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If that's being presented as a barrier to entry, I'd be impressed to hear a better option. Denham (mentioned above) is on the exact same line, so pending where people are coming from it may be easier. I just preferred Gerrard's Cross when I last travelled as it seemed a bit less faffy than getting into Denham.

Gerrard's Cross is a fantastic pick to the north of Wembley. Big car park at the station and only a 15 minute Chiltern train direct to Wembley Stadium station. That's what I did for the JPT.

I was only really looking in the lower tier blocks behind the goal (so 132 to 135-ish), but they were getting snapped up quickly. Checked out at 10am and already by then you were looking at the cheaper standing tickets having gone and most of the seats left being right down the front. Managed to get in the center of 134, but can't imagine those areas will last until tomorrow.

All well and good when there's clear time and space for the logistics. Regardless of utilising this third party company, do you then have full faith in the postal system such that all tickets will arrive correctly and on time? I don't.

I know the club's reasoning. But it still comes back to what I said - they've inflicted it upon themselves by not utilising digital/print at home.

No problems with the queue here, but £3.40 booking fee seemed an unnecessary sting. As did having to pay for postage, which we don't normally. Why in the name of all things common sense didn't we go digital like Leeds?!

Still eerily quiet during the less certain moments. Room for improvement. And the less said about those that ran on at the end...

Have hit the critical mass of 'nothing else useful is getting done today'. Home for some lunch and then onto the beers, methinks. (He says, having already cracked into his first of the day).

Fill it with Dancing Man beer. Consistently having them as a drinks option in the Northam has been a revelation. Owned by a local guy and they brew consistently fantastic liquid.

The same did occur to me, but on the beer point, kegs will have a lifespan of a year. And given we the stadium gets through about £20k of liquid per match I can't imagine much of it sits around for long. Not to say that greater footfall for longer won't increase revenue. But that's somebody's literal job - so I'm only surprised it's not been attempted sooner.

The insecure gatekeeping of supposed rights and wrongs of support is at least as nauseating as the ultras stuff. Especially on here, with the same few voices going on and on and on about it. It's just a few over-enthusiastic kids. 🤷‍♂️ Football's for everyone. It follows that not all will approach matchdays exactly as you do.

Woke from a dream in the early hours in which we were 4-1 up before half time. Our 4th was a deliciously scrappy, force-it-over-the-line effort. Chance would be a fine thing...

Assuming prices are broadly similar across the stadium, I'm happy enough with £30 (it seems to be the going rate?) Good opportunity to use up any Ticket Exchange credit, too.

I'm surprised the club are seemingly just lobbing rails in front of the existing seats. Most Premier League clubs seem to be going down the fold-flat 'rail seating' route with their trials & rollouts. Granted, they'll have potential European football to consider (and so are more likely to seek to meet UEFA specifications). But it seems a bit shortsighted to do this half-arsed.

I had to work the 2nd leg - but at Southampton Uni Student's Union, so it was on all of the big screens. Probably one of the most horrible, powerless ways to witness it. The atmosphere was decent, though I could only watch in snippets until the penalty shootout. The stunned silence after Idiakez's miss lives with me; a crushing moment in itself, but also the widespread feeling that things were only going to get worse.

Do they? I saw the bolt-on page but there was a button to simply proceed to checkout if you didn't want any of them. Granted I was on a desktop, so perhaps different if you were using phone or tablet.

At very least after Rotherham at home. It wasn't subtle; Downes was quoted fairly extensively on it. https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/23841575.downes-claims-southampton-didnt-deserve-boos-rotherham-draw/

Depends to what extent people cram in, really. Save for some feeble efforts from the stewards in League One, we've never sat on my row. Yet it still feels pretty tightly packed; I don't actually know how people deal with sitting - I'm much more tall than I am broad, yet the seats seem tiny.

If they stopped now - literally downed tools and refused to play - we *might* catch them in 4 or 5 games' time. Look how many fixtures are left. Stop this preposterous line of thought.

What was it - something like 3 goals conceded in the previous 10 home matches? Then 3 just yesterday. Wi-Fi OUT.

You ask the question of us, but I don't feel you've bothered to stop and try to answer it yourself. Seems pretty obvious - they want him back up to speed, but don't anticipate him playing a big role in their first team this season. We're playing a high level of football and it's a low intervention, short-distance move to come here.

He may have a future with us; he probably won't. But bearing in mind the criticisms earlier in our run about not putting teams to the sword (and/or hammering them), he's now playing a role in that. Flat track bully or no, he's far from anonymous at present.

One of the more composed finishes we've seen from him. I'm not going to try to unpick the 'he's playing for a move' logic, because it's pointless. But he got us up and running today, then played a vital role in pushing on. If these are amongst his final contributions I'd rather it be this way.

All joking aside, I'm actually quite impressed with Bednarek knuckling down after it looked like he was done here. Far from the greatest CB we've had - and yes, the PL looked a notch above him at times. But a good servant who's been key to our fortunes thus far this season. We've seen a decent return on that initial £5m outlay.

Been mulling over these figures a fair amount this eve, set against some of the dafter caterwauling. Yes, we've dropped a few points from winning positions. Yes, that four game run fucked us a bit. But ourselves and Leeds are having a bloody good go at it. It's just that Leicester and Ipswich are simultaneously having utterly freakish seasons. You'd hope one (or both!) slips up soon. With nearly half the season gone who'd be brave enough to bet on it, though?