stevegrant

I think it'll be difficult for Villa to be playing twice a week for a month, academy players aren't used to that sort of schedule. They've also got the FA Youth Cup final against Man City after four of their six remaining games, so I think I'd put City as massive favourites for that final right now. Maybe they get the 11 points they'll need from their remaining six games, but I don't think it's a foregone conclusion at all.

Probably worth also comparing with Sheffield United and Burnley, tbf - Leeds will always be a big draw for Sky because they know it's a guaranteed viewing audience. Worth noting there have been 9 midweek rounds where everyone has played either Tuesday or Wednesday (might have been one or two rogue Thursdays thrown in there too), plus there's 2 on Good Friday/Easter Monday coming up, and Christmas featured Boxing Day, plus everyone playing on Sunday 29th and New Year's Day (a Wednesday), and the final day where everyone is kicking off at 12:30. So that's 15 games of the 46 that are already definitely not Saturday 3pm, so I'd discount those from the "look how many games get moved for TV" discussion. From the remaining 31, Sheffield United appear to have had 7 moved to a Friday night (predominantly big games - opening night, Hull home and away, Leeds, Sunderland, Coventry), surprisingly only 3 Saturday 12:30s, 4 Sundays (the two Sheffield derbies at 12:30, West Brom and Watford 3pm) and a single Monday night (Leeds). So that's 16 Saturday 3pm games. Burnley have had a few more moved, with only 11 Saturday 3pms - 8 Saturday 12:30s, 4 Friday nights, 2 Monday nights and 3 Sundays - but looks like they might have had a few games postponed during the season which have had to be played midweek. Compare this to last season for us, obviously on the old TV deal: 16 non-Saturday games in the original schedule, leaving 30 that were originally Saturday 3pm. 22 of those remained, with 5 moved to Saturday lunchtime and 3 to Friday night. We obviously had more games televised than that, but these were midweeks where games were either played Tuesday or Wednesday anyway, over Christmas on days where everyone played the same day and over Easter where everyone played Friday and Monday. By my calculation, we had 17 games televised out of our 46.

Solid start, 55/0 off 17. Middleton doesn't have a particularly wide range of shots, but he does at least seem to have the patience to wait for a delivery that suits him.

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I need to do a database server upgrade at some point, I suspect this may be related. Migrating a 14gb database should be a piece of cake...

Those weird Saints-related Facebook groups might be for you then, seen some proper odd stuff going on there whereby the admins set every post on matchday to be fully moderated so they quite often don't become visible to everybody else until days later, so then somebody has posted something in reaction to an incident in a game on the Saturday and it then gets posted around the same sort of time as a game we're playing on the Wednesday utter lunacy.

OK, I think we are back...

As mentioned on the forum-wide announcement, you should have the option to switch the theme (in the page footer, there is a Theme dropdown item) to the original Invision default theme. Unfortunately this default theme is blue, but it might be a little bit more reliable for a short period - I don't really like the way this forum software manages its updates and functionality changes, as it forces those who use heavily-cached connections (often on mobile devices where it's harder to clear the cache properly) to suffer degraded performance for a while.

I wonder whether that is more a case of being "sold out" in terms of the number of STs they were willing to sell in that section, in order to allow game-by-game sales for those who can't/don't want a season ticket. Forest is currently on sale to members, but as I'm a ST holder and not a member, I can't even get into the stadium plan to see what's available.

Translation: I provided vague URLs in the hope that people would just accept my ever-reducing argument without question, but upon actual interrogation of said articles it turns out they don't even back up my point. Sad bastards for actually reading them!

Newcastle must also have been relatively flexible - in the past, PL clubs used to often take a stance of "decide exactly what you want a month in advance, you can't change your mind" when it came to allocations.

And it's perfectly normal for them to fail. Humans make more errors than automated systems. Most automated systems only fail when humans get involved. The app is the same app that UEFA uses for the Euros. Tickets for the group stage were sent through to the app about three or four weeks before the opening game, and you have the option of transferring tickets to somebody else - you put their email address in and they get an email with a link to either download the app (if they don't already have it) or it will open the app automatically (if they do already have it) and allow the recipient to "accept" the transfer. It literally couldn't be easier. In terms of how it will work at the turnstiles, the Euro tickets do not show the QR code until the day of the game, and I think the code changes regularly within the app for security, so if you did screenshot it and use it the underlying code may have changed in the meantime. That code gets scanned in the same way as the barcodes on last year's tickets did.

You joke, but...

Seemingly now the full-time captain of Northern Ireland too, so yeah, inclined to agree she's not planning to retire any time soon.