stevegrant

I wonder if Gabby will be following up this documentary with one about nepotism in sport and sports broadcasting?

Group Save tickets often don't show online, but you can buy them on the day anyway. You might also find it's cheaper to take the scenic route from Southampton and go via Barnham and Gatwick Airport, changing at East Croydon. Because of engineering works, the Waterloo route will be disrupted all weekend, so it won't take any longer going that way.

Engineering works around Surbiton, I think, adding an extra 30-40 minutes onto the journey. Don't bother buying in advance from SWT, get it on the day either with a network railcard (1/3 off) or as part of a Group Save 4 (half-price).

Their OS said "more than 150" yesterday. Add that to a similar amount of unsold match tickets and there'll be about 300 empty seats on Saturday.

The current ticket system is perfectly capable - and has been for a number of years - of doing the basic things it is required to do. It's not the fault of the software that the people running the ticket office don't seem to have the faintest idea what they're doing.

Well this shambles isn't at all predictable

I think they've given up caring about whether the online system actually restricts sales to eligible people now, earlier in the season tickets weren't even available online when it was one per ST holder. Now they just can't be arsed if non-ST holders get tickets. Fortunately for a game like this with such a big potential allocation, it shouldn't be an issue.

That'll be an initial allocation... also with it being a midweek game and likely to be less popular than Middlesbrough, making the allocation seem smaller might force fans to buy earlier out of urgency which will then get the extra tickets released sooner.

Those questions seem very Americanised...

I'm still on the waiting list

I see there are still more than 150 skates who have bought their match vouchers for Saturday but haven't got round to buying a coach ticket, and the deadline for doing so is today

To be fair, I imagine the idea of it being a "share" is just to make the concept easier to understand for their simpletons. It'll be an IPS co-operative, that's the only way the supporters trust model works at the moment, as far as I'm aware, which is then run by the "one member, one vote" system. There's not a cat in hell's chance they'll be floating as a PLC.

Finance options for supporters to raise the £1000 share price will be offered. So those in charge of the supporters trust are effectively attempting to engage in a leveraged buyout

I thought you weren't renewing your subscription? That lasted a long time

Nope, but it's clearly pointless trying to debate with anyone who's not going to listen.

Ah good, what this forum really needed was a red equivalent of dune

Also luckily for them, they have one of the weakest oppositions in living memory.

I'm sure I read somewhere that all of that money goes to the other Championship clubs, with none of it filtering down to the lower leagues That said, if there was a trickle of money handed down to Leagues One and Two, it wouldn't have been much. Of the Football League's broadcast deal, the Championship receives 80% of the money.

I neither know nor care

Surely that depends on how long the shifts are. There are loads of careers that require shift-work, including all of the emergency services - while many of them have grievances about their jobs, health problems as a result of the shift patterns don't tend to be among them.

When we were last in the top flight, parachute payments were only for two years and were £6.7m per year. They ran out after we missed out in the playoffs in 2007.

Basically they want more money. If the tube drivers can bring the whole of London to a standstill, why not do the same to the nation's roads?

The AA reckon that the surge in panic buying will have provided an additional £32m in fuel excise duty to the government, right at the end of the tax year

Yes, the newspapers should be ashamed of their actions in reporting verbatim what a government minister had to say