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No, escorted back onto the M4 after the game. The point is, for some reason today they had a right bee in their bonnet and made sure it was a sh!t trip for Saints fans all round. Also, this is the bit that really took the ****, they escorted us into the stadium car park, of which we had no choice, then charged us a tenner for the privledge! Cheeky c*nts. Fair enough not letting fans into nearby pubs, I understand that, however fans should be allowed to make up their own decisions, I was looking forward to a few beers on Wind Street, as I had heard good things about it. In the end all I got was a couple of watered down pints in a sh!tty concourse and an inept Saints performance of which I only watched about 30 minutes of.

Very funny, as in nobody was looking for trouble. The amount of police in the Saints section before the game ( I would estimate around 100 ) could have easily done the hospitable thing and escorted fans to a pub and cordoned it off before marching us to the ground. Basically, their tactics today was nobody from Southampton was going to be allowed anywhere other than the stadium, now alot of people go to away games to visit other towns and have a few beers with their mates, 400 miles is a f*cking long round-trip to be restricted to watching Saints under-achieve again.

Our Minibuses were stopped on the M4 and we were given a police escort straight to the ground. 45 minutes before the f*cking turnstiles opened. We were greeted by at least 10 police surrounding the minibus and shouting for us to get out, before jumping on board and confiscating all drink from the bus. This was the same for at least 2 other minibuses. We tried to leave to find a pub and were told in no uncertain terms that if we did, we would be arrested. On about 70 minutes a group of us had enough of the game and walked out to go for a pint whilst waiting for the game to finish, only for the police to completely lose their rag and start forcing Saints fans back into the cage. I know some others who came on the train with their 8 year old who were put up against the wall, pictures and details taken and escorted to the ground. Another 5 lads who come in on the train and were thrown into meatwagons and taken to the ground. I also heard the Saints Trust bus was stopped at the bridge. There must have been at least 100 officers on duty in the Saints end before and after the game. And a ****ing lot of police all round Swansea. OK there was 4 or 5 buses of Saints 'lads' who were sligtly intoxicated, but no trouble. All in all, the worst ever away game, I am glad I have ticked that ground off, because I won't be visiting again.

Tonight - Round a mates for a few beers, then round to missus mate for a few beers. Saturday - Up early and spend a day getting hammered in Swansea, town in the evening if I am in any fit state. Sunday - Walk off the hangover with the dog along the beach, few afternoon beers, Sunday roast round the folks house in the evening. Monday - Going to London to be in the audience for Divas II - I have to wear a pink shirt too. Classy. :cool: Free tickets though, and I get to see Pink, Anastacia, Dionne Warwick, Sugababes, Leona Lewis and lots of other female singers who it would normally be gay to go and see. Normal service is resumed, you all wish you were me.

That is quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever heard in my life. Now I have no gripes with Javi, but seriously, how can a hotel receptionist suddenly be a football consultant? I take it by 'being employed' he is actually a volunteer who helps the boys and stops them from feeling homesick etc, and the job is not as glamorous as the 'football consultant' suggests? Anyway, fair play to the bloke and all that, one thing you can say, he is persistant... :shock:

Done, some top blokes who work at the factory, some of which like Red Robbo, post on here.

I'm still going. Get your tickets early to avoid disappointment.

I am going, so no doubt now we will sell out our allocation.

They were told in no uncertain terms what mongs they were for singing it and soon got the message, as did the people walking out at half time. I am such a hypocrite, as I have left early many times and sung for Lowes head many times, infact my claim to fame was starting the famous ' Stand up if you want Lowe out' at Ipswich a couple of years ago. I am allowed to sing things like this, but it annoys me if others do. On another subject, there was some funny chants coming from the back of the Northam on Saturday. Never seen the Northam all sit down so quickly when the 'Stand up if you ****ged Elton' started. It did get me thinking, would this be classed as homophobic chanting in the same way that Sol Campbell incident, or is it ok to sing songs like that if it's 'just for a laugh' ?

