thewookieisdown

History and tradition. Oh, yes. I've supported the club for 48 years. Fewer than one third of those seasons in the top flight. None in 25 years. None since the real revolution took place. And in a stadium which lights up a few times in a season, but is more often than not quiet and sullen. A stadium with wretched facilities and minimal revenue generation. FFS.

That's wrong. On Sunday, when the King lays his wreath at the cenotaph in London, the Last Post will sound after the silence.

The last time I bought a programme, I quickly realised I couldn't read it. But I don't really want to take my reading glasses to a game, so that's me out. They've obviously slashed back the font size over the years. Fixing that would be the priority for me.

As someone else has commented above, The Last Post followed by the silence would work better. It's what will happen at the Cenotaph on Sunday - and indeed, what we will do at the simple little ceremony at our local war memorial.

It's all very well saying The Last Post is followed by silencer, but at the Cenotaph there is the silence first, ended by the last post. I think it would be ok if people were told that the silence should immediately follow The Last Post and explicitly asked to be quiet rather than applaud. The problem is that while this was attempted, our PA system is useless, so not everyone could hear. There were people near me applauding, who I don't think are stupid and I'm sure aren't disrespectful, but they didn't know.

That's all fair.

Two things can be true at the same time. The band are irritating. And even if they weren't, if they were drowning out anti-Chansiri songs, that's it. Off they go. It's also true that our fans don't create a great atmosphere. There's a post above which notes that it was flat because the team was flat early in the second half. But the best home crowds make noise and lift teams when it's dull. Ours don't. And never have. There's nostalgia for the early 90s. The atmosphere in the early 90s could be pretty much non-existent if the team wasn't playing well against mid or lower table opposition. Nothing unique to us in that. But it's a fact worth facing. When Hillsborough is rocking it's great, but overall we aren't the loudest or most inspiring set of home fans, and never have been. There are ways in which fan noise could be encouraged, including zones, support for fans groups etc, and I hope the new owners will be interested in that.

Can't think of anything worse. Trophies. Atmosphere. Profile. Excitement.

My first since Feb. Also my son's. Most enjoyable.

We were then knocked out at home by Boro in R4, with a rather tepid performance. The highest league finish of my lifetime that season, but when we were bad we were bad. Since a rather middling Liverpool team and Sunderland from Division Two contested the final, it is hard not see that as a chance that more could have been made of.

I don't disagree about the in-ground experience being way superior to TV. Not sure we needed Covid to tell us that, and it's not just atmosphere. You can't see the shape of the game on TV because, inevitably, the cameras concentrate on the ball That said. for the big clubs, huge numbers of fans now seldom if ever come to the stadium, because they live on different continents. We might instinctively regard them as not proper fans, but that is something of a subjective judgment, and from a commercial point of view they are highly monetisable. Also, the "TV experience" is changing significantly as VR packages become commonplace. Which isn't at all to say they are "the same" as being there in person, but it is significantly different to ordinary TV viewing. Whether we'll ever be competing against clubs that are genuinely international leisure brands with technological interaction to match, who can say. Next season we shall be playing Mansfield and Port Vale.

It's a decent enough piece. It would serve as a good summary for an outsider as to what went wrong, including the point that problems were there when ostensibly things had been going ok on the field.

The bogus offers are inevitable. It'll take the relevant intern literally a minute to filter. When you see people saying they should flood the process, you wonder how it is that people can live lives so removed from what actually happens in the world.

I'd like to see a bit more imagination in the pricing. In particular, generous offers for family groups, kids, and the u-26s (say). I like the admins' mini -ST for the final four games of 2025, and this could be replicated eg you buy a carnet of six tickets which you can use for six matches of your choice over the season/half-season.

It kind of feels like an MBA case study, except the whole thing is so mad ordinary people can't learn anything from it. In retrospect, the writing was on the wall after a few weeks, when TUF corporate got wind of what was being done and immediately disconnected themselves. I guess two hundred years ago we sent the idiot sons into the church or to govern some bit of Australia. Something where they could do no harm.