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I Think some posters are arguing about the same thing. We are not a very good side but Hasenhuttl has got a poorside playing at the very top of their game. However we are still letting ingaols (late in some cases) and are still capable of putting in the odd poor performance(Cardiff / Palace at home for example). As for the original “why do we let in so many late goals” inmy opinion we have 4 centre half’s who either don’t read the game and not reactto danger quickly enough or just capable of making individual errors. As some posters point out in the summer transfer thread ,newplayers are required and some of the current squad need to be sold / loanedout.

It is , the reasoning why West Ham want our game to KO early is you wouldn’t get from Stratford to Wembley for 5:30 if the game finished at 5.

Fully agree, i think the club could have reduced the prices much more then they have, I'm not so certain that any shortfall would be made up with extra catering etc from a lower price. Just for example my ticket is in block 4 and this season it was £682 next season it is £660 but a new season ticket is £730 I cant see many being tempted by that. If the club had reduced tickets by £50 for example (block 4 would be £632) and we had 18000 season ticket holders then there would be ahort fall of £900000, however IF and its a big IF the cost of a new saeon ticket was the same as a renewall say £632 and that then attracted 1000 new season ticket holders then that would make £632000 up of that shortfall. I still cant see the balance of £268000 being made up by the 1000 buying food and drink etc but it would make up some. Just because I have a season ticket this season I do not see why a new season ticket should not be the same price as a renewall, as long as a season ticket was cheaper than buying match by match.

This will be very intresting seeing how much they think they can get away with charging again. You would think that the fact we struggle to sell out games, even against the top sides and the discounts they have had to offer members to buy tickets for caertian games would suggest they / are were charging too much for this season. However with the much publised survey they gave out to season ticket holders earler in the season you wonder how divorced the club are from their fanbase. Will the club use the feel good factor surrounding Raplh's aapomiment and improved perfances to keep prices as they are or will they take note of the fact we struggle to sell out and reduce them?

Yes I would say ever since St Mary’s opened the top clubs have had plenty of fans on the home sections. Some times maybe 200 or 300 dotted around , some can’t keep quite when their team scoreless orhersare more sensible and keep quiet - even when we score . Then you have the corporate blocks where saints give their guests one of the opposition shirts as part of the package. Unless the club ban the membership / name / season ticket who helped get any that were thrown out then it’s not going to stop.

To be fair to him his right ,I am rubbing my hands with glee.

Nor can we. Which as Ralph Hasenhüttl said in his interview after the Cardiff game, we cant keeping needing to score 2 or 3 goals just to win a game.

Yep, agree with that. Its surprising how many seem to think that we are going to go on some kind of spending spree in the summer (if we stay up) without selling anymore players. The club have already suggested Hojbjerg will be sold by saying several top clubs have been looking at him.

Danny Ings is a great player when fit and is exactly what we need. However there is a reason why he is in a relegation battle with Saints rather than a title battle with Liverpool.

Yet some on here were telling us it was a good thing .

The black box needs a softwear update if its recent findings are anything to go by

Following on from a thread on the uglyinside it would appear the club sent back 1000 tickets and we only took and sold 1300. A quick look on the Leicester website confirms this as they are selling tickets in block M2 which was originally part of Saints allocation. Why did the ticket office send tickets back with 3 or more weeks to go until the fixture? For Arsenal we have taken just over 2000 tickets with the statement "This is an initial allocation and subject to demand can be increased" whats the betting we have no intention of taking the extra 1000 tickets ?

Well we are ****ed then as he will need to work a miracle to keep that pile of **** we currently have playing for us up.

He's played in 3 league cup games, done ok and not let us down. Though as is typical now days all teams made changes and were arguably weaker then what would play in a league game.

That's how I see it. When we signed McCarthy no fans would have though he would be our number 1 2 or 3 years later. He's an average keeper playing in a bellow average side. He certainly helped to keep us up last season and has kept us in games this season - he made some cracking saves at Huddersfield. Yes he probably could have done better with a couple of the goals we have let in but then so should have the whole team. However, I'm sure we didn't spend the money we did on Gunn to have him sitting on the bench for a few seasons - especially as we already had an adequate No 2 in Forster.

I also noticed at Cardiff there was anempty block of seats to our right between us Saints fans and the Cardiff fanson the side. When both Leicester and Manchester utd went there they both filledthis block and had fans right up to the segregation barrier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGrWn1wmJ8U A quick look on the Leicester City site confirms that Saints have not taken the full allocation as they have started selling tickets to their fans in block M1. Shame as I feel we could have sold the extra 1000 tickets seeing as there still 2 weeks to go.

According to the website its sold out and no more are available - even though the original announcement said 2254 was an initial allocation. https://southamptonfc.com/matches/2018-19/leicester-v-saints-2019-01-12/ticket-info Strange have the ticket office done their usual and not requested the extra allocation ?

Sell Gabbiadini and keep Austin. Austin at least actually cares, Gabbiadini looks like he couldn't give a ****. Also I think Austin would get us more goals too.

Maybe we should sign the ****er up then.

Yes , the squad of players we have are simply not good enough - even with the distinct possibility that it could be a record low points telly to stay up. Our problem , if the rumours are true and we have to off load players before we can bring any in , is who would want any of our players? Even for free let alone actually paying decent money for them.

They might think they are good enough but what clubs would buy them? I honestly can't see any premier clubs wanting them - even the ones that come up.

Not sure where you have been but McCarthy has the same song as Gabbiadini and Yoshida and Hoijberg also has a song though luckily it's different form the other 3! We really do have a lack of songs which is one of the reasons the atmosphere both home and away (I dont call singing oh when the Saints 20 times a game a good atmosphere) are poor.

I doubt we will ever find out the results, but like others have said the way it was worded was to see if i was willing to pay more money for the privilege of a nicer concourse where i could buy better food - no doubt at inflated prices. Season ticket plus i think they called it. Well all it has done is made me even more likely not to renew and i said so in the feedback.

Les Reed had a dream To build a football team He spent all the owners’ money But we’re **** in attack We’re crap at the baaack That’s why Les Reed – he got the sack.

And thats our problem, 2 seasons ago if Yoshida was picked for the 1st team a lot of fans would moan and say how he wasn't good enough - backed up by the errors he made in a few games. Now he is seen as our best defender - he's improved but not that much. It goes to show how far we have fallen as a team.