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1976_Child

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The club has my ST money already so in that respect I feel I have already done my bit.

 

Dunno why, but I really want a nice quiet relaxed weekend just pottering around the house, maybe going for a walk down by the sea and stopping off for a mug of ale on the way home.

 

Maybe I am getting old. Maybe it is because I am feeling the pinch in my wallet - this bloody recession is far from over, if you ask me. Even with the ST bought already a day out at the footeh still leaves me £50 lighter.

 

I dunno, just can't be arsed to go tomorrow. Chances are if I stay at home the lads will slot home six goals and I will feel a mug for not making the journey from Brighton along the coast.

 

I dunno. I dunno. I dunno. Just really can't be arsed, is all. I feel a bit guilty, but there it is.

 

Anyone else the same?

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No. I'm going, to me it's still a magical feeling walking into SMS to see your heroes play. When we win, it's even sweeter. Shiftwork limits the number of games I can watch, so I grab whatever chance I get with aplomb.

 

Plus I want to text vote my MOTM.

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1976_Child

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Very much looking forward to tomorrow's game

 

Just out of interest, what do you spend £50 on every game?

 

£14 train

£5 taxi - could walk but the cabbies need my charity

£1 can of ginger beer and the Sun for the train

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - Dell Bar

£3 pint - ground

£3 pint - ground

£2 ladbrokes - Kelvin Davies to score first goal (or some other ****ing pointless bet)

£3 pint - half time

£7 football pixies half-inch it. Dunno where it goes..too drunk by then to care..

 

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£50

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£14 train

£5 taxi - could walk but the cabbies need my charity

£1 can of ginger beer and the Sun for the train

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - Dell Bar

£3 pint - ground

£3 pint - ground

£2 ladbrokes - Kelvin Davies to score first goal (or some other ****ing pointless bet)

£3 pint - half time

£7 football pixies half-inch it. Dunno where it goes..too drunk by then to care..

 

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£50

 

Maybe make a change tomorrow and leave out the 7-9 pints and have a stroll to the ground?

 

Total around £20

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£14 train

£5 taxi - could walk but the cabbies need my charity

£1 can of ginger beer and the Sun for the train

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - Dell Bar

£3 pint - ground

£3 pint - ground

£2 ladbrokes - Kelvin Davies to score first goal (or some other ****ing pointless bet)

£3 pint - half time

£7 football pixies half-inch it. Dunno where it goes..too drunk by then to care..

 

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£50

 

There's a free bus from the station to the ground. At least there was last season.

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1976_Child

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why not just give the beers a miss for once?

 

yeah. 'spose. The old liver has been groaning a bit recently. Problem is over the last few seasons I find it has helped enormously if one is two sheets to the wind. Numbs the pain. I do sometimes set off with good intentions of abstinence but then the sight of all that red n white drives me to the bar. It's a primeval thing. Uggg. Me need beer.

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Ask yourself this. Would you feel the same way if we were playing Man. Utd rather than Oldham?

 

If the answer is yes, then you're clearly not in a 'football place' right now and should take a well-earned break from the game

 

If the answer is no....err don't admit to it on here for starters

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Ask yourself this. Would you feel the same way if we were playing Man. Utd rather than Oldham?

 

If the answer is yes, then you're clearly not in a 'football place' right now and should take a well-earned break from the game

 

If the answer is no....err don't admit to it on here for starters

 

no. I would def go if we were playing Manure. Especially now that my hero Wayne Rooney has signed a new 5 year deal. ;)

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Actually, now it is officially autumn I can have a nice cup of bovril at half time. Maybe i will go after all. I do miss my bovril during the warmer parts of the season. But then again I could always make up a thermos of bovril and take it down to the beach with the whippet. Oh I dunno, I am really in two minds. Never felt like this before. First the sheer delight of experiencing a new washing up liquid and now indecision about going to the footy. Christ, what's happening to me?

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I've only ever had 1 drink before a Saints game, and that was a bottle of Magners from the concourse before the MK JPT game last season.

I thoroughly enjoy myself every time I watch Saints, you don't need 8 or 9 pints to have a good time.

 

That's just super...

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Since Corky Morris and I have started taking the kids we've watched nearly every match for 2 seasons or so, beerless!

 

I find myself taking packed lunches for the nipper and getting the teas in for Corky and myself!

