benjii

Which is what 90% of us do. Unfortunately there is a very annoying minority on here who don't have this basic discipline/patience/intelligence.

If Lowe and Poortvliet were in charge of signings I would be dismayed. As it's Pardew and Cortese, a team that has proved itself capable of signing the best available players at our level, I am not remotely concerned.

Truly tragic. Look, if you're a business with a finite resource of something and demand is outstripping what you are able to supply you would be mad not to charge for it.

Sometimes this place reminds me of the worst excesses of the Spanish Inquisition.

FWIW my teachers were a mixed bag.

It would be nice to know the reasoning but, as Hopkins implies, playing a warm-up against Ajax or Lazio or someone similar is quite ridiculous as a footballing exercise when you are a third division team. We could call the Reading friendly the trophy match but, frankly, it's Reading FFS. No problem with the decision but, as with a few things, perhaps a bit more info would be welcome.

I think if we don't make signings in time there can be justified criticism. As pre-season hasn't started yet any criticism is premature and completely irrational. And lol@ your last line.

No, I'm saying that the target market for people who buy corporate hospitality for top end sports events (which we aspire to host) have no idea who Terry Paine is and couldn't give a **** and would rather sit in something called The Executive Handjob Lounge than the Terry Paine suite which sounds like something out of Phoenix Nights.

Yes, definitely. Rubbish world cup but some decent reffing. My tuppence worth on England red cards: Becks v Argentina - harsh, was not violent conduct. Just a tap. Rooney v Portugal - stamp, definite red.

Yeah, this too!

This has probably been done as a corporate branding exercise. When we are in the top flight we will be looking to attract the sort of prawn sandwich brigade to whom the words "Terry Paine" etc are meaningless. "The Executive Club" etc. has more of a shoulder pad and champers feel to it, and that's what the clientele may be after. It's really no big deal IMO. If our "legends" were the likes of Maradonna, Best, Cruyff etc then there would be some cache to suites named after them... but Paine, Stokes and in a few years MLT - to anyone other than old Saints fans? Don't think so.

Spot on. I think this could be copied and pasted as a stock response to just about any of his posts/threads.

Have to admit Boateng is looking more like a £5m player than a £2m player at the moment. Mind you, only goes to show what a rubbish job all their managers actually did last season.

Indeed!

Let's say you're right. If that it is the case it is clearly the result of a conscious decision based on analysis. It has clearly been decided that it is in the best long term interests of the club. We do not need to sell STs to people who will come to a fair few matches anyway. Quite a good business rule is not to sell something at a discount if you don't need to. You obviously know that as you are expert in business. So what's your problem?

Yes, this is certainly not the first time this has been done for a tin-pot cup tie. I'm pretty sure we did some unreserved pay on the gate cup matches at The Dell.

lol - that old chestnut.

Do you really, really believe they haven't crunched the numbers and done some analysis on this? Do you really, really believe that such analysis won't be a bit more sophisticated than your self-centred back-of-a-fag-packet gut-feeling approach?

But you only joined in June ?

So when you previously said that paying £400 in one hit was nothing to you and wouldn't affect you renewing you were lying?

Agree completely. Unfortunately instead of discussion you get a few loud mouths banging their one-note drum over and over.

Are there tickets available in League One that cost more than any Saints ticket? Yes there are. It is grossly simplistic (which, in your case, is quite fitting) to therefore say "Saints have the most expensive tickets".) Yes, it is. Why won't you just admit you're upset because you can't afford a season ticket in one hit and you're having a little strop?

What were you on about when you said "pro-rata" then? No, I don't agree. Please just go away. Everyone finds you to be a tiresome numpty. Do you now agree you're a tiresome numpty?

Probably about ten people IMO and half of those are clandestine-ITK-toy-throwing-nappy-wetting-SFC-duvet-cover-owning-one-issue-weirdos.

Hope you get banned soon. If you want to "pro-rata" it (whatever you mean by that - I assume you mean the average price of a ticket across all league games?).... Do we have the most expensive STs? No. Liar. Do one. :vuvu: