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  1. One imaginary buyer down : http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8527495.stm
  2. The quote from the echo was the Football League rather than FA, who merely own Wembley and no doubt would sell more tickets in a heartbeat.
  3. You'd have saved yourself a lot of hassle by reading this thread yesterday, it already mentions all of this.
  4. Could be all over for you by Monday night. :shock:
  5. They made me travel to the ticket office to get my ST seat changed for one match when I told them I was on crutches post knee-op, and then trek BACK to the ticket office after the match for which I was on crutches, in order to collect the ST back from them. The guy who was looking after the wheelies and the limpers was a really helpful, genuinely nice bloke though - though I'm not quite sure I needed him to offer to come into the loo to help me have a wee, crutches or not !
  6. The only downside to all this is that the Skates' parachute payments will get spread around the teams in the CCC instead, making it a little more difficult for Saints to outspend everyone when we get there.
  7. They'd just pools panel result the next couple of matches and then remove the fixture from the coupon after a fortnight, adding an extra Conference match or Scottish Div 3. I'd say the likelihood is that they would get into the Southern League for definite and the Blue Square Conference South would very much be at the discretion of that League - when Newport, Aldershot, Maidstone etc went bust in the late 80s none of them got to reform above the Southern/Isthmian/Northern League regional level which is one below the Conference North/South, and they have a minimum of two divisions in those leagues - Aldershot went into the Isthmian 3rd division. Newport went bust in the Conference, restarted in the Hellenic League, and have been promoted from Southern League Midland (for Skates this would be South and West) to Southern Lge Premier, then Conference South. It's taken them 21 years to get back (including a relegation from the Southern League Premier in the mid-90s). There is of course, no real precedent for a team falling out of existence from any league other than "Division 4", and money rules now, so they might seek any kind of "placing" based on attendance and such like. I have occasionally wondered if Markus might like to buy their League position to cut a few corners, MK have already set a precedent for that one, Merton Council inflexibility or not.
  8. The precedent the FA set in '99/00 when Man U fcked off to the World Club Championships to try to get the 2010 World Cup for England was a "lucky loser" drawn from all of the 2nd Round losers for a place in the 3rd Round - but in that instance there was no pre-existing draw in place. In this circumstance Birmingham have already had the draw and if the Skates can't fulfil it, they'll get a walkover. Or at least that's what happens in a zillion other cup competitions worldwide, the FA are already making it up as they go along for everything else nowadays...
  9. They should probably take ten seconds to read the information rather than, you know, embarking on a completely pointless journey based on a number of incorrect assumptions then...
  10. Yeah I am, I'm loving the naive belief that everyone knows people who want to go but don't know anyone else who can get them a ticket.
  11. I hope not, it'll take out the entire of the structure of the Chapel and Northam ends doing so. Looks like a side suspended arch thing a la Huddersfield to me. Can you tell I'm not in the stadium design business ?
  12. Pretty sure Phase 3 (or is it Phase 4?) "General sale" will be replaced by a new phase entitled "ST holders touting their unnecessarily purchased second ticket to JCLs and miscellaneous scabby hangers on". To be honest I'd be surprised if the 25,000 ST holders take doesn't include a load of MK Dons semi-attenders already, so there should be a few left over. Also, we are notoriously lazy as a fan base. Maybe General should actually be replaced by "write a letter", or a caption competition, or preferably an obstacle course in the Northam Car Park. Is that wall still there ?
  13. Some smart ar5e is about to say something about the number of exits per seat in the Chapel/Kingsland corner, I hope it isn't me...
  14. You can't get tickets at St Mary's until General sale, it's been well-known since the first day they provided ticket info, so I'm not sure why that would be "a mess". If people don't want to read the information provided they can hardly complain if they don't know what's going on.
  15. I think you could probably argue that one if we went up... at the very least you'd get your stake back as they were a non-runner !
  16. Judging by the other thread the main problem with using the online system is that people haven't got their accounts set up properly, and the main problem with phone booking is that you get charged £3 PER TICKET not £3 per booking.
  17. Gosh he's a benevolent one, first he gives away £20m and accidentally acquires a football club, now he's chucking money into a big hole to see if he can stop it being worth absolutely nothing rather than just "next to nothing" ?!?!? Erm, surely not. Incidentally, given last week's furore, why haven't the Skates sold loads of players ? They're still allowed to, they just won't be able to play for anyone else until next season... I mean surely that hasn't put anyone off purchasing any of their quality players like, umm... oh, hang on, they do own Belhadj and James, don't they ? Both of whom will want to go to the World Cup and be playing beforehand... oops...
  18. Just for fun, I'll just throw into the mix that if you want to bet on the Skates to get relegated you'll get odds of 1/25.
  19. Toomer mentioned that he got an out of office, in which case try ticketoffice@saintsfc.co.uk or the old staple dluker@saintsfc.co.uk All they have to do is "reset" your password (i.e. give you a password) and ensure your email address is on the account.
  20. In an unbiased fashion : > Hamster tried to kill me 30 seconds in and failed > Griffo ripped the home team's dodgy defence to bits with a through ball to me for the first within 2 minutes > We got a dodgy handball pen to go 2-0 up from Baj's pen > They got a scuffed reply that went straight through the keeper > They accidentally passed to me in midfield and I got our 3rd. > Both me and Baj were injured by now but he cunningly limped off quickest > Dave Ford came on and looked like bloody Socrates out there I forget what happened after that, and haven't watched the second half on DVD, but it went something like > Nothing happened for 20 minutes > They cheated loads on subs > Jammy winner involving 86 rebounds and a big hoof.
  21. You'll have trouble reaching the opposing fans with it.
  22. Obviously we're in the process of testing hosting Wembley's new system for them in advance of the reinstatement and FA Cup Semi-Final, Final and Play-Off Final appearance, they just couldn't push it through in time for the JPT, I mean... :smt033
  23. Carozzi, LA77 and Toomer, this is for you too... It's an issue with the email address on your account being blank, so it "exists" when you try to log in, preventing you creating a new account, but is not there for you to be able to recover the password. Email the ticket office ( I think agrant@saintsfc.co.uk works) and they'll sort it by resetting your password. The current default password is "football", just for the record - that might work if you have customer number and use that, if not, email them - quite a few have had this problem, inc my g/f about a month ago.
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