stevegrant

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

SWT don't do seat bookings. That'll be why it comes up saying no seats available.

I'm all in favour of the smart card usage for food in the concourse, but it has to be done right. In my little utopia, all bar one of the tills at the food outlets would be for cardholders, meaning if you can't be arsed with the card and insist on paying by cash, you can do so but you take your chances with what's likely to be a big queue. For me, the biggest problem with the concourse catering is that the staff aren't quick enough at taking money and giving change - the service of the food itself is fine - so removing that responsibility from them would speed things up immeasurably.

The first innings was where that Test was lost. 264 in the fourth innings was a very credible effort, the biggest ever fourth innings score at Galle (previous was 250-something). Also, while we bowled very well again, we seemed to lack the energy to finish Sri Lanka off. Their last 4 wickets in each innings added 148 and 100 runs respectively. That's the sort of scenario where a more experienced bowler like Bresnan would have been of more use than a debutant like Samit Patel. Broad's catch off a no-ball in the second innings cost 50 runs

Smaller and more expensive. Packets of crisps are the same, those Walkers Baked crisps are a massive con, you get about 12 crisps per pack

The potential Pompey bid involves Paul Walsh, although he's not putting any of his own money in (he's not stupid ). From what I gather, there is some sort of consortium (inference: none of the people involved have enough money on their own), and that they're biding their time to be able to get the club at the cheapest possible price, with Chainrai's debenture bought out at a knock-down value using the theory that a percentage of something is better than a percentage of nothing - although arguably the land is worth more than the £2.5m that has been suggested so BC might just tell them to do one and he'll take his chances on the open market for the land.