Kanu is on the bench for Charlton today

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One step away from communism. All living in flats and having to get permission to travel to an away match.

Trigger - it was the norm for keepers not to wear gloves back then (unless it was really wet then Peter bonetti type gloves)

It certainly does feel like the matchday experience at all grounds is constantly being eroded. From being able to turn up on a whim, pay cash at the turnstile for an affordable admission price, buy a programme, stand where you like, have a brolly in case it rains, bring a bag with a camera. food, drink, spare clothing or whatever in it to what we have now can be quite depressing if you spend too long thinking about it. Now there is the hassle of buying tickets beforehand (assuming you qualify), extortionate admission prices, sit in your seat and shut up, can't bring anything in with you, searched as you go in, overpriced crap food and drink inside, programmes becoming obsolete up and down the country, etc., it's a wonder people go at all but while they do this will continue.

You would think the EFL have interests in companies making A4 size bags. Likewise, when it goes down to A5 or a "big pocket"

Get an A4 rucksack from Temu, you have to put into their search bar, Full sized extreme explorer safari back pack and you'll be sent the ompha lumpha version without any problem

REPD-today we are wearing our red away kit presumably to showcase it before the season starts

Going to these "events" using public transport from far away is just getting more and more difficult as risk averse managers think of more and more hurdles to justify "improvements" they have made to keep their jobs

6M - you should go on Dragons Den with that idea…

You'd be surprised how many small bags are actually bigger than A4. At Wembley I had my matchday programme inside a Tesco bag to protect it from the rain. I walked past about 3 or 4 stewards at different times who I could all see glaring at it. Finally, one decided it was no longer allowed in. When I asked why he said I could put something in it. Put something in a bag? Who'd have thought of that. I said where would I get something as you've searched everyone and anything I may buy would be from Wembley itself. He had no answer but still wouldn't let me take it in. As soon as I was passed him and inside the actual stadium I pulled out another Tesco bag I had concealed to protect my programme as I had fully expected some prick at some point to refuse to let me take it in because it was bigger than A4, even though it was obvious what was in it.

I’ve not met RK but is he small? A4 sized bed = no problem come on in.

Won't anyone think of poor Kitey trying to get in with his spare beds?

Sometimes someone has a bigger bag with them at the game because they’re going on somewhere directly afterwards, but I’m pretty sure the club can securely look after a couple of people’s bigger bags once in a while, albeit they may need a quick search…

I see that the QPR manager played most of his football in the lower divisions in France (clubs that are currently in the 4th, 5th tiers, etc…) - I wonder how he came to be at QPR… Mittal, one of the club’s owners, is worth over £15bn, yet QPR only just manage mid table mediocrity one division above us - can’t imagine what being a QPR fan must be like…

I’m not sure the demand will be there Timmy. I think the likely reality will be that “normal” size bags will be allowed in - with a routine search which is fair enough - and everybody gets on with their day.

The A4 bag thing has been copied and pasted from the daytime outdoor gig venues I suspect - I was at a Hyde Park one a few weeks ago, and it was the rule there, which I think is pretty standard these days…

Blue and white

Afternoon all. Is it just the main stand open today?

There you go then. Club put out a call for two volunteers to man ground floor space where there will be a bag drop open 1hr prior to kick off and up to 30 minutes after kick off. Or if we want paid stewards add a ÂŁ1/ÂŁ1.50 charge to drop bag off

Yeah the Yorkshire Rose is ideal for a pre-match pint and there are a few large matchday car parks in the area just up the road from there. Pub gets busy but the staff work their socks off bless em. I like to find the old man boozers when I go to away games - the independent places with sticky carpets from the 70s. Huddersfield town centre isn’t particularly good for that tbh but for good enough reason - their pubs are still highly populated so they cater for their audience with lots of chrome, different coloured bottles of drinks that end with a z and a big screen for the karaoke.

Who can forget the old boys at Norwich walking around the pitch with the score every time we scored a goal .

Ground floor empty. I did suggest a new lounge be created within to complement our pub, where the mature folks could congregate for a pre-match cuppa and a natter.

There was a mention earlier on about pubs in Huddersfield. Not sure about the town centre, but I think the closest pub to the stadium is the Yorkshire Rose [Link] Decent enough pub, serves food and seemed to be okay with Wombles last season.

I remember a match in Sheffield where they updated the time on boards arounnd the ground at 10 minute intervals