East Londoner

For the second it was Steerman who Semenyo robbed 

1 hour ago, Sleepy1968 said:

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2021/september/New-measures-to-prevent-resale-of-tickets/

https://tickets.avfc.co.uk/screenloader.aspx?type=include&page=usercontent/documents/html/tandc.html

It sounds like (a) they have a waiting list for season tickets, and (b) they have a problem with ticket touting. Also, you can transfer a season ticket to a guest for a single game 'with the express written permission of the club'. How easy this is to do I don't know. It would certain seem to stop you passing tickets on at short notice. Villa (along with most I suspect) Premier clubs operate an official ticket exchange system. It seems they are at least trying to ensure tickets are made available to actual real fans.

Fortunately (some would say, some would say not) we aren't in Aston Villa's position and you can lend season tickets as long as the person using them isn't taking the proverbial i.e. meets the criteria for the age category of ticket. (In this respect I guess there would be no issues for anyone gaining access on a more expensive age catagory season ticket.)

I look forward to the day when tickets for a city game are in demand again.

I had a season ticket for West Ham first two seasons at the london stadium due to it being a bargain and near to where i live until i realised watching the team you actually support even if the players aren’t as good is more fun 

They too had a ticket exchange scheme and if you couldn’t make a game you’d only get 50% of what you’d paid with the rest going to the club who’d then sell your seat at full price so was pretty greedy as they’d already been paid for that seat so got paid twice. 
 

1 hour ago, OddBallJim said:

Not a fan of Downsy, much preferred David Lloyd and also his immediate predecessor (unsure of the name) circa 2003-2005 who did the massively elongated “come on you redssssssss” before kick off. Much better.

Why be so precious over a hat?

Probably due to his lack of hair I’d imagine 

Blackpool away when the weathers nice..

1 minute ago, Northern Red said:

I assume he means that without the deduction they'd be safe, and to be fair he'd be correct. They'd have 52 points, Reading would be in 22nd with 41.

Reading also lost 6 points don’t forget 

Just now, BCFC Richard said:

 

 

 

 

 

@Colombo Robin Just one more thing....I think I heard somewhere they are brothers.

Share the same mother and same father i believe 

I caught a bit of the commentary of the Scottish cup semi yesterday on five live and they weren’t exactly complementary and at one point even said he’d ‘lost his head’

Would also be a good opportunity to go on tour to some warmer countries and play some games for team building etc like we saw in Gambia before the double winning season 

Not a cheerful memory by any means, the athletic have a very powerful article which isn’t behind a paywall and tells the story from a group that tends to be forgotten….the survivors 

https://theathletic.com/3236654/2022/04/15/life-after-hillsborough-told-by-the-men-and-women-who-survived/?source=user_shared_article

1 hour ago, Waconda said:

You are aware he has been bombed out of several other clubs for this exact type of behaviour, right ?

I dare say Derby wouldn’t be in the position they are if he hadn’t clashed with Mel 

At times today he reminded me of a kid i used to play football with back in the day and kept going in circles 

Vyner looks like he’s on at right back so Scott must now be in midfield 

Birmingham if it’s good enough for a Chinese takeaway it’s good enough for me 

Leeds

You just know if Everton go down we’ll get them away on a Tuesday night 

Not easy viewing by any means but Netflix have dropped a compelling jimmy savile documentary showing how he was able to hide in plain sight 

Obviously it’s different watching it with the benefit of hindsight but it seems amazing how creepy the man was whilst on tv and being interviewed and seeming to imply things about his behaviour and yet people amusing he was joking and laughed. 

I’ve seen comments on twitter from those watching from overseas asking how people didn’t realise and that’s the fascinating part as it’s almost as if he groomed the nation including those at the top of the British establishment

Definitely worth a watch 
 

Watch them now try and take a 15 point penalty this season instead of next 

It appears after agreeing a price to buy Preston Kirchner twice came back with lower bids.

