sotonjoe

It seems to me we've had more this season.

I thought the advance booking charge was £3 per transaction whereas the match day extra free was £2 per ticket.

You still miss the point! 1) I have no idea whether your allegations are correct because I can't be arsed to go back and look at them. Whether I'm old, young, fat, thin, drink tea or eat tofu doesn't bear any relevance to the discussion. 2) This too has bearing on the discussion. As it happens I have snapped up my own seats, but this is down to luck that they just so happened to be available, not because the club were helpful enough to hold them for 24hours for me. 3) So you agree with me anyway... I have no idea what you've been rambling on about then. Why shouldn't the club give ST holders 24 hours to claim their usual seats before all tickets go on sale? What possible disadvantages are to this happening?

You completely miss the point and make yourself look a bit of a berk by assuming things about people who sit in specific areas of the ground. The idea of what is and isn't a good view is subjective. Many ST holders obviously feel one view is better than another, hence why they choose to sit in a specific part of the ground. To dismiss their opinion on what is or isn't a good view is ignorant. As I said before, I've clearly showed that there are benefits for ST holders in being able to secure their own seat and I'm still waiting to hear how other people are disadvantaged by said facility. I can't see any reason why the club no longer do it.

It is not non-season ticket holders' place to criticise season ticket holders for wanting the privilege of being able to claim their own seat. It costs the club nothing to give season ticket holders a small amount of time (even 24 / 48hours) to claim their own seats before general sale. Some season ticket holders feel their are benefits for them in being able to do this. For instance, it is nice to be surrounded by the same people game upon game. I go with one mate and have quite enjoyed gradually also getting to know a couple of the other people around me. Having a brief natter with these familiar faces is part and parcel of going to SMS now. Equally, for ST holders who have purchased premium seats, there is some disadvantage at being forced to sit in other areas of the ground. In my opinion, my ST seats gives me the perfect view; I am slap bang on the halfway line and about three quarters of the way back. I cannot buy this view in the opposite area of the ground so I'm left with a battle on my hands as I desperately try to secure one of those premium seats. I've sat in other areas of the ground and the view isn't as good; I'm either facing across one end of the pitch and forever craning my neck, or I'm right an end so at a disadvantage when play is at the other end. Ultimately then, being able to secure my st seat gives me perks and doesn't cause anybody else a disadvantage, so why on earth shouldn't the club offer that option?

That fanzine hasn't been on sale for a while so I wondered if it had folded.

No, proven PL strikers just turned 30 definitely couldn't cut it in the 3rd Div.

I'm not sure I understand the anti-bingo bus feeling. Surely it's just a means of transport to a game? Does transport to a game have to involve getting drunk, lots of shouting, intimidation of the general public and a cheeky punch up if you're lucky just to complete the experience?

With tickets now on sale to ST holders, who has got tickets? The OS said they were expecting high demand, hence the staggered on sale dates, but haviong not seen a thread on here yet (I may have missed one), I wonder if demand will really be that high.

I bummed Delldays

As long as I can have my season ticket seat without some other muppet buying it, I shall be happy.

He said .... He's not coming now they've finished the Curry Club on home match days.

Brian Stock has been chatting on Facebook again.

The Withdean is an embarassment. Isn't it about time Brighton built a new stadium?

I don't think we'll see any action until January. In the meantime we have a glut of left sided players and playing one of these would allow us to put Lallana out on the right and use Chamberlain for impact. Lee Holmes may at last get a look in, or Dickson if Holmes isn't on form. I'm sure Butterfield is capable of playing at right midfield as well.

HAve a look on parkers.co.uk; not very positive reviews really.

heh, sounds like you and I probably sit pretty near each other in the Kingsland then from that comment. Definitiely the best seats in 'the house'.

As others have said, there ARE bad views at SMS. Anything such as block 3 which looks across at the side of the goal offers a crap view. People like me who have seats slap bang on the halfway line in the Kingsland dont want to have to be displaced when these cup games come round. We've paid more for our season tickets than people in the wings / ends and then we can't even buy our own seats for cup games.

Does he mean "cynicism"?

Chaplow and Barnard seem to be 'very close'. They are always sighted together.

And I still can't sit in the 'best' stand as it's shut.

You get 10% off hospitality prices if you are a season ticket holder. Not great, but better than nothing. Maybe you could resell your season ticket as well which would bring the cost down considerably.

Cortese wasn't watching the game from the Directors Box today. After all the fuss with the ticket price, I'd have at least expected him to turn up to relish the victory!

This was not a pretty game. For much of the first half we simply didn't have enough possession. For parts of the second half we had more possession, but were wasteful or pressured too quickly by the opposition to know what to do with it. Things were more positive, if a little desperate, from 80mins onwards, but it was still looking unlikely that we would score. Lallana frustrated me today. I thought he had the whiff of Fernandes about him; turning this way and that, frequently without an end product. I know he scored, but that doesn't negate the bad points of his performance. I don't think he does a great deal when he's off the ball either. Chamberlain struggled to have the same impression he did against Notts County; his football brain clearly hasn't developed yet at the tender age of 17! He found himself in the wrong position to receive the ball on occasions and couldn't do the right thing with the ball at times when he had it. Leaving the game, I knew that if it hadn't been for those two surprise goals, we would have all been very, very disappointed with the performance.