Could be an ‘entertaining’ one with that defence

Alfie Egan on the bench.

Tommy Wood starting tonight.

Could be Kyle - but while England pin their hopes on Phil Foden eventually turning into such a talent that he can single-handedly win the World Cup for England, France have Mbappe sporting a winner’s medal.

That’s the thing. Everything seems to be organised now and that costs. It may well be kids play ‘better’ football but less football than in days of yore.

Of course kids these days can go and have a kickabout. As long as they can afford £80 per hour to rent a pitch at Goals.

Inter v Spurs makes our first half v Scunthorpe appear entertaining

Ooh as if by magic, I appeared

Yeah TF I think you’ve over egged the pudding there

Snozzle, Andreas sends his regards, and hopes to see you next year

TF - to be fair, I saw a couple of different instances of young lads having a kickabout around Southwark/Bermondsey on Sunday

Apart from the thousands and thousands of kids who train during the week and play football for their teams on Sunday from u7 to u16 up and down the country .

Lurker - it breaks my heart to see all the park pitches and open areas of our country completely deserted these days. “When I were a lad” we’d be out playing football til it was too dark to see the ball. You just don’t see kids having a kick about anymore - they’re all indoors playing FIFA, COD, Fortnite or Minecraft. I wonder what date it’ll be when someone realises the entire Premier League fixture list includes starting line ups without a single English player in it.

Yes definite booing from around the Chemflow but was difficult to tell what they were about. The ref had been atrocious, we’d been atrocious (defensively at least) and there was a frannie on the pitch.

Or what OI said

Sure the designated away end will be the stand nearest the Corner Pin

North Stand to provide a segregated route out, I guess home fans wanting to head to Earlsfield may have to go round to the south.

Oh really? Do we know the intentions of where the away fans will be seated? Will it be in a similar position as to now or behind a goal?

Agree with you Lee.

Is the away fan allocation going to be limited to something like 1500 initially otherwise we could end up with a 50-50 crowd for some games.

Happy birthday sunny SwinDon and WDON

Lurker - oh I see. Your guess is as good as mine at this stage! I would estimate about 5/6k home plus additional away supporters where we get the full houses. For example, didn't Sunderland take 5k to Coventry?? Certainly a few teams would bring 2/3k plus the novelty of a new stadium. If we can do a Bradford an offer cheap tickets that will also help, whether we will or not is another matter.

If you ever want to know why the ability levels of English youngsters are so poor exhibit A, FIFA games.

Alex I think we drifted into it from the new stadium discussion and the question of how 9K may be a struggle never mind 20K

Are we not reading too much in to the attendance?? As I read elsewhere it compares similarly to this time last season supplemented we were playing a less glamorous opposition with fewer away supporters. Oh and we struggle to score.