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Vitesse got 10,000 in their last Europa League 3rd Qualifying Round match (against Petrolul Ploesti in 2013/14). I suspect we'll be a bit more of a draw than that, there's always been plenty of English football on Dutch tv, probably not so much Romanian.

"Sometimes" is the only accurate answer to that.

What about it? I went to Basingstoke and Winchester pre-season in the same day, then Eastleigh... it was amazing.

Hiya!

Wow, what a load of crap. World wide reputation in itself is an achievement, no matter what for. "Can't keep hold of its best players"? How would anyone know who our best players were if they weren't familiar with the team? And in being familiar with the team, they'll know our successes. As for "who'll want to take over?", yeah, you're right, as we only managed to attract Ronald Koeman in the midst of our last bunch of sales. As for "winning takes some belief and ambition and that needs to start from the top", yeah, we did just have our best ever Premier League points total. It appears you have fabricated us a reputation that doesn't really exist then.

They've obviously done some crowd flow tests or something and decided to tell people slightly different information. There were quirks all over the place in the early days, I bought a ticket in the Northam/Kingsland corner one time and it said enter via Northam (prob entrance 40), which I did, and then had to actually duck under the Northam/Kingsland barrier to get to my seat which was clearly in the Kingsland. Left via the Kingsland at the end, bigger concourse, less hassle.

It'll make 5 no problem. I doubt we have 1500 people with more than 5 aways. It won't be terracing, that's against UEFA rules. It might be stand where you like in your seats though - but it usually isn't if it sells out. That's assuming they bother with seat allocations to begin with.

"Already", he says 7 hours after the draw.

Surprised how many are going the day before, I'm getting out on the day and back the day after (mainly because we're doing Amsterdam next weekend with the Feyenoord game). Not quite on a par with my "if you stay over a Saturday the flights are much cheaper" Bucharest trip, out on the match day, back on the Sunday after Saints had already played Everton at Goodison! Spent about £40 a night on hotels but saved more than that on the flight which was about £800 for Tue-Thurs and about £350 for Tue-Sun.

You're still an ItWasAllYellow wannabe.

I think you'll find that wherever we are, I was here ten years before you. I was making "pendant" jokes on Saints Forever when you still had to learn French.

Seeing as I'm on a roll, is this where I point out to Batman that Arnhem is twice as close as Inverness?

I am not liking how today is going. That's about three things now.

It's a technicality in the way that stopping breathing is a technicality. It is literally the way that counting works.

We're somewhere between joint 8th and joint 11th with most. How are we joint 4th favourites?

If someone can explain to me how Norwich have managed to get into that graphic I'd be pleased...

Quite. I had a window open for every possible group location just to get in first - was still annoyed that I had four goes at submitting the page before it went through, stupid "agree to terms and conditions, oh wait we've deleted your CVV code" shenanigans.

They were the top ranked unseeded team.

You'd prefer Saints to have to travel to Kazakhstan or Armenia 3 days before a Prem match would you?

Can someone spare a thought for Aberdeen, who HAVE drawn the Kazakhs? Time to check the odds on an amazing Rijeka comeback?

Decided to go via Amsterdam, there were no Dusseldorf flights on those dates when I looked. Only an hour on train from Amsterdam anyway.

Yes, they've just segued into it, ffs.

ST holders with 5+ aways last season, then 3+ aways, then Members, then General, I'm guessing.

That's the Champions League draw (at noon "definitely not CET"). Ours is therefore at 1pm "definitely not CET"). So 1pm BST.

No. They are fixed pre-season.