Whitey Grandad

I can only speak for the silent majority. There are only two areas open. The seats in the kingsland are the best views in the stadium. You may not like their reasons but if their seats were available they would come but if they aren't they won't. We are talking about several thousand tickets here, to those of us who run our own business and have gone through the worst recession in a generation it doesn't make sense.

Not at all. They've been coming to see Brentford, Colchester, Gillingham, MK Dons, Brighton... ...well you get the idea. As I've said before, the club has the opportunity to sell a few thousand more tickets here and they aren't going to do it if they shut the biggest and most popular stand which contains their most loyal supporters.

Like it or not there is apparently quite a large number of regulars who won't. And I can't get a seat in the Itchen with the equivalent seat to mine in the Kingsland. Markus has already grabbed it. As you suggest, I shall wait until nearer the game. I cannot see why anybody would bother to buy a ticket nearly 4 weeks in advance unless it was either to get their usual seat or to get a 'good view'. I think that the club has seriously underestimated the potential crowd for this game.

TBF, I think they were talking about me!

I think the stadium announcer on Saturday said blue kit, but don't quote me on it.

That's the great thing about football. Even if you're a crap team you still get to see a lot of the ball.

I'm sure Hitler felt the same way when he invaded Poland, Belgium, France, The Netherlands Denmark, Russia..... you get the drift. (Godwin's Law strikes again)

As usual, the voice of reason. Are you sure you're on the right forum?

Perhaps it should be played in Tenerife.

Bless'em.

Not a goalkick, he kicked it from his hands. As you rightly say, you cannot be offside from a goalkick but it's surprising the number of supporters and players who don't know that.

Not according to the new 'Supporter's Charter' which promises priority for your own seat for cup games.

Different club but worth an honourable mention, I'd have thought: Pity the 30 or so hardy souls (including Mr Blobby and Buzz Lightyear) from Darlington, bottom of the League, who made the 12-hour, 706-mile round trip from County Durham to Torquay - so few that the club didn't even run a supporters' coach - only to witness a 5-0 humiliation. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1235561/All-fizz-Coca-Cola-Football-League.html#ixzz0ZfetNqO5

Spare a thought for the Darlington fans: Pity the 30 or so hardy souls (including Mr Blobby and Buzz Lightyear) from Darlington, bottom of the League, who made the 12-hour, 706-mile round trip from County Durham to Torquay - so few that the club didn't even run a supporters' coach - only to witness a 5-0 humiliation. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1235561/All-fizz-Coca-Cola-Football-League.html#ixzz0ZfetNqO5

With the time delays I suppose it has to be sung slowly so that we can all keep up.

I was only using grasshopper as an example, it could have been any other creature of the order orthoptera, or perhaps a follower of a football club in Zurich.

The reasons matter not, it's still lost income. It's called 'market sensitivity'. If it were my business, which it isn't, and the crowd and associated income were significantly reduced from expectations then I would be asking pertinent questions afterwards.

A player may be a legend to one supporter but not to another. Then he is still a legend.

Er, it's only two stands. It's a commercial decision. Will the money saved by closing the Kingsland be more than the loss of income from regular ST supporters. Personally, I don't believe so. There is a lot of customer inertia and I would not call it a 'boycott' if somebody chooses not to go and sit somewhere else. Going back to the 'pub' analogy, for many supporters it's the equivalent of the old fellow who always sits every day in the corner at his favourite table. If there is a group of teenagers sitting in 'his place' then he is likely not to go in.

I was onece told: 'Always remember that the Good Lord will not heap on your shoulders more than you can carry.'

Ah, but that is my point! Only by asking questions can we get answers, grasshopper.

Oh, I thought it was 'kissed'.

Exactly! And where are they now?

I'm not sure on this, but I think we would have won the replay and hence won the tie, but don't quote me.

I can't keep up any more.