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The maths don't add up on offering our ST holders two additional £10 tickets do they ? Haven't we got 20,000+ ST holders (plus at least 1500 away allocation) and a 32,500 stadium ? We'd be potentially offering 40,000 additional tickets, people would be fuming when they sold out the other 5,000 tickets after about half an hour, and what about the people who don't know any ST holders and live away but come to some home games, do they pay full price and are those tickets in the scrum with the others on the first day of sales ? Fulham have (or have had) a "neutral area" due to their failure to fill the ground by selling to regular Fulham fans, we're not in that bracket.

1) You can get a refund from the club, and officially no tickets are transferable so no-one else should be able to use it - but how would they know ? You don't have a limit on the number of home tickets you can buy on your ST number so there's no reason to think you wouldn't still be using the ST and they can't block it on that basis. 2) Yes, massive double standard but as there's no price paid there's no revenue lost so the club doesn't care.

Presumably (as surely we learned from Rupert Lowe), if a part of the ground is closed, you don't have to pay anyone to steward it, police it, or sell stuff in it. It's cost efficient of the club to close a stand if they know the rest of the crowd can be accommodated in the remaining areas. It is of course extremely cost-INefficient of them to not sell tickets to maximise their income. I disagree with those who think this is an opportunity lost to market to kids - for a start it's a school night, so how many would even be allowed to go ? If you accept that some kids will still want to go, price wise they've made an error for kids : it's not as attractive a fixture as a friendly with Real Sociedad, but the cost is the same as it was for that game, however loads of kids went to that (in daylight on a weekend during the summer holidays against Champions League opponents). As it happens, all my mates are going and I'm not skint yet this month (probably due to not going to aways), so I've caved and will be attending my first home cup game in about 3 seasons. I frankly don't give a toss about sitting in "my seat" for games when the stadium is half empty, I actually like having the opportunity to sit somewhere else.

I think the idea is to try and back it up with some kind of evidence. Like, for instance, that Schneiderlin led the division in interceptions and successful tackles last season, or something like that.

That's correct, but isn't the issue then that you won't be able to buy a ticket for that account number because that account number doesn't have the permitted number of aways for that sales window ? I think the issues are that we genuinely don't know, and that there's nothing in the online system preventing it.

If it's not here, they're almost certainly not selling it. They seem to have black, and white, but not red in the tracksuit tops, and red in the sweatshirts. http://ssl.saintsfc.co.uk/products/13400

Who dat ?

Wow, that was pointless, and you're talking to Mr Pointless Semantics here, who gets annoyed by some people using the word "sign" in the Pochettinoooooo song because it isn't a usual footballing term for managers. Well done.

Weird considering they only bought him in July and he's already played this season !

We had 23 not including Boruc last season. 24 after we signed him as an out of contract player. I don't know why you think we can't do that. My point is that you're highly unlikely to want to be signing two of them, and limiting it to two because you haven't got rid of others who won't play but have to be named is therefore not a problem. http://www.premierleague.com/content/dam/premierleague/site-content/News/publications/squad-lists/Squad-Lists-September-2012.pdf Last season we named Dickson and Forte, but not Sharp (season long loan) or Barnard (half season loan at AFCB I think ?) or Martin (half season at Palace). Southampton - Player Home Grown 1 Butterfield, Daniel Paul Yes 2 Chaplow, Richard David Yes 3 Cork, Jack Frank Porteous Yes 4 Davis, Kelvin Geoffery Yes 5 Davis, Steven Yes 6 De Ridder, Steve Danny Marc No 7 Dickson, Ryan Anthony Yes 8 Do Prado Raymundo, Guilherme No 9 Fonte, Jose Miguel No 10 Forte, Jonathan Ronald James Yes 11 Fox, Daniel Yes 12 Hooiveld, Jos No 13 Lallana, Adam David Yes 14 Lambert, Rickie Lee Yes 15 Lee, Tadanari No 16 Mayuka, Emmanuel No 17 Puncheon, Jason David Ian Yes 18 Ramirez Pereyra, Gaston Exequiel No 19 Richardson, Frazer Yes 20 Rodriguez, Jay Enriqus Yes 21 Schneiderlin, Morgan Yes 22 Seaborne, Daniel Anthony Yes 23 Yoshida, Maya No

Did this one last week, the missus said "11 teams in the FL ending in ton, but we think one is in the conference now". I was quite pleased to name 13 without Luton (or Alfreton).

