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Hughesy

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    Lewis Miley

    It's quite interesting that despite our academy being seemingly terrible for years, we could end up with a first team squad containing Longstaff, Anderson and Miley. Obviously there's a long way to go with Anderson and Miley, but it would be a surprise if they didn't end up having good (and potentially very good) careers in the PL.
  2. Really excited to watch him play and develop over here, but confess to be a little anxious that the generally held belief is that we've overpaid. It's been an odd window - if someone had offered me Tonali, Barnes and Livramento, I'd have thought it was a good window, but £125m makes me wonder if there was better value out there. That said, we've barely put a foot wrong on signings...
  3. Think Lavia from Southampton could be a decent shout to strengthen our midfield a bit. Although not sure if Man City have an option to buy him back.
  4. Don't know about anyone else, but I'm delighted with pot 4. Would love to have a group packed with some big names for our return.
  5. Still astonished that the job he's done doesn't attract more praise in the press. I get it - sportswashing etc. But it is truly astonishing. It was a miracle we stayed up when he took over. To then follow that up the next season with a cup final and potentially a top 4 place is staggering.
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    Elliot Anderson

    Surprised people were so convinced he wasn’t good enough. Always thought he’s looked positive on the ball, with good upper body strength. Certainly good enough to be in and around the squad at the moment.
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    St James' Park

    Personally, I don't think we should go much over 60,000. I'm sure we could fill 80,000 seats for big games and/or if we are doing well, but you only need to look back at some of CL campaigns under Robson - quite often our attendances were in the high 40,000s rather being full sell outs. I'd much rather have a packed 60,000 stadium than risk having a 80-90% full 80,000 stadium.
  8. The stadium design is a massive issue. The pre-expansion SJP was far louder than the post-expansion SJP and one of the factors is the loss of noise from the design.
  9. Still haven’t quite come to terms with the fact that I’m not going to be there with my dad and brother. That said, I can’t wait. Got a weirdly positive feeling about this. Bruno and Joelinton are going to have blinders.
  10. We've got a far far better chance of winning this than we did in 98 or 99. The situations aren't even comparable as far as I'm concerned.
  11. Not sure how anyone thinks Anderson is to blame for this. Real shame though as Liverpool look pretty average.
  12. Ha ha - I'm a lawyer. Small print is my day job... I mean - it is what it is. I can't do anything about it now, but I'll know for next time. To be honest, it didn't even cross my mind that cup attendance would be a factor until I saw something on twitter the day before the semi about what Liverpool did. It didn't cross my dad's mind or my brother's, so I don't think it's that uncommon. And I don't recall it being a factor for the two previous finals I went to (albeit I was a kid then so I wasn't buying the tickets!).
  13. I think people are probably allowed a day or two of airing their frustrations with the process, given how long people have been waiting for a cup final.
  14. That's fine - the policy could be literally as vague as "cup attendance will be a determining factor in obtaining tickets to any related cup final". That would leave everyone better informed than they were.
  15. I don't know if any other club do it. My point was that it wasn't clear that you needed to attend cup games to attend a cup final - there's a whole heap of both confirmation and recency bias in assuming this was clear to fans or that fans should have guessed that this was the case. As I've said before my family and I live in Kent, so travelling up for midweek cup games wasn't necessarily that doable, but given we've had 3 season ticket for over 30 years and each season ticket has nearly 100 loyalty points on it, I thought we had a decent shot. Had the ticketing policy been made clear, we'd have bought tickets for cup games and just not turned up. Quite frankly the club could have used a variety of different criteria - loyalty points, length of time you've had a season ticket etc - and any criteria they choose would have had its merits. I don't think it would be arrogant to create a policy in the ST T&Cs to make it clear how cup final tickets are allocated, but we can agree to disagree on that one.
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