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Not every single member goes to every single home game. However, out of all of the members you can guarantee they will all most likely want to go to this last home game of the season / potential promotion celebration. I don't know how people can't get their head around it. You've been able to get your seat(s) most or all of the season which is great but when every member suddenly wants to go people are just going to sit wherever they can as demand is 10x higher than an average home game in the season.

How do you know they haven't been going all season? How would they have gotten tickets without the points they would get from going to games?

Is this basically just Fifa/Uefa's way of creating their own super league without openly admitting it. The gap between our big 6 and the top clubs in Europe is now only going to get bigger and bigger - how dare any other smaller team try and go for it and invest in their squad if they don't have a big enough ground or sell enough merchandise to generate enough revenue to do so.

Like someone said above it got down to Members with 15+ points. However, it would definitely be interesting if the club was transparent with how many tickets they do keep back for hospitality, family and friends of players, staff and the obligatory ticket office staff and their whole families. I used to like it on the site where you could see actual numbers of tickets available then you could see when it first went on sale how many were actually available for sale.

If you see anyone selling one on let me know

Exactly. There's a core number of members who don't go to every game but spread over a season the number who attend will average out over each game. For a game like this that pretty much all of the members want to go to there will be higher demand simple as that.

I'm not sure how everyone has jumped on that there will be loads of tourists and glory fans because it's sold out higher up the priority list. You literally have to have more points to have bought them so far, and having more points usually means you've been to more games, so in reality surely that means they've actually been bought by people that do frequently go to games, no? Also, the last home game of the season always sells out early doors, more so when there's potentially a trophy lift or promotion to celebrate.

You're argument was 23 other teams only have 14/15 senior/main players which is rubbish. My point was our squad is great, but that there weren't enough options in the middle or on the wing - that means just Praet and Hamza from your list above plus Albrighton, McAteer and Marcal. Hardly the most coveted players in the league.

Yes, otherwise they would not have sold. I remember same thing happened in 2013/14 - let's hope it's a repeat.

Could someone tweet a link to Jordan Blackwell or something? Might prompt them to do a write up in the Mercury or something like that generate some further interest - the fact it's fan funded and also smashed it's target you'd think might be a nice story for them to write up. Although saying that it is the Leicester Mercury.

Why did he get dropped after being in team of the week the week before?

Hmm, I dunno, I don't think any of those options would work in the system he wants to play. Wilf can't pass more than 10 yards he wouldn't be able to do 10% of what Winks does in our system. Also, I think the other 23 managers only having 14 or 15 senior players thing is a load of tripe. There's at least 10-12 teams in this league with a big enough squad to challenge for the play-offs and promotion, a lot of clubs bigger than us as well so I don't buy in to that narrative that we're 'absolutely too massive for this league' at all.

And now... so many changes in 50 years.

In a normal Championship season I always feel like the play-offs momentum is with the teams that finish 5th/6th as it's almost like a bonus chance for glory and you're riding on a high from finishing in those positions and getting in there. This season, with the points tally for the top 3 being so high (even 4th as Southampton are likely to finish on an abnormally high total as well), you would imagine it's going to feel like a massive blow to whoever ends up finishing 3rd. It will take a massive regroup. I feel Ipswich would be able to do it and be up for it, however us and Leeds, after probably expecting to be going up, it would be a hard one to swallow.

I think we're going through a rough/tough period tbh and I feel since the Coventry loss in Jan, a lot of teams have kind of sussed out how we play and we've not really looked like we have a plan B either. However, in Enzo's defence he is quite limited with the squad we have, in the areas where we need to rotate more, on the wing and in the middle of the park, we don't have a lot of options, whereas the areas where we don't need to rotate so much, in defence or up front we've got a lot of options and up front in particular, no one has really set the league on fire and others have been disappointing when they've come in. I still think he has a good idea of how to play football but most of our players are knackered after a long season and he doesn't have the quality on the bench where we need it. However, as luck would have it, it seems that Ipswich and Leeds are looking the same at the minute too. Got my fingers crossed we somehow manage to pull our fingers out for the last 5 games to get us over the line.

We've got 6 games in 25 days, beat Millwall and Plymouth away in the next week and we're well on our way. If we lose or drop points in these games the pressure on the final 4 becomes immense - we need 6 points this week we've got to go strong,

I do hope their (Southampton's) fans do boycott this game as £47 for an away ticket in the Championship is mad. It looks like Southampton are pretty much nailed on for 4th now anyway so they'll most likely want to go to the PO games or Wembley if they get there.

You posted that Leeds were initially willing to charge £27 for those same seats so it's them that have then decided to go all the way back up to £47. I'm sure there's seats in our ground close to the away section that will most likely cost our fans more than away fans a few rows away - I'm guessing, I don't know what we charge away fans at our ground. Would be interesting to know if Southampton's £30 was in line with their own fans in the same stand/area.

So Leeds were apparently happy to charge £27 then when Southampton wanted £3 more, Leeds then decided they actually wanted to charge £20 more? Sounds like Leeds are just being greedy and no matter how loyal you to your own club their fans should be calling them out for stuff like this.

I didn't comprehend how bad the issue was until recently. I think I watched a Geowizard video on YouTube where he attempts to walk across Birmingham without using roads. There's quite a few instances where he walks along and through rivers and streams and there's sh*t and all sorts in the waterways which was unbelievable until you read up on it.

Well played Martyn McLaughlin whoever you are, pledging a grand - amazing.

Maths and numbers are not my strong pioint at all so I'm struggling to understand this one. The new owners wrote off £71m in loans that the club owed, and they've recorded this as an income? How is that done? Do they put on the accounts that £71m was put in their account and then a week later or whenever after the deadline it goes back out to pay off said loan?

Did the same for Leeds and they are; 19/20: +€30m 20/21: -€127m 21/22: -€59m 22/23 -€43m For comparison Leicester's are; 19/20: -€16m 20/21: -€6m 21/22: -€63m 22/23 +€32m I don't get it. Is it purely wages that have messed us up?

With most clubs posting their accounts are we likely to see any other clubs come under the same scrutiny we have recently? Looking purely at transfers I thought I'd look at Southampton using transfermarkt - tbh this season they've done pretty well with a +€165m (€187m income and only spending €22m) However for the previous few years it's not been great, with totals of; 19/20: -€34m 20/21: -€11m 21/22: -€3m 22/23 -€146m In particular with last seasons net loss which was massive, surely their last 3 year period has got to be close too no? They can't have that much more income than us can they?

Surely even more reason for him not to want to get injured then with no security