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Theoretically that's what they should do - if they're all new customers - but whether that's what happens in practice, who knows? It might also be the case as far as allocating points to the correct customer number goes if previous TO procedures are anything to go by.

I've just had a quick look here, and it seems that so far only Arsenal, Chelsea, Man U, Reading, Swansea and West Brom have confirmed their Prem squad numbers http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/2012-2013/faprem.htm

I don't think it'll be the case that you'll need to have accounts to get the points or they won't sell you a ticket (though you will personally need to be on the database), you just won't get the additional points beyond the amount you'd get for buying one match ticket. I doubt they'll turn down the £35 for the sake of one more potential marketing name on their system.

It hasn't been stated, but it seems logical that you can only have a maximum of 10/15/20 loyalty points per match irrespective of how many tickets you buy - they're not doing it on money spent, but games attended, and you can only attend a match once, therefore it makes sense you only get the points once. Of course you can allocate your 10/15/20 to another account for the person who's actually going...

There's probably about the same demand as there is for Saints eyepatches in the club shop.

Thing is, the season's frontloaded with big teams - as soon as we start playing mediocre sides (like Everton) people who go regularly to the less glam matches will soon accrue plenty of points and be able to get the games they want. I know that after the first two away games I'm probably not going to another one until December (assuming I have enough points to go there of course). It's a bit of a sod for people who live away from St Mary's but near a lot of other Prem grounds (say in the North-West) though, ST holders are going to keep accumulating points and they'll have to do a lot of West Brom/Villa type games to keep up.

People can't spell names in thread titles when they're copied for them in an article in front of them, you don't actually expect them to check do you ? I'm long over it now, in my ivory tower full of high horses.

I'd have thought for Arsenal it'll be a few days for A) ST holders with 40 points (20 Wigan, 10 Man U, 10 Man C), then B) everyone else on 30 pts (which will include non-STs who went to Man City + Wigan, as well as STs who didn't go to Man City). Then possibly C) those on 20 pts (either Man U + Man C, or just Wigan h) then maybe D) those on 10pts (just Man C away or just Man U home). After that, E) General Sale to database. Not that we'll have enough tickets to get to the third of those groups, never mind the rest. 2800 Man City tickets will be taken up by ST holders and all of those people will likely be in (A) above, leaving the difference between that and Arsenal, minus the few people who go to City but not Arsenal, for the second tier of priority (B) above. Basically unless we don't sell out Man City, or the Arsenal allocation is bigger than the 2800 at City, you won't get to go to Arsenal unless you have the points from City.

6) For away matches it's ST holders with priority in the points system, then the points system for the rest (which might include lower pts ST holders below high pts non-ST holders, but there aren't enough points for that to be the case yet). For home matches, there is no priority system unless stated by the club - so there's no priority for Wigan, and the priority for Man U is that you've got Wigan tickets. And I think that's been pretty well conveyed by the club.

5) It is implied but not explicitly stated in the Wigan/Man U priority that you can only get the maximum number of loyalty points available for that match. (i.e. up to 20 depending on the opposition). Basically because it says ST holders are welcome to buy extra tickets, but it doesn't say they'll get extra loyalty points. This however is my assumption of the situation.

Ok, to clarify everyone getting confused. 1) Forget your 575 points, it was done when the STs were bought and they've dumped the £s for Pts idea altogether. Loyalty points are 10/15/20 and that's it. 2) The 295 Pts for being an ST holder are allocated match by match to ST holders as the individual home games go on sale. 3) From what's been said so far, it appears there is an away ticket priority period for ST holders BEFORE any non-ST holders get a look in. 4) Re: 3) it will vary by match, but for the Arsenal match there can only possibly be one ST priority group, those who went to Man City away, as every other ST holder has points for the other two matches (home to Man U and Wigan). Anything else ?

Fair points. Maybe the solution is (as I've been trying to do a little bit), trying to drag threads back on topic ? Could be something for the mods to interject with. Maybe we all need to be a little less thread-drifty... he says on a thread about having one giant thread...

Fair points. Maybe the solution is (as I've been trying to do a little bit), trying to drag threads back on topic ? Could be something for the mods to interject with. Maybe we all need to be a little less thread-drifty... he says on a thread about having one giant thread...

That should dovetail quite nicely with the loads who've done a lot of the grounds already - I know of 3 ST holders who are adopting lower league teams to work on their "92" this season because they've already been to all but 2 of the Prem grounds and completed the Championship. Personally having had 20 years to work on the bottom 2 divisions with Newport and then Saints, I can't be arsed with the "92" thing any more, and the cost of travel now makes it prohibitive to me anyway. The wife, however, has only recently discovered a love of Saints away days, which will probably lead to me getting roped into revisiting places I've been to loads - and we're going to Man City only because we want to go to Arsenal - so your suspicion about Emirates selling out very quickly is almost certainly right.

That should dovetail quite nicely with the loads who've done a lot of the grounds already - I know of 3 ST holders who are adopting lower league teams to work on their "92" this season because they've already been to all but 2 of the Prem grounds and completed the Championship. Personally having had 20 years to work on the bottom 2 divisions with Newport and then Saints, I can't be arsed with the "92" thing any more, and the cost of travel now makes it prohibitive to me anyway. The wife, however, has only recently discovered a love of Saints away days, which will probably lead to me getting roped into revisiting places I've been to loads - and we're going to Man City only because we want to go to Arsenal - so your suspicion about Emirates selling out very quickly is almost certainly right.

Was that you volunteering for his list ?

Was that you volunteering for his list ?

I'm considering the interesting experiment of blocking all of the contributions of all of the people who contribute to the same old same old, just to see what's left on the board. I suspect it'll just be more talking to myself (with no-one else choosing to see it) and Appy telling me I hate Rickie Lambert if that's the case though.

I'm considering the interesting experiment of blocking all of the contributions of all of the people who contribute to the same old same old, just to see what's left on the board. I suspect it'll just be more talking to myself (with no-one else choosing to see it) and Appy telling me I hate Rickie Lambert if that's the case though.

We have already suggested the "MLG/Turkish Stadium Love-In" - although to his credit Turkish has tried to back away from the same stuff on and on in the last week or so. MLG could do with learning to bite less, and I say that as someone with dangerously similar tendencies but 20 years' more experience of wasting my time and energy responding to it...

We have already suggested the "MLG/Turkish Stadium Love-In" - although to his credit Turkish has tried to back away from the same stuff on and on in the last week or so. MLG could do with learning to bite less, and I say that as someone with dangerously similar tendencies but 20 years' more experience of wasting my time and energy responding to it...

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ? For a start VAT is 2.5% higher. Petrol is now £1.32/litre not 82p/litre. http://www.staveleyhead.co.uk/utilities/petrol-prices/ Utility charges can be seen here, electricity is at 200 instead of 124 on an index based on 1990 costs : http://www.castlecover.co.uk/historic-home-utility-prices/ So that's a huge chunk of money that people had in 2005 that's going into taxation, daily travel and paying essential bills, before even looking at the unemployment figures and the number of people who can actually afford STs even if the prices had been the same. Plus the average salary fell 3% in real terms from 2010-2011, which isn't exactly in line with similar levels of disposable income either.

Thinking they'd signed a Prem striker was their first mistake.

I was hopeful there... until... Fail.

I usually sit in my seat for a couple of minutes before the second half starts, thanks for asking.