Saints official travel club

[hypochondriac]

I hear if you want to use this now and you want to leave your car in the car park, it's going to cost a tenner. Would like to make it clear, I am not "Cortese bashing" I just thought this bit of info would be useful to some people."

Edited 10 August, 2010 by hypochondriac

[SuperMikey]

I hear if you want to use this now and you want to leave your car in the car park, NC is going to take your first born and sacrifice them for the glory of Imhotep.

[hypochondriac]

I hear if you want to use this now and you want to leave your car in the car park, NC is going to take your first born and sacrifice them for the glory of Imhotep.

 

What's the point of your post? What I've said is true.

[Nexstar]

What's the point of your post? What I've said is true.

 

Heard from where?

[SuperMikey]

Until you provide some evidence, it's speculation.

[hypochondriac]

Heard from where?

 

Ring the club if you don't believe me.

[hypochondriac]

Until you provide some evidence, it's speculation.

 

I'll bring it up again when this is proven to be the case and you can apologise.

[SuperMikey]

Ok babe xxx

[Nexstar]

Ring the club if you don't believe me.

 

I didn't say I didn't believe you, I asked where you heard it from.

[The Kraken]

I honestly don't see the problem. Why should the club provide free inner-city parking?

 

Anyway, surely if you use the travel club it negates the need for a car?

[hypochondriac]

I honestly don't see the problem. Why should the club provide free inner-city parking?

 

Anyway, surely if you use the travel club it negates the need for a car?

 

Depends how far you live from SMS I would imagine. I didn't say it was a problem, just thought it would be of interest to some people.

[Pilchards]

I also heard that you have to pay 50p to lock the door in the toilets...

 

Jeez what next?

[hypochondriac]

I also heard that you have to pay 50p to lock the door in the toilets...

 

Jeez what next?

 

Erm except that is made up by you and what I have posted is factual.

[SuperMikey]

Hypo, the reason i'm sceptical about this is because it's inevitably just going to turn into another "CORTESE HAS GONE TOO FAR FFS" thread. Whether it's true or not, it's a trivial matter. There is a good bus service running to the stadium (or the area the stadium's in) which goes from places like West Quay where you could park your car for peanuts. It's not the end of the world.

[alpine_saint]

What's the point of your post? What I've said is true.

 

I believe you. Nevertheless, the lynch mob/inquisition/bandwagon grows with every post from a small group of agenda-driven posters.

[hypochondriac]

I believe you. Nevertheless, the lynch mob/inquisition/bandwagon grows with every post from a small group of agenda-driven posters.

 

I'm not trying to do that at all. FFS can you not post saints related info on here (which this surely is) without people going mental at you?

[hypochondriac]

Hypo, the reason i'm sceptical about this is because it's inevitably just going to turn into another "CORTESE HAS GONE TOO FAR FFS" thread. Whether it's true or not, it's a trivial matter. There is a good bus service running to the stadium (or the area the stadium's in) which goes from places like West Quay where you could park your car for peanuts. It's not the end of the world.

 

Trivial or not it is of interest to a number of people I would imagine and so it has value and deserves to be on the forum.

[ladysaint]

I posted this other day and got shot down but if you add to that the £3 charge for every away ticket booked i.e. f you are an away season ticket holder and use the car park at SMS for the travel club it could cost you in the region of an extra £300 a season to support saints on the road, unless they are giving dispensation to those that use the car park. The car parking charges are £10 for 8 hours or over and runs from 0800 on Monday mornings to 2400 hours on Sunday evenings.

[docker-p]

I believe you. Nevertheless, the lynch mob/inquisition/bandwagon grows with every post from a small group of agenda-driven posters.

The orriginal post may not have been meant as Cortese bashing (as if the delicate little petal has had enough), but I'm more than prepared to turn it into one.

What spanner of a CEO, who presumably what's the team to do well away fro home and pleased to see as many away fans as possible, just sees it as another opportunity to squeeze a few extra quid out of them????

And no i don't have an agenda, and yes I'm grateful than NC delivered us from the gates of the receiver, and no i don't want him out.

