yeah, no thanks, am quite happy with no beers in the stands, thanks for the thought though Andy

Keefy - plus the obligatory shoe drenching when the person in the row behind kicks over their pint that they've put down on the floor

RK - just looking at it from a different angle in that the middle Christmas game is usually a midweek game that sometimes falls on a Saturday (as it should do in 2029)

[Link] interview with Sessegnon about his struggles at Wigan and then joining us.

A lady in our row of seats leaves the stand 10 mins before half time to get the beer for her husband. The idea of her bringing back two full plastic containers back again ! Anyway she has been well trained by her spouse. He never misses a minute of the match.

Yeah that would probably stop me going to games.

Drinking in the stands Mr Burnham! No thanks don't want a lager shower when we score our occassional goal.

Football fans might be allowed to drink in the stands again.. might help.with the latecomers

Yeah but it's still four midweek games + MK, that was my only point!

Looking at the BBC sport app & it’s showing a massive 846 attendance for last nights Chelsea ladies game at Plough Lane, can anyone remind me what the reason was them to play games in OUR stadium? They got less than 5,000 in the league at Stamford Bridge on Saturday too, Anyone with half a brain can see that the women’s game attracts nowhere near the attendances to justify the media coverage, I’m assuming the $ we get from them makes it worth our while but I’d rather they fucked off out of our home

Because that's one of the three Christmas/New Year games which falls in the middle of the three and is quite often a midweek match.

Also Luton 29/12, not sure whyvthat's nit included?

That pitch

RK. Last season (prior to any Sky moves or International break postponements) we had two scheduled midweek home league matches (Cardiff 19/8/25 and Orient 17/3/26 - there were three scheduled away games (Luton got moved to the Friday night for TV so you can say 4 away). This season there were three before MK got moved (Mansfield 20/10/26, Burton 9/2/27 and Cambridge 13/7/27. (I'm not including the three Christmas and two Easter games in this as they are usually played on random days)

As I have my train tickets etc I’m glad the game is on, but it’ll be annoying if the absences affect the outcome… JJ will need to choose his starting 11 carefully and use the bench wisely (I guess that’s the case every game tbh…).

We had an unfortunate league cup draw which threw at least one fixture into disarray.

Wouldn't be keen on more midweek league games. This season they increased from three to four due to late start, plus we had MK making it five. Doubtless there will be more due to Sky and postponements due to international squads. Clubs like ours lose money, my hunch is £30,000 per midweek game and then there's the blinding Ad hoardings, better but not great

That would be a good solution Airsy.

As before, and whilst I lean toward Spit's take on the matter, (!) I still think that it should be an all or nothing thing (i.e. L1 and L2 get the IB's as well rather than the haphazard situation the leagues are in the weekend and next). Could quite easily put the Trophy games on those weekends to fill the gap and then just schedule an additional two midweek league programmes in place of the 'moved' Trophy games

Wouldn't be fair on those with train and match tickets to call the match off now.glad it's going ahead.at our level it always should,even if we need to play youth players

S tarted at least 50% of the club’s first-team matches, or * Started, or come on as a substitute before the 75th minute, in at least 4 of the club’s last 5 first-team matches.

Sessegnon now called up. Why can’t we get Saturday postponed? We’ve had three players called up. All of whom have featured in at least two first team matches or consistently been on the bench.

The idea of tradable longer term bonds is intriguing but tradable is only useful if a reasonably liquid market exists. If I bought a 30 year bond it would need to be dealt with by my wife or child and if they wanted to sell they might be waiting for years for a reasonable offer. I suspect WIJG has a vastly more optimistic view than me about the availability and size of markets.

If there is anyone with a spare £50K laying around and not sure what to do with I can't see them investing it in our bond for just 20 quid off a match day ticket.

WIJG- agree with that - realistically nobody will invest at 5% as a rational investment when you can get that rate for lending to the uk government. We will have to pay a high rate if we need the money and might as well offer that to supporters as to outside financiers. Even with a high rate we might not attract enough funding but it is absolutely clear that we won’t get close to what we need just be sending increasingly desperate begging emails