The Kraken

Best in class both on and off the pitch :lol:

Ashley Cole is 31 now. Shaw is not ready for league football yet but could be in the next 2 or 3 years. By that time Cole will be 33/34 and on the way down.

I can't really work out what message he's trying to get across. Other than that he became disenchanted with football for some unknown reason that isn't ticket price or kit design.

Perhaps this is all a clever marketing ploy to whip up demand......?

Doubt it; the shirt printing they were doing was on launch day and was a separate stand external to the store. Although (The9 is the one to answer this really) maybe you could just take the shirt to another retailer such as Sports Direct?

Such delicious irony. Of course I didn't report it, you tool. Anyway, this is thoroughly tedious. In the first case I wasn't even calling you fat, others were. Which I'm sure was precipitated by the fact that no-one realised your original claim to obesity was actually of a jocular nature and in no way at all related to your actual sized frame. So at least we've cleared that up, I'd have thought you'd see that as a positive. Anyway, I have no desire to carry this on, so I know you love having the last words, you go for it and then we'll both move on.

Abuse. Reported.

See the little "advanced search" button at the top right? It's pretty useful for finding things very quickly; try it some time.

Congratulations on your significant weight loss, it sounds like you've done really well. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?23924-Its-official-Saints-Fans-are-Fat-B-stards&highlight=shirt

Really? You've got to imagine the majority of existing ticket holders would have looked to renew; so that's up to 14,000 season tickets by the start of July. Then however many extra have been sold despite the ticket office shambles to date (which has been overloaded by the sheer level of demand). It'll be interesting to see how the level of demand holds up for the rest of the week.

Bewteen 14K and 15K, according to SFC's latest marketing brochure.

Some estimates going round that we have already sold between 17,000 and 18,000 season tickets so far. So where will we end up? I think the feelgood factor and the return to the Premier League will leave us with a figure of 24,349 season ticket holders. Well up on any level we've had before.

From Dave's wiki page: Interesting.....

As I understand it, yes. I think they'll have to give the customer the option of paying the actual price or cancelling the order. But yes, if a genuine mistake has been made and the price was priced wrongly accidentally, then the seller has no obligation to actually honour that price. It does make it a significant faff for them to sort it out, mind. But then, if they'd have got it right in the first place....

Yep. Small mistakes and individual errors are unprofessional but forgiveable. The whole season ticket sales window has been a complete shambles from the start, the club should be embarrassed how bad its been, the level of demand should have been completely expected and managed. Considering booking fees etc are at an all time high, the p*ss poor level of service is unforgivable really.

Imagine the poor sap who is going to have to manually trawl through all the transactions to see which ones were in error.

He really does look a wrong un. Imagine that mug gawping back at you from the front of your football programme; it'd be enough to choke on your half time pie. Thankfully we have a sophisticated, suave abnd handsome chairman to represent us.

Well that'll be competition for us then.

Fair play to him.

Too long; didn't read.

Welcome back to the Premier League.

Yep, that's all true. But to be fair, as it has been in years past so not really much difference to now. I think we agree that once the big clubs come calling and the player wants to leave, there's relatively little we can do except hold out for the best price. I probably agree with you that there's now slightly more chance that we may be able to hold out for a longer time once that happens, maybe for a season or so (though in the case of AOC, our most recent departure and under this management, I don't believe us playing in the PL would have made any difference to how quickly he would have wanted to leave, it just might have taken him slightly longer to break into the first team in the first place). I've said before, I think we'll definitely be a bit less succeptible to losing players to the likes of Sunderland, Villa, Everton etc. Though not completely of course, money talks in this game and you can't guarantee anything where players are concerned. If we can promote the idea of academy players staying for longer then its a great thing, though obviously top young players will gravitate towards the very top clubs, so its a massively tough sell for a club like us however well we establish ourselves.

The potential problem with that, of course, is that previously a lot of our young stars haven't been local; they've upped sticks to be here in the first place. Chamberlain was the closest from Pompey, but Theo and Bale in particular lodged here as they came from Newbury and Wales respectively. Shaw originally comes from Kingston upon Thames, so a move to Chelsea would effectively mean a move home for him. Its not quite that simple when our scouting network goes as far as it does and, with the new Academy regulations, can go even further in future.

I know.

Being as the debate is (or was) "Do you like the new kit?", I'd guess it doesn't. It's still a personal choice, isn't it? If it sells more than the sash kit, I'll still think its a poor Saints kit.