stevegrant

FSF are already aware

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/features/newsreview/9402439.Are_police_plans_for_Saints_vs_Pompey_match_going_too_far_/ As the thread title suggests, our celebrity Superintendent Rick Burrows has used the disasters at Valley Parade, Hillsborough and Ibrox in the 80s as justification for sticking us on an enforced convoy of second-hand double-decker buses. Something of a PR own-goal, I'd say

The article will be on the Echo website, hopefully without a horrendous photo of me from about 7 or 8 years ago, shortly, apparently.

That could be one of two things: 1. We have sold out and therefore they missed out due to having no away games; 2. Their application was refused because the article on the OS said that the criteria for the second "ballot" was those already successful who wanted an extra ticket or fans on the database with 4 or more away games. If they've simply refused them a ticket because they've got no aways, but we've not sold out, that's ****ing ridiculous. However, seeing the way they seem to operate these days, it also wouldn't surprise me.

The club have provided conflicting messages throughout (or just no message at all), so I'll be taking no notice of any "the ticket office told me..." stories for this one. We'll see how many we've got when we get to that ****hole next weekend.

Odd. Just received a second copy of the email, but this time with Mark Long's letter attached:

Given the mess they seem to have made of the application process, do you really think anyone there knows how to do a mail merge?

I have the email I look forward to reading an incredibly condescending accompanying letter from Mark Long, SFC's "safety officer", when I collect my tickets

We're all standing on a future block of flats, a future block of flats, a future block of flats...

Yeah, two words spring to mind there... "**** that"

Are you Ken Bates?

Should clarify the situation that has allowed us to sign him permanently outside the transfer window - international loans are a bit odd in that rather than the player being loaned in a conventional manner (i.e. the "parent" club keeps his registration), the player is technically transferred to the loaning club, with a binding agreement that he will return to the parent club at the end of the loan period. As a result, *technically* he was already our player and today's announcement is actually that he has agreed a new contract with the club. Loopholes Oh, and apparently the fee was £1.35m, which seems reasonable value.

Only on the lead applicant's account

Pompey's online ticket system had the Milton end set as unavailable as soon as the tickets went on sale to home fans, so can only assume we do have the whole end. However, I would expect the actual allocation to be a bit less than 3200, they'll stick netting for the end few seats of both end blocks. Brighton sold about 3050 for their trip there, and that was their first away game of the season, so would assume they sold out as well.

I think they only froze the assets to which they had access to, i.e. assets in their own country.

OK, so it doesn't seem as though they're doing them in any particular order. Mine was done on Monday (averaging 7 or 8 aways, I think, from 4 of us), while Spudgun, who's not a ST holder had his done seemingly before yours.

But can he? Why would Chainrai register a charge against all CSI revenue and assets three days after the Lithuanian government took control of Snoras and one day before an arrest warrant was issued for Antonov? I reckon a lawyer with half a brain would be able to get that overturned. That said, we said the same about the Fratton Park one last time...

Those who appear to have just had their applications processed, how many away games have you got?

If it isn't, there's quite a serious data protection and privacy issue in play...

Surely this "delay" could have been avoided by the ticket office running whatever "checks" they're doing at the time of receiving each application? Not everyone handed/posted theirs in at the same time on the same day, they would have been staggered over a period of A WHOLE MONTH (original OS article: http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2485151,00.html - started accepting them on 17th October with closing date on 19th November), so all they need to do is process each form for eligibility, label the form with the average number of away games and put them in an ordered pile ready for payment processing. Once the deadline comes round, if there are more applicants than tickets available, you start working from the top down until all the tickets are gone. If, as appears to be the case, there are more tickets than applicants, simply go through each form and process payments. It really doesn't need to be rocket science, just a bit of common sense.

The key date to compare it to would be when the European Arrest Warrant was issued, IMO... Also, the delusion here is incredible: http://fansonline.net/pompey-fans/article.php?id=385 Wah, it's all the Football League's fault, and as compensation they should give us an interest-free loan to help us out of the situation we've landed ourselves in

Except it's not a half season ticket... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/staticFiles/b5/94/0,,10280~169141,00.pdf Terms and conditions: "This package is not a season ticket and does not provide purchaser benefits reserved for season ticket holders."

Which is fine, but why then the rather terse and arguably confrontational "no comment" snippets after that? Someone has asked a series of legitimate questions, albeit aimed at someone who wouldn't actually know the answers, why the need for an arsey response like that?

To be fair, given that likely scenario, why wouldn't the head simply say "sorry, I don't have the figures, the vote is taken nationally", rather than appearing to be obstructive by saying "not able to comment"? Many people really don't help themselves in this sort of situation.