The Cat

Will Yates be open? Walked past the other day and it's being refurbished.

You come in the home end mate. Feel free to celebrate if you score so someone can give you a slap before you get thrown out.

Excellent. Hopefully a decent crowd at St Mary's for the next round.

Doesn't it. I did wonder at the time but thought maybe hospitality had sold out too. Poor from the ticket office.

I was looking at that yesterday and thought it was just me being stupid. Glad it wasn't this time.

Nope. Ticket office chap just said "sorry Sir, it's sold out" which is a bit crap if there are still hospitality tickets left.

Picked my tickets up earlier. While I was waiting 2 people came to buy some. One was a dapper old American gentlemen who was particularly fed up when told it was sold out. If only we had a 40k capacity stadium so fans like him could get in.

Don't lie Griffo. We know you've already been to St Mary's.

Tranmere had a woman chairperson ages ago. Isn't Delia chair(wo)man of Naaaaarwich?

Best to make sure, I didn't want him to miss out!

If we finish in a European spot by 2 points I won't celebrate it because of the penalty Newcastle should have had.

Also, did you realise that part of the reason Steve charges a membership fee for this site is so he could set up an overseas Saints fans travelling fund? This enables him to very generously refund the price of a match ticket for anyone coming from abroad. What a guy.

If you have time I'd consider getting down the ground about 11am to meet the players and get autographs. That leaves plenty of time to walk into town for a few pre-match beers.

I'm waiting on my copy to come through. Got the new live Ty Segall album today. It's relentless.

Last time we played there I ended up in a funny old school pub about 10 minutes from the ground run by a bunch of old dears. One of them had shrunk so much she could barely see over the bar. They were streaming the football on old crt tv's, the carpet was older than the barmaids and the beer was horrible. If I could remember what it's called I'd highly recommend it. The Duchess of Cambridge on Goldhawk Road is decent. Some pubs around there are home fans only but we got in a couple because we had no colours.

Another vote for Kitson here. Happy to hear a new series of Inside No 9 is being filmed. The first series was excellent.

I didn't hear them sing once from my seat. "Alan Pardew, he left 'cos your sh.it"

From my position one row from the back it was never in doubt. I love my team.

Anyone know a non-sh.it city centre pub in Newcastle that shows 3pm games?

Anonymous getting involved. The government's new web filter designed to keep child pirn off the internet is hindering police operations. Conspiracy theorists delight. http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/behind-anonymouss-operation-to-reveal-britains-elite-child-rape-syndicate-273?utm_source=vicetwitterca

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I don't know. I pay little attention to European football because we're not in it!

FA Cup. It's a trophy and we'd qualify for Europe. 4th place means a play off doesn't it? If so a good chance we could lose that and be straight out. I really want us to see us win a trophy other than the JPT and I really want to see us play in Europe again. An FA Cup win gives both.

Mourinho's won plenty of games with similar tactics but when he does it it's genius rather than lucky.