MrBlack

He said 1000, closer to 1500. So I'm inferring that means 1300. Still a lot of seats to magic up, but a big chunk will come from converting current boxes. And I imagine there will be some reprofiling done also that adds in an extra row or two. Then, maybe, converting some standard seats to premium on top, but you'd hope this isn't seats dedicated to ST holders already.

I'd be happy with both, but don't think they're a profile we can afford. Unless we sell someone from the first team.

Same. Its funny how all of a sudden its not really important who we sign. Good times hey! Who (if anyone) we sell might be important, but that's not something to be worrying about now.

1 - maybe a little one but that would be expected. Inflation is still high but about 4% instead of the 10%+ we've seen in recent years. I think most would be OK with a few percent given our success, and I read similar to mean not the same. 2. Probably easily (albeit with an immediate cost and not a huge amount of upside)... fix the toilets, keep them clean, put in the self dispensing drink aisles in all stands, hire competent servers at food kiosks.

Sounds like he's learnt from the experiences of the Terrace View and lower grounds. He knows there's a majority core that will not budge, but there are those that will upgrade for premium on occasion or as a means of getting in. And there are going to be more wanting to get in next season. So if the only option is a premium seat, people may well be ok with that. Recogisng that the core needs to improve (yes it was obvious but he's now said publicly that he'll do something about it) is good too. Another step in the right direction Mr Heck. Keep them coming. And please make the next one a badge that isn't what's been trademarked.

Why is it even yellow. Why do we not use a golden tone like the gold used by @Ingers (welcome to the forum). If we insist on keeping the old lion, and the old yellow on blue on claret combination, then just make the yellow darker. It's still wrong because we aren't blue and gold, or gold blue and claret, but it is at least visible from a distance. But no. A drop shadow. In 2024. F@#k me

It must be horrible for his family. A constant reminder of the tragedy and all the clubs care about is money. Let it go Cardiff, you scumbags.

And the weirdest thing about this post is that I wouldn't put any of those ideas beyond the realms of what the FA or FIFA might come up with.

Sky showed a stat just before that goal saying the the first touch after a set piece had been an Everton player from all of Everton's previous set plays. I think it was 5 or 6 in a row. Liverpool hadn't won a single first ball. Was a matter of time. Virgil was blocked from getting to the ball, but he's definitely not the commanding centre back he was. Doesn't seem to have the legs to do his runs now either. They're a club in decline.

I agree... they're seemingly not very good. Consistency is an issue, and their bias is always going to be a hard one to ignore. Luton fan should never be reffing a game of their rivals. Can't say I envy them though, the job is under such scrutiny and on a lot of calls you're going to get two different opinions if you ask the fans of the two clubs.

Yes I did see that. Maybe his Luton bias did impact the Forest call...

Kind of hope they do to keep it interesting and keep them all needing to beat spurs. But I think their dominance will start now with all the players they've got that have been rotated throughout the season relatively fresher than the Liverpool and Arsenal players. They'll win their two in hand and probably not look back.

It got referred to the ref. I assume it was deemed he didn't see it happen and so was told that there was an apparent elbow he might have missed. Rather than the ref having seen it and judged it not to be a foul on real time that VAR wouldn't then overrule him on. Which really just makes you wonder why the ref wasn't asked to take a look at the last of forest's non-penalties where Young didn't win the ball despite the ref clearly thinking he had.

Would mean spurs not beating them and having one less game to make up the points they need to overtake us. I'd take that.

We can't benchmark it as there isn't really a club that's done similar. Newcastle would be the closest but their deals are skewed by related party shenanigans. I dont think it would be a hard sell to explan who our owners are, their track record of successes, that Unai Emery has consistently delivered European success at every single club he's managed for consecutive years in different leagues with lower relative budgets. You then use that alongside our current form and explain we are more able to sustain it than a Man United that are quite evidently toxic and struggling, an aging Liverpool about to go through a period of uncertainty, and a Chelsea that will find themselves having points deducted if they continue to fail to qualify. He's had a job to do there, and he's done it, but you can't ignore the helping hand he's been given, or the relativity of our position at the time the contracts he's replacing were signed.

The issue we've got is I'm not sure there's a club we can compare the value of his deals to. Newcastle's are inflated due to related parties. The other teams in the champs league next season will all be clubs that have been in it for most of the last 2 decades. The rest of the scum 6 that dont qualify are living off sustained recent historic form. And then you've got West Ham or Leciester as clubs that recently managed a season of success, but since then haven't pushed on or have gone significantly backwards. Looking Newcastle is about the closest to us, and what Newcastle scammed from their owners businesses, I'd say he's done an ok job with the contacts. Nothing exceptional. It was easy for him to escape the Castore contract after their shambles with this year's kit. It was presumably fairly easy to negotiate a deal with Adidas with Nas' links. The shirt and sleeve sponsorship deals may have been a challenging get out without penalties (assuming they hadn't run their course) so fair play on those, but the value he's got isn't anything more than I'd expect given the exposure they'll get from us next season. Yes, you can say he could never win.. well he could. He could have matched Newcastle's deals, and I'd have been impressed. He could have not launched a review of a badge that was totally fine and seemingly replaced it with a worse version of the crap badge we had before it, or done so and replaced it with something better. He could have communicated the cancellation of the north stand far more clearly and honestly, and had the website updated so it didn't still imply we were going ahead with it. He could have communicated honestly what was going on with the badge. He could have communicated the situation with the GA+ situation impacting holte season ticket holders earlier. There is plenty he could have done to get me on side, but the good things he has done just aren't that impressive to me. Maybe I'm under estimating how difficult it was to sell us to Betano or how key he was to the Atairos deal. The jury of my opinion on him remains out.

Do we get money from away fans? Presumably only if they buy a drink/food while they're here?

Also, a warning about this stand. . OK, I'm done. This could take over my evening if I'm not careful.

This is a brilliant game. I've found : slimy.pillow.shout dime.store.modest stand.cove.lame And my personal favourite, which I assume describes most of their fans...

DCL!

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/best-strikers-in-the-world-ronaldo-lewandowski-harry-kane 8th best in the world according to 442. Note Watkins appears nowhere even though this was done in January when Ollie already had 15 goals (all comps) for the season.

Rooney looks absolutely horrific. In VAR related news, why were they even checking that cross for offside. The lino didn't flag to call back play and warrant a check, and it was easily 3 phases before the goal. Liverpool had 2 chances to clear, and it was Everton's second phase of attack after the offside anyway. Worse than the one we had chalked off which shouldn't have been. At least it was deemed onside, but shouldn't have even been checked.

Boo. Although United winning is probably good for giving Chelsea less hope

I'd have given the team playing the one with a negative goal difference a chance before hand. Everton Liverpool derby game could make anything happen.

Man United. They're so utterly shit. Hahahaha