Sleepy1968

3 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

How are Man City not winning this?

You spoke too soon.

5 minutes ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

We`re not doing too badly  here, have certainly grown into the game and had a couple of decent chances.

I've been impressed. I know it's a low bar, and certainly Man City have been helping with their wasteful attacks (are they aiming for our goalie?) but could we avoid defeat?

0-0 ht

12 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

I reckon we are one of the more informed fanbases about the potential for disruption. Read a few forums from time to time..Birmingham fans are one of the least, they seem to have conflated the new T.V. deal with a doubling of fhe TV money as a whole and it going in the spending pot, whereas if they were to read the finer details they would see that Solidarity Payments make up a large chunk so it is £2-2.5m, £3m at a push 

Pops, I'm not sure them not knowing anything is a problem: how many League One games are going to get screened.?

12 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:

I think football is still adjusting to the effects of Covid,but its this coming season that does concern me.

With five of the Saturday 3pm Championship games being moved for live television coverage

I can see less season tickets and match day ticket sales be purchased.

I still think that the five live planned games will all be kicking off at 12:30pm on saturday

I might find out a little more when I attend the ITV AGM meeting this coming Thursday

I hope you're lobbying for getting our highlights pushed up the roster next season. We seemed to be on last again last night.

3 hours ago, exAtyeoMax said:

I find Downsy incredibly irritating more and more each game.

I don’t think the club realises how annoying continual chat over the tannoy really is. Too much, and people switch off

He's got to be quite cheap though, hasn't he?

Preferred it when it was David Lloyd & Tim Shires running things.

41 minutes ago, Swede said:

He's technically a very good player who can play in a number of positions. Interestingly, much like Knight and Bird, he's welcomed a move away from his developing club to presumably shake the young "academy prospect" tag off once and for all. There's a lot more to come from him.

When you come through, I think you can struggle to earn what you're worth against peers who've arrived for decent fees.

3 hours ago, Dan11 said:

He's one of the best players in the league at the moment. His journey this season has been incredible to watch - first few games you could see he had so much ability but he didn't have the tactical discipline, decision making or end product. He's developed so much under McKenna though and he's almost unplayable at times now. Superb attitude too. A player destined for the very top. 

If he was on loan at City  and Ashton was still CEO, I shudder to think how much money we'd bid for him.

14 hours ago, JBFC II said:

We're now exactly 4 months on from this.

What exactly was that 'something' that was happening back in December? I must have missed it?

They were going to install their first flushable toilet. Sadly, the plumbing couldn't cope with all that sh1t.

1 hour ago, Sturny said:

I reckon he wants to sign, we're just not willing to pay what he asks from the first rounds of negotiations i'm betting. Hope they can reach an agreement.

Ending the season positively helps loads 

They've been trying to get him to sign for a year. He wants to do as well as he can financially and professionally, which is understandable. He'll get better offers than those two (or three maybe by now) offers already made by the club. We'll see what happens!

Bloody hell. I thought I was seeing a replay of the Ipswich second goal. Sort of a 'hands off' system of defending by Hull.

I thought Twine got done bad two or three times. Book the first, it doesn't happen again. Ignore it, and you risk the player getting injured.

Refs are meant to protect players from this sort of thing.

25 minutes ago, eardun said:

I hope so, although I can see Birmingham getting away with it again and Plymouth going down.

We were thinking the same thing - as soon as we heard Plymouth were losing it was 'oh no, they're going to stay up again!'

17 minutes ago, BCFC31 said:

Ryan Frederick's is now springing to mind

I thought the only reason he left was because one of the other players decked him. One that played in the same position ...

22 minutes ago, Barrs Court Red said:

At £5m though ?  

I'd offer £2m plus a £4m PL promotion bonus. C'mon Burnley, you know you want to.

(I fully appreciate that Fevs and Silvio have mentioned better value options, but LM only has eyes for ST.)

1 minute ago, fishy said:

You must be cockahoop

I'm loving it. I've cashed out my 5p bet for a whooping 21p profit.

I honestly thought Leeds would struggle tonight, but I didn't think they'd roll over like this.

1 minute ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

 

Sooner Leeds than that ***** at Portman Road tbh.

