beatlesaint

Joe Cole is better than Lampard and is certainly good enough. Gerrard is always played out of position to accomodate Lampard. WTF is it with the over paid nephew of redcrapp ?

Anyone remember the last time Frank Lampard had a good game for England ?

They have still spectacularly missed the point. If you are a Season Ticket Holder who does not have a computer and lives outside Southampton (ie outsdie the Echo's patch) how the hell are you supposed to know about renewal details when the club cannot be arsed to send out renewal forms/reminders ? It really beggars belief. The only ones who will benefit from this are people living in Southampton, if they have not renewed by the end of the month already. Have the club any idea how many season ticket holders live outside the city ? Oh yeah, they have a database dont they ? Around me there are Season Ticket Holders who come to every game from Wimborne, Weymouth, Bournemouth, Guilford, Woking and Wincanton. Several are elderly and do not have a computer......how the hell are they supposed to know about renewing and when you can claim your own seats by ? Its a bloody shambles. Its more of a disgrace, I think, than the Half Season Ticket and Installment Plan being dropped. Even Mr Lowe realised you had to make your potential customers aware by every means possible !!

He is a paid employee of the club, or ML. What are you suggesting ?

Go XL if you like them a bit baggy - thats what I did and I normally take a medium or large depending on manyfacturer's genirosity on sizes. I couldnt decide between L and XL but plumped for XL - long sleeve, and the shirt is "roomy" on the body but a perfect fit on the sleeves - a Large would have had tight cuffs. Its like a bloody tailors convention on this thread at the moment !!

Well, for one not everybody, especially a fair number of older people use a computer, so without looking on here or mores to the point the OS how would they know about the renewal arrangements ? Now before you say "the Echo you dumb f**k" what about the people who do not live in Southampton and dont get the paper ? Please tell me how, without a renewal form being posted to them, these people are supposed to know ? The renewal form acts as a reminder as one poster has already stated. It is also the only form of communication those who live outside the Southampton area and do not have a computer would have. How can a company who want to attract as many customers as they can be so bloody incompetent in getting their product out not only to the mass market but perhaps more importantly to those who have stuck by them year after year ? Not sending out renewal reminders ? Absolutely ridiculous.

Is there a long sleeved version on sale did you notice ?

It is a new take on the original Saints shirt.....its a retro design, as you say 125 years worth.....what would you want to make it more exciting ? It is only for one season, as a mark of the anniversary in the same way Arsenal went for the maroon shirt a few years back.....I really dont see what you expected tbh.

I wonder if there will be a long sleeved version ?

Having taken a quick look at that site the only thing you can believe is the word Rumour !

As opposed to the people of the country who found themselves in negative equity after her "buy your own home" plans went tits up ! She may have sorted out a few messes but she as sure as hell replaced them with her own.

Have I missed something - have you got your job back ?

Without stirring up a hornets nest I think you will find that was down to a Mr R. Lowe !

Doesn't the fact that people have to talk about/suggest getting a credit card to pay for a season ticket because there is no longer a payment plan show that Mr Cortese has dropped a bollock ? If you are a business and you want to attract as many customers as you can one of the first things you should do is make it easy for your customer base to purchase your product...... Cortese had reduced the time frame and the options to buy and put the price up. He couldnt have ****ed it up much more if he tried.

Not being funny but SFC do realise there is still a recession in this country dont they ? I too am less than impressed by the Club suggesting the booking fee for the JPT was out of their hands, they must have realised then it wasn't popular, and to find out they are planning to do it this season for all games - ok cup games if you are a Season Ticket Holder - is a bit much IMHO. Wonder if the great attendances for early cup games will suffer cos of this ?

Indeed, I think they might get a bit of a shock to be honest. How many clubs have been brave enough to raise the prices from last season ? If the "carrot" is buy a season ticket cos match by match will cost you a lot more, especially with the £3 handling fee, then they might just find a few thousand uneaten carrots in the same hiding place as the matchday programme for the last game !

I'm sure the QPR fans will agree when Warnock snaps him up

I see what you are saying BUT you are basing that on what we currently have or had last season. If AP goes out and gets a couple of good central midfield players then who knows what may happen.

Yeah and after having Michael Poke on loan for parts of the last three or four seasons they havent bothered to pick him up now he has been released, they signed another keeper last week. I thought he was highly rated down there ! Shame, hope he gets a club soon.

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Tend to agree. They looked awful yesterday for most of that game. And you do wonder if Charlie Austin may find the going a bit tougher in his second season. Many do.

Presumably if AP was scouting today he had a Millwall list and a Swindon list. He can now throw the Millwall list away, there is no way any of them will be coming back into League One unless Millwall get rid.

Plenty of Arsenal players for you to watch tho Charlie

Charlie Wayman.

Sounds a much better option than playing away to Forest Green Rovers et al on a cold and wet January night in front of 4 people.