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All in all a very strange response to someone posting information from the public domain in a place where people might be interested.

Assuming of course we're not stranded in a play-off place with nothing to play for by then...

Maybe so, but independent of his behaviour at other matches and the general impression that he himself has built that he's a bit of a nobber in some fairly expensive seats, you have to wonder why selling a ticket for a what Arsenal has designated a non-segregated area at below face value should be any kind of offence at all. Bloody daft, just like not being able to stand up at football.

Liebherr's legacy was the plan initially, yet the tax was announced before he died. I don't mind us operating as a business, but let's be consistent, eh ? "No sponsor on the shirt" versus "I don't have to be inconvenienced to buy extra/away tickets for no additional fee" is an absolute no-brainer for me, logo me up.

But not picking Hammond for one match guarantees that Stephens won't be guaranteed to be required for two matches (assuming Chaplow manages 90 and Hammond is booked). I wouldn't start with Stephens and Hammond, let's put it that way. But worst case scenario is we start with Chaplow and Stephens - who then breaks down - and then Hammond comes on as a sub and gets booked / sent off.

As we established a few weeks ago on here, the FL site, Soccerbase and the Saints OS all report different counts of bookings. For instance, looking at all three of them, there are only 4 bookings down to Hammond before the Huddersfield match... which he missed due to suspension for having 5 bookings. Another example is that the OS lists Barnard as being both booked and then sent off in that game where the ref accidentally got the yellow out before his red, but doesn't mention a different Saints player getting a booking in that game (can't recall who). Bizarrely, there was a Yeovil fan site which seemed to be the most accurate. AND it included the League Cup and FA Cup games which are missing from the FL stats (Hammond was booked against Bolton, for instance). Hammond is definitely on 9, the 9th being for kicking the ball away after a Fonte foul against MK Dons, which the OS has down to Fonte, the match report claiming Hammond made the foul with Fonte kicking the ball away, when it was the other way around, and Hammond was the one booked.

As someone who has only paid it once, when utterly unavoidable, to get a ticket to AFC Bournemouth away this season I'd be even more p1ssed off with that than I was at its introduction in the first place. The addition of £3 to most tickets is purely a money-making exercise, and if all the tickets went up £3 next season at the expense of a ticket tax we'd hopefully just put it down to the promotion...

It wasn't anyone around me in the front half of Block 41 either, and we've got the mongs who were singing BWP songs in the first 5 minutes within earshot. Though to be fair after the 4 versions of the "David Connolly - we thought he was dead" song I let them off.

Might also be worth noting that they used "principle" when referring to our main, i.e. "principal" lenders, if we're going to play at being pendants. And there's a "prospective" not "perspective" on this thread, but whatever.

That's not strictly true, he got tons of crap when he first arrived, and didn't score between Oct 2005 and Feb '06 when he went on loan to Ipswich. At Ipswich (Feb/Mar 2006) he was instantly miles better, scoring 2 goals in 3 games (then getting sent off so he was suspended for the rest of the loan period and came back to Saints). Fuller then proceeded to score 2 goals in his first game back (beat Cardiff 3-2) which stopped the booing of him immediately on his return, and he scored 6 in 6 until the end of the season, which was good enough that he even got a version of the Ohh Crouchie Crouchie song - he was actually one of our most popular players in April/May 2006 as we recovered from the Burley/Lowe firesale the previous Christmas and started to build a winning team. He then played at Derby (2-2 on tv, opening match of 2006/7) and against Yeovil (5-2) in the Carling Cup, without scoring in either, and Burley sold him to Stoke because we had just signed Wright-Phillips and paired him with Kenwyne Jones up front.

Funny you should mention that, Umbro have just launched a new V template for Bohemians in Ireland. I could quite go for either this season's sash in yellow/blue or even that in yellow/blue (maybe with white). I still think we're getting this year's Rangers away template for the home kit :

That would be Milan and Inter who both wore white shirts for 20 years in the 1920s ? And Real Madrid who started off wearing a kit with a blue sash ? All teams have worn different shirts if not outright different colours - Barcelona have always had the same colours but started off in halved shirts not stripes too. And as for "a pale imitation of Crystal Palace", is that the Crystal Palace who've only worn a white kit with a diagonal on it for 11 years in the 1970s/80s and once in 2008, otherwise wearing claret and sky blue / white and black / white and claret/sky blue / red and blue stripes for the other 95 years of their history? Add to that that the diagonal doesn't even go the same way, either, never mind it being two colours. We don't look anything like ANY Crystal Palace kit. I'm not bothered whether we go back to stripes or not (though we clearly will), but let's not fabricate some nonsense about teams never changing their kits to try and justify it, especially in an age when teams change the fundamental design every season for financial reasons.

People seem to keep missing the fact that the Patrick kit (well, the first one) WAS stripes. It was a broad central stripe with two contrasting stripes either side, AND a further pair of stripes which were the same as the central stripe at the side of the shirt. It can be clearly seen here : and it's not hugely dissimilar to this one, which no-one moaned about for not being striped, other than the central stripe being a bit narrower :

Is that why we keep selling out of Medium-sized shirts ?

An interesting example given that Leeds didn't play in white until the late 1950s and all of the others played in different colours to those above during their formative years.

It's definitely only Hammond at risk, I've been monitoring this for about a month, having pointed out that moving the Plymouth game was beneficial for this reason. Chaplow might well argue that having to mind his tackling to avoid yellows was affecting his natural game... Even more gutting that Stephens got carted off when he could have played on Saturday to avoid it altogether. And if he got two yellows he would indeed get BOTH bans.

Mmm, sounds like you need to find some London Saints to share the 4-person groupsave tickets with.

As opposed to just being owned by the same bloke ? What's the difference ?

I just wish he'd get into the box full stop.

It'll be easy for them to be able to console each other and pick themselves up for the play-offs when we're clear in second then.

That's at least partially because most of their "hard" games are still left to play.

I haven't been following the in jokes on here today and have never noticed you as one of the spelling criminals before, is this deliberate ?

Beats trying to get from South Wales and back by train, which simply is not possible if you want to leave after 9pm without going via Reading and paying through the nose. Glad I moved, I'm not fit enough to do any more of those sprints back to the parking spaces near Hoglands Park on the final whistle so I didn't get stuck on the Avenue for half an hour !

Do you mean on Saints Player ? Surely the only people who are paying for that are people who are really into Saints but can't go ? They've got to be a significant minority compared to people who either don't pay for the Player or are going to the match.

Which means he's also not very likely to win any quick clearance in the air.