Mighty Squirrel Kingdom

I can understand the aspect of being protective of it because it's the players/staff parking and entrance - that fits in with Nomad's information about Marina Dolman Way being a permissive right of way as well - but if there are stewards telling people that they can't access the car park from Raynes Road to get to Winterstoke Road (which appears to be a public right of way) then that's not on at all. Anyway, off back down there in a minute (with my ST, passport, utility bill, payslip etc), COYRs ?

I can honestly say that I've never seen that before. I got asked for my ticket when I entered Marina Dolman Way at the Ashton Road end before the Cardiff game, but I was expecting that and it was about half an hour before kick off. I almost always use the Raynes Road gate to get into the car park, once again usually about 30 minutes before kick off and I know to present a ticket then. But today was the first time I've been stopped at that time on a match day while using that short cut and if that's going to be the case from now on, then at least I'll be prepared for that. BTW I saw precisely *one* Huddersfield fan at that point, an old boy wearing a blue and white striped shirt sitting on the wall by KFC.

Not posted here for a while so I may have missed information about this, but how long have the matchday stewards been preventing members of the public from walking along Marina Dolman Way and using the Raynes Road entrance to the South Stand car park because they don't have a valid ticket for the game? Happened to me about 4:30pm this afternoon - I was on my way home and I didn't have my ST with me, but there were a couple of old boys who wanted to use the carpark as a shortcut and they weren't allowed through, as were a couple of cyclists who were trying to get to Greville Smyth Park from Big John's statue. Not the type of jobsworth behaviour you'd expect from a 'community' club is it.

A couple of things to keep an eye on at the bottom of the table - I'm going to assume Pompey have at least ten points deducted on Friday, but this is what the situation looks like now: * We're at the top of the mini league (home and away) of the bottom six clubs but we also have the fewest games left against other teams in the bottom six (Cov at home, Peterbrough & Forest away). We've only lost twice to teams in the current bottom six (Peterborough at AG and Cov at the Ricoh), so I'd say that Saturday's game is a 'mustn't lose'. * All but one of Forest's five games against other teams in the bottom six have been away from home - they've still got to play us, Coventry, Donny & Millwall at the City Ground. * Millwall have played against all the other clubs in the bottom six at The New Den but still have to go to Coventry, Donny, Forest & Peterborough. That could be a real problem for them. * This is the first time that Peterborough have been in the bottom six all season. They've been in decline since Firework Night and haven't won since Boxing Day: they could be the team that gets dragged into the relegation battle. IMO anything greater than 46 points and we'll be OK. Only three of the last 21 clubs to have been relegated from the Championship won more than 46 points. Alex Deacon's latest projection in the Racing & Football Outlook puts us on 49.78. A simple mathematical projection puts us on 47.53 However...if we don't go down this season, we'll be amongst the favourites to go down next season. To further confuse matters, we're still not mathematically out of the playoffs ;-)

Signed. Ridiculous situation and I hope it gets sorted out in their favour.