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Now Now Timmy, I deliberately crashed and burnt my site because it'd been hacked. It's a long story but the same person had also hacked this forums predecessor. Said person was on here the other day...

You mean one where everyone agrees with timmy?

lol, i was talking about the poster he was commenting on and it was tongue in cheek. I'll add a winky next time so as not to confuse you.

Possibly a PR plant?

Why would other clubs copy a scheme that earns no money (the press won't buy the pics) and results in negative publicity?

How can there be a good time to introduce a scheme that is doomed to failure which will result in an embarrassing climb down?

You've already made yourself look silly on this topic because you don't know what you're talking about. You didn't even know there was no booking fee when a debit card was used and when I informed you you came out with some hilarious comment about using your credit card (and thus paying a fee) so you could earn reward points.

I know it's becoming a common place trick to squeeze more money out of people. I was always proud that Saints were more upstanding than those with ticket fee's, but now we're in the gutter with the rest of them.

Already being discussed on the paper ban fred.

Out of interest where do SFC get their pictures from at away games? Do we pay for them or does our photographer take them?

Correct. I'd have no issue with the booking tax if it was to cover the cost of P+P, but £3 is an outrageous amount to charge to post out a letter.

Cheers, so all that statement does is clarify the ridiculous policy of only allowing an official photographer.

So does this mean the Daily Echo are allowed in the ground? http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4789376.Daily_Echo_banned_by_Saints/

Yeah, but from the minute he introduced the £3 booking fee i've been annoyed.

If you want to see comic strip drawings of Saints action in the Echo please contact: ian.murray@dailyecho.co.uk

It'd certainly make me look at the Daily Echo site regularly if they did comic strip pictures for all Saints games as it's highly amusing and a brilliant way to laugh at Cortese. I will be writing to the editor of the Echo urging him to do the same.

Cre-tin (noun) from the French crétin, a deformed and mentally retarded person found in certain Alpine valleys. Unless Nicola is from the Italian Alps then clearly the statement is innacurate.

Not sure about that Nick because surely TV cameras would pick it up, or is SFC going to be run like a cold war communist state where there is a total media ban at the first whiff of dissent? NC might draft in his own stormtroopers to patrol the concourses....

The most laughable part of this sorry episode is that at some stage Cortese is going to have to back down and he will find that humiliating, but there is also a more serious issue and that is that the British press will now i'm sure try to contact Markus Liebherr. So basically Nicola's poor judgement will affect his boss.

I can imagine him asking Whatta doessa thissa wordaa clotaa meanaa? Well er...

How about Ratners, Gerald and Nicola could swop notes on Public Relations.

And so how will it affect "the bottom line" when it comes to selling sponsorship in the future?

ha ha.

On what grounds?