Kmcalpin

Yes that would really sort out the diehards from the fair weather fans.

Fair enough. Cheaper than a normal SPL game. If the cash goes towards our transfer kitty all good and well.

Agreed. An excellent draw for us. Apart from accessibility I'm glad we missed Manchester City - we can watch them ad nauseum on the box. Good to land a different side which we haven't seen before.

As many know I'm not Keith Lasley's biggst fan, although I don't dislike him. Whilst I agree with what you say, we must bear in mind that both Lasley and Tom Hateley are holding/defensive midfielders and were somewhat out of their comfort zone last night. They were asked to do jobs for which they're not suited. We still need a mobile box to box or mobile creative central midfielder.

Aaalesund have a great bunch of fans and they were a credit to their club. The ones I met briefly were top class. Swapped scarves and I'll now have to buy a new C & A one. Good luck to Aalesund for the rest of their season.

+1 We sat just a bit too deep for comfort.

If take your custom to the Cooper you'll also help the club financially.

Hear hear Andy! Some good points made on all sides but this has been obscured by petty abuse and name calling. We're all Well fans - lets show each other some respect and clean up these Boards to attract back the many lost members.

Dario Quinn is rated as being a good prospect by the management at Fir Park. I'd guess therefore he's being farmed out to gain experience and toughen him up....nothing more, nothing less.

Because, over the course of a season the ST holder will probably attend more games and pump more cash into the club, and in advance (As always of course there are exceptions - I quite accept that there are a small number of ST holders who rarely attend a game and there are some PATG fans who attend every home game without fail). A ST ticket is probably the best, though imperfect, proxy for loyalty.

You're basically suggesting a free for all? If long standing and loyal fans can't purchase tickets quick enough, then tough - thats their look out. A bit callous and ruthless in my view. I'm sorry but that's a sure fire way to alienate and offend a lot of season ticket holders, who comprise over 50% of our core support, in one fell swoop. No system is perfect but a database of names is as near as it gets. That said, some recognition should be given to those who travelled to Iceland and Norway, by way of thanks.

There's also the option of detailing a smaller guy to police him and hassle him and prevent him from getting a free header with the time and the space to place the ball where he wants. Hearts used to deploy this tactic to great effect. Its hard to jump if someone, however small, is standing on your foot.

It would make sense to give ST holders and memebrs of the Trust and Supporters Association priority, although there'd be some overlap. Long term, the answer is to set up a database of fans. This would serve a variety of purposes including allocation of home stand tickets for OF games.

We might be rivals on the pitch for 90 minutes but as others have said Aalesund fans should be made to feel welcome at Fir Park. This is a golden chance for the club to create a good impression in Europe and Norway in particular. Norwegian fans should be made to feel welcome. I have happy memories of Norway having spent some time in Odda and Sogndal.

We still require a creative/box to box central midfielder to support the striker(s).

The EoSC get everyhwere don't they?

In my view the club has done nothing wrong, nothing whatsoever.

Given the timespan it would be a logistical nightmare. It would be unworkable. Given that the club had considerably less than a fortnight to organise home leg tickets how long would season ticket holders be given to "book" their seats? One week? If that was the case then non season ticket holders would have say 3 days to collect theirs. This could lead to a large number of ticket sales artificially crammed into a very limited time slot. What about mixed groups of ST holders groups wanting to sit beside their friends/family who weren't ST holders? I suppose the only alternative would be to sell a Euro package for say 3 games in advance and then folk would take their chance as to whether or not we'd be involved in 3 games. They might end up forking out to see 3 games but in reality only watching one. I'm a season ticket holder myself and someone has taken my seat - so what? I'll be in the same general area and that'll suit me fine.

IF we get through, and at this stage its still very uncertain of course, I'd take anybody except an English premier league side. Lets hope for an interesting side from Europe that we haven't seen before. I for one, am bored of the same old English teams overexposed on the telly. We can watch the Liverpools every day of the week during the season if we want.

C'mon folks - still time donate a fiver for those who can afford it.

It really is game on for both teams. Both sides will go into next week's encounter knowing that they can progress. While we go into the game with a slight advantage its going to be tough, very tough. Aalesund are well capable of winning and Craig Brown will drum that into the players. We will find it hard to score many if we rely solely on Jamie Murphy who admittedly is shaping up well this season so far. A very tense and interesting return awaits. Get along to Fir Park next week folks!

EoS rules ok!

Thanks for your prompt reply Leeann. I suspect that your involvement has paid dividends. Someone from our party rang the office later today and was able to purchase tickets for the row behind where we normally sit. There had been a misunderstanding and one or two of "our" seats had in fact been snapped up quickly - they had indeed been available. We were able to obtain seats in the row behind. Still I think this only goes to show that its yet another nail in the coffin of the ageing POD Stand. Thanks again.

Maybe someone from the club can help me here. I've posted it to the Boards and not contacted the club directly, as it might be of interest to several other POD Stand season ticket holders. Our group tried to buy tickets for our own seats in the South Stand end of the POD Stand but were not able to do this. We sit in the padded wooden seats just to the right of the half way line. When we enquired yesterday we were told that these seats did not meet UEFA regulations and couldn't be used for the AAlesund tie. Now I'm aware that the plastic seats in the 2 wing sections felll into this category and were out of bounds at the Breidablik game but I would have thought these seast were ok. Although of wooden construction and a bit old , they have backs and a padded seat. IMHO they are of good quality and better than most seats I've sat on elsewhere in the ground or indeed at away grounds. Does anyone know what the problem is? They were obviously acceptable to UEFA a year or two back for our Nancy game. I appreciate this isn't of the club's doing but it has seious implications for the status of the POD Stand.

Good post Flow. Therein lies much of Scottish football's problem. For many years SPL clubs have viewed almost every issue from their own perspective. As you well know this was very evident, for example, at the SPL vote to reject Falkirk's application to groundshare at Airdrie a few years ago. Despite the vote being about a single well defined issue, several clubs voted for other reasons entirely. Until the 10 non OF clubs start working in harmony the SPL will struggle. They should adopt common marketing and pricing strategies for example. However, I suspect that some of the larger clubs non OF clubs will see themselves above this debate and adopt an "I'm all right Jack" position. If we want to move forward we have to change attitudes. By that I mean the clubs, the governing bodies, the players, the media, and last but by no means least the fans both the diehards and the fair weather variety. Its a big task.