 

It's great in the winter when they have tea and coffee from stalls at the bottom of every other block, means you don't have to queue in the concourse for half an hour and miss the start of the second half. It's cheaper too!

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Actually, now it is officially autumn I can have a nice cup of bovril at half time. Maybe i will go after all. I do miss my bovril during the warmer parts of the season. But then again I could always make up a thermos of bovril and take it down to the beach with the whippet. Oh I dunno, I am really in two minds. Never felt like this before. First the sheer delight of experiencing a new washing up liquid and now indecision about going to the footy. Christ, what's happening to me?

 

 

Mid life crisis?

 

Go but dont go sober, that little bit of haze contributes to a decent footy day.

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The club has my ST money already so in that respect I feel I have already done my bit.

 

Dunno why, but I really want a nice quiet relaxed weekend just pottering around the house, maybe going for a walk down by the sea and stopping off for a mug of ale on the way home.

 

Maybe I am getting old. Maybe it is because I am feeling the pinch in my wallet - this bloody recession is far from over, if you ask me. Even with the ST bought already a day out at the footeh still leaves me £50 lighter.

 

I dunno, just can't be arsed to go tomorrow. Chances are if I stay at home the lads will slot home six goals and I will feel a mug for not making the journey from Brighton along the coast.

 

I dunno. I dunno. I dunno. Just really can't be arsed, is all. I feel a bit guilty, but there it is.

 

Anyone else the same?

 

Perhaps you could avoid going to the rest of this season's home games as well and give your ticket to someone who actually wants to watch Saints?

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The club has my ST money already so in that respect I feel I have already done my bit.

 

Dunno why, but I really want a nice quiet relaxed weekend just pottering around the house, maybe going for a walk down by the sea and stopping off for a mug of ale on the way home.

 

Maybe I am getting old. Maybe it is because I am feeling the pinch in my wallet - this bloody recession is far from over, if you ask me. Even with the ST bought already a day out at the footeh still leaves me £50 lighter.

 

I dunno, just can't be arsed to go tomorrow. Chances are if I stay at home the lads will slot home six goals and I will feel a mug for not making the journey from Brighton along the coast.

 

I dunno. I dunno. I dunno. Just really can't be arsed, is all. I feel a bit guilty, but there it is.

 

Anyone else the same?

 

Sounds like a case of SAD to me - get along you know you will miss it if your not there!

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It's great in the winter when they have tea and coffee from stalls at the bottom of every other block, means you don't have to queue in the concourse for half an hour and miss the start of the second half. It's cheaper too!

 

Without kids its a little gay though, i mean whats the point of queing up for half and hour for anything other than a pint.

 

Mind you the pints are pretty sh*tty at the stadium, as is the food, which i have only ever eaten once.

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Perhaps you could avoid going to the rest of this season's home games as well and give your ticket to someone who actually wants to watch Saints?

 

First of all. No.

 

Second of all, it would be a contravention of Article 3 of the Conditions of Issue, found on page 4 of the season ticket booklet: "This Season Ticket admits the holder named thereon ["the holder"] only and is not transferable..."

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£14 train

£5 taxi - could walk but the cabbies need my charity

£1 can of ginger beer and the Sun for the train

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - Dell Bar

£3 pint - ground

£3 pint - ground

£2 ladbrokes - Kelvin Davies to score first goal (or some other ****ing pointless bet)

£3 pint - half time

£7 football pixies half-inch it. Dunno where it goes..too drunk by then to care..

 

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£50

 

me thinks this is wind up thread!

 

I have just finished work and am looking forward to it

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First of all. No.

 

Second of all, it would be a contravention of Article 3 of the Conditions of Issue, found on page 4 of the season ticket booklet: "This Season Ticket admits the holder named thereon ["the holder"] only and is not transferable..."

 

It also says no standing, guess you always sit down in block 41?

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me thinks this is wind up thread!

 

I have just finished work and am looking forward to it

 

not a wind up. I too am looking forward to it. Just can't be arsed to go. which sounds a contradiction i know. I want to go but it is a long old trip and I am feeling grouchy. I think it is early stage menopause or something. maybe I will go, maybe I won't. I dunno. really ambivalent... whatever.... but then it is a good day out.... but then there are other things outside of football. I dunno.

