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They've re-pulped the last matchday programme for this very purpose according to my sauces.

Yup

I'm glad it wasn't me thinking of the obvious too!! Did he not have a camera on his phone either...?

or as they call it in the trade "being a BA passenger" Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll now remove tongue from cheek ;-)

Cheers Stu. Background is that I've got a mate who supports Dagenham and we always said we'd book an exec box for Saints vs Daggers game if we ever ended up in the same division.... I never imagined we'd have to put the plan into action!

Not as daft as it sounds.... http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2006/08/08/pageant-blind-judge.html

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/831640.Saints_closing_in_on_Skacel/

Smallmead

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The emergency budget that hasn't happened yet....?

I work to an annual household budget so have not been able to justify the expenditure on either basis (i.e. Upfront or installments) I don't have a 'leisure expenditure' budget per se. I simply spend any surplus from my monthly expenditure on non-essentials such as attending football matches, cinema, takeaways, etc

I've never been able to justify the cost of a season ticket (against other family expenditure) and therefore I've never bought one. Why do others who can't afford one appear to assume they have a right to be able to do so?

Nope, can't think of anything off the top of my head....

To undermine an analogy.......Is that because you wanted 100% of the merchandise up front or that you wanted to receive parts of the TV delivered once every two weeks between August 2010 and May 2011?

Agree. In other words, Cortese would be mad to jeopardise the business he runs by hacking off his profit making customers....

Post #50 edit: bugger - just spotted I've gone through the 10k post mark sometime in the last few days without so much as a fanfare or bunting. Gutted.

+1 Whilst Liebherr may well be a billionaire (according to popular concensus) he is trying to run the club on a self-sustaining basis both for his own benefit and that of any future owner. He and Cortese will thus be setting up the 2010/11 budget accordingly. No more, no less.

......^ This ¦ Whilst having a relatively well paid job I have yet to get to the point where I can justifity buying a Football Club season ticket over and above other higher priority family budget items. This is despite, in the general scheme of things, the cost of a season ticket being relatively trivial compared to some family budget items. I am therefore happier paying a 'PAYG' premium for match day tickets as it fits in better with my lifestyle. If people can't afford a season ticket then perhaps consider a more prgamatic lifestyle such as the one I have adopted? (sorry, that sounds a little patronising but have left it in my post as the sentiment that I'm trying to convey is valid)

But wouldn't that have given rise to the 'transparency' accusation? I'd rather the ticket price was broken down into 'cost' + 'profit mark-up' than all being absorbed in to one unfavomable total.

It's not a "stealth" tax....the charge it's far too visible for it to be classed as "stealth"

FFS

Cheers for the clarification and I genuinely feel for the people that fall into the latter category. I guess the question to those in that category is: Would you rather: (a) a Saints team bobbing along in League One that you could afford to watch or (b) a Saints team storming towards the Premiership that you can't afford to watch. Intersting conundrum

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Stu - so, with respect, are you suggesting that Cortese/Liebherr have no idea how to run a self-sustaining business and therefore that their recent pricing decisions are based on pure naivity?