Football Special

Looks about 500 left now, wont be making non-member sale

I want Saints to be as successful as we can possibly be....but my God i fucking hated last season and despise most of the over-hyped Premier League , SKY TV, super Sundays, VAR, "big 6" , corporate stadiums , oil money , 115 charges nonsense Days out at places like Preston are a great reminder there's plenty of life in the game away from the Premier league circus If we go up then we'd have had a brilliant few weeks and another day at Wembley but I wont be too upset if stay down, Lincoln away ole ole

Word on the street seems to be that Saints can't figure out how to reconfigure the away corner to shift the segregation and sell more to our fans, seems unbelievable to me, its hardly the greatest feat of engineering being required surely. 1000 seats left empty instead looks likely outcome

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Yeah got a lot of time for clubs like Preston, get decent crowds surrounded by towns with rival clubs like Blackpool, Blackburn, Burnley etc plus not far from Man Utd, Liverpool , generally decent folk get proper football chat in the pubs pre match, much more enjoyable than an away day at Old Trafford for me

I remember the days when teams would give cup style 'extra' allocations in the play offs, like when we took 5000 to Derby , these limited allocations are a shame really. Its a hell of a way to go for an early kick off, see official coaches leaving 4am, no point going to bed really. Fair play to MIddlesbrough for their prices, really good to see.

Are we favourites with the bookies? I can't imagine there's much between us and Middlesbrough, must be about evens

Tickets for the home leg show as available to buy if you log in on your account (season ticket holders buying own seat) , £30 in Northam

Seems like a great price that, although Middlesbrough is still a fair way from Newcastle airport . Going to be interesting how tickets are sorted, probably will be digital and can't see Middlesbrough giving us more than the mandatory 2,000

Yeah fair play, I expected a lot more to not bother, very good turn out

Surprised they travelled back via road, sure they got a flight up there

Fair point mate, our cup run this season should help us in these games, fingers crossed

Agree we look quite open, Preston could and should have scored a couple more today, need to tighten up as Boro will punish us, they looked very good at Ipswich few games ago