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Totally agree , I put this out there several years ago that they should put the away tickets out as 'singing' or 'non-singing' and fill singers from the back and non-singers from the front (or left/right) or however the size/shape of the allocation. I remember a particularly grim experience away at Colchester when I ended up literally surrounded by bingo-bus day trippers, with actual flasks and tartan rugs, no singing, no standing, no swearing FFS! Grim as grim, prob for them as well as for me. Couldn't I have just moved? Yes and no, we've stood five in four seats before and it can be done but it can get pretty anti-social pretty quickly. Remember at Charlton a while back 6 ****ed up ****s trying to stand in the two spaces next to me; we ended up being pushed into the people next us (who pushed back) and we then ended up trodden on and sworn at for doing nothing but standing in our own seats. My preference would be to stand in one space (and sing and swear) and I am happy for others to do whatever they do that doesn't affect my enjoyment of the game, I also accept I have to sit down if people behind me genuinely can't see and can't stand, and moderate my swearing to consider those around me. Safe standing is the way to go though even then the Charlton 6 would still push in together to be with their mates, so I guess give and take is the way to go, in football, as in life.

Fair play! Didn't see your clarification, back in my good books.

Disappointing response, I find you one of the more opinionated posters on here, with your opinions backed up by facts and actually going to actual games, which is always a bonus. Think you've badly mis-judged this one though, are you really saying that if you rocked up at an away game (as you often do) and just the one time you'd been allocated seats just in front of the disabled fans, you'd stand and block their view, just for one game like? And if you yourself didn't actually do that (and TBF you didn't say you would) you'd understand those that do 'because it's an away game'. Really? Read the OP again, read your response, and maybe have a word with yourself.

One of his many attributes is that he was bomb-proof and played every game but now the jury's out. Saints rush him back and he gets another one, or Saints nurse him back and he could still meet a Vardy in his first game back. Maybe we already had peak VVD pre-Leicester?

Probably be Eric Black and that Watson bloke, make of that what you will.

Go on then... I haven't a clue who out of Barry/Boufal/Tadic/Redmond/Long/JRod will be shoe-horned in where ... at least 2 of those are carrying injuries to some degree ... you would have to think Barry and Redmond would start, I'd say the third spot is very much up for grabs. Back 4 may or may not change depending on the personnel available, Romeu will play in the middle plus perm any two-from-four, chuck in the wild cards McQueen and Sims and a tinkerman manager, and I've never seen a side that's less likely to pick itself. On the evidence so far I think we can safely assume Puel has no idea of his best side!

Sorry lads, but I'm with MLG on this one. If it's a 'must win' then surely there has to be a consequence to 'not winning'; eg knocked out of a cup, manager sacked, board under pressure, some sort of a protest etc etc. For what it's worth, we'll probably not win on Saturday, there will be a massive meltdown on here, and our league position will look a shade worse; but personally I'd much rather win the cup final v Man Utd than a routine league game away at Sunderland.

Lloyd James' completely out-of-character 20 yd screamer away mid-week at Brentford, same game as Kelvin had a sensational evening in goal. And all in front of a packed away support on the terraces. For all those worrying about the R word a reminder that there is plenty of life and football beyond the PL. (Unfortunately for the purposes of this thread wiki also records him as scoring a second goal against Exeter, I also saw that but it's not one that sticks in the memory).

If we 'must' play 4-3-3 next week our current best side is probably: Mr Invisible Cedric Yoshi Stephens Bertrand Hoj Romeu McQueen Redmond Boufal Barry Beef up the midfield, that front 3 would create plenty, but prob still not score enough, we really need a 4-2-3-1 with Austin up top, and a half-way decent GK would make a massive difference.

Row Z?

Conserving energy, it's a long season,

Has anybody used the phone lines to order disabled/enabler tickets? What were the queues like and did you get to choose blocks etc?

Actually it's 5 out of 11 P11 W5 D3 L3 F13 A11 Pts18: Pts per game c1.6 which equals 31 points from a full 19 games. Beaten: Swans / Burnley / Everton / Midds / Leic Drawn: Watford / Sunderland / L'pool Lost: Chelsea / Spurs / West Brom

Batteries not included

Chuff me, the keys to the kingdom and we end up with Charlie Austin at CF (who's going to play the other 20+ games?) I'd employ a succession of hench Italians and Argentinians, irrespective of if they were any good, take every brown envelope going and blow the remainder of the wages budget on cocaine and hookers. It wouldn't be pretty, it wouldn't be sustainable, but boy we would have some fun, tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

I'll be gutted if I end up sitting next to Dave Bassett,

Bet he wishes he hadn't, come on Citeh and a couple of red cards for WH too.

Improved: Romeu/JWP/Yoshida About the same: Cedric/Martina/VVD Less good, less consistent than previous seasons: Forster/Fonte/Betrand/Davis/JRod/Long/Tadic New players: Hojberg/Redmond/Austin/Sims/Stephens/McQueen/Bouffal As you'd expect, a mixed bag and prob a story to tell for each individual player eg Yoshida getting regular pitch time, JRod coming back from injury etc. Clearly we have a number of players who have under-performed against previous levels, and for a number of reasons too and this is one contributing factor to the general disenchantment. Equally there are some players who have improved, stayed about the same, and the addition of several new ones. I think it would be fair to say that 'a number of players' were better in previous seasons, though it might be over-doing it to say they were 'much better'.

Totally agree about individual players, our better players have been inconsistent and we are overall at a lower standard of player than Poch/Koeman had. When Puel gets it right (L'pool home and away, Leics away/West Ham away) it looks and feels great and we look poised to move forward, then we go back two steps with yet another under-whelming performance. I'm not totally Puel out, I can see what he's trying to do, and with better players/more players of the required standard I'm sure we' d be a bit further on than we are at the moment. Europe overall was a disappointment, we 'should' have qualified from that group, and playing for a 0-0 at home (Puel's call) was a predictable disaster. League Cup final is a huge bonus, fans have been calling for cup runs/cup finals for years and he has delivered our first in 13 seasons, bravo! League is a bit meh, most people expected 8th to 12th, looks like we might end up with 13/14/15, quite a come down from the last three seasons. FA Cup, we'll never know, we could have played last night's team against Arsenal but on that showing no guarantee we would have won. Bloody football eh? Players, managers, boards come and go, but the fans will always be there.

We haven't done a League double yet this season, this is one of three remaining chances: West Ham H, B'mouth H, Midds A. Would sum up our inconsistent season if we didn't do any! How many last season? All time best? All time worst? I'll go for 2-2 on Sat. Carroll to score at least once.

Nailed it, I've loved the two Milan games and the two Liverpool games and a Wembley final too but beyond that, in a what-have-the-Romans-ever-done-for-us sort of a way it's been pretty grim. Just wish Claude would take the handbrake off a bit, we were excellent at home to Liverpool, really good for 20 mins against Spurs, good last night for a spell; we have just been massively inconsistent and over-cautious. I don't have a problem with the rotation per-se, I've far more of an issue with the negative, grab a goal / not-get-beat tactics. Really need to be winning our home games now cos we are getting very little away, bizarre to think we are one decent performance (and we've always got one decent performance in us) away from qualifying for Europa again. Following Saints, never easy, never dull.

We'll do well to hold onto Romeu, massive Wanyama upgrade.

brilliant boufal ridiculous remond

Someone hacked my stream? Looks like a Ligue 1 game.