stevegrant

They wish it was that modern...

Only short-arse and fat ****er left

It's also fairly redundant when we're not selling out every week. It'll only become a realistic possibility when we're doing so.

FAO Bill, as I know you're reading, despite your claims to the contrary. *waves* Feel free to contact SaintsWeb's hosts, your email will go straight into my inbox... Good luck with the information commissioner as well, GM (and others) showed me where they got the information from, and it was all public sources. As a web developer, I'd have thought you'd know that Twitter and Facebook (and indeed your own forum back in the day before you decided you didn't want any "banter" with your local rivals and banned them all) are pretty open platforms. Oh, and a list of anonymous usernames? Really?

Some clubs operate ticket exchanges for ST holders to sell their seat for games where they can't make it. The club takes a cut of the ticket price which is resold at face value. e.g. ST holder in the Northam can't make the Villa home game (category B), the pro-rata price for a cat B game from a Northam renewal season ticket (£575) is £31.20, and face value for a match ticket is £35. The club buys at a discount from the pro-rata price, say £25, so the customer is discouraged from selling their ticket unless they really need to, but at least they're getting *something* back - they might insist that the money is not refunded in cash, but is exchanged for club vouchers valid either in the megastore or at the ticket office for future games. The club then sells it as a matchday ticket at face value, £35, so the club makes £10 on that ticket.

"Arsenal tickets are in the process of being allocated to fans and will be dispatched by the end of the week." Surely they were allocated to fans at the point of purchase?!

Ticket office response about those empty seats: "The section you speak of was sold, therefore people who sit there did not come to the game." A block of 50 seats were all sold and it just so happened that NONE of them turned up for the game?? Really??

I'm steveIOW... managed to con my way to a moderator role

The PA announcer said after the game yesterday that tickets for the Sheffield Wednesday game were on sale immediately after the game, but neglected to say how much they were. They don't seem to be available on the website, nor is there any information about the pricing. Utter shambles.

It was all a bit "Internet: Serious Business", really. I made some comments about how that "Pompey Virtual Alliance" they formed a few years ago before they got the idea of a Trust up and running was basically just a clique of their most prominent internet warriors to have meetings with the various owners, administrators, creditors, etc and feel as though they were important, and that they didn't once criticise any of them for clearly feeding them a pack of lies which they then reported back to the masses as fact because they didn't want to throw away those "privileges". He didn't like it. Doesn't bother me in the slightest, to be honest. It's his site, he can do as he pleases with his 100-odd active users.

I don't possess all of those traits

Probably because the ticket office has set a new level of shambles for their work so far this season

I can understand the front row possibly being unused but unavailable for ordinary fans as these are often used for disabled fans, I'm not sure if there's a rule on how many disabled seats they have to have available for any particular game. That obviously doesn't apply to any seats further back in the stand.

Thread title amended for accuracy Here's a photo I took just before kick-off yesterday: As you can see, there are two patches of empty seats. The ones towards the back of the stand are within the corporate seating area, so this is presumably covered by the issues raised by SaintBobby. However, the seats at the bottom of the stand are not within the corporate area, so questions should be asked of the club as to why these seats have been empty for both the Wigan and Man United games, despite block 5 showing as completely sold out on the online ticketing system.

This. Very much this.

No idea if they've even recruited the latest replacement, they've gone through three (that I know of) in the two years since Luker left

That Joe Michalczuk is hilarious. A "journalist" (in showbiz, hilariously, yet seems to think he's qualified to comment on football) with such a thin grasp on reality. It seems to run in the veins down there...

Have we all read this? http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/portsmouth/fb_news.php?storyid=18018&title=hall_right_now:_youve_got_to_laugh_as_portpin_go_on_the_offensive... It appears the irony remains completely lost

One rather amusing snippet that's been on Twitter today, Andrew Strauss took three first-class wickets. Guess who his first was...

There or thereabouts. Certainly we lost the first 5 - the only team to stay up having done so Edit: just checked, 1 point from the first 8 (1-1 draw at home v Spurs), 2 from the first 9 (1-1 draw at Arsenal), then beat Coventry in the 10th game 2-1.

You were warned that would happen, tbf

So that's three England captains Graeme Smith has seen off now, Hussain, Vaughan and Strauss

The rule is the lower of 10% of capacity or 3,000.

No idea who Peter Gilbert is but if they're trying to sign Delroy Facey then, frankly, I say let them carry on... he wasn't even good at that level 10 years ago

Anyone who believes any of those "Agent" or "ITK" Twitter feeds needs sectioning