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There were quite a few down there this morning, but 4 windows open and it took me less than 15mins to get my tickets for Saturday, a lot depends on how many are buying season tickets as this seems to take an age

the site gives you total number of seats plus how many remining for each block, fairly simple exercise to work out the figures

Abit bored this morning so checked latest figures on line Out of 28,088 tickets on system 20,646 sold, and 7,442 still available Tickets still available are as follows Itchen - 1438 Chapel - 3080 Family Area - 857 Kingsland - 1781 (mainly in Wings) Northam - 286 I think this figures a bit distorted however as it includes prees box + alll corporate area excluding boxes being sold out and also Block 3 where many think club are giving out complimentary tickets. Even so with 3 more weeks until sales end, a good figure so far and that there will not be too many match day tickets available for big games

It's the same for under 17's they too come up as Adult price

The game your think about was Carrick Rangers away in the Cup Winneres cup 1976/77 I went to the Limerick away game, on Clive Foley's coaches, it was fine in and around the town before the game, but due to IRA and anti British feelings it was realy hostile at the ground and although it had been arranged to have an event with Limerick fans after this had to be cancelled as mobs arrived trying to attack both us and our coaches. Won the game 3-0 though

He was definately at Orient away in our first season in League One when Pardew was in charge as the Directors shared the hospitality area with supporters like me. Barry Hearn was there too and very friendly and welcoming to the numerous Saints fans present, didn't get the chance to speak to Cortese though.

I thought Mark Hughes 9 - 1 formation with a change to 8- 1 formation in the second half against Man City worked quite well. This is something I believe he copied from Chelsea against v Barcelona although Chelsea changed to the 8- 1 formation much ealier in the game and sometimes employed the 9-0 formation to great effect. Although I have it on good authority that Saints were one of the first teams to employ the 9 - 1 formation in the early 70's under Ted Bates, with Mike Channon as a lone striker

Bolton and Reading are both built built close to moterway junctions, and has a station similar to the one Coventry are planning to build and it just doesn't work, apart from bar in casino or those in the ground pubs are at least a mile away form the ground. Inner city ground for more anytime rather than a souless out of town ground

The majority of fans are local or drive down, its only away fans that typically come on the train in large numbers and spunking out god knows how many millions for network rail to construct a platform that is at best going to be used once every 2 weeks for 40 week sof the year is frnakly a waste of money. you obviously don't travel by train The trains to and from Salisbury carry loads of Saints fans to and from games, can often be standing room only on way down, with loads of supporters from Gillingham, Sherborne in the west and Warminster, Trowbridge, Bath and Bristol too. Loads of fans come up on train from Bournemouth and Weymouth na down form Andover, Basingstoke and Winchester too. Many come in from Fareham in the east In the past the majority of season ticket holders didn't actually live in Southampton, I'm not sure if that's still the case but I can assure you a significant number travel to home games on the train

Have you ever been to out of town stadiums like Reading or Bolton at Reading if you travel by train the last time I went there it was impossible to get a bus back to the railway station which is 4 miles away and it takes ages to get out of the car parks. At Bolton if you drive it's Ok but it's very difficult if you travel by train with only one small train every half hour to get you away from the ground. As thousands currently travel by train to St Mary's, which is only 20min walk at most from Central Station and a similar walk to St Deny's, Bitterne or Woolston moving to somewhere out of town would cause even more congestion. Also out of towns don't generally offer the range of pubs, places to eat that city centre ground offer. St Mary's may have a few issues regards traffic and parking but I can assure you that out of town grounds have even more problems and than we experince at St Mary's and in Southampton I love the way the whole town comes to life on match days.

Saints definately were wearing Navy Blue / Sky Blue with sky blue shorts in the home leg, If it had been Red and White shorts would have been black which is possibly why they changed kit didn't go away leg so not sure what colours were worn by i've got a couple of mates who went so I'll check with them

next season is starting two weeks later than we did 2011/12

too low

THink a lot of people on here are living in a dream world Here's a list typical prices for away games in premier league this season Arsenal £35 - £51 dependant on Category (Saints would have been £35) Aston Villa £37 - £45 dependant on Category Blackburn £29 - £35 dependant on Category (Saints would have been £29) Bolton £20 - £27 dependant on Category (Saints would have been £20) Chelsea £47 - £56 lower, £50-£59 upper, dependant on category. Everton £31, £34 or £36 dependant on area of stand Fulham £30 - £40 dependant on Category Liverpool £42 - £48 dependant on Category Man City £38 lower, £48 upper Man Utd. £43 Newcastle £26 - £36 dependant on Category Norwich £30 - £45 dependant on Category QPR £40 - £55 dependant on Category Stoke City £25 - £35 dependant on Category Swansea £35 Sunderland £29 - £35 dependant on Category Tottenham £31 - £47 lower, £36 - £53 upper, dependant on category West Brom £25 - £42 dependant on Category (saints would have been £29) Wigan £20 - £28 dependant on Category (saints would have been £20) Wolves £24- £34 behind goal, £28 - £38 side, dependant on category IMO I would think Norwich prices are similar to what Saints will charge, with season tickets around £650 - £700

It couldn't possibly be better, it wasn't scored for Man U !

Really looking forward Wigan and Arsenal as I been waiting years to go to those grounds, as like others on here only premier grounds I've not been to. Also looking forward to Norwich and Newcastle as I always enjoy the trips there no matter what the result. Bloody hate Liverpool and Everton though

The Premier league now has a quota in place of 25 players in a squad plus any number of under 21's http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8902975.stm Of the 25 only 17 are allowed to be not home grown or a minumum of 8 home grown Home Grown player will be defined as one who, irrespective of his nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to the Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons or 36 months prior to his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which he turns 21). So of current squad the following players amongst others would count as home grown Adam Lallana Morgan Schnederlin Arron Martin Jack Cork Dean Hammond Richard Chaplow Kelvin Davis Danny Fox Billy Sharp Rickie Lambert Lee Holmes Danny Butterfield Frazer Richardson And we could have players such as Luke Shaw Jamie Ward Prowse Ben Reeves Jack Stephens all available to play even if they are not in the 25 man squad

this was all covered at length on a thread last week http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?37541-New-ticketing-system-Validate-your-details most of the problems were exlained here and solutions to most given

Best Game of this year Millwall away, which was this years MK Dons game 2-1 down with 5 mins to go and end up winning Best Game of the Season Ipswich away as good a display as you could wish to see, total football and passing the ball around at ease, adn some great goals and as others have said the pass of the season from Morgan to Adam for our fourth goal. I was really proud of Saints that night and for the first time thought that promotion might be on the cards this season

I had to do that too and then it worked Ok, think they need to explain this on instructions as otherwise loads of people will think they've completed Ok when in fact they haven't

and remember we took over 2,000 to Forest for last game even though we were already relegated

Thw extras are only available because Coventry have returned tickets

me too, only 7 in 1966 so too young to go, although I did see our 1-0 win at Bristol City a few weeks before the end of that season

are you joking ?, we only need 2 points to make sure, so a win ensures promotion

The Dyer Family in Salisbury have made more appearences in court than Terry Paine made playing for Saints