stevegrant

The group stage games will either be 6pm or 8:05pm UK time (with slightly earlier variants for games in Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan), but in the qualifying rounds I think clubs are generally free to pick whatever kickoff time suits them.

It could have been a whole lot worse, most of the unseeded teams have much smaller grounds. The unseeded teams who entered in the same round as us, for example: AEK Larnaca - 13,032 Istanbul Basaksehir - 17,800 Jablonec - 6,280 Targu Mures - 8,200 Sturm Graz - 15,400 Rheindorf Altach - 8,900 Ironi Kiryat Shmona - 5,300 So the biggest away allocation we'd have got if we'd drawn any of them would have been 890.

Perhaps, but these same people wouldn't be complaining if it was a game at Charlton. Everyone knows what the allocation is there, and everyone accepts that you don't get any more tickets than that away end holds, regardless of whether the home ends are sold out or not. Why is a Dutch team any different? If people were that desperate to go to a potential European tie (and, let's face it, how many would have booked flights to Novi Sad had we drawn Vojvodina?), they should have gone to more games last season - everyone knew that would be how the tickets would be allocated for a game like this, and there were plenty of aways last season where we didn't sell out, so it's not through the lack of opportunity.

Yep. People whinging about the allocation, look at any photo of the away section in the ground. That fence doesn't move. UEFA competition rules state that they have to offer us 5%, which they have done. They're not obliged to offer us more just because there's loads travelling without tickets (or with tickets in the home end), and you can guarantee people would be up in arms if we handed over more tickets than we needed to for the game at St Mary's.

I'm guessing the pretty frequent employment of Operation Stack on the M20 causing absolute carnage.

That completely contradicts what the official site article says.

I'd check Tunnel bookings around the day of the game, would expect they're pretty much sold out by now.

Any other threads asking for, or offering, tickets for the Vitesse away game will be deleted. Seems a fairly redundant process when the tickets aren't even on sale yet, but some people seem to have already decided they're not going to get one through SFC so are resorting to desperate acts of begging. So let's keep them all in here for those of us who will get tickets to feel warm and fuzzy about. A reminder to you all: it is illegal in both the UK and the Netherlands to sell football tickets if you are not an authorised seller - in the case of SFC, they are the only authorised seller. As far as the law is concerned, it doesn't matter if you are selling them for profit or loss, it is still illegal. There are a number of words in the first sentence in this paragraph that are the most important - I'll let you be the judge of which they are and say no more.

So you ****ed up and now you're panicking. Oops. Works for me

Why? There was never an actual plan to put on a fanzone for us as far as I can tell, that was just some weird suggestion put forward by our local plod. Just watch it in a bar in Arnhem if you don't get in the ground.

Omar Rowe played for Luton in a friendly last night.

****s sake

The whole site will be getting a revamp at some point in the hopefully-not-too-distant future

The website says "All supporters who attended at least ten away games in 2014/15 are guaranteed a ticket if they order before 8am on Wednesday 29th July".

Ticket guaranteed for ST holders with 10 or more aways from last season

I think Debayo is largely out there by default - Bertrand's going to miss the start of the season, by the look of it, and Targett only returned to training a week ago. I would have thought Martina will be on the right when called upon, he didn't look comfortable on the left against Valencia. Hesketh and Seager are slightly more surprising, but I guess they'll get allocated numbers as and when they're going to be in the first team squad.

I would have thought the election would be open to those who were members prior to Miliband resigning to prevent exactly this sort of scenario?

Indeed.

I don't have the option, sadly.

Oh.

Probably the first and only time I would credit him with any modicum of sense.

Yep. I have a ticket for Day 2 on the Friday, which will be touch-and-go if we get through and are away first. If we were to get a draw against someone with early flights back into Gatwick on the Friday morning, or if we were drawn at home first again, then I'd be fine.

Mason Crane with all 4 wickets in Durham's innings before they declare, leaving us with a chase of 305 in a minimum of 72 overs. 4.23 runs per over, wouldn't have thought we'll get anywhere near, but as long as we bat out the draw that'll show a bit of progress, I think.

Walcott only played 12 games for us, so no great surprise there. Crouch slightly more so, considering he made 26 league appearances in 2004/5, and of our strikers only Kevin Phillips made more (30).

Seriously, it's infinitely more hassle for them to kick up a fuss at the turnstile than it is to let people in and then control the crowd inside the ground.