durhamowl3

If you don't accept bs - I'd say we were the 3rd oldest professional British club. (Forest & Notts County) If you're happy with bs I'd say we are the oldest with 1820. Could also make the distinction of club v team. Wrexham, Palace, Chesterfield and Stoke are all nonsense.

The Trust should put a message out that they'll talk to the new owners to see if they'll have a period with STs at a cheaper price than the early bird tickets. Even if is just by a £1. It might make some people consider holding off. Alternatively, they could suggest a ST and shirt deal which comes with, say, 50 bonus points so people who are putting more money into the new ownership get something back. Either way, anything to make people think twice would be useful.

Playoffs.. easy!

Have we ever won one and does anyone know what the overall record is in them? We have been beaten by Huddersfield, Bradford, Rotherham and Wolves at least. Why are we so bad at them and is there anything that can be done about it?

I can't see how McCabe could ever recoup everything. But don't Scarborough holdings now own the hotel and the business centre? If the ground and any other bits of land followed they could charge a rent, sucking money out the club. Wouldn't get everything back but they would get some.

How strict are they financial fare play rules? If Milan decides he wants to buy a bottle of SWFC branded Hendersons from the club shop, paid with a briefcase full of banknotes and said 'keep the change' to the shop assistant, would that count towards our turnover? If it does there is no point in having the rules as rich owners will always be able to get around them.

Not mathematically guarenteed until today though. Like I said, hopefully it's irrelevant and second or better will be ours.

Hopefully we will remain in second place until the end of the season. If not however, that result has put Wednesday 17 points ahead of 7th place Notts County with five games to go. The play-offs have been guarenteed. Fingers crossed for Bournemouth this afternoon and hopefully 2nd will be held.

The eternal pessimist in me had to look what is the worst we could finish. I came up with 19th. Although a win today would take that up to about 12th I think. Not doing it again but I do think we will be promoted in second.

Everything behind the gangway on the kop should be standing as well as tangos corner. Would never be allowed at Hillsborough for obvious reasons. However, I don't see why it should make a blind bit of difference.

From the arguments on here there are a few issues which I can see. 1. Any scheme needs to be stop a closed shop happening - so any 3 or 5 year systems are wrong because they would stagnate the system and it would be impossible for a new fan to ever become a regular away attender. 2. ST holders should always have priority. 3. There are people who are always going to miss out on the popular games. IMO - have a points system. ST - 250 points Non ST home league games - 10 points Away games 10-30 points per game depending on the distance, weekend/midweek and the size of the match. Those who said what about London owls - I would say they on average have far greater distances to go to home matches, so swings and roundabouts. Membership - 30 points Spend £50 in the shop 5 points. Pay on the gate tickets could be handed in at the shop to have points added later. Keep a first come serve for all games except the ones which are likely to be the most popular. The club should announce at the start of the season which matches are the ones which are going to be used. So for instance this season the club could announce Pigs, chezzie and Play off semi (if relevant) as definates and Hudders and last two away matches of regular season as maybes. This system solves all the problems. Its not too complicated, it allows those who travel most to have the pick of the best matches and it doesn't create a closed shop. For cup games I would say other than ST the league doesn't matter except for STs. Each cup is seperate. If the first round is away have it on the current system. For each subseqent round have it as ST + all earlier tickets then those ST without tickets

Thanks for everything Gary. It's been a great 12 months with the rot finally being cut away from the club. Hope you don't lose your love of the club now. Sunday was amazing and I loved every minute (with the possible execption of the few after 90mins had come up on the scoreboard but before the final whistle). Hope you get another chance with us in a few years. Thanks

As a long term manager I would quite like SOD. However, I think he would take too long to put a squad together and we could just kiss this season goodbye. If SOD was hired but put on gardening leave until June I think we could be playing some great football next season, whatever division we are in. In the short term someone who would make a big impact. Not sure who but would have to accept that it was a 16 match contract at best. Having said that, I would prefer Megson to anyone else, short or long term.

If you class a big game at Hillsborough as any that has a 30K+ crowd Wednesday are something like 15 games undefeated. If you look at the last 15 games the pigs have played (home and away because they don't have 30K+ crowds at home) I bet its pretty much the opposite.

I've not seen those goals but did see carling cup. Would say those 2 rows were two more than were used in Wemberly. Could easily have had another 1300 today in the NWC. The SYPs bill should be reduced by about £30,000. Just above the disabled bit in the North there were quite a few empty seats. Does anyone know why? At first I'd assumed they were the people who were moved to the NWC but if they were staff it obviously weren't.