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That's based on a "new" season ticket, not a renewal.

Midfield, maybe another defender.

The internet fans' team is taking part in the annual WorldNET tournament in Preston next weekend, we've currently got a squad of 12 but could do with swelling those numbers up to 14 or 15 if possible. The tournament runs over both Saturday and Sunday, with 3 group games on the Saturday and a knockout competition on the Sunday. Games are 11-a-side, 15 minutes each way. Naturally at this relatively short notice, this would ideally suit someone living in or near Lancashire, although I may be able to get accommodation for the Friday and Saturday nights, which would be £50 on a room-only basis. If anyone's interested, please let me know asap.

Registration is free so I don't quite understand how I can possibly offer a free "trial"

Having been impressed with the work he's done with a number of the overseas Saints supporters groups - whether they're official groups or just fans who have come together from the same country - I'm delighted to announce that aussiesaint20 has been appointed as a Moderator for this part of the site. Together, we're looking at how we can better bring all the various supporters groups (domestic and overseas) on SaintsWeb to create a better and more useful community for everyone. One of those is to enable private sub-forums for those supporters groups if they so wish, to provide a free central location for their discussions and to help those looking for local advice for holidays, work, etc get the information they're after from like-minded Saints fans. If anyone has any ideas they wish to share on how we can make this better, please get in touch.

Just to add, London Saints' website is http://www.londonsaints.com and their Twitter account is @londonsaints

I suspect it varies. For some games they'll charge a fixed fee (most likely the long-haul trips to other continents), but others it'll be a revenue-sharing agreement. I imagine with Bournemouth it's the latter, hence the eye-wateringly high prices.

Worth noting that Real Madrid play Galatasaray in Istanbul the day after the Bournemouth friendly, so the idea that it'll be their "full first team minus Confederations Cup players" is fanciful at best.

A good idea, but one they should have come up with as soon as they released details of the tour, ideally. Most people who would ordinarily have looked at travelling for these games would have sorted their travel and accommodation independently within a day or two, so I'd be surprised if they get enough interest in order to make an official package worthwhile.

Nice sponsor

I can only suggest that you experiment with different reply options - go to your General Settings page (link here), scroll down to the "Miscellaneous Options" section and change which version of the Message Editor Interface you're using. If you don't tend to use smileys or any sort of fancy text formatting, you can probably use the "Basic Editor - a simple text box" option. That should speed things up a bit.

Difficult to go too far wrong with an away shirt (although obviously they managed it quite impressively last season ), you've basically got every colour other than the one(s) used in the main shirt to choose from - even blue has been acceptable in the past. The black one's smart enough, albeit still pretty basic, and £50 for a shirt that'll get worn half a dozen times or so is still obscene.

At the risk of being seen to take MLG's side in an argument (never a comfortable position at the best of times), nowhere on the poll does it specify stripes, it's merely an appraisal of the new shirt, i.e. whether the voters like the shirt or not. Certainly true that only 19% (rounded up) actually like the new shirt, 66% don't like it and only 17% will actually part with their cash. That's not a positive reaction no matter how you spin the figures.

Why is this an "either or" choice? Quite a few other clubs have been able to maintain tradition while being successful.

Ah, I wondered how long it would take before this one came up. So because we almost went bust 4 years ago, we're no longer allowed an opinion on anything to do with the club?

The in-house sales only policy made sense in the lower leagues as it meant that the profits from a relatively limited scope for sales were retained by the club. Now we're in the top flight and supposedly marketing to a global audience, surely the club should be actively encouraging sales in other retail outlets in order to grow the club's "brand image" That image surely can't expand too much if the club continues to only sell the shirts at St Mary's and West Quay retail outlets.

Liverpool's away kit :lol:

The "Do you want to leave this page" popup is a built-in browser thing for if you've started filling out a form (i.e. the reply box) and then decide to leave the page before hitting submit. Just as a general rule, if I start replying to a thread and then think better of it (often ), I always completely clear out the reply box by hitting the "Cancel" button. No, that share feature is something I've added so that people can still easily link threads via social media. It should wait until the page has finished loading before displaying.

Really? The Daily Mail makes much more revenue from its website than it does from selling papers.

Don't know about a big name but I know for a fact that the club was touting around companies to take over the shirt sponsorship from this summer, which suggests to me they thought they'd get enough from a new sponsor to make it worthwhile ditching aap3 and paying compensation. As it turns out, they've obviously not found anyone who will pay enough, for whatever reason.

"@gossipsfc"... seriously?

No, those are optionally ironed onto the sleeves when you buy the shirt in the megastore.

In Interlaken they had one session relatively early in the morning (about 9ish) and then another from around 2pm. Not entirely sure whether that was ideal for them as that was when the sun was at its hottest (got up to 40 degrees one day), but there were daily storms you could set your watch by at 5pm so I guess it was partly due to necessity as well.

Not an official Facebook page, nor does it even vaguely resemble any of the decently-sourced rumours.

You're unlikely to get a proper answer out of the club. The first time they went to Interlaken in Switzerland, I tried to go through the "correct" channels to get information on what times they'd be training, etc. We found where we presumed they were likely to be based on the early photos and the surrounding area, but saw that it was about a mile and a half from where we were staying so couldn't be bothered to wander up there on the off-chance that we'd be able to watch. The club kept stalling me on which sessions would be outdoor and which would be in the gym etc, so we missed out. We had reason to travel up to where the training venue was as we were getting a train up the mountain, and it turned out that the place was completely open and we could have just wandered up there and watched at any time. Summary: don't bother asking the club, just wander up there at a suitable time and you'll probably be able to watch.