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Offline Legion

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Re: Unhappy at the happiest of times
« Reply #15 on: April 04, 2025, 01:10:44 PM »

Offline artvandelay

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Re: Unhappy at the happiest of times
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2025, 06:15:14 PM »
The argument about PSG theory is pure conspiracy theory based on a poor understanding of maths. The only category we can be certain of is the maximum number of people with 5 aways, Monaco.

There are a variety of ways that 3 away tickets could have been obtained, so the redundancy stands to reason that close to 2000 people are in that bracket. Eg those that did Bruges I, Leipzig and Monaco aren’t necessarily the same that did Monaco, Bruges I and Young Boys.

Following on from that, the £1.600 hospitality package was only for category 1 tickets (which aren't in the away end)  and included a seat on the club flight. What kind of plane do you think the club are chartering for an hour flight that it can seat hundreds of people in the away end??? What kind of hospitality members do you think want to be held in captivity by the Gendarmes for an hour or more post match???

Offline Villan82

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Re: Unhappy at the happiest of times
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2025, 08:27:15 PM »
Its a very good article and I agree with all of it.
No one disputes the need to increase revenues, but the way he has gone about it is unedifying and unnecessary. If it wasn't they would not have to lie about stuff.

It was just our luck to find this geezer just when things were so brilliant. His methods have sickened me. If he finally gives stadium expansion the green light I might overlook certain things but the handling of that, from the communications to the actual fact we have wasted more time doing nothing, has really pissed me off

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Re: Unhappy at the happiest of times
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2025, 10:29:32 PM »
I've told myself to enjoy the next couple of seasons, and hopefully the success, as given the direction of travel I'll probably knock going down on the head.

This is the reason I've been so vocal about the FA cup criteria. If I get to see us win one FA cup after all the years of at best mediocrity, but mostly utter shite, I can call it a day a happy man and the americans can take our sport (they are anyway, so it's not really for debate).

As it stands, we're being removed before we've even had that success.

Offline Villafirst

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Re: Unhappy at the happiest of times
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2025, 10:33:09 PM »
The owners need to push Heck to get the stadium expansion underway as soon as possible. We really need the capacity to be 50,000 plus. I've never really liked the North Stand. It spoils the ground to a degree. Get it demolished and rebuilt !

 


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