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Yes - wrapped up thinking we knew better but unbelievably amateur, like Carry On Spying

I have no doubt that the "whistleblower" aka co-conspiritor with Gibson had been feeding them info about how stupid we are. Gibson seized on this opportunity to "catch us in the act" and working with the EFL board member knew exactly what to do and how to implement it to give their club the advantage and a backup route to Wembley. The PR war they engaged on was incredibly well coordinated I'll give them that, ensured in the court of public opinion that they were the helpless victims The whole thing stinks Makes me sick looking back spent over £160 going to Middlesborough away just for train and match ticket , what a monumental waste

Its quite a jump from Leeds 200k fine for basically doing the same thing

Punishment is disproportionate to the offence

Agree, corruption is clear

No way should we just let it go, punishment is completely disproportionate and should be challenged

Genuinely this "whistleblower" bollocks, he used to work for Boro before us, he was spying on us, needs looking into

No we fucking dont, hope their train derails on the way to Wembley

We have been well and truly done up by the Middlesbrough mafia, they'll know most teams involved in this sort of thing and we were fucking stupid enough to walk into the trap. Needs a proper investigation into: > the analyst who joined us from Boro then left earlier this season. They knew we'd be there. A badly dressed kid with an iphone learning fuck all > the board member at Boro on EFL board > orchestrated media campaign that lost us the case , I've never seen anything like it (compare Henry Winter vs Leeds ) > most draconian punishment possible for a new offence with no precedent Fuck the EFL and Middlesbrough

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jan/16/marcelo-bielsa-leeds-spied-every-opponent

That's all true, feels like they've been whipped up into a frenzy and the whole episode has become their lives from first thing in the morning to last thing at night they go in search of rumours to convince themselves of their moral superiority and how good will triumph over evil

For anyone looking to park and get train in just need to look for somewhere on Met line or Jubilee, quite a few good options on the Wembley stadium line out to Denham really quick getting back there usually

Yeah i can't work out if these "additional" tickets we've received are already on sale or if more blocks will become available later. Tickets pretty much go on general sale this morning if you are prepared to pay for a membership (£15 adults, £7.50 kids) I think to shift all remaining they might have to allow season ticket holders to buy additional under their numbers. Hull fans have allowed fans to buy two per customer number all along so we should relax sales as well

526 will be excellent seats, halfway line view (check out view from my seat on Wembley website) , you wont be that close to Hull fans as they've yet to put on sale the four blocks immediately to your right

Yes

Hadn't realised our allocation has already increased to 37,604, thats a lot of tickets to shift will be impressive if we manage it

Is that correct? As of a couple of hours ago they've just gone over 30k so still 6k to shift of original allocation

Looks like mainly safe standing upper left, put blocks on a lot quicker than they did for the semi final, interesting if Hull have been given more we should as well, surprised to hear that as didn't think they were anywhere near selling out

Didn't the ticket news say they take down sales 15 mins before each new window opens, then open it up again , next window at 13.30

Sales are fairly consistent at the same point as the semi final Lower , middle tier sell out to season ticket holders ans a bit of the upper. Once tickets go on sale to members most of current upper will go quickly and they'll then start to open up additional blocks , as happened last month

Not seen any news on extra trains being put on yet, anyone heard anything ?

Any idea how many Hull have sold? For games like this where it probably won't sell out fully and theres little chance of either team buying in each other's end they should wizz through the priority windows then get them on general sale

Yeah but only half upper tier has been put on sale so far, still plenty of tickets to go around especially if they end up giving us some additional again

Always hard to tell if more will be released in lower, probably see some if past games are anything to go on. 6th visit to Wembley since 2017 , can't be many teams who have been there so often

Lock this thread for a couple of days, its just going round in circles of guesswork and assumptions