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Runs from 1996-7 up to date. If you're anything like me it's the Championship wilderness years that will take longest to fill in (repression of the revolving door of personnel perhaps?!) http://www.sporcle.com/games/Freddie/football-league-xis-southampton Some of them are a bit odd (think 2008-9 had about 6 midfielders in it) but a good little time waster.

Though it'd be a strange tactic. I'm sure if people are determined to renew or get in early they won't be throwing themselves into the Itchen about having to wait a couple of weeks more to find out the cost. Mind you, there are some proper weirdos on here. If people living hand-to-mouth need to know then it's not as if we can't guess at a ballpark figure. It'll be an average price of what, £35 for an adult ticket per match in the goals/wings? A new season ticket last year was 87% of the price of buying tickets at full price, renewals were 75%. So it wouldn't be an unreasonable assumption that renewals will be around £500 and new purchases £580. Obviously adjust that figure to more if you sit on the halfway line or less/significantly less if you're in the concession bracket/sit in the family section.

Quite right, 24 assists this season from Fox, Richardson and Butterfield has been an appalling return.

Does this mean the West Ham fans can have their tinpot little boat trip now?

Live Season's included in the game now isn't it? It mostly just involves them buggering up formations but occasionally real-life form is reflected.

Well I'm sold.

That's exactly it. We were massively under-powered at the start of the season but are a solid 3 1/2 star team now. Handy as I pretty much always play as Saints online To be honest I can't see the stats rising that much beyond the usual EA 'Premier League players are better than all of the Championship ones!' boost. With the recent updates most of our first team approached 70-ish overall and the lower end of the Prem doesn't stretch far beyond that. For completeness sake here's the best Saints squad you can build on Ultimate Team (cost a pretty penny I can tell you!) Look at the difference between Lambert and Richardson:

Likewise, they're just names now! Ghosts of a past that seems a more distant than it possibly can have been. Sod a Worst XI, we could easily make a 'first team' and reserves from the misfits we've had to put up with.

Falque's stats on FIFA 12 overshadowed everybody in our first team until a more recent update. Mind you EA do work on the basis that every Prem player is better than every Championship one.

Well that's ironic. Yesterday I tweeted this: "I've now entered so many competitions to play at St. Mary's, one of them has to pay off sooner or later!" Dane Russo retweeted it.

I suppose the main benefit of that is keeping Saints Player. Though it's true that most games will be televised I prefer the All Angles Covered highlights to re-watching full games I was at. Plus it's nice having all of the interviews uploaded and the odd little extra e.g. from pre-season and the promotion vids of the past couple of seasons.

If bold images and large, legible headings aren't aesthetically pleasing then what is?! The rotating banner carousel grabs your initial attention and gives the headline articles the important they deserve (up to 15 stories no more than 2 clicks away). Important parts of the page are well highlighted and the modular design means that all other information is consistently well segregated. Yes, there's quite a bit of info on that homepage, but the headings on each box are pretty prominent which enables you to skim through and pick out which you require (not to mention the fact that you can add/remove sections as you please). The navigation is a simple, single-line and so all held in one place (well, if you ignore the floating 'shop' and 'tickets' quicklinks at the very top). There's a prominent search bar that actually churns up relevant results. Good social media integration... The list goes on. Just thought that was a bit of a bizarre comment to come out with given you followed it up by accepting our own as OK - one of the most unnecessarily cluttered sites you'll see!

Yep, the City site is a class act. Demonstrates strong commercial awareness and delivers a sound user experience, the likes of which the templated, sterile Perform Group ones could never attain. As a web designer by trade I'd love to have a dig at working on an upgrade but I'm not confident that my tender few years of experience could fully do it justice. Might be fun to put together a mock-up though

Likewise. I can recall it all (mostly with dread), but not necessarily the chronology. Such a rollercoaster, really puts into perspective how good things have been since Markus invested.

I thought the quote on the BBC site sounded like something Cortese would've written.

Just a few of the ones my girlfriend snapped. Going... ...going... ... gone! The Saints are promoted with style and flare (sic) Saint Markus Liebherr We Did It 4 U (indeed!) Fair little group shot of the lads (shame about the head in the corner). Will be getting a lot of mileage out of this one, absolutely elated: I know they're not the best around but if anybody fancies any at original quality then give me a shout.

Their fans were utterly fantastic and I took great pleasure in clapping their convoy of buses as it went down Northam Road. I was sat in Block 44 which seemed entirely full of plastics (wouldn't even join in with "Oh When The Saints" FFS!) but the Coventry lot chanted with persistence and good humour - a credit to their club. We certainly dodged a bullet with SISU.

What can you say? There's so much gratitude that I want to convey, but a simple "thank you" seems the way Markus would've best liked to receive it. Such a shame that we didn't get to see his infectious grin yesterday.

Had a sneaky one in Varsity (most of London Road wasn't letting people in as it was so packed!) then shared a bottle of champagne with my better half on the train to Fratton of all places! We went to see Blood Red Shoes at the Wedgewood Rooms, felt a little odd to leave the city but had an immense day all-round. Best of all was a skate trying to kick off at Southampton Central because a group of us were singing and chanting! He was being held back with his presumed partner giving it the "It's not worth it!" Of all the days to pitch up in Southampton if you're that over-sensitive...

[EDIT] My ticket's gone. I'll repost if that changes at any point.

Try Block 44.

It is, middle of Block 42 (Northam).

Sounds like a lot of operators to me, just got through and bought 4 together at the back of Block 44. That does mean my season ticket is available now if anybody's interested.

Exactly this, noticed the pattern around Christmas when we had an extended period of unconvential fixtures. Saturday 3pm and Tuesday 7.45pm games almost always seem to go our way. Whether that has a root cause in our preparations or is purely a coincidence I have no idea. But yes, there's still more than enough chance to put this to bed.

Always The Alex for me too. Ooh, I've probably 'met' some of you without realising, how very exciting. NickG, try Wahoo on the high street. Normally have a pretty big projector on in there or there's a ton of screens if not.