Forgot them prices. TSW Full Members £2000 TSW Admin's £2500 Saints Trust Members - Both of them for £3000 Saints Trust Board £3000 each

Which is why admission prices should be as follows, I will be emailing Mr Luker with my proposals... Male Adults - £10 in the Northam, £15 in Centres ( Male Season Ticket Holders can bring a male, non-replica shirt wearing friend for £1 ) Male Adults who wear replica shirts - £100 Male Adults who wear replica shirts with a childs name on the back - £150 Male Adults who wear replica shirts with their name and age on the back £200 Male Adults with NUS Card - £500 Females - £ 1000 Females with NUS Card - £1500 OAP's - £1000 plus must surrender bus pass. Children - As per Male or Female NUS Prices

Misha, we didn't name her, got her from Blue Cross because we are nice people like that, oh, and we couldn't be arsed to train a puppy and have it sh!t all over the carpet.

F*ck sake, told the missus to take the gamble on a tracker, she persuaded me to go for fixed rate instead paying more than £200 extra than the last mortgage for the privelidge. C*nt. First payment was this month as well. Can I change my mind? :-(

Thanks. It's only a mess about thing really, if it works then cool, if it doesn't then I will pay a web designer to sort it out properly. Luckily I am not relying on His Bojesty for any advice or help. One perk of my 9-5 being that I work in the same room as people responsible for development/seo of a site with over 120 million page impressions every month. But as I said, just a bit of a ' let's see what happens ' jobby really.

And you Baj, are just about the most arrogant tosser that I have ever had the fortune not to meet. When I use my arrogance on here, much of it is tongue in cheek, however with you, I get the impression that you really do think the sun shines out of your arse and that nobody knows as much as you. Let's not forget the fact that you, as the director of your company, discuss your private business conversations on an internet messageboard. Don't give it the **** that no payment was discussed, it was in the first instance, either by way of payment or commision on earnings. Let's also not forget that I actually had an agreement from you about 2 months ago, once again in a professional capacity with payment, for you to host a website, for which I heard no more. The fact I am more than confident that I can get every page in the top 3, I am glad I went at it alone. I think you should get your own ship in order before commenting on others, if your customer service skills remain like you show on this forum and with business enquiries, then you won't be able to get out of rented accommodation anytime soon.

Yes they do, like I said before though, it depends what you are advertising, people will come on AwaySupporters looking for information on a football ground, to plan their trip, a large number of people will need hotels, which they can book on the site, a large number of people will be interested in designer clothing, which they can find links on the site, most football fans like a punt, there are some decent bookie incentives. There is marketing, and then there is targeted marketing, the site is not even close to be finished, and the traffic is coming through, for you info, I have already covered the MASSIVE expense of £17 from last month in commision.... from one booking. contrary to what people tell you, it really is not that expensive to host a website... even when at it's peak, it will not even be close to the cost they are trying to say here. SEO-wise, piece of ****, I am a complete novice, the site is only patched together at the moment, with only the Arsenal page close to being complete. Most of the relevent keywords on Google already are putting it near the top.

See the thing is Boj. 1) You contradict yourself, firstly you are saying that I did follow your advice and it was all your idea, then almost in the same breath you are saying that I should have followed your advice I wouldn't need to email people. Which one is it Boj? Sending out requests to people to get involved in a fans site is hardly begging is it? Mind you, I know SaintsWeb wouldn't do such a thing would they?.... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2451&highlight=articles .... oh. 2) You have passed my details on to a 3rd party ( ie: from TSF to SaintsWeb ) , show me where on the TSF T's and C's that I and others agreed to that. Now obviously I shan't be making a complaint to the DPO, as I use the services, but it's food for thought eh? 3) You show how unprofessional you are,the fact you are bringing up private discussions at business level ( they were at business level seeing payment was discussed ) , not to mention twisting them, I personally wouldn't do business with someone who discusses their business dealings on an internet forum, I am sure many others would agree.

