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We absolutely have to win this after the shambles of last season, nothing less will be good enough. 5th league game in a row where we'll be comfortable favourites and failing to win yet again will be embarrassing. Slight concern is that they seem the sort of side we struggle against, really need Scienza and Jander fit.

In fairness I don't remember our fans ever mentioning it all until you lot started trying to build a rivalry calling us summers and bringing groups of lads trying to kick off etc. Fairly reasonable reaction to bring it up in that context no?

They could easily have bubbled West Ham from Stratford to the ground if they wanted to on train network. It'll happen after the game so no reason it couldn't before.

Think only half the allocation went on sale. Still got half of G and all of H to go on. Be surprised if we sold this out.

That was the fine Leeds got for the 'good faith' rule.

Isn't the charge 'general misconduct' rather bringing the game into disrepute? In which case I can see why Tonda breaking a specific rule is more relevant than the Biesla case. Biesla wasn't charged at all btw. Also I'm not sure why people are convinced that if he gets say a 6 month ban we'll bring in a temporary manager. Potential for disaster written all over it.

Decent chance all of those make members. Pretty sure there's no trains running for West Ham.

Why does our away support seem utterly incapable of singing the quick version of OWTS anymore? Not even that long ago we'd have spells of games where we'd sing it for 15+ minutes non stop but these days we can barely do it twice in a row. Swansea was probably the closest we got last season but only about 30-50 people stuck with it for a sustained period. Our away support really is the absolute pits these days.

Seconded. Hope they stay up so can play there again next season.

For all the talk of switching to the back 5 I don't really think that was the difference in the end. The tide had turned way before then and the biggest issue was that we chose to bypass the midfield and go long to a striker who can't hold it up. We have the better players, why didn't we have midfielders put a foot on the ball and pass them to death to take the sting out of the crowd? Totally played into their hands and nobody on the pitch wanted to take ownership of the situation. Quite funny seeing JWP getting credit for his 'assist' 😂 Thought he did okay yesterday for what it's worth (went missing late on though) but still don't think he's what we needed in that position. Desperately need Jander back.

We always do don't we? Their fans are mostly fine these days tbh.

Bobby Stokes also gave the club it's greatest ever achievement in fairness. Not really a like for like comparison.

Hearing aid test facilities. Bravo 😂

Yeah this basically. Think it might make our midfield very pedestrian when Jander isn't on the pitch.

Fair enough, I stand corrected.

Bringing JWP in as a Charles replacement would be a terrible move. It's nothing to do with comparing him to other players who returned and everything to do with the fact he's simply not very good and offers nothing that we're crying out for. Yes he'll bring some experience and is tidy in possession but he's unbelievably weak and games consistently pass him by. We've got plenty of players who are tidy in possession but we need a midfielder who carries a presence and is dynamic and that simply isn't him. I also don't buy these supposed leadership qualities either. I think people think he has leadership qualities because he was captain for a while but I've never actually seen him as a leader. At risk of over simplifying it no good leader captains their team to two 9-0 defeats in less than 18 months.

Either that or he scores an own goal in the 90th minute to give them the win and then jumps into the Fratton end to celebrate with his fellow fans.

Changed my mind on the pricing. Well done the club, meant I didnt travel to St Mary's to watch that shite.

It's definitely not decided between both clubs. Don't think the EFL thing is accurate either. Newcastle released their home cup prices for this season a month ago before any idea about who they're playing - https://support.newcastleunited.com/hc/en-gb/articles/20588358442780-How-much-are-Cup-tickets

Some of Kingsland is away end now so probably bit less than 10k. Reckon the gate will be just under 17k. Definitely won't be 20k.

Pretty sure clubs don't have to agree and home clubs simply set the price. Clubs used to have to agree pricing in the FA Cup but they binned that rule off a few years back.

She has to have a membership, been to match in the 5 seasons before this one, and then buy a different match this season.

I'd have paid £15. But when an FA Cup QF was £25 there was no chance I was paying similar for a 2nd round league cup tie. A comparable fixture is Leicester in the FA Cup 4th round which was a tenner with no booking fee. Don't see how they can justify this being almost 150% more than that.

Think every league cup game is now.

Yeah the club will get the attendance they deserve. Ridiculous pricing.