Certainly not for a standard game in February against a club who will fetch a following in the hundreds. Get to the run in and we are still up there then it’s possible with a good ticket offer against a side who bring a decent away following… but then if it is against a side who might bring one then it will be Cat A anyway!

If a player wants to have an agent, fine, but their cut comes out of said player’s end. That would soon see plenty of the parasites feck off.

The fact we took comfortably more across to Hull, 2 hours plus trip with no public transport, then we’ll be doing to a £15 game down the road, makes it fairly clear to what the fanbase see as the priority in the second half of this season…

It will be good just to enjoy a pressure free local away day. Bask in the great season so far with a few pre and post game scoops. 😎

Ha, another running joke on here you’ve missed fenni😁 It’s due to TM himself in a presser a year or so ago saying something like he wouldn’t want to sign someone if he ‘turned up in ripped jeans’.

Doom and gloom? Got to be joking! After this half a season, I’m as happy as the proverbial clam. Sorry, was a badly written sentence, I didn’t mean on here. As in what will emanate from the club, through leaks to Sharpe, the odd SW interview, FF minutes etc.

Huddersfield know they have a chance to reach the promised land again, probably unexpectedly, so they realise how important a big crowd (a real big crowd) can be - so their next league game? Fiver a ticket. Yet, you will see all kinds of excuses trotted out here about how we can’t possibly do such a thing, though we have more empty seats to play with, more mothballed stands than any other club…

Feel for him? In a way, as the job he’s done would’ve got him a better job a few years back - An Aston Villa, an Everton, a West Ham. Said clubs now wouldn’t go down that route with a barge pole. However, he’s on an enormous salary and has worked without any pressure of losing his job for a decade, yes little to spend, but he knows that’s the case every time he signs up for another lucrative contract - their 2021 form was 92nd out of 92 league clubs, an unacceptable return at many other sides. But at Burnley they just muddle on. They are perfect for each other.

Ah you see, there’s the difference. The point of said egg and spoon race was to win it, nothing came out of being second, there was no play off to reach the Elite Egg & Spoon League. Whereas, that isn’t the aim of being in a non top flight football division - promotion is the prize.

Is it? 1992 and 2001 are memorable as promotion winning seasons, as that is the aim of a club in a non top flight division. Not winning the ‘title’ in either of those years didn’t matter one jot to me as we ended up in the Premier League! The whole point, a means to an end as your club transforms. If other folk were upset that we didn’t collect a tin pot trophy on the way out of the third division, fair enough, but I don’t remember the Oxford occasion or the relief and joy on sealing promotion at Doncaster being any lessened by not possessing it…

I honestly didn’t give a feck… and I was at Charlton. Just like I wouldn’t give a toss if we lost out to Fulham again this time (as I didn’t up against them twenty years ago!). And to be honest, I was actually fairly happy to see the mighty Blackburn Rovers not listed as the third division ‘champion’. It was embarrassing to see a club that had been transformed by Jack, back at a level I never thought we’d see again, so just getting out of there sharpish was prize enough for me.

I imagine they want him to do something for Man Utd, considering they spent £75 million on him?

We took around 1300…

We had average crowds of 26,000 in 2001/2002…

If they improve the side, of course loans should be utilised - and are across the league. But when they come and are as raw and lightweight as Clarkson, what’s the point?

I see. Take it you can’t just add an MOTM poll and link to the existing thread?

I’m ambivalent about it, I’ve noticed some other forums do it. So what’s the rationale?

There’s still a decent career out there for him… if he wants it.

No, it certainly wouldn’t be like post 1992 or 2001. However, Norwich are an extreme example of a club who are happy enough to do the promotion/relegation/parachute rinse and repeat. Other clubs that are nothing to write home about, I.e Brighton, Palace etc make a decent fist of it, and surely considering prior to this season we’ve usually been bumbling around mid table/bottom half of the second tier, why not just replace it with the PL version! (though our owners having the interest or vision of Bloom at Brighton or Parish at Palace is a different issue!).

I’ve no issue with the crowd. 6/7k buying match tickets just after new year at £30 to £36 a pop is a bloody good effort. But with such low ST numbers it has a limit and there’s nowt we can do about that now. To really compound this increase and make the most of this piqued interest, we need to now start getting the ST base back on the rise from the summer - obviously we go up and that won’t be too challenging, but even if we have a glorious failure, there’s still every chance of a big rise for next season, as long as marketed and priced right…

Obviously parachuted in from some agency for PA announcers. Saw on Twitter that the usual fella is back next game.

No real point to bundles, they just don’t get much traction here, which makes sense as a walk on/floating fan, as if you wanted to get tied in to multiple games, you’d have bought a ST/half ST by now. Though, of course, we aren’t usually second in the league, so if they want to, then go for it, as even a few hundred purchases is better than nowt. For me, I’d be pinpointing a couple of games in the run in. An ‘Operation Fill Ewood’ esque campaign at £15 a pop, quid a kid.

I suppose these kind of crowds are now a big deal, shows we’ve fallen a looonngg way fanbase wise this past decade. All relative to what we have got used to. 16k now ‘feels’ like a big crowd, I.e tough to park, takes ages to get served in the Fox, packed concourses, an actual atmosphere, folk pointing at the Jack Walker in awe, mass of bodies walking up Livesey Branch at full time, yet this would obviously have been deemed a piss poor, Mary Celeste-esque of an attendance a decade ago

The Monday night Boro game got me thinking. Ten years out of the top flight, the EFL shows a lot of Friday night games, I honestly can’t remember us being picked for one more than a handful of times in a decade…

In what way?