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I didn't get one. Must be getting sent out in batches.

Where is this survey?

People should have known as back then UEFA rules prohibited alcohol sales at matches.

4 weeks notice now according to this - https://www.efl.com/how-to-watch/tv-game-selection-process/ Be interesting to see the draw as quite a few all EFL ties and so if any of the winners draw each other it'll mean some Easter games being postponed. Be good if both us and Wrexham won and we drew them up there so gives more people the chance to go. Interestingly the QF draw will presumably be 8th/9th of March so could see them waiting for that possibly to announce Easter games.

Loads blocked out again. Definitely been higher this season. Not a huge problem for this game as it'll probably reach general sale/not sell out but if they take a similar number from the Wrexham allocation...

3 games? How generous 🤣 I think it looks a poor signing on the face of it but willing to give him an actual chance.

Yeah that's the way you'd go anyway. Just be an even bigger queue than normal at the roundabout.

Properly anecdotal that stadium thing, easy to get across the feeling of widespread support when there's no structure to it.

Even a partial boycott would have an impact I think, a thousand empty seats in an away end for a local derby would get a lot of media interest. Problem is it would only work if people were still prepared to pay for the seats they're not using as otherwise other people will take them. The other option is to publicly arrange a visit to a pub on Portsea Island to watch the game, give the old bill something else to think about and stretch their resources.

So my initial email to FAB was on 14th January, stating that I'd looked through meeting notes and seen that the FAB were supportive of the clubs proposals for the bubble and asking following questions about it: I also in the same email asked about the FAB new membership process: Received the following response on 18th January: I then replied on 19th January including the following (left some general guff out which doesn't directly relate to issues raised etc): Apologies for poor grammar, not my strongest point 🤣 I received a reply a couple of hours after I sent that from a different FAB member stating that what the previous person meant by us receiving a bigger allocation was that we got a bigger percentage of the ground. They didn't respond to any of the other points. I also never did get a further email from them answering my questions about new membership process for FAB. Probably quite boring for most but thought worth sharing as some may find it interesting, think it largely confirms what a lot of us knew in that the FAB doesn't really offer any true representation of the wider fanbase.

At a meeting last summer it was suggested by someone present (not a current FAB member) that they didn't think a public vote was necessary.

I've got some email correspondence with them I need to share here, didn't bother last week as was part of the skate match thread. Will do it later this afternoon.

It 100% came from their end, I saw it thrown. The lad wasn't exactly hiding it either so should be easy to identify if they're that arsed about it. I agree that the ref was excellent and wish more were like it. Pissed me off when Harwood Bellis tried winning a cheap foul at the end in the corner and then stopped playing cos he thought it would be given. The ref hadn't given those all day long ao why take a risk like that when they're pushing for a winner?

The thing is while it's always worse against us that stand is always a problem in any big game they play. The media never mention it though so they get away with it and therefore it'll continue.

Agree with this massively. For all the people loving the Downes tackle I thought it was a daft thing to do at that point in the game. It was the only part of the game where we looked to have a semblance of control and were knocking the ball around relatively comfortably having just taken the lead. All of a sudden that happened plus a couple of other incidents with us getting involved in pushing and shoving and it gave both their players and crowd a huge boost and changed the momentum.