Harry Dowds Green Shirt

According to this website the TV fee for round 4 is £123,500 http://unofficialbulls.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=print&thread=35228

Lol. Doesn't bother me. It's the chap at the back of the queue who ends up there half an hour longer beause everyone needs change that will be peed off especially if its cold and raining again

Thanks for that rick. It wont help with the queues though all that change having to be dished out Noble idea though

No No and No again. Sorry but that is a disaster waiting to happen and will casue more peoblems than it will solve. This is not like last season, we have three weeks to sell the tickets plus the benefit of a home game this Saturday. There is plenty of time and therefore there are unlikely to be long queues this time

Not really. They opened early when they got in becasue they saw the size of the queue

I disagree. Last year was not a cock up.

Will be a cat A game so will be fully policed in any event so unlikely to be no need to cordon off seats

Only from Barcelona games

Apparently the guy that runs the beardybus hands them out each trip

Exactly and if ESPN/ITV said the same then that may make a difference but for a club like us without that insentive, it initially appears to not make sense but watch this space as they say

This is a discussion board and whilst I repsect your opinion, there are things that go on in the background that dont always come out into the open and which you wouldn't be aware of. I am aware there are already discussions going on behind the scenes about this already and that is what I am referring to.

I'll bow to your superior knowledge on the subject. I'm sure you've got more experience than I have

Would have to be done via the safety advisory committee. (police & Council basically) consultaion would be needed and this all takes time. And we all know how quickly the Council move

They already have today. Not saying its ruled out yet (the draw was less than 2 hours ago) but it initially looks unrealistic

Why would you give Liverpool the Chaddy instead of the large section of the RRE. Chaddy holds 3,500 and the large section of the RRE 3,000. In any case that will not happen full stop.

I believe that Liverpool will get the large section only and we will have the small section. This will be a police cat A game in any event so there is no reason why the stand can't be split

I think you will find that CHasetowns were mainly standing and 3 or 4 deep which we will not be allowed

The lookers paddock only held 1200 seats so thats the maximum you would get in now. at £20 per tichet take off vat and an allowance for kids & oap's and you average will be £13 giving income of £15,600. We cannot deduct this cost from the takings as a match cost and so will only keep 40% of that figure or around £6,200. You cant put 1200 temp seats in for that so the club would lose money. Sorry this wont happen

If you really want to guarantee yourself a ticket for the Liverpool game then role upto BP tomorrow morning and buy a season ticket for the 10 remainig home games. Simple.

Making up for the shortfall for the poor attendances at BP

If the fee is £2.5 million then at 10% we would be expecting in excess of £200K which plus the initial fee we received will have been very good business.

The worst part about today is losing Dux. From when Warnock signed him until his last game for us he was our Mr Reliable. Wholehearted, determined and a players player. A captain and leader of men (and boys) He was also a team man and when PD took over stepped up on match days to do the analysis watching the opposition and noting down any change of tactics (now thats a proper use of a clipboard) and passing that information to the manager to decide if he needed to counter. Over the last 2 and a half years watching the ressies, you can see the calm way he has cajoled his troops wanting to help get bthe players ready for 1st team action. As I say a team man. If thers's 1 person unlucky today it's Lee Duxbury. Good luck for the future Lee and thank you for your efforst over the years. I hope you get fixed up somewhere soon.

Exactly the point. Yes there have been a couple, but Steve Eyre nipped in and got Bunn to Rochdale and then he went to Preston before he came to us and Scappuzzi needed an interpreter so Mancini shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence as footballer

Connections with City??? so thats Wabara and???????? We've had as many players from United

The backroom setup has clearly been wrong for some time and needed re-organising. Making Butler a coach instead of the sports science work that he was specifically brought in to do made no sense and was a waste of money the club doesn't have. It also smacks of jobs for mates and was in no ones best interest except Butler. What good is that to OAFC? The structure Dickov wanted in place when he came was Manager Assistant Sports scientist/fitness coach 1st team coach/Reserve team manager Goalkeeping coach That is a bloated setup imho for a league 1 team with a small budget but he was backed all the way. To then do away with the fitmess side of things and use that member of staff as a coach (or as he has become known clipboard man) makes no sense.