sotonjoe

i think it will sell out and i love the fact that i'm guaranteed a ticket now. woot.

that's about right mate. Let's chill out and enjoy the ride.

silence is golden. He's not talking anymore, which speaks volumes.

an absolute disappointment, but who knows what might happen next season. As long as it's a good ride, it's out of our hands to some extent. I know spending big SHOULD equal success, but we have no divine right unfortunately.

yeh, it's handy from a relationship point of view. I can be romantic and still go to the game. get in.

Next season, i'm not set on auto promotion, but if we spend 'big' again, we must get promoted or miss out due to some dubious penalty shoot out.

if we finish top 10, make it to wembley in the JPT and beat Pompey, I will be very happy with our season.

not after the fuss last time!

this deal is not dead

Wonder if the Alex will open early enough for a pre-match pint then.

I am a mug. I arrived at the ticket office at 8am and stood for an hour in the freezing cold. The only thing I could do to try and stay sane was count ... I made it to just over 1200 by 8:55am when other people joined the queue and the ticket office open. On the plus side, I got two pairs of tickets refunded and purchased two half-season tickets with MK Dons tickets to match. By 9:05, all windows of ticket office one were in action and serving customers. I had to chuckle at people's attitude when told that seating wasn't available in key blocks unless they wanted to go right to the front or right to the back. The amount of people questioning if the staff were sure there weren't four seats available together in the middle of block 19 etc amazed me. Hats off to the ticket office staff who must get sick and tired of us fans and our stupid questions all day long and thanks to Gavin for sorting out my potentially confusing refunds and purchases.

It's not so much the new registrations, but I think the tickets left after season ticket holders have got theirs will be going to existing registered customers who fulfil other specific conditions, e.g. attended all FA Cup games so far etc.

Yes but the club have no idea who would be actually using the 'second' ticket. All they know is that it was originally purchased by a season ticket holder before being passed on to any Tom, **** or Harry. I guess they could always trace it back to the purchaser if it came to dishing out bans though. However, I still think allowing fans with a particular purchase history to buy tickets, before allowing season ticket holders to buy extras, is fairer. Allow season ticket holders to buy spares and I believe you'd see the majority of season ticket holders taking up their second ticket on the basis of giving it to 'a mate'. It's the people who have gone to the games who are the most deserving, not those who are friends with people who have gone to lots of games. All IMO of course.

thanks mate, i should be fine then.

thanks stu, but i've got two sets of tickets I've already preordered that I want to sort a refund on at the same time. I was concerned that the 'hotline' is outsourced and that I won't speak directly to the ticket office. Do you know if that's the case or not? If I can do a refund on my preorder tickets at the same time via the hpone, I'll save myself the early morning!

and does the ticket office really not open until 9pm??? Would it be nice if they could open one window from 8am perhaps, for the pre-work crowd.

Reason: that will teach me to copy and past without checking. thought it looked wrong lol

What is Pardue? Is it French for pardon or something?

As somebody has said, allowing season ticket holders to buy a second ticket would ruin the principal behind restricted sale. The club don't want any tickets being sold that are going to be used by unregistered fans. This is why they will start with season ticket holders and then create some sort of criteria based on purchase history this season. This is the safest and fairest way of ticketing.

Right, I'm going to go and get a couple in the morning. One question though ... is it simple enough to buy my own, but also a second for a friend using their details? What details will the club need for me to do this? Just name, dob and address etc? I know I could just buy two in my name, but I want my mate to have his own ticket with his own name on etc.

Only if you're buying 'cheap' tiles and tiling a very small area.

If it's floow to ceiling it would be about £350. Work down from there depending on how much / litte you're doing.

I have it on good info that certain suppliers turned up at Pompey's training ground this morning and took away food supplies due to outstanding invoices remaining unpaid. Looks like lunch may be a rather lean affair over the next few days.

Was that when Keith Legg did that famous rendition of "I will Do Anything for Love" with his bit of fluff, Amy?

why not eh? something to bash around instead of beach balls etc.