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It implies, you have inferred from it. I don't see why we wouldn't want to sign another central midfielder, they're very prone to getting suspended and we don't exactly have a wealth of proven Premier League talent in there. Then again, not sure how much stock I put in any of these media reports.

Well, I've just checked last year's Premier League Handbook and it says Squad Numbers only have to be specified "Before the commencement of each Season" so we could have another three and a half weeks before they get around to it. It's only the kits that have to be confirmed a month in advance.

We're Arsenal's lowest category match, their cheapest tickets are £25.50 for that category, the away fans are in the cheapest seats and there's a Prem regulation that prices for home and comparable away areas must be the same. Ergo, two tickets for £51.

Basically, if Arsenal's allocation is fewer than 2800, you'll have to have gone to Man City to have anything like a reasonable chance of getting a ticket to Arsenal. They can only split the points into 4 categories at that stage for Arsenal, and there's not much practical sense in having anything other than a top priority for people who've been to all 3 matches and 2nd priority for people who've been to 2 matches (inc possibly 2 homes). I'd expect to see Arsenal : Priority 1 : 40 points (all 3 matches - there can be no more than 2800 of these people) Priority 2 : 30 points (both home matches, or Wigan h and Man C a). then maybe in the extremely unlikely event there will be tickets left Priority 3 : 20 points (Just Wigan h, or "Man U h & Man C a") - in practice this will be only non-ST holders who've been to one home match and maybe the away Priority 4 : 10 points (Man C away with no home games; or just Man U home)

I think if I was MLG I'd just keep all this useful info to myself, and let the rest of you find out at some point down the line. Save it for the "Pointless Sarcastic Stadium Size Co(k-Waving" thread that hopefully will be stickied in a couple of days so none of the rest of us have to read the same 3 jokes in response to everything over and over again...

I'm not sure why it being on tv has any relevance, I'm sure City will manage to sell plenty of tickets to people who suddenly discovered their life-long love of the club since they got Mansour's Millions. It's on tv, so no-one HAS to go. Now if you'd said "£49 and they're playing a team who were in League One 18 months ago" I'd have probably agreed with you. FWIW, I'm interested to see if Saints take this opportunity to announce our home ticket prices, you know, now that we all "know" it's £50 a ticket in the Prem (and before Arsenal sell us two tickets for that price in a few weeks' time).

I can do that with every single one of your posts. You tard.

It wasn't imaginary, I was on it for at least 3 years.

Good point well made. Ah, I remember the halcyon days of...

Judging by the cards on the site, they're the "Executive Massively Expensive Show Off Club" tickets, with the "Ruddy Expensive Corporate Show Off" tickets and the "Relatively Normal But Still Expensive Season tickets" listed alongside, then there's the "Blue", which is for anyone with a masters degree in Completely Unfathomable Ticketing Systems and includes both a Membership costing £10 and a "Priority Tickets" choice at £15 if you only want to watch a match at some point in the next 15 years of your life, as long as it's midweek and against Reading or Wigan.

Evesham United might have something to say about that.

That page should be titled "City v Saints - no ticket details". I did enjoy the bit about us being attacking, and the mysterious lack of useful information in the following sentence : "City last played the Saints in the Premier League on New Year’s Day 2005, when goals from Paul Bosvelt and Shaun Wright-Phillips earned the home side a 2-1 win". Helpful isn't it ? Provided you know who Paul Bosvelt and SWP played for, seeing as it doesn't actually tell you who was at home. I've just had a look at the rest of their ticketing info to see if the ticket costs or categories are fixed anywhere, and my GOD that's a confusing multi-tier ticket preference system they have, I thought Arsenal's was bad but this one is just as ridiculous...

I'm sure our Japanese Fan Club will be able to source tickets from the players' pool...

Because many of them won't manifest themselves until after the season starts, when they actually notice we're in the Premier League. By the way, you forgot South Wales, which is how I became a Saints fan - though I suspect had the set of circumstances from 1989-91 which led to me coming here manifested themselves today, I'd be a Swansea City ST holder instead. So that particular boundary has shifted eastwards a bit. Plus Reading are hoovering up Berkshire and the M4 corridor at the moment which squeezes us southwards. Still, with a £7 BILLION Prem TV deal starting in 2013 and £60m just for coming 20th, if we stay up this season we won't need any fans next year anyway.

The biggest problem I can see is where people want to sit together but don't all have the same number of points, and therefore have to apply at different times.

Last season's games will have precisely no relevance under this system, and it doesn't really bother me. The club have probably been saved a little by Man City away being on the tv on a Sunday, as that will wheedle out those who are happy to watch it on the box immediately. Having re-read it a few times I actually think it's a pretty decent system, it encourages people to go to crappy looking home games to get tickets to go to attractive looking aways... I find it slightly bewildering that someone who goes to Man City away [10pts] and Man U at home [10pts], but not Wigan h [20pts], will have the same number of points [20] as someone who only goes to Wigan home, when it comes to working out who gets the Arsenal tickets. Then again, missing the Wigan home means they're not an ST holder, so it may be a moot point if the ST holders take all the Arsenal tickets. I'm quite pleased that other "loyalty" purchases aren't included as I don't like the new kit and wouldn't want to have to get one to get Man City tickets, and the only people I can see having a problem with this are non-Southampton based fans who might struggle get tickets to aways after Man City because they haven't gone to Wigan home, which is unfortunate. Getting rid of the "points for pounds" system they seemed to be going with is definitely a good thing, renewals were worth less than new STs, disabled fans, OAPs and students got fewer points than standard ticket purchasers, etc.

Ohhh, of COURSE they'll wait for the Olympics to start before burying the news. I wouldn't be surprised if Birch liquidates them during the Men's 100m Final... I don't think they should allow the burning of the financial forensics for the future inquiry though, they could do with those for criminal prosecutions (hopefully).

Good job we weren't saying they should get their arses in gear for Plan B around page 500 of this then...

I'm basically only going to go to Man City to ensure I get a ticket for Arsenal...

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They will just play with 23 teams, there won't be any last minute promotions or any of that debacle. They've done it before. Also see http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-maidstone-resign-from-league-as-debts-rise-henry-winter-on-the-demise-of-another-football-club-left-without-money-or-ground-1541125.html

No, as they haven't mentioned it at all in the article, which makes it pretty clear it won't.

He should stay for as long as we are clearly paying him much more than he'll get anywhere else, which will be until his contract expires. All credit to him if he decides to take a pay cut, drop back down the leagues and play instead.

I would strongly suggest it was that everyone in the Championship knew he could do that and the keepers were much better so his success rate would have dropped significantly, so instead we worked on numerous variations on the 2 CB far post routine - and scored from a few of them. Also, he's slimmed down a fair bit in the last year, small changes in your body shape and how the muscles lie can make it difficult to repeat a technique over time.

I THINK the idea is that all of this is now based on the new client number not the old customer number, but God knows how they'll do this even with everyone being linked on the online accounts. History suggests massive fcvk-ups all around, we can but hope that the club miraculously starts giving a crap about their customers buying tickets to other clubs' home matches.