I just wish he would stop making idiotic decisions in an attempt to make a few extra quid at the expense of everything else.

[alpine_saint]

the orriginal post may not have been meant as cortese bashing (as if the delicate little petal has had enough), but i'm more than prepared to turn it into one.

What spanner of a ceo, who presumably what's the team to do well away fro home and pleased to see as many away fans as possible, just sees it as another opportunity to squeeze a few extra quid out of them????

And no i don't have an agenda, and yes i'm grateful than nc delivered us from the gates of the receiver, and no i don't want him out.

I just wish he would stop making idiotic decisions in an attempt to make a few extra quid at the expense of everything else.

 

qed.

[JonnyLove]

I tell you what why don't you go and find another car park to park in on a midweek trip to hartlepool or carlile and then by the time you get back see how much that will cost you in car-parking.

 

The club is a business what you all don't seem to realise is that it needs to make money and to make money they need to charge for certain things. Just because they haven't done it in the past does not make the seed of satan.

 

£10 for a parking for an away game is actually cheep if you think about it. and the £3 booking fee is nothing different to say ticket master. So really people get a grip.

[alpine_saint]

I'm not trying to do that at all. FFS can you not post saints related info on here (which this surely is) without people going mental at you?

 

Its the way this site appears to operate.

 

Not nice to be on the receiving end, is it ?

[dune]

Given that i moaned for about 6 months about Rupert Lowe charging me £1 to park at St Marys when we played at FP the season we went down it'd be wrong if I didn't raise an eyebrow at this latest example of greed.

 

£10 to park your car in a car park that would otherwise be empty - that is absolutely pathetic.

[dune]

£10 for a parking for an away game is actually cheep if you think about it. and the £3 booking fee is nothing different to say ticket master. So really people get a grip.

 

Say what you like but it's a ****ing rip off.

 

£3 for an envelope and a stamp is a disgrace.

[Verbal]

Sheesh!

 

hypo, you have my sympathies.

[Scummer]

For the people asking for proof, the car park prices were up on the walls on Saturday. Therefore it would be pretty easy to prove or disprove.

[Saints67]

http://www.freeparkingspace.co.uk/

[oldskoolsi]

For the people asking for proof, the car park prices were up on the walls on Saturday. Therefore it would be pretty easy to prove or disprove.

 

 

Perphaps someone could take a photo of the wall with prices on and post it on here as proof. However then the wall's image rights may be infringed.

[JustMike]

Say what you like but it's a ****ing rip off.

 

£3 for an envelope and a stamp is a disgrace.

 

it happens all over the place, theatre / gigs etc etc...dont hear you moaning about that!

[La BoIS Saint]

http://www.freeparkingspace.co.uk/

 

If you type in St Mary's Stadium and Southampton it doesn't come up with any suggestions.

 

Hypo you need to learn that unless you think Nicola is the Messiah come to lead us all to a land of milk and honey where there will be world peace and Saints will reign supreme then his followers will come down on you like a ton of bricks.

[alpine_saint]

Hypo you need to learn that unless you think Nicola is the Messiah come to lead us all to a land of milk and honey where there will be world peace and Saints will reign supreme then his followers will come down on you like a ton of bricks.

 

Well that is cobblers; I clearly condemned his approach to the press and p*ssing The Sun off (which can only be negative for the club)

[warsash saint]

I tell you what why don't you go and find another car park to park in on a midweek trip to hartlepool or carlile and then by the time you get back see how much that will cost you in car-parking.

 

The club is a business what you all don't seem to realise is that it needs to make money and to make money they need to charge for certain things. Just because they haven't done it in the past does not make the seed of satan.

 

£10 for a parking for an away game is actually cheep if you think about it. and the £3 booking fee is nothing different to say ticket master. So really people get a grip.

 

BUT surely the club should be doing all it can to help more fans get to away games & trying not driving them away. Maybe I am being a bit simple to think that more away fans would assist in providing more vocal backing & may help generate a better performance...better performance = better results ... etc etc etc

 

& it's as though they are losing income from the car park being used for anything else is it ?

