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Bloody marvellous!! Can't wait for Tuesday.

Think it was David Cross. I think it was the season where he also scored a hat trick in the last match, away at Burnley.

I didn't see many games the season before last as I was a Northampton boycotter, but in the games I did see I thought CT was excellent. Last season wasn't a good one for him. I hope with TM's help he'll bounce back.

To be fair, it seems like you can't get near the shop if ten people turn up!

All valid points. However if (and it is a big if) people couldn't get their tickets in time because of the queues then firstly, it'd just seem a reasonable thing to give them a bit more time and secondly - and perhaps I'm getting carried away here - we do have a tendency as a fan base to have a...

If the shop stays really busy over the weekend, it'd be good to see the early bird offer extended for a few days longer. Let's sell as many as possible!

Legends tickets only went on sale yesterday. Not sure exactly how many it holds, but it should add a few hundred to the season ticket numbers.

I thought that the main problem with Webster was that our defence always seemed to play very deep when he was in the team - I always assumed to cover his lack of pace. Under Pressley that just increased the empty space that already existed between our forwards and the rest of the team, leaving...

I'd like to think we could do that if we had a reasonably successful season.

Or indeed the Arsenal fans who want them to get rid of Wenger. I guess it's human nature to always want to push on "to the next level", but to do that with a guy who was a novice at managerial level did strike me as a bit of a gamble at the time.

I thought that might have been the case - but thought I might be pushing my luck with that as I missed that game, so was just going from memories of match reports. Seems odd to think that Sillett was fired not too long afterwards as he wasn't bringing us enough success. If only we knew...

Could be worth asking him how he coped with playing against better and better players as the club moved up the leagues.

My memory may be playing tricks, but I think that was the year when we beat Arsenal 1-0 (Kilcline pen) at Highfield Road in March (??) to go third?

And that's when you're not worked up.......

I'd agree re Chelsea. Clubs like them probably have a significant scouting infrastructure around the world to avoid the poor "super scout" having to wander around doing it all himself. As I recall Bobby Gould went to watch Pearce play for Wealdstone at Yeovil, on the back of a recommendation...

Then you could set an example by being realistic about what a scouts role is i.e. Checking out recommendations - Yes Wandering around central Africa hoping to spot the next Pele playing in the middle of the road - No

You really expect SISU to fund speculative scouting trips to the middle of Africa??????

I'd have thought it was a pretty major part of a scout's job to follow up on recommendations to see if they agree that a player is any good - rather than just buying someone "cos he was recommended...". Although given many of our signings over the last couple of years, perhaps that's exactly...

There have been many occasions in the last couple of years when having someone running round shouting "Don't panic" would have been very useful!

I remember being hugely excited about the signing of Colin Stein. it got even better when the following week we signed some bloke called Hutchison.....