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Dunno why, but I really want a nice quiet relaxed weekend just pottering around the house, maybe going for a walk down by the sea and stopping off for a mug of ale on the way home.

 

/QUOTE]

 

Nothing to do with football though, this is a well known syndrome at the inset of Autumn (or fall as the yanks call it) because winter will curtail that sort of activity for most people and football will still be there in a fortnight.

You can do that on Sunday and still go to the game tomorrow.

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If I had to spend 25-30 quid on beer too, I'd never go.

 

There are a lot of games, and all against fairly non-descript opposition (maximum offence intended, it's true). So it's hard to look forward to games individually. I'd still like to go, and am optimistic with most home games, there's always a chance we'll stuff the opposition, but the thousands of empty seats has lessened the experience for me for many years now. I loved SMS when full, or 29,000+ as it was most home games. Doesn't matter how well the team plays, how good the fans there are, to me, thousands of empty seats just seems to show a club down on its luck.

 

Has any goal, however good, seemed as good when there are empty seats behind the goal?? I HATE that.

 

Why aren't all unsold tickets given to schools and charities? Big attendences, create more fans, sell more drinks? They could predict attendences enough to give away a lot. Could easily give away 5,000 for this one.

 

Expensive tickets and empty seats is the most confusing thing to me in modern football. Completely against logical economics.

 

I can't think of anything worse than that.

 

Anyone been going to watch Saints because the football is good/exciting or they're going to be watching a winning team in the last 15/20 years would have generally been left disappointed more often than not. Going to football is meant to be a laugh. Have a day out, have a laugh with your mates, cheer your team on, enjoy the game for what it is. I probably enjoy games like tomorrow more than the so called "bigger" games as its not life and death if we win.

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I can't think of anything worse than that.

 

Anyone been going to watch Saints because the football is good/exciting or they're going to be watching a winning team in the last 15/20 years would have generally been left disappointed more often than not. Going to football is meant to be a laugh. Have a day out, have a laugh with your mates, cheer your team on, enjoy the game for what it is. I probably enjoy games like tomorrow more than the so called "bigger" games as its not life and death if we win.

 

agreed, but always better fun with a few JDs in you!

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First of all. No.

 

Second of all, it would be a contravention of Article 3 of the Conditions of Issue, found on page 4 of the season ticket booklet: "This Season Ticket admits the holder named thereon ["the holder"] only and is not transferable..."

 

I used to always let someone take my ST if i couldn't go for whatever reason. Its been paid for FFS.

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No. I'm going, to me it's still a magical feeling walking into SMS to see your heroes play. When we win, it's even sweeter. Shiftwork limits the number of games I can watch, so I grab whatever chance I get with aplomb.

 

Plus I want to text vote my MOTM.

 

I shall be in attendance as well. One of my rare visits.

 

if anyone sees me, then they can claim their winning prize of buying me a pint. Good Luck. Pints bought after the game, will not count but you may still be charged.

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No. I'm going, to me it's still a magical feeling walking into SMS to see your heroes play. When we win, it's even sweeter. Shiftwork limits the number of games I can watch, so I grab whatever chance I get with aplomb.

 

Plus I want to text vote my MOTM.

 

That's my take too...work & distance prevent me from going as often as I would like & I still get the same buzz I got 50 years ago. What's a text?:)

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£14 train

£5 taxi - could walk but the cabbies need my charity

£1 can of ginger beer and the Sun for the train

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - pub

£3 pint - Dell Bar

£3 pint - ground

£3 pint - ground

£2 ladbrokes - Kelvin Davies to score first goal (or some other ****ing pointless bet)

£3 pint - half time

£7 football pixies half-inch it. Dunno where it goes..too drunk by then to care..

 

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£50

 

Glad I'm not the only one then.

 

Not just restricted to footie, but nights out on the beer in general. You can just about itemise every beer, packet of crisps, train fare etc (even rounding things up to make the mental maths easier) ... but the net result is the pixies have rifled thru your wallet whilst you weren't looking.

 

And back on track .... don't ever try to listen to, let alone watch Saints stone cold sober ... especially against the likes of Oldham. Lets face it unless they have changed BIG TIME from last season it isn't going to be pretty.

 

If you need any incentive to go ... think about the fact that you'd probably be posting on here instead. I know where I'd rather be given the choice!!

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