippier and Botman should be nowhere near the pitch tomorrow.