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There is also this. I love that that people somehow manage to simulaneously criticise the club for ticketing being too complicated/simplistic/badly run all at the same time, when actually it's very well organised and as far as I can tell they've adopted this model BECAUSE they've taken the vast majority of scenarios into consideration - as well as the need to shift tickets for League games at the same time.

I know what your point is, but the club has taken the decision that your privilege as ST holder is to be able to get an additional ticket a week before anyone who only went to the MK Dons JPT games without needing to attend that game.

http://www.wembleystadium.com/events/majorevents/jpt.htm JPT tickets will be sold through the clubs. What they don't mention is the bit about Club Wembley seatholders getting the opportunity to purchase in advance anyway. That's why there are "grey" seats on the Wembley plan at the Club Wembley level - they offer them to the CW members (rather than them automatically being sold a ticket as is the case for FA Cup Final, Internationals, etc.). I shouldn't think many people with Club Wembley 10 year ticket holdings will have bought JPT tickets to resell somehow.

Book the flights, you'll get tickets.

It means ST holders don't qualify for another ticket as MK JPT-linked purchasers as well, because they've already got priority and the right to buy more than they need for themselves before that phase. The 3rd phase is Db-only purchasers (one each - though I can't tell if that's 1+1 for MK), but that's anyone who's ever bought a ticket before. Effectively all of the ST privilege comes from being in the first phase and after that there's no ST priority, which I think is fair enough.

I still think everyone who attended the Torquay game should be allowed to buy 20 each.

I've managed to get in online at 11:30pm the day before previously, as evidenced by my "Row A Seats 1&2" tickets. You won't have that problem, at least. It will depend when the online website operators send the command / hit the button to unlock the next sales phase. Based on working with servers and IT staff for over 10 years, this could be at any point within about 24 hours either way depending on their overtime rate, or lack of.

I'm pretty sure the main reason you can't use online for MK-linked purchases is because there's no way to make the online system only available to people who bought MK tickets. They can just about force future sales linking and get that to work, but retrospective ones seem to need a bit of human interaction. And as for 200,000 calls, I should think most people will have made 50 each lasting about 5 seconds befoer they got connected, it's not like they're all chatting to an operator or actually buying tickets.

Pretty much all of our first choice squad is suitable for CCC football, we've got the nucleus of a mid-table CCC side - it's clearly significantly better than last season's relegation mob based on results before and after October alone. Which is not to say all of them will still be here next season, whether we go up or not. Some are getting past it and need replacing and some previous starters will become squad members (like James suddenly has).

Funny that it was on tv, nothing more or less. Funnier that Sky showed it on delay once they'd checked it for legally precarious content.

You probably mean June 1st 2011, but *I'LL* have July 1st 2011. It is the first date we could possibly be above them, unless they go pop. Whoever said May 22nd, the leagues don't change til July 1st.

Oh just ignore him, who gives a shiiite what he thinks about popular culture ? BE A POLITICIAN AND TALK ABOUT POLITICS, YOU TOOL.

Clarified already, accidental mishearing of the amount. Had £60m on the brain as that was the lower-end debt figure mentioned. The second bit was sarcasm given our relative polarities since. Apparently there was a rivalry with Man U in the 70s, probably due to us both getting relegated out of the top division at the same time. Nothing I was aware of anyway. Then again, I specifically remember Portsmouth battling it out with Newport County for promotion in Divs 4 and 3 in the early 80s, so I'll be pursuing that one as a convenient rivalry now too.

Going into admin (Chainrai put them there) stops them being wound up and liquidated on Monday. Surely everyone has worked that out ?

It's here in detail. Basic is £11m plus, the STILL THIEVING BSTARDS, £5m for YOUTH DEVELOPMENT. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2007/aug/08/sport.comment1

Someone argued the other day that the parachute payments are the largest sums of money ever granted to the "lower leagues", probably true, but it's hardly pre-Premier League equal distribution of wealth, is it ? There's no even distribution of anything any more, whether from PL, FL or FA.

My Saints brain only goes back to 1991, so not surprised previous transient rivalries haven't registered with me.

They absolutely should. Except for Saints... but then WE paid HMRC. Good work there Woopert.

Cheers, misheard that bit and just typed from my notes(!) without sanity checking, I'll edit it.

I missed the first few moments of the Press Conf, but I can't imagine for a second he genuinely thinks they'll avoid -9. Again, it's posturing for the fans and a negotiating position.

Its Feb 2010. They won't be the FL's concern for another 4 months yet and they'll need to be out of Admin by June 2011. That's 16-17 months, inc 12 months under the FL's auspices. But fair point on the 2 seasons thing. A few clubs have dipped in and out and in again though (Notts County, notably), though not so much since the -10 came in.

Yeah, very strange. Let's ask Man U how they feel about us... Coo-ee, down here, minor inconvenience in 1976, mid-late 80s and mid-90s... you remember, the funny grey kit thing. Little poky ground for ages ? You relegated us ? Knocked us out of last season's FA Cup ? No ?

It's hardly an example if it's just what they've done to almost every other club since 2002.

Parachute payments are almost certainly directed straight out of incoming (probably tv) revenue before they get to the clubs. They don't give it to them just to take it back off them again to give to someone else.

Obviously its a negotiating position, they're hardly going to say "ok they said we can't have any money so we won't ask" if they think there's a glimmer. Being in admin changes a few things but I doubt it'll change the PL's position. They'd have to play brinkmanship with their own future to mess up the PL table to get anything useful.