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This place is hard work today A deal can be announced early though, right? With the paperwork and formalities sorted when the window re-opens.

Yeah, post made in jest. Fingers crossed Jos will be officially announced as a permanent signing very soon.

None at that time from London Victoria either. The plot thickens!

Fair play, the estimates in my head were way off then. That's why I generally stick to the pretty pictures and am a designer rather than developer In retrospect I also failed to take into account the likely cost of the ongoing maintaining post-launch. All considered I'd not be surprised to see the club persevere with the current system until it becomes 100% unfit for purpose. There's obvious drawbacks to that, but you see it happen a lot. It's difficult to convince of the future savings when a significant outlay is required upfront.

It is a lot of money but in many other instances forgetting or losing a ticket would simply be tough luck. Most larger gig venues certainly wouldn't let you in without one. It could be argued that the £10 fee is the minimum required to prevent anybody trying any funny business as there's a large element of faith being put into the honesty of the customer. There's two lads that do exactly that in the seat next to mine, definitely got some kind of swizz going on.

It's a very outdated, inflexible system, simple as that. That creaky old thing's been in use for far too long now - apart from anything else I imagine the problems it causes swell the number of support calls made to the ticket office which is expensive in itself. A custom-built solution wouldn't cost the earth! A lot of clubs seem to have booking platforms based on Ticketmaster et al but they must take a pretty sizeable slice of the profit. Keep it all in-house.

It's the same highlights feed as Saints Player isn't it? I like the free features of the Football League app but double-dipping on subscription fees is a bit much.

Made up news travels quickly on the Internet.

Or something like this:

Not the most thrilling thread I'll grant you, but anybody else seen these around and about the city? Driving into Southampton off The Avenue this morning I spotted them lining either side of the road, thought they looked class (not sure how I've missed them unless they went up today - drive down there every day!) Messages like "Together We Stand" and "Passion & Pride" on them. I'm sure there'll be some cynics that say it's a waste of money, but I think they're a good way to capitalise on the very real buzz that there is about the team at present. Can't hurt in terms of getting a few more people through the turnstiles surely? If nothing else it's just brilliant to be able to display some pride for the team.

Would be fantastic to get it going for away matches. Let's make it happen.

Well I've had an absolute stinker of a week, but 3 points tomorrow would be enough to make me completely forget about all that bullsh*t. Come on Saints, do us proud. Right now I'd take a scrappy 1-0 victory from an awful game, but if we could be greedy and top it off with a great performance that doesn't allow Brighton chance to start their negative tactics I'd be ecstatic. Hope the near-capacity crowd will be up for it.

Spot on. Discrimination always is.

I didn't even realise until recently that they were mis-quoting Adkins the whole time. He actually said "Well if they can keep with us", the false inclusion of 'up' makes it sound worse. *nudge wink* To be fair they don't seem to specifically harping on about that innocuous comment any more, though I'm surprised by the vitriol some still display towards Nige. A lot of very simple creatures amongst football fans...

I too paid for my season ticket in full up-front but only received a book for matches 9-23. When I enquired via the ticket helpline they sent me a whole new booklet of slips via the post and merely asked me to destroy the one sent to me in error. Expected to have to go down to the TO and hand the incorrect one in - they saved me a job but a little negligent perhaps. Still got it on the side at home, might keep it as a memento, haha. It was a pretty widespread c*ck-up but hopefully shouldn't now affect those who paid in instalments. I expect a whole load of booklets have just been sent out for games 1-23

Do you mean nothing like Partridge? It is him - the (and arguably funnier) clip is from The Day Today!

Surely the pitch surface would start to take a pounding if we allowed a multitude of other events to take place on it though? Rather not do it for that reason, and wait for when (or if?) we're selling out home games and need the extra space on a regular basis.

First game available in the incorrect season ticket books - 'unofficial' 40,000 attendance anyone?

Despite the criticisms of him, I get the feeling that he could be a better player with an extended run of playing time and build of confidence. Likely not with us however. If he goes then I'll never forget his significant cameos, but overall I'd think it a mutually beneficial move.

Ever since I started walking home past the King Alfred and St. Mary's Street we've won every game at SMS. I always tweet on my mobile whilst doing so. Working so far!

Quite happy to have the best football and worst interval TBH

No, according to my girlfriend Lee Barnard is most certainly not fit.

Quite. A good number of our games at home in the record-breaking run have followed the same pattern: start brightly and take the lead; suffer a bit of pressure as the opposition dig their heels in; settle down again and play possession football; score another (or two) late on after holding the ball for 20 minutes. It works. How are your opponents going to score if they don't have the ball? I think the main difference with away games is that we've not had the luxury of as many opportunities to control the game at the pace we like.

I've painted it onto the bedroom ceiling. Bit of a pain when all of the teams below us change position though.

I never post in threads like this because I'm pathetically bad at coming up with chants, but surely there's enough possibilities that this shouldn't be such hard work?! This is probably extra-cringeworthy but what about taking the "...what a w*nker" template (example: "Steve McClaren, What a w*nker, What a w*nker") and using "Steve de Ridder, What a winger, What a winger"? Obviously with less ferocity towards the subject... It does let you get a nice elongation on the 'Schteeeeeeeve' though Yep, that's a bloody awful suggestion but I've typed this now so I'm damn well clicking 'Submit Reply'.