Sour Mash

I saw on twitter last night that QPR announced their ticketing details for their home game in the next round agianst Chelsea about 5 mins after the final whistle had gone in their win against MK Dons. No reason why it can't be ready and waiting, especially with just 10 days between games.

Decent enough ticket prices those really, can't complain too much. Agreed, well worth sorting out cheap train fares while they're still available. Bet we see loads of moaning on here two days before the game about people not being able to find any cheap travel! Always wanted to give the lower tier a go there, but can't see it happening, very rare to see anyone ever use it.

2 pages already! This ain't going to happen!

You could look at it the other way. Still a 3 hour journey, midweek, away from home, £30+ tickets. Knowing Saints we'll stuff up ticketing for this as we always seem to do these days. Got quite a few games to sort coming up that will be popular - Millwall, West Ham and Watford.

Not much logic there. This sort of thing is relative. The Echo is better than most other similar papers.

I don't think we'll sign either. Both are too vital to their clubs' season, therefore their clubs would only accept really over the top offers which according to most on here we'll never do. Think they'll be a lot of disappointed people at the end of the transfer window if these rumours are taken too seriously.

The Echo is much better than similar papers in similar cities trust me.

What if we missed out on promotion due to not having necessary defensive cover on the bench and losing a game because of that. Or not winning a game due to lack of attacking options on the bench, something that could be argued we've already seen this season? It doesn't have as obvious an impact as a keeper going off, but certainly a much more common problem. I'm sure NA will stick with Bart, but he's going to have a right old headache if everyone's fit and in form at the same time!

It's a matter of opinion and most football managers are obviously of the same opinion as you. However, how many times have you been at a game when the keeper has gone off and has needed a replacement? How many times have you been at a game when a team has been crying out for an extra attacking option off the bench? Or an extra defensive option when holding on to a lead?

Well summed up. Not sure how any Englishman can have any sort of affinity with Celtic Football Club.

No for all their highest profile games these days they won't open the lower tier to away fans. I think we'll come pretty close to filling the upper tier for this one.

No they don't.

Probably putting the kiss of death on it, but I really can't see us losing to either side.

To be fair, you've got a point though, why do they still need to be on restricted sale and why can't we have an on-line ticketing system that can deal with something so basic.

Just a guess, but maybe they're not on general sale yet?

Good lads, got to love the Dutch!

I know that, just wondering what he actually does during the day apart from the odd "tweet" or OS article which must take up about an hour a day max?

What does Sibley actually do? Even if he was right re the Echo article, what a petty thing to "tweet".

One of life's definite strugglers

Cheers Gents. A classic case of having no argument to come back with you pair of strugglers

Dutch Saints lot? They the ones that come over once a year or so for games?

My fear exactly. We'll hopefully find out pretty soon one way or the other, particularly for West Ham.

Why only pick on him? What about all those that claim that Celtic are their "2nd club"? I take it Celtic are their 2nd club because of the amazing football they've put on show for the last 30 years????

If you're buying on general sale, then I don't think you even need a customer number. You'll be able to buy as many as you want for this one to be honest.

Yeah, but my post is, does anyone know how these additional allocations are managed? For example, on what basis would Watford give us more tickets? How do West Ham allocate their additional allocation? Is it at a non-return basis for the visiting club, therfore putting off teams taking the extra allocation, especially at West Ham prices?