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General, hope your getting back to full fitness, some big games coming up that you need to attend! Who's idea was it to put an daily update on the number of tickets sold for the away semi final? I think its a brilliant idea and certainly relaxes me a little bit more about getting a ticket. Is this something that the club will look to do more often or is it just a one off for this game?

Yeah, didnt quite get that!

Exactly. He always comes up with some lame excuse when people ask where he's been. Yet he's quick enough to get on here when its the other way round.

Thats a great read.

You'd be mental to rest Gabby! I think this will end up 1-1. Would be over the moon if we got a win.

I had to 'visit' the toilet 4 times in the second half becasue the clock didnt seem as if it was moving! My missus said you need to see a doctor haha.

What a performace, united kept lumping it in and we dealt with everything, won every header! Happy days as i also backed villa at 7-1!

I agree, shocking decision, really not sure what the point in having a season ticket is anymore if someone who goes to a game, partially due to free transport gets priority.

Think you mean Richard, and i let you off with the folls bit!

Milner will be on that plane to SA, it won't be to play in centre mid but it will be for his veristility. Another great performance from him. Milner is centre mid is looking like a masterstroke.

We find out tonight.

Can't believe how quiet it is, we win to get into the semi finals and its dead, we lose a game and the place is jam packed. Do we just like to moan?

Semi Final 1 w/c 4th January 2010 Semi Final 2 w/c 18th January 2010 Didnt want to get ahead of myself and post the final date!

Its great being able to sit back and know we're in the draw for the semis while the other teams have to play tomorrow.

We need to get through this pressure from Pompey and try to push them back.

Sounds like we're getting back to counter attacking football.

Here we go then, 45 mins (please no more) to take a step closer to wembley.

As someone that goes to away games, im really not fussed aout away fans standing up as its what i do, and most away fans do. But getting hassle from a steward at a home game isnt acceptable, is it so they can say they tried to make us sit down? Considering when Spurs scored their fans spilled onto the pitch, maybe our stewards should of focussed more on controlling their fans and keeping them off our pitch?

Good post. About the top 4 comment though, I slightly disagree, from Spurs' point of view anyway. I'll let the Villa fans comment on their team's consistency. But if you take away the matches against the top 3 teams (which will have no bearing on who takes fourth place anyway, in my opinion) then Spurs have only dropped five points this season. A draw away to Bolton and home defeat to Stoke, which whilst a very disappointing result for us, most fans believe we were unlikely to not win. We certainly played better than we did when we picked up three points against Sunderland, that's for sure. So I wouldn't really bemoan Spurs' consistency, this season anyway. And looking at Villa's results so far, the Blackburn and West Ham losses, and possibly the Wolves draw, seem like the only results you'll look back on at the end of the season and wish you'd picked up a few extra points. Now look at City and Liverpool and you have inconsistency. Although City's five draws in a row is pretty damn consistent. And if they don't start racking up the wins before Christmas then I expect Spurs and Villa to start to open up a decent gap between them both. In my opinion thats a load of rubbish, our results against West Ham and Wigan have been cancelled out by our wins against Liverpool and Chelsea. Of course they are looked at as bein bonus points when you beat a 'sky 4' club, but they can also work when you don't pick up points when you should, as this is always going to happen. So therefore they will affect the final positions, otherwise we'd be 6 points worse off now.

P.S What on earth is a defensive blocker?

I must say that room service looks immence!

The only positive from todays game in Gabby's 5th goal of the season, keep it up Gab.

So did MON, the difference is he'll get slated for trying it. We lost to what seemed like a very strange penalty decision.

The doom merchants will be out tonight and quickly forget that we've previously won 6 games in a row!