That should ring a few alarm bells and it’s beginning to look like Portsmouth did when they were in trouble and i wouldn’t be surprised to see them back in administration again assuming they come out of it this time 

17 minutes ago, Bristol Oil Services said:

No? Not making your own luck? A bit like delaying the kick-off to a critical end of season do-or-die game so as to know what result you (both) need to stay up. Naughty, and not nice.

We're too nice, nicer than bloody Bournemouth. 

Lesson seems to be don’t max out FFP obliterate it instead 

Some of these examples there’s only been a token appeal on the pitch whereas other teams would’ve done more than throwing their arms in the air and then accept it.

There was no real appeal from Dasilva or any of the team at Fulham and the same could be said of the ones at home to forest and qpr. 

On Saturday other than Martin and Weimann nobody appealed. If the referee is swayed by player reaction that gives the impression that those two are appealing more out of hope than expectation 

Having been to both the Fulham and Bournemouth away games it’s fairly clear why Fulham are going to win the league.

They have that killer instinct which in both games against us Bournemouth didn’t have. Bournemouth let us back into a game they should’ve been out of sight of and suspect they’ll struggle next season 

1 hour ago, RedM said:

I thought it was one of our better performances on the whole. It was an enjoyable match but even when we scored early you knew that wasn’t going to be the score for long. The longer the match went on in the first half I thought we almost matched them, but as I said I was never very confident. They seemed to have corner after corner but we held them. If we could have got to HT still in front their belief might have drained, but they never looked like a team that lacked in confidence.

They certainly dominated us in the second half. I wouldn’t have subbed off Cundy when we did personally. I thought Martin worked hard and Nakhi did some clever stuff at times but not really on the same wavelength as some of the players around him. Alex Scott again looked a shadow of what he has previously been. Jay put in a few decent crosses. Weimann looked to deep again. 

Bournemouth had tall, quick players and the game was played at pace which was enjoyable. It looks like they will get promoted along with Fulham and the Premiership will again have two sets of the most forced, plastic, fans back. 

Our fans. The majority fully well behaved but again it’s the idiots who let us down. After a full pat down search, bag search and being wanded we got in. I heard of a lone female had to even have her boots checked. But there were blokes by me who were openly drinking thatchers gold from cans they got in, how the hell?

Two objects were thrown on the pitch, a water bottle and before that a plastic glass of cider. There was also a flare when we score but it was let off in the middle of the crowd fairly low down which badly affected a lot of less able people.

Quite a lot of ‘lads’ arrived late, they couldn’t or didn’t go up the back of the stand where they usually gather. Instead they stood on the steps and stayed down the front. They spent most of the time goading the Bournmouth players if they came near ( it was almost touching distance from the pitch) and then they turned on the few Stewards who were trying to get them to stop and find seats. Soon the Stewards gave up and the fans just stayed at this low level. Lots of our less able fans had chosen to sit pitchside and they of course couldn’t see a thing, a few scuffles then broke out bweeen our fans. At HT I saw a few of our fans trying to ask the stewards to move the fans away. I think the feeling was it was ‘safer’ to let them stay there than insist they move. Many of us thinking probably the Stewards aren’t paid enough to want to get involved, Agency staff etc. If there had been a serious incident they all looked like they would have ran a mile and can’t blame them against a load of drunken, and/or coked up aggressive idiots.

 

One good thing if you can call it that SLO Jerry was a couple of rows behind me and it’s fair to say he didn’t look impressed and i didn’t see him again after the flare was let off. What power he actually has remains to be seen 

2 minutes ago, AshtonGreat said:

Having watched the three sloppy goals we gave away, those scores seem quite high for the defenders. I didn't see the whole game, but we made it easy for Bournemouth it seems

In fairness it was wave after wave of attacks as we had no midfield until Massengo came on so is pretty fair imo

One thing i noticed from the penalty appeal was it was almost a halfhearted appeal. Only really Martin and Weimann made any sort of appeal and we need to make it more difficult for the referee like pretty much every other team does

You're right about the stewarding outside the ground but inside it was very socially distanced and did nothing to move our idiots who were blocking virtually all the exits.