Sour Mash

Was his debut not Arsenal on a Tuesday night? I think he'd played internationals the week before and wasn't available for Swansea, but that may have had something to do with him just getting over here and set up, plus that game might have been further away than Tunis (just checked and it was in Botswana I think).

For a top category game at Stoke, in the family stand it is an adult at £40 and an under 17 at £23. At Saints for a top Category game in the family area, it is £39 for an adult and £19 for a concession. So a fiver cheaper at Saints than Stoke from what I can see?

£16 for an under 17 for a Premier League game in 2014 aint too bad at all really.

Is this a fairly balanced article? http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/30/remploy-factories-close-disabled-workers

Only a few hours flight from Tunis to London though. But yeah, might well still be a stretch for him to play on Saturday.

But our most expensive tickets for home games are the ones that sell quickest for any game. It is only the cheapest tickets in the corners that are the slowest to sell. Tickets can be bought as an adult for £25 for Stoke at home, I assume this offer has sold out?

The quotes are very badly worded, but he has a clear point. If there is a situation whereby a firm would not emply someone of disability due to them deeming the individual not worth the costs at minimum wage level, but both parties would be happy at a level below the minimum wage, should there be some sort of allowance to keep the individual in work? It opens up the whole question of minimum wage's validity anyway.

No, I'd much prefer it if they were cheaper, as would everyone single football fan in the world. But that's not what is being discussed here.

Great kudos for the city, still not sure if enough is done for the visitors coming and going off the ships to keep them in the city, spending money etc, but easier said than done.

So why is there a link to this story on the opening post? With comments added?

Whats my opinion? That those in-charge of Premier League pricing know more about what they're doing than you in the main?

But you are saying wholesale pricing strategy is wrong - tickets, programmes and shirts - they're the three things that fans shell out on and I'm sure that they might need to tweak the odd thing here or there, but they'd have put a lot of work in to getting the overall formula right. And our match ticket prices are the norm for the Premier League in most cases, as are our shirts (more expensive abroad) and the programmes have only gone up this season (prior to that we had a problem with commercial income).

But that's not really up for debate here, there aren't any examples of that being the case. Saints seem to be finding it harder to sell tickets for the cheaper games at the moment and our more expensive seats sell quicker than our cheapest.

It is easy for someone from Dortmund to criticise the Premier League clubs - he isn't being paid to deliver commercial results for a Premier League club, so easy to comment from the outside. I'm sure there are mistakes made by clubs, but what you're suggesting is the wholesale pricing strategy is wrong, when that really doesn't seem to be the case.

But the club and their advisors have obviously looked at this and adjusted prices for entry and programmes etc to the price that provides them with an optimum return. We only have "the most expensive programme in the Prem this season, our commercial figures were down in previous years, so those two things have no correlation. Do you not think that Saints and plenty of other Prem clubs haven't already put plenty of thought into this? As stated before, we'll sell out for Man City at home at £40+, but haven't sold many tickets for Stoke at home on the £25 deal - so it's not simply a case of dropping prices anyway.

But the Premier League clubs aren't just competing with each other - they're competing with clubs throughout Europe for players and in comps, if they give up money, they give up part of that competitive edge. Look at the players we were able to recruit from clubs across Europe.

That wasn't a bad offer to be fair, doesn't look like too many have taken the club up on it. But generally, for WBA, Stoke, Burnley at home, why not have it listed from the start of teh season, these games will be cheap tickets for 12-18 year olds?

That's one thing Saints have definitely got wrong. Pricing of tickets for 12-18 is unnecessarily restrictive. Why don't we drop the prices for these tickets for games like Stoke at home at least to fill up the empty seats?

The irony is that the most expensive areas of our ground (not including corporate) are the best selling bits, half-way line always fully sold out. The cheapest bits (the corners) are the bits of the ground that never seem to sell out. We'll get a bigger crowd for Man City at home at Cat A prices, than we will for Stoke at home cheap deal.

What do you do for a living?

Do they exist because they're randomly subsidised by another organisation? Or the club's pay their own way?

Exactly, definitely not a drop in the ocean.

Our prices aren't really higher than other Prem clubs. Everything is expensive these days - test match cricket, gigs, music festivals, a couple of pints, it's all a bit of a rip off, but its basic supply and demand.

What is "casual racism" about what those people are doing? There is clearly nothing racist about it. And there is no race hatred making a mainstream come back either.