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You can do it on matchday if that's easier, although obviously the later you get there the longer it'll take to queue. I've been with a group where one had to upgrade from a kids ticket to a full adult and had no problems. Can't imagine policy will have changed as I'm sure the club would prefer you to pay more!

Funny how it took so long for people to catch onto the emergent standard of domestic German football. Jamie Redknapp stating that "Lewandowski has announced himself to the world" was particularly laughable. Agree with most of the OP but the 50+1 rule really doesn't relate to fan ownership and essentially removes the competitive nature from the league - in the long term Bayern will inevitably win out because nobody can compete financially. Ah, but Dortmund won the last two titles! Yep, so Bayern nick in and sign their best player. You have to bear in mind that their commercial revenue is roughly equal to United's and Liverpool's combined. No team can compete with that for more than a couple of seasons. You could argue that this gulf is little worse than what the PL has and I'd agree to an extent, but I'd rather see the 50+1 ruling's rough edges smoothed before we wholesale move to implement it here. Anybody that says The Yellow Wall isn't impressive has to be kidding themselves.

Can't believe a pitch invasion would even be mooted for a mid-table finish! Sounds incredibly tinpot, definitely stay in the stands.

A couple of years ago I found an interesting article discussing 'relative age effect' i.e. kids born in September to December often have an advantage over those that came into the world closer to the end of the academic year. Given that they're nearly a year older they're often bigger, more physically able and shade out the more technically skillful types. Ah, here it is: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jun/19/fa-plans-age-group-football Supposedly the FA were looking to initiate a shake-up and Spurs seem to have their share of Summer babies, but I'd be willing to bet many academies still fall prey to simple fallacies. There's plenty of reasons why players could be worth taking another look at. So long as this initiative doesn't cost the earth and we don't end up with too many 'Nile Ranger' types at the club, I can't see how it's anything other than a positive step. 16 is no age to throw a player onto the scrapheap.

Thought attendances would drop off now that we're safe, why has it gone so mad? Ah well, season ticket.

So roughly what percentage do we think the fans actually own? I see there's a few media outlets starting to trot out the skates' self-perpetuated 'biggest supporter-owned club' nonsense. No point concluding this thread - they'll surely be back in trouble in the blink of an eye. You have to wonder what sort of antics they'll get up to this weekend... They'll burn through that trust money before you can "parachute payment" at this rate.

Ohhh, the holy goalie! Ohhh, the holy goalie! Ohhh, the holy goalie! Artur Boruc - Saint for life? Cracking news. Feels pretty good to be a Saints fan right now.

I'll see if I get a bit of time at lunch...

Was a fan of the current kit from the day it was announced and it's only grown on me more as I've watched us play in it. The photo of Lambert's celebration after scoring at The Etihad has become quite iconic, if we'd held them at bay it'd rank as an all-time classic.

Didn't think it was possible to feel much better today but this'll do it. Forever in our shadow.

After P*mpey's FA Cup win I was sat on a train to Fratton because my girlfriend was at P*rtsmouth uni and lived in Southsea. Saints had just had a rather undignified season in Championship, staying up by the skin of our teeth in that match against Sheffield United. It was one that I'll never forget, but not because it filled us with hope. All of the warning signs suggested that we were heading for ruin. I had to sit in a carriage full of joyous blue-clad inbreds and squirm. Stupidly we went shopping the next day and got stuck behind the open top bus and a sea of skates. Funny how they seem to have rather less fans than that now. It hurt. Why them? How had they been able to get to that level? Well now we know. Some may say that we should remember where we were a few short years ago and take a more pragmatic approach in how we react to P*mpey's latest relegation. NEVER. Our administration situation was different; our debts were paid for a start! A friend called me out this morning for celebrating P*mpey's demise, saying that we'd be nowhere without the Liebherr money. As a matter of a fact from the time of our takeover to promotion to the PL, by balancing departures against purchases we made a £2.57m profit on players. Any sales were assets at the time of admin or academy players, nothing to do with the Liebherr money. P*mpey did not learn their lesson and at no time have they cut their cloth to fit. They point to the 'crooks' that mismanaged and ransacked the club, yet at no point has their philosophy changed: 'punch above our weight to sign players, we'll deal with the fallout later.' Well now is the time to deal with it. You can cry to the Football League and the PFA and the Court of Human Rights for all I care. You have reaped what you have sewn and I for one am ecstatic.

Can't get much more in depth than that blog post - the statistics in isolation don't tell the whole story and the final paragraph is especially poignant. All in all it's a very good website, been tracking it all season. Is it run by anybody on here?

I doubt the effect is as dramatic as you may initially expect. I'm sure a decent percentage of season ticket holders ensure their seat is used even if they're absent, if you catch my drift.

A rare bit of empathy from the crowd and very welcome, or at least so I thought. A transfer fee can become a millstone. Don't really see why he needs to justify the full fee in his first season.

Just a photoshoot with Rodriguez for the next programme...

EPL Index is a class act when it comes to stats analysis. Bit like seeing your 'secret sauce' recipe released to the world though!

So work towards tackling this so-called underclass and stop using these tragic deaths to drive an agenda that indicts the entire welfare state and those supported by it. Less than 1% of the welfare budget is lost to fraud, yet the cost to the state of tax evasion/avoidance is likely to run to more than £100bn. The poor are being pitted against the poorer; who gains from that?

Tempted (and did register on their site before my last post), but having sat with away fans before I find it bloody difficult and am pretty keen to get in with our lot. There are some spares going around, it's just finding them before they get sold on...

Annoyingly now find myself able to attend - of course it's long since sold out. Only need a single ticket, please give me a shout if anybody has one to flog in our end.

Muse - Citizen Erased. The title's quite annoying, my choice has nothing to do with that. Basically it's my favourite song - although their last two albums have been so ****e that I may have to reconsider any association. Hopefully got a few years yet to choose!

For me: That's only really as my girlfriend and I have just bought our first home though. Without that it looks like I'd have been in the 'Emergent service workers' category.

There was a video doing the rounds a while back of Gazzaniga practising his distribution - his ability to consistently and accurately hit a target from long range was never really in doubt. If he can continue to develop the rest of his game, he'll be an asset and a half. Adkins' decision to throw Paulo in at the deep end was certainly questionable...

Oh arse, looks like I forgot I was supposed to be going to a wedding on the 27th. Wrangling it so that I get to see us play West Brom is going to be difficult enough, looks like I'll have to count myself out of the fans match

Excellent analysis. Not just because it's positive - Neville's insight and reading of proceedings is second to none. He's wasted on England, I'd rather see him coaching in club football.

Do you have a higher quality version of that by any chance?