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Someone's gotta say it..............we can't drop two divisions in one go. For convenient closeness, Bournemouth, QPR, Watford, MIllwall, Reading and Brizzle. Luton will be interesting and plenty others there to rekindle the enthusiasm. Burnley, Middlesbrough and one more northern side for promotion to the PL, thank you.

The continue shit shows and defeats and eventual relegation will be painful, but come August I will be enthused with the season ahead. No PL bullshit, different grounds to visit and the prospect of a few more winnable games. If it goes too well it will be back to the PL and the inevitable consequences of being in that league. Having said that, I would enjoy promotion if it were to happen and renewed hope would return...for a while.

We know what we're getting

This is my second reworking of a classic today *cough* “You've got a friend in BreeYou've got a friend in BreeWhen the road looks rough aheadAnd you're miles and milesFrom your nice warm Bed(fordshire)You just remember what your old pal saidBoy, you've got a friend in BreeYeah, you've got a friend in Bree”

I got a new one for our Luton contingent… “Bree and Mrs. Jones We got a thing goin' on We both know that it's wrong But it's much too strong To let it go now”

Semmens: I'll tell you what, we need a fans (fan's/fans') forum... Ankerson: You must be fucking joking! Semmens: Hear me out...season ticket holders only, just a handful and only those that filled out those fan surveys with glowing colours *cough* the thickos. ST holders must be from south of the halfway line and over the age of 72 or under 9. Start with Doris, Betty and Hilda. Ankerson: It could work... Semmens: Just make sure whotsisname...you know...the manager is kept well away.

Brawl-ers *those under a certain age may need that explaining

Too many letters, most fans have fallen asleep by halfway through. And we could do with a 2 syllable moniker to vastly increase our very limited repertoire - “scummer” and (for our Dorset/Wiltshire contingent) “Saaaamptn” doesn’t count.

It wasn’t that hard to work out on the OS ticket site, we had four and a half blocks, each block held around 620. Just before they took them off sale the day before there was less than 50 left, so would have been about 2,800. We had an option to commit to 3,700 earlier in the week but club stuck to the first allocation, they got it spot on really.

Did somebody knife Murphy?

Bree. Soft cheese. We need some inspiration (credit M. Bates)

We could sell it to moneybags Bournemouth, only a 30 mile jaunt across the forest to training from their luxury abodes in Sandbanks.

No doubt a TV game if Jonesy's old mob

MIGs incoming - bet Nath hopes it's Grimsby

There were only around 75 tickets left earlier, so looks like we'll have just about the full 2,800 allocation up there by Tuesday. Fair play to all those travelling up, that's one helluva journey in the circumstances. Shane Long. Anfield. Say no more.

FFS, the skates get a couple of wins on the bounce and they get all chippy again

'spose it's only fair we repay the Mackems for dumping our neighbours out of the third division play-offs a few years back - best we ruin the Geordie's party then

All the blocks look very similar in size and probably (if includes the 4 or so separate rows at the front) hold around 620. Other than a dozen odd seats in LTM they were all sold earlier yesterday so that would be around 2480 and tickets are now selling in the extra (half) block put up (the other half must be segregation) - looks like, understandably, we just took the 2,800 allocation

The initial 4 blocks are gone, they’ve now put another batch of seats on sale in the additional block. Around 2,500 sold so far.

No problem with sides being a bit more nasty, we've certainly needed to show a more ruthless edge, but that mincer Murphy and his girly wave just deserves a slap

Nah, that'll never work for a caption, no punchline. How about...

Not all fans of course - one for the dressing room wall "I could chew you up and spit you out you scrawny little limp-wristed cunt"

Police would like to talk to 2 Newcastle supporters, believed to be around 7 years old, after a steward was attacked last night in the Family Stand

I'm sure he was chomping but you have to admire his self control, I'm in my sixties but I still wouldn't have been able to stop myself steaming in. We just need one of these and take our chances with pens - to dump them out now would be the sweetest thing never a wrong time to show this, belief, football's a funny ol' game

I think ‘H’ is in the additional blocks once the 2,800 are sold and we decide to put them on sale. Currently around 2,500 sold, the other 300 may go if still in it after Tuesday but can’t see the club chancing the extra allocation.