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For anyone planning games, TV fixtures up to 4th January next year will be announced by this Thursday

Got to be some sort of in-joke?

I've got zero concerns about how we're performing. Let's get this out of our system, there are areas where we can fix on the training ground and if not then we'll bring improvements in. Espanyol finished 14th last season so essentially the Spanish version of West Ham. Wrexham are nowhere near that level, we'll find things a bit easier against them. And then our next game is against the only side last season who didn't beat us in the league.

Yeah for FA Cup games it would extend into the Kingsland. The away bar is situated on the right hand side of the away concourse so they can't move the segregation into the Chapel.

I couldn't think of anything worse than sitting in the home end in a derby game surrounding by opposing fans whilst getting pumped, which is likely what will happen. Good luck to any Skates who do manage to sneak in.

Their fans aren't happy at all https://www.redpassion.co.uk/threads/southampton-away.126095/page-5

Matchweek 5 seems like a good bet. 3 wins and a draw before that.

No trains to Southampton that weekend.

At least with a bubble, there's absolutely no reason why the pubs can't open before the game.

Anyone who sells their ticket to one of them lot should face a lifetime ban.

Only if they had also bought a ticket from 2020 onwards for one of our games

If they beat PSG in the league phase then I'll eat some humble pie but until then let's just wait and see.

The whole stand is the same price for a Category A match - https://www.itfc.co.uk/tickets/matchticketprices

Awful ticket prices but my response is that I simply won't purchase anything in the ground. I'd normally buy a couple of pints so they'll lose out, from me anyway.

Just had a quick look and most clubs haven't announced away ticket details for the opening weekend of games, which is now less than 3 weeks away. Pretty poor. The only teams so far who had were Ipswich at Birmingham and the skates at Oxford. I hope we announce Ipswich details soon (less than 4 weeks away!). When every team does announce away ticket prices I'll compile a list and post it up here, and also the usual allocations, assuming a team charges the same prices for every team. Birmingham is the standard 2000 fans, Oxford is 1500.

I only started attending away games recently, post-lockdown. I missed out on a few localish ones for me in London so went to games further away to ensure I could the following season. It really wasn't hard to get the numbers up.

They'll be up there by default because of their squad, it's how they do against us, Leicester and Ipswich which will define whether Selles was a good appointment or not.

It's always the same people as well.

Even they don't want to be anywhere near him

Viktor Johansson, he went to Stoke. Named their player of the season last year. Given how much he was available for (£1million apparently) surprised a Prem team didn't snap him up as a number 2 option. I assume we were looking at ball-playing goalkeepers under Martin, I wonder if we have moved on from that sort of profile and will focus on ... shot-stopping and commanding the box...

Very little we can read into this. It's so hot that it was always going to be a slow going game. 4 weeks to go until Wrexham so plenty of time to ramp things up and get everyone fully prepared.

We don't have a silly accent so we're one up on them already

Exactly. Teams are in pre-season already, a new manager will want time to implement a style, new tactics. 5 weeks until the new season is still enough time but not ideal compared to everyone else. Leicester may be OK because they have a lot of quality but it doesn't bode well for them. At least we got our house in order in advance.

All of those are top players at this level. Luton over-achieved the season before when they got promoted. We'll be fine. We could be utterly shit and we'll still finish 6th minimum.

Adams was phenonemal for us last season and we never replaced him. We'd have scored a lot more goals and created a load more if he had stayed. He was a massive miss. Archer will come good for us next season, he looked effective on the counter (his best games were at Man City and Arsenal and the cup game against Liverpool when we deviated away from RussBall...).