Phoenix Update

Season tickets arrived today, which is kind of nice. Except that the rest of the 'welcome pack' has to be collected from the club shop in town after the 16th. i.e. Saturday at the earliest. The first match is Sunday. So they are artificially stimulating demand at the club shop on the day that it should least need it.

I'm mildly peeved that I won't have my new wristband, lanyard and other assorted gubbins, but I'm sure you can sense my relief that I can use last year's. Because surely I can't be bothered to go into town before my own football game on Saturday (unless the weather continues its awful run), and I am plenty busy on Sunday too.

Last year, they sent the whole pack out en masse. This struck me then as nice of them, but a bit wasteful. It would seem reasonable to me that once the decision to send out vouchers for collection was taken, that they could the do this as soon as they liked, rather than waiting until the last moment.

On the bright side (for the fans), Tony Lochhead's trial at Middlesboro (highlighting some hypocrisy from Rocki Herbert) came to nothing. From what I saw last year, the Premier League is at least one step too far. If he'd had a go at a slightly lower level, then I don't think he'd be coming back.