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It was showing as only 200-300 left across the stadium, now 1000+. Strange. Also seems to be letting me add member no's of people who have only had 1 or 2 games this season (I already have mine, just have friends who are waiting until tier 3).

I've been to 10 home games this season. 300 points. Is that right?

I'd recommend Bristol beer Factory for a post-game pint. They've just opened up their back room, and its an impressive setup for watching sport. If I was an away fan who wanted a sports pub near the ground, that'd be my best best

Why's everyone like an angsty teenager and worried about looking tinpot? Can't wait

Bournemouth spent very little in the summer. Transfers fees are often dictated by a clubs percieved capacity to spend. We know they've got a lot in the coffers - we should be hardballing them for more

Cheers Stan, great listen. Can appreciate producing a pod every week (if not more) can be a slog, but for what it's worth OSIB is excellent. Your ability to host and interview is top notch as well, I may be bias because its city, but I find your work far more engaging than most of what I hear on mainstream TV and radio

What if I don't think he's a messiah, but also don't think he's self-interested and single-handedly ruining the club?

The insanity of prohibition goes on. Keep digging holes, the moles will just pop up elsewhere

Bit of a random Q for the matchday thread, but looks like I'm going to have to go straight from work to AG this eve, does anyone know if their are restrictions on bringing laptops in? I know sometimes they can eb funny about things like that

The photos from this are going to be unreal!

Anyone got suggestions for parking near the ground?

Eh? He's been Chelsea's best player this season

A friend of mine is now the academy goalkeeper coach at a lg1 club, earning about the same as he did as a PE teacher at a secondary school (27k). For years before this he was working evenings and weekends for Fulham as a part-time academy GK coach - being offered full time positions at 24k a year that he continually turned down. 24k a year to work full time in London - that's just above the living wage. Plus the Fulham academy has been churning out 'assets' for years - hardly fair pay in that context

if people are worrying about wage expenditure on a role like Dean Gerken has, I can assure you he is paid absolutely **** compared to any of our players. I've banged this drum before but wages for everyone apart from the very senior coaching/management staff at this level is poor.

Vyner with a last ditch tackle there

You're obviously an affable chap NTTDS, seeing as you asked those police women for a photo. More portraits please! Pub landlords, stewards, Blackpool fans etc.

That was the one that stuck in my mind as well

Crazy to watch his recovery runs - they're explosive, 100% sprints....every...single...time. Never labouring, never jogging. He's one of the fittest footballers I've seen at Champ level

I think there will still be changes (just not wholesale). Expect 3-4 changes to the starting line-up. Think we'll see Klose, Wells and Wilson or Tanner in

If it's sunny get yourself to the Avon Packet and have a cider with the ducks

Timeline would fit for the 2020 advert being for Alex Scott

I used to work with students studying students studying Sport Science at a top, local sports university. They would initially set out to want to work in data analytics in football (their degrees had a strong focus on mathematics and stats), and would quickly realise they could work in a myriad of other sectors for 2 or 3 times the salary being offered by even the top teams in the country. Only the football obsessives or lower-achieving students would still want to pursue a role in the industry afterwards.

To add to the above - A very good friend of mine has been involved in GK coaching since he was 18, so last 13-14 years. He worked part time for a championship-prem yo-yo club for years (whilst working full time as a teacher) - they'd regularly offer him a full time salary of 22-23k, which he simply couldn't afford to commit to. He's now full time at a lg1 club for around 28k, which is just about enough considering he's just had a kid. He's their lead academy coach, writes the whole programme, deals with strategy - you'd never get any sort of leadership role paying that at any other organisation I can think of. Ive always thought the pay imbalance at football clubs should get more press attention than it does, not to mention the absolute scandal of unpaid placements within the football industry

Scandalous wage considering their role and the pay of their fellow colleagues. I used to work with students who'd intern at prem and efl clubs (including City) who were paid nothing for a whole season of interning. Lead performance analysts would get about 25k average at championship level, less at lg1 and 2 level. I knew one guy who'd been a performance analyst at Peterborough + left the game and retrained as a heating engineer because he couldn't support hsi family on the wage he was being offered.