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Policing 20K or 25K isn't much different, especially as all stands are already open to some degree. No different to the old days where FA Cup semi finals were at Villa Park etc. They even used to split the Holte End 50/50. This is nothing like the volatile fixture some are suggesting and I...

Blues were allocated 9260 as per their own announcement. It'll be more like 11K for us. We'll be at 9.5K by the end of today and they'll be more than 1000 released tomorrow from unsold STs I'm sure. So, not much difference in the scheme of things, but there will be more of us.

So club are saying the last available block in Tilton is being sold - T08, which will likely sell out today. We'll then have a period where tickets are temporarily sold out. Tomorrow ST seats are released and when they're sold, that's it. So both clubs will have sold out, but they'll be 8000...

That sort of difference, when did that last happen outside of the community days? First game back at the Ricoh, but that was a unique situation. Before that? Perhaps back in the 70s and 80s when crowds were all over the place. Even the likes of United might get 50K one week and 25K the next...

I never said they don't fluctuate, I said the same can be said of many other clubs. We're not unique on that front. Also they were pretty steady in our last 3 seasons in the Prem. Averaged 20K and the crowds rarely dipped below 18K.

We're no different to most clubs on that front. It's a total myth that our gates fluctuate massively in a way that doesn't happen elsewhere. Look at Pompey, were getting 7-10K in the second tier in the late 90s. Sunderland went from 15K in the mid 90s to 46K by the early 2000s. Had a Bristol...

On attendances, people have to remember we're going through the worst spell in our entire history as far as attendances are concerned. Our 5 lowest post-war season averages have all come in the last 7 seasons. What we have seen recently is pretty much as bad as it gets. We turned the corner last...

The Fleetwood game is a worry. They've only lost once at home all season and you hope there won't be a hangover from the cup game. That game has to be the priority, especially as we'll lose ground to other teams on Saturday. Yeah, we'll have games in hand, but a negative result at Fleetwood and...

Yes, we played well that day, silly amount of efforts on goal second half, but I thought they looked decent. Had a bit of quality about them. They've won 3 on the bounce, 4 out of 5 I think, so tough game tomorrow. A win would be huge.

Doncaster one of the better teams we've played this season, have a bad feeling about this. Got a feeling he might go two up top tomorrow.

They must have heard, block 12 now open.

Our club is a bit odd at times. For the second night running you cannot buy tickets for a game where demand is high because nobody has thought to make them available. I'm sure everyone will get a ticket ultimately, but it's a bit tinpot.

Why do people think the crowd will be made up of people who have previously refused to go? Most people will have been to a game or two this season. Just because we get 6K, it doesn't mean it's the same 6,000 every week. It wouldn't surprise me if 12,000-13,000 different individuals had attended...

And we sold our allocation of 5K, you can't blame us for the poor Blues turn out. Next week is just a unique occasion with a lot of novelty to it, that's all. Yes, off to Donny tomorrow, much more important game. Next week is just a bit of an occasion and a chance to earn some welcome extra cash.

For some perspective for those complaining about cup bandwagons, our last 3 home league gates against Blues: 2012 - 22,240 2009 - 22,637 2006 - 27,212 I have excluded the early rounds league cup tie a few years back. In the context of this season, it'll be a big turn out, but in general terms...

Quite lengthy queues at the t/o apparently.

You'd have thought so. But if all non ST seats in the usual area have gone, plus 6 additional blocks that aren't normally opened for sale, and yet we're still only at 5K, it suggests that relatively few ST holders have secured their seats yet. You'll be surprised how many don't bother.

Whoever is working the night shift at Ticketmaster needs to pull their finger out

It's a measure of how shit things have become that we're getting a bit giddy over 13K for a home game (which would be decent in the circumstances I know, because it's an away game), or that we might have fans behind the goal. If you'd said in the HR days, or in those first few seasons at the...

Yes, I do rember that. I went online in about 97, and it was quite active back then.