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I don't recall seeing any official explanation from the club. I'm pretty sure we started selling a bigger allocation than we ended up with though (?). The only other explanation I can think of is that the club mistakenly started selling a block that, it turns out, wasn't allocated to us and upon realising (coincidentally at the same time the fixture date was changed) they swapped things over. Actually, that sounds far less plausible than the baffling 'sent back a whole block of tickets because the date changed' scenario. Surprised no-one's quizzed them about this in twitter land yet (or perhaps they have and received no answer?)

Maybe those "many in Cedric's home country" should ponder on why "Southampton find themselves in a relegation battle" if they've supposedly got Champions League quality players in their ranks....

Source?

How many accounts are there and where have you heard them? Cheers

Especially when they're not affording the same fairness to Man Utd, who have one less preparation day before the semi final than Spurs. I'm sure Mourinho will be happy with that...

Sky have got the rights to 3 premier league 'midweek' games that week (no idea why, assume because there are no European games scheduled?). They've got Spurs' game on the Tuesday and Man Utd's game on the Wednesday (neither of those could be the Thursday game due to their semi final on the Saturday) which just left Thursday for Chelsea's game. And the PL have decided ours should be on the same day as Chelsea's (which ignores the fact that Spurs get an extra days rest before the semi final compared to Man utd, so why couldn't we...?)

Burnley fans aren't best pleased either. Not only are they having to play on a Thursday evening, but their planned game vs Stoke has had to be moved from the following Saturday to the Sunday as a result, and after tickets for that game went on sale.

The categories are different, but the cost of a ticket behind the goal is actually cheaper for this semi-final compared to the EFL final.... £65 and £72 respectively (although concessions were cheaper for the EFL final)

Indeed. That's the point I was highlighting.

Looks like good news on the passport front... https://order-order.com/2018/03/22/victory-global-britain-franco-dutch-blue-passports-deal-saves-taxpayers-50-million/

The club have already stated it wasn't something imposed upon them by the PL, as per the wording on their announcement: https://southamptonfc.com/news/2018-03-16/arsenal-southampton-fixture-moved-to-sunday-premier-league "Southampton's televised away trip to face Arsenal has been moved after the two clubs and the Premier League reached an agreement."

Yep, they added it later...

The Hawaiian Islands

The seating plan for the EFL final is here: https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?p=2610653 Should be a similar break down this time around I'd imagine

These were the seating categories for the EFL Cup final last year. One assumes it'll be a similar breakdown for the FA Cup Semi

For the first time ever I'm in the first tranche. Permission to be smug m'lud

I see we're in our usual end of the stadium then...

Perfect

Why would our allocation be any different (give or take a small number)? (I don't mean to ask that in a snarky way, I'm just wondering why all 4 semi-final teams wouldn't get the same allocation?)

Funny old things these polls...

I tell a lie. Just seen that said fanfare tweet was posted yesterday. No mention of the seemingly reduced allocation though

I don't recall the club posting their usual "we've sold out!" fanfare tweet either. They usually shout such things from the rooftops when they occur. Something doesn't quite add up here, f'sure.

-------------------------- McCarthy -------------------------- Cedric ------ Hoedt -------- Stephens ----- Bertie ---------------------------- Romeu ---------------------------- ----------------- Lemina --------- Hojbjerg ------------- ------- Sims ---------------------------------- Gabbi ------- ----------------------------- Austin ---------------------------- Subs: Forster, Yoshida, JWP, Tadic, Redmond, Boufal, Long Can't find a place for Guido (if Austin is fit)....

Cheers for that nta786. So, on the balance of probability, us being on the Sunday seems more likely than us being on the Saturday. Not conclusive by any means, but on probability....

I've no idea. Was Bruce Forsythe worth 10x Bobby Davro?