I don't get your logic. We already have 2 free slots and as you say, we can only buy out-of-contract players - we bought one last season when we didn't have a decent keeper, but really, how many out-of-contract players do we need ? We were (EDIT : NOT OVER) over the 25 pros limit last season but still had space for Boruc apparently because of the (apparent but unproven) ruling about having to have two over 23 GKs in the squad and not being able to name 25 as a result. Seems to have worked in our favour. Clearly season-long loanees don't have to be named though, which took Sharp out of the equation last year but not this time.

Schools are closed on Saturdays, right ?

Tickets full-stop are non-transferable.

Given that you spent the whole of last season buying u-17 tickets as an adult, maybe the joke is on you ? There are a few others on here who might like a word as well, though you're by no means alone - I believe the tipping point was when Saints got a phone call from Wigan last season pointing out that apparently about a third of all tickets sold in the Saints end at the DW Stadium were to "U-17s". Or was it half - I'm sure stevegrant will be able to confirm... Anyway, as usual, this is the scabby gets ruining it for everyone else. The "points system" thing they're referring to is that you have to allocate a ticket to a customer number, and if you're not an U17 customer, you can't get an U17 ticket. I imagine the next thing will be a load of people setting up non-existent U17 accounts purely to do this.

At FIFTY-THREE quid a ticket, mind... the only reason I went to Man City was to ensure I got tickets to every other away I wanted last season. Now I've done that I'm not going to anything like as many - decided to spend £65 for two of us to go to Exeter v Newport (including return travel and match tickets) that day instead. It's the future. As for "some communication with supporters would help", some people on here would have you believe that's a sign of weakness rather than strength.

We discussed this literally less than a week ago.

Didn't we establish yesterday that Deschamps only picks players from teams in the Champions League ?

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He's not a teacher on here. Though mis-spelling "hoodie" doesn't help.

Jesus, not this again. Can someone just search for the last time this was answered and post the link, it's a lot easier.

I can't click the link as I'm in the office and they stupidly haven't disabled our speakers, but is it the Soccer AM Joe Hart dance ? Multi-directional arms-out hand waving, then jumping around like a fish out of water ? They called for people to do that in the background of deadline day reporters on Saturday's programme. Beats a bunch of scallies shouting swears and flicking the Vs like at the Everton training ground yesterday afternoon, they cut back to the studio. I was also amused that our deadline day report at midnight was half taken up by Eddie Mitchell selling his shares in Bournemouth - THAT'S how much transfer activity we managed yesterday.

Please don't.

I think you may be alone, yes. Though even with your dubious taste in maroon and pink away shirts you're still way ahead of the bloke I saw on Facebook saying it was "for fagits" or something similar.

No-one knows, but they did try blatantly bullsh111ting us about the volume of sales with the red pinstripe thing last season. "Fastest-selling kit in Saints history" my ar5e, almost everyone I know has a sash shirt, including people who don't own any other football shirts, about a third of them have last season's kit, and precisely two people I know have this season's. I doubt we'd have sold 20,000 shirts in L1 though, even for our most popular shirt ever*. Difficult to say what sold of proportion of all fans buy replicas without the stats, but also it's highly unlikely given our method of selling shirts (no High Street or chain store sales and none outside Southampton) that we'll have shifted more simply due to being a Prem club than for a hugely popular shirt which went on sale only 3 months after 50,000+ Saints fans attended the JPT Final. The other thing worth remembering is that they ran out of stock in most sizes from August to November 2010 and you literally could not buy one even if you wanted to. Even our crappo, hugely disliked current home kit seems reasonably popular in kids' sizes (notsomuch with adults though). You can't even buy that Skate third kit in kids' sizes. *my words.