 

At least in the old Dell days you could park in side streets...where around St Mary's are you gonna park & then walk to at 11/12 oclock at night ???

Edited 10 August, 2010 by warsash saint

[JonnyLove]

Well we don't live in the old days anymore. We live in a day where we need to make money. And to be fair if you don't want to use the travel club you could drive yourself.

[Chez]

I honestly don't see the problem. Why should the club provide free inner-city parking?

 

Anyway, surely if you use the travel club it negates the need for a car?

 

I notice you write inner City rather than city centre, because beleive me not a single person would ever park there on a Saturday for another other reason than to watch football.

 

As for the second part. Perhaps people will drive from somewhere like Fareham and then will be catching the coach up to Huddersfield. Simples.

[Chez]

I tell you what why don't you go and find another car park to park in on a midweek trip to hartlepool or carlile and then by the time you get back see how much that will cost you in car-parking.

 

The club is a business what you all don't seem to realise is that it needs to make money and to make money they need to charge for certain things. Just because they haven't done it in the past does not make the seed of satan.

 

£10 for a parking for an away game is actually cheep if you think about it. and the £3 booking fee is nothing different to say ticket master. So really people get a grip.

 

just of of interest do you go to many away games or use the travel club? I do so love posters that tell others that they should suck it up when they themselves don't feel consequences of these decisions.

 

This idea that its perfectly OK to squeeze every last penny out of fans is getting out of hand. Are you a ST holder? I'll assume you are. Let me put this to you. NC gets rid of all these little taxes and instead double the season ticket price. How would you feel then if fans that never go to games were on here posting "the club needs to make as much money as possible so suck it up"?

[alpine_saint]

just of of interest do you go to many away games or use the travel club? I do so love posters that tell others that they should suck it up when they themselves don't feel consequences of these decisions.

 

This idea that its perfectly OK to squeeze every last penny out of fans is getting out of hand. Are you a ST holder? I'll assume you are. Let me put this to you. NC gets rid of all these little taxes and instead double the season ticket price. How would you feel then if fans that never go to games were on here posting "the club needs to make as much money as possible so suck it up"?

 

Yeah, dear old Markus should keep dipping his hand in his pocket to fund the club AND subsidise the fans

[Smirking_Saint]

TBF there would have been no harm in keeping the parking charges but for anyone who had booked an away ticket and travel club give them a pass for the car park, i think that would have been reasonable.

 

£10 is quite steep for some people, but i do see both sides in regards to this is a business premise aswell.

[Chez]

Yeah, dear old Markus should keep dipping his hand in his pocket to fund the club AND subsidise the fans

 

No doubt the £10 away fan parking fee will hit you hard.

 

Is ML subsidising the club? I seem to recall one or two posters suggesting we might be breaking even without a cash injection.

Edited 10 August, 2010 by Chez

[Chez]

TBF there would have been no harm in keeping the parking charges but for anyone who had booked an away ticket and travel club give them a pass for the car park, i think that would have been reasonable.

 

Spot on and maybe they will do that. I hope so.

[alpine_saint]

No doubt the £10 away fan parking fee will hit you hard.

 

Is ML subsidising the club? I seem to recall one or two posters suggesting we might be breaking even without a cash injection.

 

Was this confirmed by the club ? I thought they were no longer obliged to publish financial details.

[Chez]

Was this confirmed by the club ? I thought they were no longer obliged to publish financial details.

 

no it wasn't. But one or two respected posters suggested as much thats all I was saying. I have to say I think you have a bit of a cheak suggesting that I should put my moans to one side about these supporter taxes as we can't expect ML to keep forking out, yet on the other hand you moan all summer about a lack of spending. I put it to you that if the quality of player we need is not there at the right price we can't buy them yet I believe your argument is that we should have got the players in come what may. Well that's OK if you can throw money at the problem, but that would of course require a cash injection from ML.

 

Buy the way I would imagine about 25-50 die hard fans will be affected by this. I should imagine these fans will do their best to find a free alternative so all this will do is make following the side more difficult. The term Club should be removed from the name. Southampton Football Ltd makes more sense to me.

