Going to football is a health risk. I'm told by my renal nurse to drink min 2L water on hot days plus use factor 50 suncream. Can't fit the latter in my small bag and restricted to 0.5L with no proper refill facilities

At least I still have a face, I suppose! Good luck with Italy, RK. Wonderful place.

They take a face scan too Padds. Haven't done it yet since my two breaks since Oct 25 introduction have been deliberately outside EU, allowing the inevitable teething problems to get better. Off next month to Italy though

Silent Joe

Thanks, Carsh. That's good to know if we need to go to Belgium via Schipol. (No flights to Brussels from Bristol any more). Not looking forward to trying to fly but get decent treatment at St Pancras. If it was so easy for normal people it can't be that terrible for we fingerprintless can it (?)

My understanding is similar to REPD, in that the 3rd floor marginal cost was minimal and the then CEO thought it was an income generation opportunity, which we have failed to exploit

Speaking of lockers - is there a Post Office locker very near PL?

TF - IIRC it wasn't significantly more expensive to put it in (I remember at the time thinking the sum was less than I would have gathered), and TBH I don't think it would have drastically improved our financial issues if we hadn't put it in - I think it's used as a bit of a scapegoat, because we didn't seem able to keep the general construction costs down.

Paddington-flew to Amsterdam on Tuesday and couldn’t have been easier although if your fingerprints don’t exist any more that could be a problem!!

Gonna respect fully disagree on that one Rob that third floor has been an anchor for the club. Been there 6 years and hasn’t driven any revenue and cost millions more to construct which we’re still not able to pay off - Buckley said in the latest OFFICIAL podcast that Bond 3.0 is about covering “upcoming repayment obligations” so it’s not adding anything to any budget it’s just to keep the bailiffs away. There also doesn’t appear to be (or ever have been) a plan to generate revenue from the 3rd floor I’m sure someone within the last 2 years in a board communication fiasco said that it would take about 5 years to work it out let alone execute.

LD - bag size is not part of the law, we just have to have a policy for stadium safety, evacuation etc. I haven't seen anything on the evacuation side but I wonder whether it should be tested.

Any fellow old farts on here have any experience of this new fingerprint nonsense when travelling abroad? We're off to see our son in Belgium next month on the Eurostar and have read that ancients are having problems. Examining my fingertips I see that I haven't really got fingerprints any more. Problem for old people and those who use their hands a lot apparently.

I just hope the people at the ground today who are enforcing the rules on bags make it clear to supporters that they are doing it because it's a new law that all venues with a capacity of over 2,000 have comply with and not a club policy (and that club could be fined if they are found to have broken this law).

My girlfriend says the extra couple of inches mean everything:-)

Trigger - because it's cheaper to build a third floor when initial construction is, er, constructed, rather than add it later on. And let's be honest here - if we hadn't had built it we would very quickly wish that we'd put it in when we had the chance

Yes it's the ground floor opportunity now REPD.

Would love to know what additional dangers are introduced by the extra inches between A4 and eg laptop bag. When they're being searched anyway. Makes it essentially impossible to bring smaller kids to the game btw. Or come from work. It will really not be possible for many to leave work equipment in a bag drop.

Oi - oh. Well bugger.

I'm building up to it REPD ...

Applies to Club Shop also except with Club branding and £35 "AFC compliant bags"

Anyone done a "third floor" comment yet?

If you were really entrepreneurial Spit, you would start manufacturing "smaller than A4 bags" in Bangladesh for £1 cost, brand them as Spit the Dog and sell them £25 a go

Might park in waterside way and do a cloakroom out of the back of cab ,£2 an item,the old raffle ticket system 😂

Trigger - three games on TV last night, two on SS+ and Boro v Wrexham on Sky Sports (and apparently ITV).

Morning all. If you read the OS blurb, it does say it's a trial so it will probably be fine tuned if it continues. TBH the big problem seems to be the location - if you could change it so that it's virtually outside the main entrance that will be more useful for home fans