We know your feelings :). I'll take a Huddersfield (and City) win tomorrow, and call it a good weekend.

5 minutes ago, Super said:

Oh dear

I want close ups of Leeds fans crying.

1 hour ago, REDOXO said:

For my tuppence I’ll buy mine in July if I see that commitment. If they won’t sell me one then, if I deem it worthy they shalt GO **** Themselves ! 

I waited after the play off final failure v Brighton. Then we sold Leroy Lita. So I didn't renew, and missed a few years - and came back after the Hull play off final failure.

2 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Some huge games in the EFL this weekend. Starting tonight with QPR V LEEDS 

I'm looking forward to Leeds falling apart, again.

1 hour ago, eardun said:

On point 3, we’re just going on what Gavin Marshall said in the FBC podcast when he says we have 15k season ticket holders currently and (direct quote) “we probably don’t want to have that many more season ticket holders”.

He then goes onto talk about getting POTD seats in the SS by reducing season tickets there (ensures a mix of different fans in the SS like in the other stands) which is your point 2. This is consistent with what they said when they launched season tickets which was this:

“Following feedback at the Fans Forum in November, where there was a collective desire to improve matchday atmosphere, we have made a number of changes to try and increase matchday attendance, particularly in the South Stand by capping the number of Season Tickets to enable more match tickets to be made available here.”

I think someone said there is an EFL cap on percentage of season tickets but I’ve not seen it. However City themselves don’t seem to want to sell many more than 15k (if you take what GM says at face value) which would leave around 8k for POTD (home fans only). Their comms keep stating that there are limited tickets available. Of course they might be tested if people keep buying even after they get to, say, 16k - are they really going to say ‘no thanks’?! Not convinced they will sell that many though. 

 

I get you. You are right but I just don't want believe what he says. We aren't supported anything like well enough for this to be a good idea.

I'm hoping it's a marketing gimmick to try to generate more ST sales, but if its not, I look forward seeing how it plays out.

10 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

I am so confused! 
 

How many season tickets have actually been sold to supporters?

How is withholding seats in the South Stand advantageous to the football club?

Am I off base here, but are the club threatening/implying they will limit sales of season tickets at a relatively low level? 
 

All help appreciated!

1. 12k+

2. Two reasons: They are trying to increase bums on seats, seeing as the South Stand attendances have been hugely under capacity for many games, with all tickets sold to ST holders (as in Sold Out). Also gives us cheaper POTD alternative.

3. I think some people got the wrong end of the stick. Ain't no way the Club would limit ST sales below the proscribed limit (there have to be a certain percent of POTD tickets available.)

Waits for people to disagree ...

He's a greater little player. Very snappy in the tackle. Shouldn't this be in the transfer forum?

5 hours ago, Major Isewater said:

Brrrrrrriiiissstol, was the chant in the past . Why are people so tetchy ?

I remind you ‘OTIB ‘ . 

 

Yeah, I mentioned that in the past. For me, Bristol Bears are too insignificant for this to cause an issue.

1 hour ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

Obviously we don't know how next season is going to pan out on the pitch. 

But let's just say we do about the same. 

I don't think people are quite aware of the impact the new TV deal will have on fixtures and that come next years renewals we will see a drop off because of the TV schedule. 

We will. I suspect the FSF will do a survey to help quantify the impact of this. Apart from people not attending, it will also cause major inconvenience to some fans. That this isn't recognised by the other 'stakeholders' shows that the pursuit of the dollar (or pound) trumps all in modern professional football.

1 hour ago, JBFC II said:

Don't the club have to keep a certain number of tickets back for pay on the day anyway?

Let's say we have 22000 seats available for home fans, we'd probably be looking to max out at 18k season tickets and then leave the rest for general sale.

The issue with the south stand was the number of unused season tickets. From what I heard, despite being sold out it was at around 60% capacity on average, the club had to do something. Season tickets are still of huge importance for a club like ourselves, can't see there coming a time in the near future where we won't have them

Yeah, that situation was untenable.

It probably looked worse than it was because a number of supporters invoked the free upgrade to unattended seats in other parts of the ground.