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This will work, Chewitts and Capri Suns kept me going and occasionally afterwards you'd even get a bag of chips on the way home or a packet of dry roasted bought for you in the pub.

Its good to see that after 4 weeks of glamour at the world cup its only 2 days after the final that we are brought back to reality with a thump Queens Park and Clyde away to follow before the announcement of a BRILLIANT away game in England, you heard it here first.

I'm thinking I'll tell the jokes

I've never been. I do remember seeing us playing them when I was a little nipper standing with my old man on the fringe of the shed, I only remember cause I was sure him calling them 'The Blue Brazil' was just a terrible dad joke for years after and was amazed when I found out it was true.

I’ve no problem with Donnelly being brought back as a coach but the problem is McCall is going to be tempted to play him. He may have a decent tough but he does not fit into our team well and he should not be on the park. I’m still not convinced about the need for a goalkeeping coach, if we have such little money this seems like a luxury we can’t afford. Ian Maxwell’s appointment reeks of jobs for the boys, what coaching experience does he have? He is done as a player. You can see Donnelly being able to try and teach the youth players touch, vision, passing, etc. Not sure what I see Maxy teaching them.

I go to every home game and the majority of away games, decent away trips are what make being a football supporter worthwhile in my opinion.

It is absolutely rubbish for away games next season, apart from County and Queens they are mince. I don’t see myself going to many of the second round of away games apart from those 2. No doubt somehow we will be up at Dingwall midweek and be down at a Dumfries on a Sunday when there is no trains. And Dundee can shove their £19 entry fee, that is insane.

4 trips to either East End Park or Starks Park would be absolute torture. Swapping days out in Ayr and Inverness for Stirling and Cowdenbeath is just not a very good deal for fans.

You’re right, but no doubt you, like me, would still go this season if it was £20 a game. But for those who don’t go to all or even many of the games then this kind of thing is only going to put them off more. You’ll always have certain number of blindly loyal fans who will go regardless but they are going already, to get people through the door you can’t be raising prices for a rubbish product (and to the non Jags fan it is a rubbish product).

I'd link to think I'd watch the Scottish Cup Final seen as not only is it old firm free but its got a team from uor division in it. The reality is the coverage will annoy me, the pace of the game will be tedious in the extreme and the swathes of empty seats will make it look stupid resulting in me spending most of the time watching Chelsea turn Pompey over. I still love the magic of the FA Cup.

Go on, whats he told you? I used to work in a McD's when I was a student and you would be amazed at how clean they are.

Can’t comment on Man Utd but this season I have been to the Emirates twice. First occasion my ticket cost £45 against Pompey, second time it cost £67 against West Ham (because it was a category A game as a London Derby). Even taking the £67 figure I got far better value for money than I do at Firhill which cost £16 last season. Lets look at the evidence… I saw some of the best players on the planet playing in those games, at Firhill I see absolute nobodies who in the grand scheme of things are very poor players. I got to see free flowing exciting football on a wonderful surface, at Firhill I get to see slow sideways passes on a rubbish bumpy pitch. I got an excellent view from the upper tier in a wonderful stadium and surroundings, at Firhill it’s a dump. I got to sit in a padded seat with loads of leg room and at the Pompey game I even got a free scarf, at Firhill you get nowt for free, half the seats in the Shed are broken (ie they fold down more than 90 degrees) and the stand is actually very cramped for adults sitting side by side. Inside the ground the sound system, telly and on pitch entertainment kept me entertained, there are so many toilets you don’t have to wait even at half time, there are so many bars and food stalls you wait seconds for whatever you buy and there are big screens everywhere showing the scores, at Firhill you wait an age for a pie or a pee and can’t get a beer. Arsenal are offering you a bespoke footballing experience for a fairly substantial sum of money (I should add these tickets were at the lower end of the scale). Thistle offer you rubbish for around a quarter of the price. What’s better value and more enjoyable, a nice big steak in a restaurant for £12 or a whopper for £3? Are you telling me Arsenal aren’t 4 times more exciting to watch than Thistle? Were I paying the Arsenal prices every week I wouldn’t be best pleased but tickets for the Emirates are like gold dust, its sold out at those prices every week, they could increase them and still sell out. We struggle to get folk through the door to watch what is essentially garbage yet we up our prices. All of us on here love Thistle and go because we love the club and are loyal too it but there isn’t many of us around. Take off the red and yellow specs and look at what we are offering say a neutral football fan or someone who is one of the many ‘lapsed Jags fans’, its pants and terrible value.

