Dave Benson Phillips

Didn't say there was anything wrong with Cortese chasing his bonus did I? I just said that there will be a cost to the fans, we are already seeing this...

No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to get banned, even doing the Dambusters around the centre circle after the final whistle against Southend wasn't good enough. :-(

Cortese is trying to earn his bonus, nothing more, nothing less. This means that the club has to be successful, but at what cost to the supporters?

I am really finding it hard to see the point you are trying to make with regards to all the posts that you quoted me in, because I don't see any contradiction in the posts. Infact, I don't think I am going to even bother commenting on it, because you are clearly nuts! Talk about reading what you want to read. As for Season ticket prediction, someone said we get 15,000, I said we would be lucky to get half that, the immediately made it clear that I was exaggerating and I thought it would be about 9 or 10k. I don't ever remember predicting it will be 13k or 14k. And lastly, when I took over this username, I said ONCE I had bought a season ticket when DBP was still undetected, I also said I was a student, this was to try and distance myself from StuRomseySaint for the very reasons highlighted in your post, people would just jump on and have a pop at SRS and the subject content or whether they would agree was irrelvent to them. On a last note, no I don't have a season ticket now. I am going to do all away games and will cherry pick a couple of home games and blag some corporate tickets. Yes I could afford to buy a season ticket if I wanted one now, due to a healthy change in circumstances, but quite frankly, they can ram it up their @rses. I tell you one thing though, I'm getting bored of replying to trolls and internet warriors, and even getting bored of my own posts now.

Err... I think we all know it's pretty obvious it's not an 'admin error' and the club are fully aware of their actions. To ignore calls, emails etc and not even give NI reason for it... instead choosing to simply refund his money and ignore him IS petty and childish, it is also unprofessional. Regardless of their reasons, they could have kept the moral highground by simply sending a quick email / making a quick call and justifying their actions.

I've not mentioned freedom of speech, I don't think that's the issue. The actions of the club however are petty, childish and unprofessional.

Doesn't really interest me to be honest, no major signings, pretty below par pre-season with below par results. I will start getting excited on the morning of the Plymouth game. Excuse me if I don't spend my pre-season creaming myself waiting for the new season to start. I've never bothered to talk much football on here in the 6 or so years I have been registered on forums... doesn't interest me. Nothing to do with Cortese, I just prefer to talk about football politics on here or take the p!ss out of people, my decision... so there. Oh noes, what a cr@ppy fan I am.

I am pretty sure that anyone who had their season ticket taken off them for simply saying bad things about their respective club would find the time to have a moan on a forum somewhere, even if it didn't make the local rag.

A quick Google keyword search doesn't throw up any other incidents like this. So I would suggest it's certainly not 'common' .

Well rather than comparing it to life in general, why don't we stick to comparing it to our club pre-Cortese and indeed every other professional club in the land. How many examples of Chairmen revoking someones season ticket just because the person doesn't like them is there?

No doubt you can provide me of details of lots of Saints fans who have been banned from St Marys simply by having a bad word to say about Lowe when he was incharge... after all, as you said, it's nothing out of the ordinary. I await your reply.

The problem is that without any communication about FACTS from the club, then we are left to come to our own conclusions. Many people seem to think that if the club don't bother to give an explanation, then that means there must be a totally reasonable explanation for their actions. The FACT is they deliberately haven't bothered making any explanations about any of their actions in the last few months, some people may have the attitude of " oh well, until the club gives me an explanation, I won't know them " , but many people, including myself think that the club needs to start explaining its actions.

LOL Oh dear... read the whole thread then you will know that his first port of call was David Luker.

He had paid for his season ticket and his payment was accepted, which means he owned a season ticket. They since refunded his money. To me that is being revoked. If he was unable to renew then they would have not allowed him to make a payment. There is a difference. Do keep up.

At this moment in time, he's had his season ticket revoked. I think even the most simpleton person would be able to work that one out, wouldn't you? As for not going... I will be going to most/all away games. I was forced out of going to home games, I've since had a whopping great tax rebate and could buy a season ticket, but choosing not to on principle.

The chants were ringing out way before the tannoy announcer started making the request not to go on the pitch, the announcements were as a result of the chants. Regardless of whether some saw it as a windup... to boo the fans and call them w@nkers for doing exactly what had been chanted all afternoon was embarrassing.

Did you not think that day was slightly cringeworthy? 1 minute singing "on the pitch" , next minute chanting "w@nkers" at people on the pitch? There is a very real point and example to be made out of this... that our fans will just go along with the popular vote at the time, with no consideration to whether the side of the fence they are sitting on is the right one in their own mind.

Yes, Dulldays knows everything. He is best mates with limp-wrist Eddie, and he told him so himself.

My hatred of the Trust still exists, but to be completely honest, the organisation is dead in the water, it will never succeed or get a credible amount of members, so I have lost alot of my anger towards it as its not going anywhere. This is mainly due to the fact we have such a diverse fanbase which are not united at all in comparison to other clubs. Maybe this has happened since the Lowe era, maybe since administration, but one things for sure is that Cortese is making no effort to repair the cracks, and infact is only widening the gap between various types of supporter. We do have some seriously fickle fans that chop and change their opinions... I go back to ( once again ) the last game of the season as an example, where fans joined in together chanting "on the pitch on the pitch" all of the second half, booing PA announcer and generally as one, creating the impression there was going to be a pitch invasion and everyone was going to join in. Then... as soon as a few people out of the thousands singing "on the pitch" actually were true to their word, the crowd turned and instead started booing and chanting "w@nkers, w@nkers" . That day just showed to me what a fickle and sheep like bunch of supporters we have, it was embarrassing, the Southend fans were p!ssing themselves. This forum mirrors the retardedness of that day.

Marsdinho's last 38 posts have all been about this subject, so I would suggest he is a little bit more interested in it than he likes to let on.

Not alot, no.

If I talk about things I believe in then I understand that I may indeed come across as I think they are FACT! In some cases I will know them as FACT! but will choose not to say that, although my posts might suggest I am talking as a FACT!. I know many things about Cortese as FACT! which prove his arrogance and complete contempt for his staff and Southampton supporters, I have drip-fed the odd thing every now and then, but choose not to divulge too much, especially as I do intend on going to a few home matches this year if possible!

Once again, someone highlighting the 'mights' and 'come across' - words which quite obviously show that I am giving an opinion ( an informed one with regards to Cortese ) and that I am representing nobodys view but my own. Now it's apparantly wrong for me to give a personal opinion? Maybe I should resort to Benjii's posting style and state everything as fact, even though he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about? Talk about "can't win"

Wahoo. There you go again. In one post telling everyone what a chopper NI is for speaking on behalf of all fans. Then in the next you claim to be speaking on behalf of all fans. LMAO

If I look through your post history, then I assume I will find absolutely no speculation and only facts?