stevegrant

I would have thought the election would be open to those who were members prior to Miliband resigning to prevent exactly this sort of scenario?

Indeed.

I don't have the option, sadly.

Oh.

Probably the first and only time I would credit him with any modicum of sense.

Yep. I have a ticket for Day 2 on the Friday, which will be touch-and-go if we get through and are away first. If we were to get a draw against someone with early flights back into Gatwick on the Friday morning, or if we were drawn at home first again, then I'd be fine.

Mason Crane with all 4 wickets in Durham's innings before they declare, leaving us with a chase of 305 in a minimum of 72 overs. 4.23 runs per over, wouldn't have thought we'll get anywhere near, but as long as we bat out the draw that'll show a bit of progress, I think.

Walcott only played 12 games for us, so no great surprise there. Crouch slightly more so, considering he made 26 league appearances in 2004/5, and of our strikers only Kevin Phillips made more (30).

Seriously, it's infinitely more hassle for them to kick up a fuss at the turnstile than it is to let people in and then control the crowd inside the ground.

In reality, probably **** all. As long as people aren't acting like ****s, they'll let everyone in.

Channelling your inner MLG there?

168 before I got bored. Only obvious ones I missed were Jack Cork and Jason Puncheon. I did get Jakobsson though

This should be double figures, really. Just depends how much we take our foot off the pedal later in the game.

Cedric's the only one of the four named who's likely to be playing regularly, I'd have thought. Personally I'd like Gazzaniga to be given as much pre-season game time as possible just to ensure he's up to speed. U21 games throughout the season aren't going to keep him sharp if required.

If anybody is genuinely waiting for club-organised travel rather than doing it themselves then they're seriously cutting their nose off to spite their face - it's going to cost a lot more than booking it straight away yourself would have done, and it's probably not going to be particularly convenient. And that's assuming the club is actually able to offer anything at all.

The kickoff times for the group stage onwards are fixed by UEFA at 19:00 and 21:05 CET (18:00 and 20:05 UK time), but the times for the qualifying rounds are up to the home club to determine. Eredivisie midweek games tend to kick off at 20:00 local time, I don't see why Vitesse would want to change that, really.

Thanks for the info. Does Arnhem do what I've seen in a lot of European cities where local buses are free when you have a match ticket? If not, how much are the buses? I'll need to get back to the train station straight after the game for a train back to Amsterdam.

There's loads in block L7M. L7L mostly sold out.

UEFA regulations say you only have to offer 5% of capacity to away fans, and from the photos it looks as if those fences are pretty much fixed.

Ticketing will surely be done on last season's away attendance record. No idea what the cutoff would be to be guaranteed, but the 3000 allocations tended to go to 5+ aways, so would expect this one to be 8+ initially, probably with only one-day windows for each group.

ITV don't have the rights anymore, BT Sport have exclusive coverage, but as far as I'm aware, the contract only starts from the playoff round. Some of the Scottish sides have been on Premier Sports in the early rounds, not sure if there's scope for ITV to pick up our game or not. Both of West Ham's home games have been on the club's YouTube channel.

Literally no ****s given about the remaining friendlies now the draw's been done

The pitch rolls in under the stand, and the roof's retractable.

Evening Eredivisie games kick off at 8pm local time, so it should be fine. Last train back to Amsterdam is around midnight.

See the European Tour sticky...