Yeah only Dundee were £17 last season, I'm pretty sure St Johnstone were that the season before last. Livy always had a bad habit of charging a quid or two more than the rest as well.

Is access to sport for all or something similar not written into the Aussie constitution, not only does that mean you have access to participate (eg the amount of well maintained free outdoor pools there is ridiculous) but it also keeps the price of tickets for sporting events down? I remember getting tickets to big Aussie Rules games and rugby league games for buttons, less than $15. Tickets for the penultimate days track and field at the Commonwealth games wasn’t much more. That’s for top level sport in excellent surroundings, not second rate amtuer-esque no hopers in terrible grounds. Oh and you can have a laugh and get a beer at all the sporting events over there, unlike here where you get some steward making the 90 minutes you have paid over the odds for as miserable an experience as possible.

That is ridiculous, £15 was too much, £16 was taking the Michael a bit but if it costs £17 that’s way too much, people will round that up to a score in their heads and who can’t find something better to do with that? When the games start to mean virtually nothing towards the end of the season this will be the tipping point that makes people say NAW.

Cheers but that’s a bit far out, I’ll be arriving at Euston and want to dump my overnight bag somewhere before hitting Baker Street and the pub pre-play off final, will be a bit pushed for time so don’t want to be trailing out to the Docklands. I know a couple of acceptable(ish) places where I can get a double en suite room for £50 in the Finsbury Park area worst comes to worst. BA being on strike means a return to Gatwick down Saturday morning and back Saturday evening is almost £500, no toher carrier has a flight late enough back that I can make so it looks like the train is the only option. And then I find out that both of the mates that I could stay with wont be in London that weekend so my free place to crash goes out the window. So it’s the hotel and the train for me… and a raid through my travel diary for the contact details of birds I met who live in London

Anyone care to recommend a cheap hotel in London, all the ones on lastminute, laterooms, etc are still a bit pricey. I’ve used independent places you don’t find on these websites in north London in the past, but I don’t want to be in that part of the city this time and frankly I don’t want to rush back to any of those hotels. Can anyone recommend anything cheap and cheerful within walking distance of Euston, this would include the Kings Cross area which by all accounts is notorious for cheap hotels. And I do mean hotels, not “hotels” when it comes to Kings Cross thanks. Ideally don’t want to be paying much more than £50 as I’ll be staying in it myself so won’t be splitting costs. I know that’s not much and London is expensive but I’m sure it can be done. I’m only staying 1 night, a week on Saturday.

Will be going as long as the allocation allows the season ticket holders I know to get me one, which it should. Its last minute already, I'm not waiting until next Wednesday to see if any go on general sale. And there is a planned BA strike, threat of volcanic ash, etc. But I'll do my best. At the new Wembley Cardiff have a 100% winning record when I have been in attendance, they have a 100% losing record when I have not been there.

PIE

Who dat?

Que sera sera...

It tasted pretty terrible in the first place...still wish there was one near my work though. When I say 'macaroni', yall say 'pie' MACARONI

If Blackpool got to the Prem you'd only imagine Adam would get a game for them. If City got to the Prem then Marshall, Burke and Super Kev would all likely start. Therefore by default you are all Bluebirds. And you must admit, it would be brilliant to have a Welsh team mixing it in the English Premiership, the FA and every single football supproter in England would HATE that

Fingers crossed for an McCall/MacPherson swap deal