Pamplemousse

Every time they come forward they look threatening. Our defence is so fragile.

Personally, I'd have started Austin in this match and started Long at Wembley.

Leicester's team is a bit odd. Two centre backs, one left back, two defensive midfielders, three attacking wingers and two strikers.

If the tickets were a flat £30 like with them then we would have sold out ages ago. The fact Chelsea haven't sold out either shows where the problem lies. I'm sure there are people willing to go, but can't because it's too expensive. The skates still had tickets on sale for the cup final in 2010, so they can hardly lecture us. Not sure why they're getting involved, they'll never get that far ever again.

People in the upper tiers should take flags or something. Maybe even the club could organise the Markus Liebherr flag to be placed up there.

You’d think that after all the stuff about how the players didn’t like Puel, they’d be fired up. But after the 4-1 horror show, I’m not so optimistic. My only solace is that Puel outsmarting Pellegrino tactically isn’t really that difficult. Mark Hughes beat Puel in his last ever game in charge down here, so Puel might be wary of that. But one thing is certain, if we defend as badly as that again, it’s going to be a long evening.

I do agree with you. Although I think the OP was joking in this instance.

Ticket sales update - 7,597 available. The club sold barely over 200 tickets yesterday. I still think there will be a late surge but there are going to be huge pockets of empty seats in the upper tiers.

I would laugh so hard if we ended up finishing above them.

They should really, they're in a decent position to certainly aim for the top two. Won't be easy though, League 1 is always competitive. They've done well to be in with a sniff of the playoffs. A couple of decent signings and they'll be up there. Whether they can push on for the Premier League after is a different matter, not sure they have the infrastructure off the field to compete at the higher levels, they have a lot of catching up to do in that regard. Let's see how patient Eisner is willing to be.

Surely it'd be better for Lewis to go out on loan again rather than sit on our bench. Maybe we've decided Lewis isn't ready just yet. Keepers are always a tricky one because it can take a while for them to fully reach their potential, as Kelvin Davis proved with us.

Full marks for optimism. As we have regularly been reminding our neighbours to the east, it’s the hope that kills you.

Maybe he’s Stuart Taylor’s replacement

We dealt with Chelsea really well in the first half, the defensive side of our game was excellent. We just have to keep it up for 90 minutes. Hughes has got us scoring at least but the defence really needs to keep a clean sheet and give them a bit of confidence.

7,803 is the current total of tickets still available. I'd say we sold about 500 tickets today.

Come on you Spurs

Long would rip the Championship apart. Him and Austin up top together would be devastating. Add Gallagher to the mix and we'd have decent striking options. Who knows, maybe even Carrillo could do a job.

Easier I said, not easy. I don't think you could class any of our games as 'easy'. West Ham equalise.

I guess the mindset is that those fans are fed up of seeing the team lose, and don't want to fork out to see us lose (probably) again. Personally, I would be royally ****ed off with myself if we won and I wasn't there, knowing full well I could have attended. And I won't regret being there if we do lose.

Stoke have Burnley, Liverpool, Palace and Swansea to come I'd say we probably have the easier set of games, plus Stoke have played one more than us.

Realistically, we need 10 points from our next four matches. Can't see it happening.

If we win on Thursday, there will be a late surge. I reckon there will be a surge anyway.

Yeh, I think eric said they're the tickets the club couldn't give away! I hope with 8,000 odd tickets that they let season ticket holders purchase more should they want to. Although that then risks ticket touts getting hold of them, so perhaps they won't.

Since I posted that, I've just noticed they've put a whole load more lower tier tickets on sale in Block 141, and there are also some in Block 131 now available which weren't there this afternoon.

Just done a count of all the remaining tickets according to the website. Broken down by block: 142 58 143 2 528 2 529 446 530 674 531 469 532 335 533 311 534 441 535 391 536 324 537 0 538 170 539 0 540 0 541 86 542 162 543 340 544 380 545 368 546 430 547 435 548 495 549 603 550 527 551 307 552 89 That's a total of 7,845