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You would, I so wish i'd never given you a free ticket because i've never known anyone as ungrateful as you.

It's negative story after another coming out of St Marys now... -Booking fee's introduced to add a premium to the cost of a ticket -Installment plans ditched with no notice and not a care for those loyal fans who used it -charging club employees earning a pittance of a wage to park -charging loyal fans £10 to park to support us on the road even after they've payed for the coach I am really starting to despair at the cold and clinical and uncaring way our club is being run. Saints is not a family club anymore.

Thats really ****ish to make club employees pay to park whilst they're at work. It's not like the vast majority are professionals earning good money, most are just the likes of ticket office workers earning peanuts. Thank **** I don't work for someone like Cortese. It must really boost morale to know you're so valued.

Not really, most city centre boozers are dumps and in anycase it's usually that packed on matchdays that the curtains and upholstery are hidden if this is important to you.

It's not proof of how things are - it's an ex employee's viewpoint. It's a bit dodgy for him posting what he has so if I was a mod i'd do the decent thing and remove his post and any quotes of his post.

Why would he want to do that?

I think the most chance of trouble would be fisticuffs between Super Saint and Charlie Cherry.

You may mock, but it'd be a struggle to find someone worse than Cortese in terms of his PR skills.

I'm not so sure about that because any company that acts as an agent will I feel become pariahs amongst the press. I wouldn't be at all surprised if newspaper editors haven't made a few calls to the main players already to advise them on how they feel.

When you say us, what you really mean is Cortese, because he is the one that has dug himself into this hole. As to where it leaves him well he's going to have to gracefully back down or become a comical figure in the national press. Hopefully he will learn from this mistake and it'll do him good because he's become too big for his boots.

Say what you like but it's a ****ing rip off. £3 for an envelope and a stamp is a disgrace.

Given that i moaned for about 6 months about Rupert Lowe charging me £1 to park at St Marys when we played at FP the season we went down it'd be wrong if I didn't raise an eyebrow at this latest example of greed. £10 to park your car in a car park that would otherwise be empty - that is absolutely pathetic.

I think it would be a good idea if Mr Liebherr demoted NC to a more backroom position and employed a wiser head to run the club.

No, that's just quite sad.

I wish every fan was like Alpine and didn't complain.

But if we lose they'll be singing from the rooftops. Let's keep them in their place as the little noddy club that we don't care about.

I bet the yoof turn up.

Ditto. I can't see how any Saints fan who's local would not want to go to a derby game. I know it's not Pompey, but theyre still a local team.

Tell him to leave a few copies of the sun around today because in the pools section and the fixtures section we're refered to as "South Coast Team". The Sun are not going lose this battle.

You may well be right about that, but then that begs the question is the photographer ban because of the money or to shield Mr liebherr and his guests? I can't see it being to shield ML and guests because he would have known that he'd have his photo taken long before he bought the club. An interesting theory GM, but probably a little far fetched.

The fact it took Cortese so long to back Pardew last season was very odd imo. That said I don't think AP is as good a manager as you and others think. We seem to have one way of playing (plan a) and if that doesn't work that's that. Breaking down teams that put 11 men behind the ball is always tricky, but this is the hand we're going to be dealt most games and we just aren't good enough at doing it.

Thanks for posting this up. Interesting stuff.

Nick pay your fiver you tight git, i was gonna try and send you a pm.

Expect a statement saying "we won't be pushed around by a bunch of Fleet Street Yobbos".

The funny thing is that we've barely mentioned this game, yet for them this game is a wembley final. Let's hope our players show a little more enthusiasm because you can be sure their players will.