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Late notice but my pal has just told me he can't go so have a spare for this if anyone's interested. Can meet outside the ground. Drop a PM

I normally park in Croydon and then jump on a train at East Croydon. Plenty of pubs round there and won't all be rammed.

Surely anybody with eyes and has even a vague understanding of the game has been able to see we've looked unfit most of the season? It was obvious from as early as Ipswich.

Fingers crossed. Last thing we need is numbers to drop leading to the club taking only the lower tier at Everton which is bound to be incredibly popular.

Surprised Forest went to general sale, thought that would be quite a popular one. Good opportunity for those lower down the ladder though. Does make me nervous that we might start taking smaller allocations though.

Why wouldn't they?

Yeah I agree that our support has grown in the last two decades, and even in the last 5 years (see our away followings), but that doesn't automatically equate to sustaining 28k plus crowds in a situation where we're not bouncing back at the first attempt. I'm not against it as this season is as hard as I can remember for getting two seats together through general sale which runs the risk of losing a generation of potential supporters. I just don't agree that having good crowds in one championship season where we were winning most weeks means we'll continue to do so regardless of how we perform on the pitch. There weren't that many games last season where the home end was full and the away end wasn't as I recall. Most of the smaller followings came from clubs like Preston, Hull etc which weren't sell outs in home ends either albeit I think both of those were midweek.

Yeah people will always want to watch a winning team of course but I think we'll sell less season tickets than we did last year for reasons stated. At which point you're the relying on results to drive the crowds rather than them simply be through demand regardless of performance

I don't think you can look at solely last season and say we'll always sell out regularly in the championship. Last season was novelty for many after a long absence and that may not exist this time round. Next seasons attendances will likely be lower than last for price reasons alone as I don't see the club making big reductions after the rises this year. And then if we don't go up we'll be back to an average of 24k-ish the season after in my opinion. I'd say two-three seasons of good crowds isn't enough personally, it's when you have a waiting list for season tickets when it should be a higher priority. Especially if it's one people have paid to be on.

I think crowds will definitely be lower next season than last. For one ticket prices will be much higher as they're not going to significantly reduce them.

Or if you've already paid just turn up and give the cunt some stick in the ground?

You'd be better off passing it onto a mate who's up for giving Martin some stick.

That'll teach the club, being able to make more money.

If everyone with a printer at home printed 20-30 copies of this and handed them out outside the ground then it'd be sure to be picked up by cameras if held up as teams walked out.

Great news!

Cheers I'll give it some thought. Ideally don't want to rely on trains but might be the best option for this. Will stop at services somewhere along the way and make my decision then.

Why not the M5 out of interest, just because of all the extra traffic on it due to the M42 closure? I was thinking of going up that way and joining the M5 near Gloucester but this has made me reconsider.

I stopped reading at the part when Koeman was described as an attacking midfielder.

I'll pass on that thanks.

You reimbursing me my ticket?

Did the TV microphones pick up the 'sacked in the morning' after the 5th on Wednesday? I had some middle aged woman start shouting at me when I tried starting a 'martin out' chant. We've got a strange fanbase.

Can see there being quite a few empty seats here. Lots of spares coming up from people who suddenly 'can't' make it.

Martin wouldn't come close enough to the away end.

Yep including a busy end of the year with aways and the league cup quarter final. You may be right but I'd be surprised if we sold 3k for this one. Last season there was a lot more positivity among the fanbase I'm almost certainly gonna give this one a miss but will be doing Forest.

A club with our infrastructure and academy was always going be a attractive proposition in the third tier and on the cheap. We still undoubtedly got lucky with Markus. Imagine if it had been SISU.