Evening all. In case you missed it, new 9yrspodcast released this morning! The light of a great win vs the shade of the increasing cost of being a fan of a fan-owned club. There's also ire at Sky Sports, and celebrity culture. Available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube via [Link]

Hope the wizard man’s cat will be ok he used to walk around with it on his head

1-1 tomorrow it’s the sensible-but-boring result we all know is inevitable.

The Wizard man in Sutton has Died ,RIP Conrad

Looks like Sth Afrika will win the group and we'll play the winner of West Indies or India

England win again in the cricket

Good win for England with Jacks doing the business at the end.

Alan, from tday, does your treatment involve "loads" of anti-biotics, or something more sophisticated?

Spit-he is the perfect replacement for Reeves who will be 33 in May and out of contract

Would be dreadful if he didn't, definitely earned a squad/team role for next season. Let him earn his stripes in a better division, I think he's going to cope well enough.

Would be a shame if we don't get to see him[Link] as a regular first team player for us.

CW if your interested bulls are at Sevenoaks tonight live on YouTube 730

$6m man- totally agree, I think that the problem for rugby is that the interest in professional club (as opposed to international matches or amateur playing teams) rugby is pretty small at the top level (very few crowds above 15k) and minimal once you get below that, so there simply isn’t the money in the system to sustain a proper league structure.

Without promotion and relegation, what is the point and where is the ambition? Unless you are in contention to win the league, it just becomes meaningless, akin to friendlies against the same teams year after year. Pointless and futile.

It seems a bit like Rugby League, lots of changeable criteria so mates can be let in (Wasps, Worcester) but not the Hoi Polloi (Ealing, Cornish Pirates)

In other news, interesting to see rugby union planning to end promotion and relegation to their top league. Sort of makes the point of how much bigger football is than any other sport when even one of the 2 or 3 biggest sports other can’t sustain a proper league system.

The “no politics” rule (together with the departure of certain posters) has been a major factor behind making this place much more pleasant- it would be nice to stick to it. There are a load of other places to post if you want to argue about politics.

Correcting an error Spit with my views not included.

Maybe it’s because they are busy with season tickets sales for next season

6 million-that is pretty shoddy what do we pay the ticket office staff for.

Does anyone know if the DTb have received the mayo review into the potential failings of the 2025 DT elections?

All of this politics posting is 🥱💩🤮

For those who may be interested, Stevenage tickets are being distributed by our tichet office, not theirs. Our ticket office unilaterally decided not to offer a collection from Plough Lane option because there are always uncollected tickets. So? Tough on the people who did not collect them, given they had the option to have them posted out and chose not to or relied on them being available to collect on the day. Now those of us who can be bothered to collect them (there are even two home matches between now and Stevenage to do so if you don't want to make a special journey) have to pay extra and roll the dice on the uncertainty and unreliability of the ticket arriving in the post.

Turn it in OI, you know the wup rules or is that only for me :-)

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