Mozz

I think this decision is in danger of forgetting that as well as being a sport football is entertainment that needs to sell tickets to games. To me the multi-ball system certainly makes matches more entertaining as less time is spent staring at a motionless pitch waiting for the ball to slowly come back from the crowd. Rather than remove the system entirely maybe regulation, policing and disciplining of those abusing the system would have been more beneficial for the game.

That's rubbish. Found it really noticeable how much more playing time was lost lasy year in the home FA Cup games where it wasn't used.

I believe that's correct. For all the PL games there is a live edit going on whereas in the FL for anything that's not televised live or is the featured game for The Football League Show it's just one camera recording the footage.

Also (for the sake of clarity) there was no direct debit involved in the 09/10 scheme, rather payment card (debit or credit) details were saved at the point of initial payment and reused for the remaining installments. As such it wouldn't have been a straight forward 'cancel the direct debit' and would more likely be people cancelling a card entirely or the card expiring and the customer failing to notify the club of an alternative payment method (which could have been avoided by a check at point of sale).

Hmmm, I must have got lucky. Just watching the Adkins video.

Seems to be working now.....

This tweeted last night by someone who works at the club on the website side of things: "Typical of the website providers to fail on the most important day of the season. reaction is ready but the site is not *sigh*"

Whilst I do think the news is likely to be ST related, worth pointing out that the season ticket page on the OS has been missing for at least two weeks. Tried to access it to find out last years prices a couple of weeks ago and it was gone then.

Serious question?!?

Lets not forget that he did a good job stepping in for Morgan in our JPT Final starting line up.

Just phoned. I'm an ST holder and have already bought a ticket for myself. Phoned for an additional and was told that this would still have to be bought with a Carlisle ticket and the operator admitted that the process was "confusing". This seems to contradict the details on Twitter yesterday and experiences of people above.

There's a new story on this site that seems to be saying a fee has been agreed but we're waiting on clearance/work permit as he's non-eu. Would think possibly some form of dual-citizenship as can't see him getting a work permit otherwise.

Mine seems to have gone AWOL in the post as well. E-mailed TO who advised can go to the stadium to collect a duplicate but they won't post another one.

It depends, mine was set up on my debit card so presumably if the payment had failed it would only be the club who would be aware of it as their new, stand-alone transaction would not go through, unlike with a direct debit or standing order where the bank will write to the account holder and levy a charge.

That makes sense. Be curious to know how many payments failed and what effect the system had on ticket office staff/resources as from a customer perspective it made everything very straight forward.

There was no finance company involved last season. The first payment was taken by card at the ticket office and card details saved. At the beginning of each subsequent month a new transaction was put through on the same card by the ticket office.

Was this ever given as a reason? Recall that on the Solent/NC interview from before the Leeds game it was put down to the extra staffing required at the call centre etc.

Roughly an extra £70 on an adult behind the goal for missing the cheaper renewal price is a significant chunk (over 20%) and means people losing their current seat.

It's the clubs decision if they don't want to offer a payment plan, but to announce the fact as tickets go on sale with plans being offered on previous seasons isn't exactly the best way to communicate the fact. I should be able to scrape the cash together but others won't be able to. Hadn't done any prior "financial planning" as was expecting to pay June/July-November as last year.

There was no credit check last year (maybe due to late notice after takeover). Debit/credit card was swiped at ticket office when first installment taken and details saved. Then at the beginning of each month the next installment would be taken as a new transaction on the same card.

Lack of a payment plan seems quite a big issue, especially when this is only stated ten hours before the tickets go on sale. Just pulled out the customer charter which admitedly states 09-10 season but was only issued in December: "In a continuing effort to to strive for wider access to matches the club will offer a payment plan for season tickets to make them cost-effective."

Don't think it was rescinded. Recall that the red card stood, but the suspension was reduced from three games to one as a three match ban was thought to be excessive for the offence committed.

Whilst shuffling away from the ground some guy who looked like the 8 hours of drinking was taking hole was berating everyone for not singing songs. He then decided to take the lead by starting up the Lambert song finishing with: "He gets the ball he takes the ****, he wears the shirt of Matt Le Tiss: RICKIE JOHNSON, blah blah blah blah blah." Cue everyone stunned silence broken after about ten seconds by laughter and some guy asking "you realise his name is Lambert??" He didn't seem quite so up for leading the chants after that.

After waiting at Eastleigh and seeing the first two trains come past full someone had the idea of getting a train to Fratton and then going Fratton to Waterloo. A lot of surprised locals getting off arriving trains to see about 40 saints fans in colours waiting about!! Special mention to whoever managed to take over the PA system for a shout of red army. Also good to see the station staff and manager out on the platform having some banter and a laugh. Did the same route on the way back and worked out well. Took three hours to go Waterloo to Eastleigh but had seats and no risk of not being able to get on.

Thanks a lot for this.