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Not to mention that those "bandwagon jumpers" have already been to at least 3 matches this season.

Bit harsh to ignore Gareth Bale's LaLiga titles and Champions League wins, but if that's the criterion you want!

Nah, he'll get the FA Cup Final if he's not already busy, they save the EFL Cup Final for the "Europa League of refs", hence Martin Atkinson.

Makes sense to match them up just in case someone is checking (though the practicalities of asking for concession proof at the time surely make the check not viable), but Wembley probably don't care as they're sending out all adult tickets, and as one of our allocated tickets we've got so far is marked as concession on the delivery card but is in a non-disabled row I'm fairly sure the club are not that bothered either.

I've seen a few photos on social media from friends, and I've got a couple at home. They're phasing the postage and the TO told me not to worry if they hadn't arrived until Feb 23rd.

If they weren't allocated to customer numbers, I should think.

The comeback against Championship Watford in the League Cup from 4-0 down to lose 5-2 in 2004-ish with swathes of the Saints fans sarcastically supporting Watford would suggest not.

Actually decent odds as our statistical chances are around 1:100.

We never were.

The obvious underpinning thing people are missing here is that Clattenburg, as a FIFA ref and regarded as England's best at the moment, will usually get the "top" games, involving the big clubs. This means when he refs us we're more likely to be playing the top sides than not, and therefore more likely to lose than usual to begin with. As such, 2 wins in 15 matches isn't far from what I'd expect from us to be in games against top 6 sides anyway.

It was competition specific for ST holders for initial priority. Obviously there's no point in making it "people who went to EFL Cup games only" as there aren't 32,000 of them, but it should be a factor to encourage people to go to early round matches (as if £12 tickets wasn't enough).

They are all full adult tickets, we have 2 full price and 1 ambulant/enabler pair and the concessions are only flagged up on the attached address delivery card.

Not as regards EFL Final tickets go, but in terms of future European aways they should. Sunderland home should contribute towards EFL ticket priority (it does), and Norwich FA Cup replay should contribute towards an FA Cup (semi or) Final ticket.

With all eventualities considered, I'd suggest Monday lunchtime. A shocking lack of faith in Saints' EFL Cup ambitions has seen me book myself into a Board meeting on the Monday afternoon when I planned the meetings last summer.

People who went to Europa League aways will get priority for future European games. Actually those who went to Israel already got priority for Prague. It's completely fair, and making the eligibility competition-specific also gives people an entry-level ticket to priority for later games at a low cost for matches the club can't sell out as well, which is a great way of allowing people to get invested and go to games without needing to spend loads of money. It might also improve EFL Cup attendances next season too.

As someone who used to go to games in Southampton from South Wales and often to more away games than homes, I can relate to the issue - but there's no way away attendance is as important to the club financially as home games, and I wouldn't have expected it to be reflected in the criteria. As it is, there are only (apparently) 150 people in this situation and the club has found a way to give them a chance at the tickets, which resolves every complaint other than those from people who don't go to 2 games a season or don't want to pay for a membership. My solution to struggling to get tickets to the 2003 FA Cup Final was easy enough - I moved to Southampton and am now in my 11th successive year of having an ST.

I'm so glad I don't have to spend any more money watching Saints travelling around Europe (hopefully only until July though).

Also, as I just rang the TO about only a couple of our group of tickets being delivered they are indeed phasing the posting, and as some of the ones we bought are different categories they may well turn up separately even though they were ordered at the same time (they'd better!).

From what I've been told, according to the email sent to members with 3+ aways yesterday, there are only 150 people in that category. As there are 600+ tickets, they must be making them available to others (once the 3+ aways group gets a go at them this afternoon).

He gives us the threat of a through ball even if we don't actually play it, which gives defenders more to worry about.

Sunderland were bloody awful second half and didn't actually create much. N'Dong, however, gave Romeu quite the run-around first half in the middle of the park and looked like he could be quite a threat, but disappeared entirely when Romeu got up to speed after the break. FWIW I thought Ward-Prowse somehow still managed to be awful almost all the way through, which was quite the achievement with us winning 4-0. We notably had a bit of a 4-4-2 going on at times too, and Sunderland had completely stopped playing altogether by the 70th minute with every Saints player finding 10 yards of space all of the time. Their fans had mostly left by the 3rd goal, never mind the 4th. As expected, as soon as we don't have a match every midweek we look like a much more effective and creative side. Anyone would think it was the schedule all along...

We could be on 37 points by 19th March. We probably won't be with Spurs away and Man U at home, but even writing off those two, 3 wins and a draw from Sunderland a, Watford a, Bournemouth and Palace at home doesn't seem hugely unlikely and that's the flapping done and dusted by 5th April with 7 matches and 6 weeks of the season to spare.

This is true, coincidentally my favourite two players are (arguably) our best two players though. For a bit of balance I also like Cuco Martina for no particular reason other than he seems to be a little bit random and hilarious. Quite like Austin and Rodriguez for non-footballing reasons as well.

Favourites at the moment are Van Dijk and Romeu. One because he's our best centre back since Alderweireld and those two are the best in the division, and the other because he works his balls off and I've got one of his Europa League shirts.

Wheelchair sections are obvious and replace Rows 30/31 where there's a wheelchair section. Initially they also set aside Rows 30/31 where there are seats for ambulant/enabler pairs too, so for instance the back couple of rows of block 132 (labelled with the first "E" of Wembley). As I'm near the ambulant section but not in it, I think I'm next to the entrance between (letters E/M on the pic) blocks 132/133 personally but even using this detailed plan it's difficult to work out: http://www.mapaplan.com/seating-plan/wembley-stadium-chart-london/high-resolution/wembley-stadium-london-seating-plan-00a-Detailed-row-block-numbers-exact-concert-chart-high-resolution.htm Anyway, the gist was that they'll be trying to enforce seating in front of the disabled section. Doesn't bother me either way, might bother a few people I know (either way).