Morning all.
Arsenal FC have done something good, very good for it’s fans.
As announced previously by the official site, there will be no mainline trains running back from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston after the match against Utd so the club has worked with Virgin Trains to charter a train for 450 fans to make the journey. I know, 450 is not that many in numbers but they are also laying on extra coaches.
Not only is that a fine gesture but both train and coach travel are being subsidised by the club which will of course to reduce costs for the fans.
Train tickets will be £30 (first class) and £20 (standard class). Return coach travel will be £10 a head. Travel will only be available for supporters with a valid away ticket for the game.
Classy eh? It costs me more than that to get to The Emirates….
Keep an eye on the official website from 10am today for more travel information. Tickets go on sale then too.
Before that FA Cup encounter, we have a few tricky matches to overcome starting with Crystal Palace tomorrow and a few players need late fitness tests which is never good to hear. Hector Bellerin has some kind of ankle problem and Mathieu Flamini has a tight hamstring.
Aaron Ramsey is a couple of weeks away from returning to training but better news for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain as he resumed full training yesterday. Good. Jack Wilshere is fit and healthy and should return to the squad tomorrow but Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Debuchy are still tasked with keeping Abou Diaby company.
It’ll be interesting to see who Arsene Wenger selects tomorrow as just four days later we face Monaco in the Champions League.
That’s it for today, short and sweet…..
Have a good Friday….
Just put this up on the last post our record against palace in the last 6 games is 5 wins and a draw hope we keep this run going.
Cant see anything other than an away win…
Morning All,
Hope Arsene puts out what he considers his top side,
if not puts out what he considers his core side,
thats his best 7 players available,before you ask me,
Kosser,
The Coq,
Cazola,
Danny Boy,
Sanchez,
La Quif,
I know one short,if fit the Ox.
He’s got to surely Fred, we need top 4, 3rd hopefully and if we beat Monaco over 2 legs, not convinced we’ll go much further..
Hope Gabriel gets another game too, someone needs to stop Chamakh… 😉
Quiet here so off to get my chores done, laters…
Hi Rico
Perhaps the club or or a collection of fans should complain to the BBC Trust about the cup match –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/contact_us/making_a_complaint.html
Watch out for Chamak on Saturday
Brian
Didn’t Kirsten shoot JFK?
Palace have a few ‘speed merchants’ up front, so maybe Wenger will play a deeper line tomorrow…
Hopefully Bellerin recovers, but Chambers played really well vs M’Boro so I’d not worry to much if he started…
It’s gonna be a hard, typical London derby.
Forget Monaco, let’s deal with this one.
You listening Arsene???
hi there!
I’m waiting for tomorrow.
Monaco is very difficult.
Agree Kev, one game at a time…
Afternoon anyone.. lol
Afternoon Rico, another quiet day on the house.
Some news, as the charter train is already sold out an additional train is being made avaible for fans returning from the game.Cost £20 first class £10 standard class.
The youth cup game against Crewe will now be played on Monday 23rd Feb
at the Hive (Barnets Ground)
The U21 game against A Villa due to be layed that night at Boringwood has been postponed, no date for this at the moment.
Seven schoolboys have been offered scholarships contracts, 3 more are still waiting to find out and 3 have been released. I gather Brooklyn will find out if he has been offered one when he returns on sunday
Afternoon Rick..
Not surprised the buses have sold out, glad the club are doing all they can to help others too…
Seems AW isn’t fazed by having to go to OT…
I read that about Beckham, two down and one to go then… lol
Afternoon all, seems like the spuds are going to find out the delights of building a new stadium soon.
Wonder if they’ll be able to stay in the top four whilst they go through the building and move Joe…
Oh hang on, they don’t now…..
The good news most teams that build a new stadium get relegated 🙂
I haven’t heard that before….
I think we are the only ones that haven’t in recent times.
Not many clubs have moved stadiums though have they?
No it’s very difficult to do and expensive seemly spurs started it’s new stadium project back in 2007.
Well I hope it breaks them..
Oh well, another early night for me as its dead on here…
Night folks….
Rick, I see that the Academy have signed Jay Beckford from Leyton Orient…
A fee has been paid…
What do you know about him?