lol, actually the only piece of advice you gave me that I took into account was to starting on a football related site first rather that the full sporting site, I used that advice due to time contraints. The world does not revolve around you Boj, and you do not know everything and cannot try and claim credit for everything! And for Steve, like it or not, it is not 'spam' , dress it up any way you like. In the eyes of the law, it is not 'spam' , it is not direct marketing, and information has not been given to any third party. What is spam is your friends at the Saints Trust sending me emails when I have never supplied them to their site, how did they get them Stevo? They didn't even bother to put them into the BCC folder, instead sent them in CC so everyones email was there for everyone to see! Even semi-famous peoples email addresses, I am sure they would not have appreciated that. Now the question is, where did Saints Trust get my email address from? The only Saints related site that has that email address is this site, or it's previous aliases as I have long since stopped using it. And on the subject of DPA, have you checked that you could transfer the data of an old forum, run by different people ( although including yourself ) to a new forum, with a new domain name, that is now a registered business? Where is my 'soft opt-out' ? Did you email me asking my permission for my personal information to be transferred onto a new forum owned by a profit-making business? It could be said that by using the people on the old database, you are fixing figures to show an unrealistic figure of users to aid sales ( where have we seen that before Stevo? ) I am sure you realise that my information is now in the hands of a 3rd party, in the eyes of the law. Maybe you should practice what you preach Stevo and Boj?

That, is complete ********. Them figures would be true if you were advertising a Hog Roast on a Jew Site, but not for targeted marketing. For example, the majority of visitors to Saintsweb will book a hotel for an away football match at least once a year, by encouraging people to book through them, instead of donating, I would say that the conversion would be much higher then 0.01% , wouldn't you? Also, there are other affiliate banners they could use, for example, Brown Bag Clothing, football fashion being a massive part of football culture, there will already be a large amount of people who use that site already, all people have to do is go through Saintsweb and Saintsweb pick up 10% of any sale. I bought a jumper on there a couple of weeks ago, £140 - if Saintsweb had an affiliate account, then they could have had £14 of my money without having the cheek to try and charge me £5 to post on the forum. Whilst I have been getting data for my own sites, I have registered or viewed just about every forum on the internet related to English football, I have only come across one other with a charge like this. * All these figures are based on the experience I have in online marketing and advertising, which ironicly, is my job. ( so to answer Steves question on the other thread, I am fully aware of DPA online, which is why my email to users of loyalsaints was a 'request for help' as opposed to direct marketing, and as I own both, there is no breach of DPA with regards to the details, as they have not been passed to any third party, and lastly, awaysupporters is directly related to loyalsaints and of interest - Sorry to **** on your bonfire Stevo, you can't know everything eh? )

Yes let's. There is a million and one things they could have done to generate revenue from the website without having to charge to post on this forum. For example, MatchHotels.com run an affiliate scheme where they would earn 5% of any booking, Superbreak run one with 10% of any revenue. All they have to do is promote it in the forums, encourage people to use the service and they would probably bring in more than they did through subscriptions, and nobody is out of pocket. None of the revenue I will make will come from forum subscriptions, you can hold me to that one.

Well I thought, seeing as there are so many mugs on here willing to pay a fiver to start a thread, I might as well make use of them as well. Also, I was wondering if the admins of TSW would allow me to contribute 50p to their fund to post one thread shamelessly promoting the site? I don't need all the benefits that £5 will give me. Mod's , will you accept my offer of 50p for 1 thread? Alternatively, I will pay you £20 for a Solus email to your userbase. I would PM you my offer but I don't have PM's

I have a forum now, I am going to shamelessly promote it using one of my 3 freebies. I still need some mugs to help me with the ground guides as well as sending me pictures of them naked at football matches, if not then just pictures of stadiums will do.

Some of his match reports were so accurate, you would have thought he copy and pasted them from BBC news.... oh....

Friday - Few beers in boozer. Saturday - Converted garage into a gym, it Roxers. Out for a meal with missus and friends to some Italian in Bedford Place. Sunday - Went for Sunday dinner at Dunwood Manor Golf Club, beers in arvo, missus mate and her TSW boyfriend came round in evening for Pizza and Dips.

Errr, Ginge, I mentioned you 3 times in my list.