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The last time someone posted this on here it was pointed out that they didn't always get the largest away allocation possible at the grounds they were visiting to begin with. So I'm just repeating it...

Oh yeah, and apparently Jose Fonte was also in West Quay yesterday, with his girlfriend. I wonder if he saw the promo pic of himself and thought "Blimey, I look like a Munster" too ?

We've got them both covered on here. PS it's not, unless you go to West Quay, and that's a quid after 5 anyway.

Mean of them to block the link for you ! http://lockerz.com/s/122540688

Is it unreasonable then to expect the same Liebherr largesse to be extended to the playing staff with a view to regaining Premier League status ? I'm not saying it's the only, or necessarily the best way to go, but there's no belief that we've got a superior squad in the Championship the way we did in League One, is there ?

"IF" ? You should try standing in a queue of season ticket renewers for 30 minutes and listen to all the good things they didn't have to say about the whole process. There is a lot of what is currently just grumbling, but he's already made the mistake of p155ing off the 60-64s, many of whom are long term customers with a certain expectation of how things are going to be. There is no communication, no management of expectations and a lot of what appears to be penny-pinching. I'm glad of our recent success, I've got an ST, I'm hopeful we're going to finish in the top half if not the play-offs this season, and I' m glad of the players we've been able to bring in since the summer of 2009 but I don't like the way things are going other than that, or the idea that we have this never-ending debt of gratitude that should be pointed to every time there's something a lot of fans don't like.

It is a perfectly justifiable thread questioning what our Chairman has done to deserve a (minimum) £600k salary for getting us to 7th in League One at the time, and suggesting that that kind of money should be reserved for someone who is able to raise revenues and achieve success without alienating chunks of the fanbase, who are the source of the longer term incomes of the club. As a banker, I'd guess he wasn't really into the customer service side of things and generally sees things in terms of revenue in and out. He sure as hell doesn't know anything about marketing to fans, as the attendance this weekend for what after all is the first home appearance of the promotion-winning team in 2 months will prove.

Yes, we get it, he helped save the club. That shouldn't guarantee the kind unquestioning acceptance of all business decisions some people think it does.

"You pay more as it'll benefit the club, but I'll take more out for my own benefit" sounds like hypocrisy to me.

I expect they are primed for tomorrow (when the two open stands are the opposite side of the stadium from the Megastore), Wednesday's game against West Brom, and the following Saturday against Leeds, as well as the rest of the season after that. Can't expect to shift them all overnight, but I would laugh if they'd ordered the same quantities as last season, just because it would be preposterous.

I also took a pic of the long-sleeved shirts which shows the weird white panel which interrupts the cuff and the lower part of the sleeve - this is black on Sunderland's kit and looks really strange. Ours is a bit more discreet, but is still a strange design feature, as it doesn't have anything printed on it or appear to serve any purpose.

Three non-staff members in the store around noon-ish, and I wasn't buying anything. You have quite a choice.

I'm more than aware that Saints can pay Cortese what he wants, it just seems like a massive piece of hypocrisy for him to be taking such a wad from the club whilst exploiting all these nice new ways to extort cash from fans in a recession. The long and short of it to me is if he can earn that as a banker, then he should be earning it as a banker. He's certainly not earning it in customer service or by nurturing the longer-term goodwill of the people who pay to see the club. It probably did first come out with the accounts, but it's the first time I've seen it in print.

Yeah, all you need is to get a list of users and somehow find out their real names, home addresses and whether or not they live with anyone else, then match the names to the dates, take the gamble on them not having house-sitters or still being there, or having alarms on their property etc., and away you go. I'm moving on Friday next week btw, so you can rule me out immediately.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/district/southampton/9100617.Saints_director_paid_600k/?ref=fbrec Does exactly what it says on the tin. Probably worth noting that the article indicates that at the time there were two directors, Liebherr and Cortese, and Markus wasn't thought to be taking a salary. I look forward to seeing the discussion of why it was wrong for Lowe to take money out of the club via share dividends, but it's ok that we're paying through the nose for every visit to the club whilst a director is getting that kind of sum for doing the job he's doing - the crux presumably being that he could earn it somewhere else in banking...

Harding, Dickson, Reeves, Mills has still got a contract, ummm... Seaborne played there last season, that's 5, and we must have at least two more for the U-16 and U-18s. Plus I'm sure Cork could play there if he wanted. One short.

As I've also just popped into the Megastore, have a size chart for those not sure about the fit : FWIW I bought an XL (long sleeved) - yesterday - because the sleeves on the Large long sleeved weren't long enough. The sizes are almost exactly the same as last season's home kit (I bought a L short sleeved and an XL long sleeved last year for the exact same reasons) - but the away kit last year was slightly smaller, was definitely an XL in that.

You're forgetting that the additional material is a mere fraction of the £35 mark up. I've just come back from picking up Memorial Cup tickets (Northam and Kingsland only are open, so scrap any idea that I'll be able to get photos of the away shirt onto Saintsweb), and the area outside the Megastore absolutely reeks of sewage at the moment. I didn't see any Tunisians either, not that the medical would be at the stadium...

I'll just upload the pic from my phone which says what they don't have...

Article was posted on July 14th, so the story is a week old, or was when I stated it yesterday.

Haven't they got 18,000 ST holders or something ? Plus away fans...

Should be, maybe even ask around the neighbours to see if they've got it if it doesn't turn up today.

Is this the same "demand" that saw one person in West Quay with one on between 5:30pm and 6:30pm last night, and only 2 people buying the new shirt whilst I was in the West Quay store for 15 minutes around 6pm (and that was me and my wife)? It's a nice shirt, but it's not going to pull up any trees.

Dunno if it's been posted already, but he's on FB : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ammar-Jemal/131548570222248 which also has links to his YouTube Channel and Twitter feed : http://twitter.com/#!/AmmarJemal There's nothing blatantly saying "I'm signing for Saints" btw.

Most retro kits are plain designs, if there's one thing you can guarantee about "new" designs, which are invariably pointlessly over-graphical, it's that a lot more people will actively dislike them and won't buy them, compared to something that looks classic and harkens back to previous years. The reasons last season's kit was such a success was that it had a classic, plain, yet still unique look, as well as being the ultimate Saints throwback (and no sponsor). The away shirt had no sponsor, but also no history and looked like a training kit, and no-one's talking about how many sales records it broke because they couldn't shift them.