stevegrant

Direct link into the seating plan (probably have to be logged in already) in case the "Buy" button doesn't show on your account home page: https://tickets.southamptonfc.com/selection/event/seat?perfId=10229259046655&ot=0&gtmStepTracking=true

If anybody doesn't have a ticket but is eligible for one, there are occasional single tickets that keep popping back up on the site, just got to time it right. These are basically when somebody has added them to their basket but not gone on to complete the transaction, so after 20 minutes they get released back into the pool for everyone to see.

I believe GDPR breaches generally need the/a wronged party to file the complaint, rather than random members of the public.

I'm looking forward to Steve Gibson having to dip into his own pocket to pay the fine imposed by the Information Commissioner for the flagrant GDPR breach.

And if they'd been able to beat any of Oxford, Leicester, Charlton, Portsmouth or Bristol City at home this calendar year, they'd have probably gone up automatically. They were in the playoffs through their own incompetence. Clearly recognised they needed a striker in January, hence the links to Adam Armstrong, but when he went to Wolves (no surprise, take the 6 months of Premier League football as it's likely the last opportunity for him) they seemingly had no backup options. And then seem surprised that they've ended the season with 2 wins in 13 - one a 1-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday who finished the season on exactly 0 points, and 5-1 against an on-the-beach-for-a-month Watford - and slipped from top of the table to fifth.

Not wholly convinced they'll even make the morning, looks like there's only about 200 left. Unless of course the club are going to chuck another 100 player/staff comps back onto the pile...

In fairness, I don't think there are as many obvious standout players in the current squad compared to previous years who would definitely get pinched by WSL or monied WSL2 teams this summer. Given her England U23 status I guess Meg Collett is potentially next in line but there are quite a few of the squad who are at the end of their two-year contract cycles and therefore might be getting better offers from elsewhere. The men's team performance will have a bearing too, fairly clear that the club's Premier League status (or otherwise) will be a driving factor in the women's budget. Agree that Pompey getting relegated is a bad thing for us - unless we get an interesting draw in the cups it means there's no real headline games next season.

More testing.

Testing

Working on it... basically we had a huge amount of DDoS-looking traffic that was bringing the servers down and costing me a fuckton of money, so I've implemented much stricter firewall restrictions, but that seems to have had this knock-on effect.

Somerset will surely be due one for their game against Durham that was done in 5 sessions, and would imagine their penalty will (should) be much bigger. Not that it makes any tangible difference to anything, really. 10% chance of rain in Taunton, so we're going to have to bat all day, which feels somewhat unlikely. One bugbear of mine, they went off for bad light as soon as Orr was given out LBW last night. The light doesn't turn in the space of one delivery, so were the umpires just hoping to get through to the end of the over before calling play off, or did they only think "ooh, bit dark now" after the fall of the wicket? Going in this morning 0 down compared to 1 might (unlikely, but might) prove the difference...

Think it would be doable if you had enough players with the right qualities, as you'd then be able to make use of the fact you can sub half your outfielders if you so choose and have four players going full pelt for 45 minutes each.

You would essentially end up with the Hasenhuttl 4-2-2-2 out of possession, but something a bit more expansive in possession. Theoretically doable but you'd be exhausting your wide players who would need to be able to operate centrally too.

Not sure what he expected, it's been a spinner's wicket for years! Somerset were 99/5, so now all we've got to do is put on a 250-run partnership and everything is fine...

Looks like a round of draws here, perhaps with the exception at the Oval in what might be a title decider. Difficult to see Surrey getting 300 in these conditions.