Chez

What a great tonic and way to go into the cup final. After a terribly start we played well and could have won by more. What a difference getting that first goal makes. We ran Sunderland ragged ,won everything and passed the ball well. Romeu had another stormer and Gabbi's movement and link up play with Tadic was what we have been missing. The last few games have shown that we really are a mid table side. Fans ought to bare that in mind when a few results don't go our way. Sunderland are a poor side. United will be a different animal altogether. If we can just win this game in two weeks time the season can turn itself around massively.

As long as you pay the £26 ticket tax of course.

its simple: Get rid of membership. Paid queue jumping is bull****. Season ticket holders get priority. They pay up front, get little or no discount these days, yet risk losing out if they can't get to a game. So it make sense they get first dibs. Then after that, the priority goes to the those attending the most games including home and away during the season. Every season you start a fresh. Over complicating things with miles, specific cups, home, away...pointless. While I am at it, lets have £20 a ticket. Get rid of booking fees. Safe standing. Faster beer service. Improved kit design. Saturday 3pm kick offs...

I do not think that is exactly how it works. As I understand it the club usually gets to choose the allocation size they require from two or three options. The smallest allocation will be on a sale or return basis. Only if a larger allocation size is requested does the club have to commit to paying for that allocation, no matter if they sell all of the seats or not. So at Liverpool for example the initial allocation is usually about 1600 ish. You'd get those on a sale or return basis. If you wanted the 2500 allocation, any unsold seats would have to be paid for. Having been burned in the past, notably at Spurs many moons ago, the club tends to play it very safe - which makes sense.

that might be true, but no reason why fans should just roll over and accept being treated poorly.

spot on. Basically its like buying one of the VIP queue jumping tickets when you go to a theme park, which I think is bull****. As is always the case, the football business is squeezing every last penny out of the fans. ****e. How on earth can it be right that a fan that has been to 10 games (home and or away, what ever you choose) gets less priority than someone that has been to 5 and then buys a membership today? The club has cut its own throat though as there is no point paying for £26 queue jump before the season starts. Might as well wait and see if you actually need it for anything.

there are perhaps not many members. In my eyes there is zero reason to get a membership. Complete waste of money.

I get the feeling the estimates of membership numbers are way out. It might go to general sale.

The question I have is why are people standing up (and stewards at SMS not making people sit down) in the 3 rows immediately in front of the designated disabled areas as stated by the OP? If you stand up in those specific rows, you must know you are blocking the view of the disabled seating. It must be obvious, surely?

The landlord spent the last of the cleaning money on a `share'.

by counting all the green dots. Yes all of them.

like the laissez-faire approach. Answer is `yeah man'.

I count 7083 seats remaining, admittedly half of my count took place at lunchtime and the other half in the early evening, but at least it gives you a rough idea where we are at.

I fully expect this to be the case. I just don't know which one. I suspect both JRod and Long will be considering their options in the summer.

Not having the pace to close down and deny Carroll yesterday was telling.

might be the answer we need to stop all the bloody goals going in though

out of interest, if the criteria (for getting cup final tickets) was first dibs to those that attended earlier rounds and then season ticket holders, would you have gone to the earlier rounds. And would that different criteria effect your decision to get a ST? General question. Does the guarantee of cup final tickets have a bearing on whether or not you get a ST?

Will Romero likely play in the cup final? As an aside Jones looked like he pulled a hamstring, so will probably miss the cup final. Smalling is a decent replacement though sadly.

Worked very well against the better quality teams when our season was going down the pan last season. McQueen and Soares are ideal wingbacks. We can also get Boufal into the middle where he look much more effective. Something like: Forster Soares Yoshida Stephens Bertrand McQueen JWP Romeu Davis Boufal Long ...although there are plenty of variations on that theme. Just got to get the right balance between defence and attack.

that would be Erik Sviatchenk from Celtic, who refused to allow him to leave in this window.

Damn shame we had to sell Crouch to pay the wages of the Quashie, Kenton, Wise and McCan't. Decent games to goals ratio at our place. No sure he has gone close before or since.

They never have. Do they still charge fans to park their car at St Marys when they they use the travel club coaches?

Gulp. Maybe Classie can get a piggy back from Reed.

If you are not using your st or membership to get yourself a ticket, how about not offering it to some random on here and instead just let the next person in the queue get the chance to buy a ticket. That way fans who have been to four, five or six games this season will get to go rather than someone that hasn't been to any. Just a thought.

youngsters will support their local club, with or without Dad pushing them, just as they always have done? Glamour games against Inter Milan and a cup final seem like the perfect way of attracting fans, but if not has it been any different in the past?