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Pretty much guarantees that the Ipswich game will be played 28th or 29th April, as that is literally their only free midweek left.

We'll definitely lose at least a couple of games before the end of the season. Coventry though seems more likely as where we'll slip up. Not too much of an issue as Wrexham still have to play them as well. In fact their final two games are Coventry and Middlesbrough... I have a lot of time for West Brom, decent club with decent fans, I hope (after Wednesday) they turn things around and stay up. Preferably at Leicester or Portsmouth's expense.

I'm pretty certain the game will be on the Saturday, it just depends when. There's literally no other football in England on the Saturday as lower leagues are all on Friday, and no Prem games scheduled, so the usual 3pm TV blackout doesn't apply. So in theory, games could be scheduled at 12.15pm, 3pm and then 5.45pm, which have been the kick off times in the FA Cup on Saturdays this year. Not sure if they would use the 8pm slot, I hope not. Man City v Liverpool definitely will be Saturday, and police likely will veto a late kick off, they may even insist it's the early kick off. If BBC (which has 2nd pick)choose our game, all their games they've picked on a Saturday so far have taken place in the teatime slot, so I have a feeling our game will kick off on the Saturday at 5.45pm/6pm. If BBC don't select us (pretty sure they will, as the league leaders away to a lower league team will always be interesting from a neutral's perspective) and choose Chelsea v Port Vale instead as 2nd pick then it'll either be 12.15pm or 3pm. Southampton Women are also playing at home on the Saturday incidentally but that has already been moved to Eastleigh's ground.

Thursday or Friday

Because the international break is the week before, with players likely not back at teams until Wednesday at the earliest, I think the Friday will be off limits. Obviously it would be ideal for us, but Arsenal would probably kick up a fuss. Unless of course they would prefer the additional period over the weekend to prepare for their Champions League QF tie. Broadcasters as well probably would prefer it to be on the Saturday rather than clash with EFL on Friday.

International break the week before as well so most of their players will be away until a few days before. Very likely our game is on the Saturday as well, Champions League draw won't be made in time, so Arsenal won't know if they have to play on Tuesday or Wednesday and therefore the Sunday is ruled out.

We'll definitely find out about how the segregation for cup games will work at least

There was a video doing the rounds at Sheffield Wednesday of a group of boys kicking off so wouldn't surprise me.

Champions League games will be in the midweek afterwards, so it won't be the worst thing in the world to draw one of those teams, as they'd be very likely to rest players - rather than getting one of them in the semis/final where they name their strongest team. Although Man City and Chelsea have quite tough draws so they may get knocked out, in which case we'd be fucked.

Wrexham v Hull on Tuesday as well, so if we do win, we'll definitely make up ground on at least one of the teams above us. I think Hull will drop out, there's always one team who has a late collapse.

The issue is the Friday is just after the international break, if we draw a Prem team they'll absolutely certainly be against having a game that early due to the amount of players that would be away. If we get Port Vale they may play it on the Friday, depends on the broadcasters. So I think both games will get moved. The Wrexham game will probably just move to the Tuesday or Wednesday afterwards instead of Monday, and then Ipswich at home the following midweek. That would leave us with one more free midweek if we somehow do make it to the semi finals where the Blackburn home game would move. Once the draw is made tomorrow, the full schedule is usually announced by the end of the week, Thursday or Friday. Once that is known the EFL will announce the confirmed rearrangement dates, hopefully ASAP but could be Monday next week. I'm guessing, they might announce it earlier.

I believe the away bar in that section blocks the divider towards the Chapel, so it would have to extend towards the Kingsland. Unless they do what Derby do at Pride Park, and separate the away end concourse into two different halves.

Yeah you have to sign up to the sports package which is £30 a month!! If your phone is with EE, or know someone who is with EE, you can get a discounted price of £20 a month. That's the cheapest (legal) way to sign up.

Previously they did give a free voucher to every fan, I think they did it for a Fulham game a couple of years ago around Christmas. Presumably the Middlesbrough free pie was the FAB idea and naturally they restricted it to just travel users. Looking after their own. I've been to pretty much every away game; don't expect or want a reward but only giving a reward to a certain section because of how they travel is not on at all. I don't live in Southampton so I wouldn't be able to get the official coach anyway! I note in those minutes that there was a discussion about the Portsmouth game but no feedback shared about the fact a bubble was in place at all! So what's the point of raising anything with them.

Maybe Fulham told us we had to buy the whole block of tickets in advance and we declined.