We always give 3250 tickets which is 10% of the stadium. We cant give anymore without putting your in the home end of having fans mix inside the stadium. We only ever do that when we have to for FA Cup games where you have to give 15% of the stadium. But its a right headache I still think its been handled by both clubs badly. We sort of gave up on play offs after you beat us and everything our end seems rushed
Exactly this. I sit in the Vicarage road end, next to the away fans and would be mightly pissed off if I were forced to move seats. Why should I have to sit in a worse seat when I have been to every home game this season? When we get our new stand things will be looked at and the situation re-evaluated.
I do not recall receiving any discount for being a STH holder the other week at your place either....
But thats an away game for you As a home fan who has seen all 26 of our games at the King Power Stadium in league and cup and paid for a season ticket. Surely I should get some discount to the home leg of the play offs Just like you should for your home game over the "fans" who only ever turn up when things are going well
Shame that's irrelevant as in this context the players foot went flying into the side of varneys head.
Sorry, I did not quite understand what you meant...yeah, it would have been good to get a bit of discount as a STH. I have had to shell out £86 for our tickets for both games.
Hi guys, Just popped on your board to see what was going on! See you have two playoff threads, didn't want to ruin your other one so thought I would jump on this one. I haven't read any of the previous 11 pages, so apologies if I'm just repeating what's already been said Unlucky on missing out on automatic, thought you were going to sneak it when the Hull game finished 2-2. Will be a very interesting two games against you guys. You have already done the double over us this season, and you played very well against us at the KP recently. How confident are you going in to the playoffs? I can't even see us getting past you guys to be honest, but this is football so you never know. How long are your keepers out for? And what do you have against Palace, or is it just their location!?
Hi Lesterfan - good to have you posting on our board - the other thread is probably the right one to use now as this got taken over by a slanging match which ruined the idea of talking play offs
There was an interesting interview with Howard Webb on Radio 5 when Nani was sent off for Man U in the Champs League. Webb said that the only foul where 'intent' is now considered at all is hand ball. The presenter pressed the point and asked whether an over-head bicycle kick would be deemed a foul if the player scored but accidentally caught an opposing player and Webb replied that it would be a foul and any player who raised his foot in a situation where contact could be made risked being penalised or sent off.
Personally I'm not at all confident - but I was really confident that we would beat Leeds so am perhaps applying a bit of reverse psychology. I guess that what really matters is how confident Zola is that he lift the players - and he has done it before..... Re the keeper situation, Zola has mentioned that he thinks both Almunia & Bond will be available for Thursday. With the benefit of hindsight, I feel that he may be regretting having not played Almunia on Saturday, but then he wasn't to know what would would happen. I'm more worried about the loss of Deeney for Thursday, and that he has highlighted to other clubs how to deal with him. Leeds subjected him to non-stop niggling treatment on Saturday, both on and off the ball, and he was given no protection at all by the ref, who rarely acknowledged what was going on by blowing his whistle. He has to learn by the second leg to simply shut up and stop complaining - not easy when you are being so obviously targeted though. It is a problem for referees - quite how they are supposed to deem intent when they don't have access to players' brains is hard to fathom. With handball, yes it is possible to adjudge that an arm/hand moving towards a struck ball can be intentional - but that doesn't mean that an arm/hand deliberately placed in the anticipated trajectory of the ball is not intentional, which is very often how it is viewed by referees. I'd say that Saturday's incident with Poleon and Anya was very easy to classify as deliberate - and would argue that a red card was appropriate as it constituted serious foul play. Poleon himself has admitted, to Bond, that he pushed Anya into him simply to see what might happen that he could take advantage of. At the speed they were moving at, he could hardly have not realised that one or the other - or even both - would have been injured. That is an area of the game's laws that needs to be looked at - they currently apparently view an offence such as Poleon's in the same light as a player taking his shirt off to celebrate a goal - totally ludicrous IMO.
For all the petty bitterness and the complaining and the "Poleon should be shot at dawn" reactions: BOND IS ON THE BENCH! You lot are pathetic
No - we are not under a transfer embargo - we can do transfers but must get them approved by the FL before they are signed