Ha, any old excuse Rico, you just wanna go and watch EastEnders ‘live’….
Oh the thrill… 😐
Joint statement from Arsenal fans’ organisations
By Kevin Whitcher
& The Gooner
Joint statement from The Gooner, REDaction, AST and BSM
Working together for the matchgoing fans
Today, three leading Arsenal fans’ organisations and the club’s main fanzine wrote to Arsenal CEO Ivan Gazidis, asking for a meeting to discuss how we can get a better deal for match-going fans.
The Gooner, together with REDaction, the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust and the Black Scarf Movement, also shared the results of our recent joint survey of over 2,000 Arsenal fans. This covered issues including atmosphere, kick-off times, ticket prices, and access to live football for younger fans.
The survey ran before the announcement of the new Premier League TV deal, but the main conclusions were very clear:
• Over 97% of fans want to see some of the additional money from the new TV deal used to reduce ticket prices.
• 96% support existing campaigns for standard pricing for away fans – in contrast to the current situation which sees Arsenal fans charged ‘Category A’ prices at most away grounds.
• 95% of fans think that when a game is moved for TV coverage, some of the money earned by clubs should be used to compensate fans for inconvenience via lower ticket prices.
• In addition, over 85% of fans think that some TV money should be ringfenced to provide cheaper tickets for younger (16 to 21 year old) fans; and the same number support the idea of Arsenal issuing ‘home credits’ to ensure that seats are used for all games.
It is obvious who benefits from ever bigger TV deals – club owners, players and their agents, TV viewers and TV companies. It is also very clear that match-going fans get the rough end of this deal – as games are moved to inconvenient kick-off times, and ticket prices remain high despite the amount of TV money flowing into the game.
Our aim in writing to Ivan Gazidis today is to open constructive dialogue on ensuring match-going fans share in the benefits of bumper TV deals – or at least are not completely disregarded along the way. The three Arsenal fans’ organisations involved and The Gooner are in complete agreement on this – and will work with each other and with groups from other clubs to keep the views of match-going fans on the agenda.
20th February 2015
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Joint action , at last I wonder if it will fall on deaf ears. This needs to be publicised to garner support from other clubs . It’s about time that the fans started to use their influence over the clubs and the media to shame them into doing it.
Talking of Leyton Orient, why Rick, don’t Arsenal switch their Youth Cup game to Brisbane Road?
Who wants to slap it up to Barnet after a days work?!
Poxy moderation 🙁
Night All…
Because Kev, Barnet is such a pleasant village to visit ,as opposed to Leyton, inner city, almost, East end!! Not to mention Leyton for most supporters is far more convenient and lastly we wouldn’t want to give any cash to our nearby neighbours and possible rivals!!!
Night all
Morning…..
Morning Rico…
How was EastEnders?
Morning All…
Ah yeah, never thought about Orient being our rivals Wavy.
It’s game day.
Hello all!
Morning Kev and Scott..
Eastenders was good… 🙂
Morning all. Beautiful blue skies here. Shame there will be very little ‘blue skies’ thinking from this location though!
Gave up Eastenders when Todd Carty’s character contracted AIDS. It was just a storyline too far. There were also side effects to watching the soap twice a week..I frequently went to work the following day will a huge sad on as a result of yet another miserable storyline!
Who killed the Beale child? I could care less. Sorry to all the addicts but it’s not for me nor any other soap operas. The only exception is the Archers which I listen to avidly. However, if the storylines deviate much more from the tales of ‘simple countryfolk’ this too will get the old heave ho! I want distraction not melancholy and misery!
The Arsenal? Now there’s a soap opera all on its own! Speaking of melancholy and misery, excitement and elation etc it has all the elements of a well written daily drama. It’s enough for me, anyway.
Crystal Palace today? Should win but I don’t think it will be an easy ride. On their day they are not a bad side. Let’s hope this is not one of their days and we are businesslike in our demolition of the south London club.
Eastenders seems to have been on all week , still kept the wife happy.
Wavy – The Archers have their fair share of miserable story-lines… lol
Potter, and me, I really enjoyed the live shows….
Hello me old pals me old beauties. The Archers :- I remember their old central defender (Walter) Gabriel ,
Was he as good as or Gabriel? lol
New post up now…