thewookieisdown

That's wrong. On Sunday, when the King lays his wreath at the cenotaph in London, the Last Post will sound after the silence.

The last time I bought a programme, I quickly realised I couldn't read it. But I don't really want to take my reading glasses to a game, so that's me out. They've obviously slashed back the font size over the years. Fixing that would be the priority for me.

As someone else has commented above, The Last Post followed by the silence would work better. It's what will happen at the Cenotaph on Sunday - and indeed, what we will do at the simple little ceremony at our local war memorial.

It's all very well saying The Last Post is followed by silencer, but at the Cenotaph there is the silence first, ended by the last post. I think it would be ok if people were told that the silence should immediately follow The Last Post and explicitly asked to be quiet rather than applaud. The problem is that while this was attempted, our PA system is useless, so not everyone could hear. There were people near me applauding, who I don't think are stupid and I'm sure aren't disrespectful, but they didn't know.

That's all fair.

Two things can be true at the same time. The band are irritating. And even if they weren't, if they were drowning out anti-Chansiri songs, that's it. Off they go. It's also true that our fans don't create a great atmosphere. There's a post above which notes that it was flat because the team was flat early in the second half. But the best home crowds make noise and lift teams when it's dull. Ours don't. And never have. There's nostalgia for the early 90s. The atmosphere in the early 90s could be pretty much non-existent if the team wasn't playing well against mid or lower table opposition. Nothing unique to us in that. But it's a fact worth facing. When Hillsborough is rocking it's great, but overall we aren't the loudest or most inspiring set of home fans, and never have been. There are ways in which fan noise could be encouraged, including zones, support for fans groups etc, and I hope the new owners will be interested in that.

Can't think of anything worse. Trophies. Atmosphere. Profile. Excitement.

My first since Feb. Also my son's. Most enjoyable.

We were then knocked out at home by Boro in R4, with a rather tepid performance. The highest league finish of my lifetime that season, but when we were bad we were bad. Since a rather middling Liverpool team and Sunderland from Division Two contested the final, it is hard not see that as a chance that more could have been made of.

I don't disagree about the in-ground experience being way superior to TV. Not sure we needed Covid to tell us that, and it's not just atmosphere. You can't see the shape of the game on TV because, inevitably, the cameras concentrate on the ball That said. for the big clubs, huge numbers of fans now seldom if ever come to the stadium, because they live on different continents. We might instinctively regard them as not proper fans, but that is something of a subjective judgment, and from a commercial point of view they are highly monetisable. Also, the "TV experience" is changing significantly as VR packages become commonplace. Which isn't at all to say they are "the same" as being there in person, but it is significantly different to ordinary TV viewing. Whether we'll ever be competing against clubs that are genuinely international leisure brands with technological interaction to match, who can say. Next season we shall be playing Mansfield and Port Vale.

It's a decent enough piece. It would serve as a good summary for an outsider as to what went wrong, including the point that problems were there when ostensibly things had been going ok on the field.

The bogus offers are inevitable. It'll take the relevant intern literally a minute to filter. When you see people saying they should flood the process, you wonder how it is that people can live lives so removed from what actually happens in the world.

I'd like to see a bit more imagination in the pricing. In particular, generous offers for family groups, kids, and the u-26s (say). I like the admins' mini -ST for the final four games of 2025, and this could be replicated eg you buy a carnet of six tickets which you can use for six matches of your choice over the season/half-season.

It kind of feels like an MBA case study, except the whole thing is so mad ordinary people can't learn anything from it. In retrospect, the writing was on the wall after a few weeks, when TUF corporate got wind of what was being done and immediately disconnected themselves. I guess two hundred years ago we sent the idiot sons into the church or to govern some bit of Australia. Something where they could do no harm.

Sure but it will take some time to put the data together, then some time for potential bidders to assimilate, and construct their proposals, and get sign offs etc. I don't say it will be particularly slow, but there's an awful lot of work to be done on all sides. "Interested" isn't the same as a worked up properly assessed bid.

I don't quite see why this will be quite as rapid as people are saying here. If there is value in there, the administrator presumably wants some competition. Hence the talk of data rooms etc.

Why on earth does it matter? We are either disappearing altogether, or else going into a complete reboot at least one league lower.

I'm still not sure what people think the EFL should be doing differently. I mean, personally I think there is a case for really throwing the book at us and removing us from the league, but I'm not sure that's what many of us really want. The "punish the chairman, not the fans" point we sometimes hear makes no sense. They only have power to take action against the club.

But it wouldn't occur to any normal person to do something like that. Yes, there are pieces of scum in every generation but equally people in every generation who knows how to behave

The teams' fortunes aren't equally balanced. United's owners don't seem to know what they are doing and don't seem to be all that strongly capitalised. All the same, I'd be amazed if they are in the relegation fight four months' hence. They are likely to finish decent mid table, which historically is about the average of what they are. We are certain to be relegated, quite possibly expelled from the league, not impossibly wound up. I wouldn't fancy a merger, but if it were to happen I think it would have to be between quasi-equals.

I see some of our fans went to the game yesterday. Presumably all of them season ticket holders. Slightly odd, but fair enough. They bought season tickets before we went into this phase of collapse. But they must have gone with the purpose of protesting against the owner. No one has any other reason to be there. As I understand it, Coventry fans and indeed staff showed some support for us. So playing their song, whatever it is, seems a reasonable thank you. If word gets to him, our owner will not be happy. A signal of thanks to the away side for their stance on the protests.

Well done, and thank you

What an odd thing to say

Can you have a go at explaining why you - and people like you - make this sort of comment? No one argues that you do not have a right to go to the games, or to make your own mind up. Literally, no one is arguing that at all. So when you say "I have a right to decide", you are howling at the moon. Of course, you have a right to decide. The argument of the majority of fans is that revenue streams should be shut down as far as can be done, and we would call on all fans to boycott. Your case needs an argument, not that it is lawful to supply revenue, but that it is the right thing to do. Just as the argument for boycotting is not that "we have a right to boycott" - true, but irrelevant. It's that while it may well not be decisive, it's action towards the only thing that the club currently needs, which is the disappearance of Chansiri.

I sometimes think the supervolcano can't erupt soon enough.