stevegrant

I think that if Chelsea get through against PSG, their semi-final could be on the following Tuesday, so their game at Liverpool would be swapped with our game against Everton. If that happens, it'll be an amusing kick in the balls for Sky who have clearly scheduled Liverpool v Chelsea followed by Palace v Man City with a "Showdown Super Sunday" feel to it.

The headline on the OS, which just says "2012/13 financial results released", or the headline on the BBC, which the club has absolutely no say over? I think most of the quotes are sensible in the club's article are sensible, taking a fairly reserved attitude towards them and not giving themselves (or others) too much of a pat on the back - although the "difficult financial situation" one is a bit odd - and I think you get a bit more clarity of the situation with Adam Blackmore's interview. Would be handy if someone had the time to transcribe that, actually.

The weird thing is that our batting in this tournament *****il today, obviously) has been very good, and that's usually been our downfall, especially on the subcontinent against teams packed with spinners. We haven't even bowled that badly, apart from Dernbach, it's our fielding that's let us down in every game. I don't think the Dutch dropped even a half-chance today.

Not anymore, it's done on tickets sold these days.

Significant alterations to the plans after they had been signed off, most likely.

Normal (i.e. non-corporate) matchday sales to home fans, in descending order, with total attendance in brackets, with 20,415 season ticket holders: Hull City 7,414 (30,022) Newcastle 7,400 (31,360) Manchester City 7,007 (31,229) Liverpool 6,417 (31,659) Tottenham 6,409 (31,455) Chelsea 6,392 (31,271) Arsenal 6,167 (31,284) Crystal Palace 6,137 (30,699) Fulham 6,105 (28,631) Norwich 6,092 (29,828 ) Aston Villa 6,004 (29,814) Swansea 5,654 (28,570) Stoke 5,626 (27,987) West Brom 5,483 (28,610) Sunderland 5,431 (29,596) West Ham 4,724 (28,794) Basically there are just over 6400 tickets available on a match-by-match basis, which is only increased when the away team doesn't take the full allocation of 3200.

You have to remember that the corporate section covers both the large seated area in the middle of the Itchen Stand and the corporate boxes. Pretty sure they didn't sell every box for the game, nor would every box have been full. In general, though, corporate sales have improved significantly since the middle of January.

According to the online ticket system, there were 86 seats unsold (although 71 of those were single tickets in the family section, so presumably they're unable to sell those), so the vast majority of the shortfall will be in corporate. I'd be interested to discover what the club does regarding ticketing agencies - it's possible that they have acquired tickets either on a match-by-match basis or season tickets, but they didn't find buyers for Saturday. I remember the Man United game last season when the game had sold out two weeks in advance and yet there was a massive block of around 100 seats empty in block 5 - the club claimed they were ALL due to people simply not turning up, which seems somewhat difficult to believe.

I re-emphasise... there is very little I can do unless you can provide me with either a screenshot of the offending advert or the HTML output of the page ("View Source" on most browsers), along with the specifics regarding your setup, i.e. browser and operating system. The advertising displayed comes from a variety of sources, and the only way we can determine whether it is something our advertisers are doing is with that information.

Can you take a screenshot of a page with a popup showing? Our ads are set up to only display "inline" ads, i.e. no popups or overlays. However, it's possible that a stray one could slip through the system if the agency that created the advert set it up incorrectly (i.e. said it was an inline ad when it was an overlay, etc). If we can get the URL of the advert then we should be able to shut it off at source.

There aren't any more parachute payments, the last one is this season.

I like that they have adopted the Great Fans moniker to describe the Few. You can picture them doing the "quote marks" thing with their hands when you read their comments.

In their final 4 games, Wycombe play Northampton, Bristol Rovers and Torquay. Could be interesting...

Pompey have scored more goals, so they're ahead. For now.

My word.

Yep

Northampton equalise. Edit: and Wimbledon will play for an hour with 10 men. Former Saints triallist Darren Carter with the goal.

Plenty of time yet.

What browser/OS are you using? Any chance of a screen shot showing them?

It's worth pointing out that, while the teams in the Combined Counties and Ryman leagues benefited from the financial boost of big crowds when AFC Wimbledon were in town, they also caused a great deal of resentment with the Billy Big ******** and holier-than-thou attitude that seemed to manifest itself among a large part of the travelling fanbase.

Possibly been told to sell upper tier before lower.