Edited 10 August, 2010 by Chez

[alpine_saint]

no it wasn't. But one or two respected posters suggested as much thats all I was saying. I have to say I think you ahve a bit of a cheak suggesting that I should put my moans to one side about price hikes as we can't expect ML to keep forking out, yet on the other hadn you moan all summer about a lack of spending. If the quality of player is not there at the right price we can't buy them yet I beleive your argument is that we should have got the players in come what may. Well thats OK if you throw money at the problem, but that woyuld require a cash injection for ML.

 

As I mentioned earlier, I recently spent over 200 quid on merchandise for a club me and my children rarely have the chance to see in the flesh, so I think you should refrain from accusing me of hypocrisy.

[for_heaven's_Saint]

I really don't see how people can not even raise an eyebrow at something going from free, to £10.

 

However, may I suggest as a simple solution that you park at Fleming Park and get picked up from there instead?

[OldNick]

i back the club in the main but i do not see why the club are going to charge fans who are going to games a £10 fee.They know these people are in the main diehards and don't deserve to be screwed but applauded.

On the other hand are there costs incurred by the club in providing these parking spaces? Insurance and stewarding perhaps

[dingbattigger]

I agree this needs to be run as a business but I think the charge is a little steep as the car park would be mostly empty on those days otherwise and we are there to support the club. I live 18miles away from St Mary's so when my kids and I use the Travel club I do drive and leave my car in the car park. I think a charge of £5-£6 would be fair.

[ladysaint]

Anyone know if the players have to pay to park, I have heard that they have to pay a set fee per season but cannot substantiate this.

[GenevaSaint]

If true then I believe this is an excessive charge. I can't see anything on the OS travel cluib section in regards to this and can't be bothered to phone up as I never use the travel club.

 

Is there not the option for users to the TC to park at some of the other pick up points for free? If the coach stops at Fleming park (I believe it does) just park there for free! There must be other free parking close to SMS and the other stops en route?

[Scummer]

I think it should be made clear that this isn't a cost specifically targeted at the travel club. Everyone has to pay to use the car parks now (free for 30 minutes so you can pop into the shop or buy some tickets).

[alpine_saint]

I think it should be made clear that this isn't a cost specifically targeted at the travel club. Everyone has to pay to use the car parks now (free for 30 minutes so you can pop into the shop or buy some tickets).

 

Thankyou for pointing that out. This little factlet has been strangely overseen every time comment has been posted on here about car parking.

 

SFC has every right to use its land to best of its advantage, whilst maintaining a sense of fairness for those going to purchase stuff. I see no problem.

[Rut]

BUT surely the club should be doing all it can to help more fans get to away games & trying not driving them away. Maybe I am being a bit simple to think that more away fans would assist in providing more vocal backing & may help generate a better performance...better performance = better results ... etc etc etc

 

Yeah that is way too simple. That is talking about the actual game and results on the pitch.

 

I'd go as far to say the club would do well to seriously think about subsidising cheap away travel to all games (especially whilst in League One). Free parking at the ground and 5 quid on the coach to any away game - regardless of distance. It would be a loss-leader. In a black and white accountants spreadsheet it costs the club money - out in the real world you would have a lot of happy fans who will be more likely to spend their happy money at SFC.

 

Plus 3,000 people bellowing out 'HAND BALL' is going to get you more decisions than 300. Extra points = higher league position = higher home attendances = more money.

 

Going to football is quite addictive. You need to encourage people as much as possible to get 'the bug'. Not find silly little ways to p*ss them off.

 

As an aside: some will say that travel-club support isn't 'real' support. The 'bingo bus crew' etc. Although they may not be beered-up and jumping around on their seats there are some diehard fans on those coaches. I spect some of the Coach-Oners have good claims to say they've seen Saints at the most grounds possible of the 92. I don't know what her name was but there was always some lady of about 80-ish who had to walk with a stick. Whether it was Pompey or Middlesbrough on a Tues night - she'd be there on the coach. Fair play.