Bilic's initial impression is that Reid won't be returning from injury until after the international break at the earliest.
We'll have to face the fact that Reid has become a genuinely very injury-prone player with regular ham string problems every season.
He usually gets injured a few times every season and misses several weeks. This season he's been going well, only briefly injured until now and appearing in 26 of the Hammers' 29 games so far.
2012-13 was the last time Reid played what can be called a full season (36 appearances).
Since then (appearances out of 38 game Premier League season):
2013-14: 22 (missed 42%)
2014-15: 30 (not bad but still missed 21% of games)
2015-16: 24 (missed 37%)
2016-17: 26 (twelve games remaining in season)
Playing the Island nations, we should be strong enough with our remaining centre back options in Smith, Durante and Tzimopoulos with Brotherton as back-up.
Who would be the front-running centre back option to bring into the squad to replace Reid for the Fiji games if Hudson elected to do so?
On the ticket price issue, $26 would seem a good maximum price to me for qualifiers against Island nations.
At $31 they'll get a lower crowd and won't make the extra money they're hoping for from the increased price.
Hike the price to $50 - $60 for the play-off against South America because that's genuinely a "rare-in-your-lifetime" world-class game.