Andoverian

Almost 10,000 empty seats yesterday. For a team doing so well is there not an underlying problem that many fans this season are staying away because of the many charges,taxes, or whatever you want to call it levied by the club. What will happen if the results dive.

At last someone on here can see through the nonsense that has been talked about the present executive. Hooray !! Abuse please as usual.

I happen to agree with you Roger that is why I am not at St Marys today but leave all that aside. Do you see the sort of abuse that comes your way when you dare to put up a perfectly valid opinion. A forum is an arena to debate the issues. This forum is an arena to hurl bile and vitriole when someone doesnt agree with your point of view. Someday it might return to what it should be but dont hold your breath.

Absolutely correct Whitey

you are all quite right much better that me and people like me dissapear into the sunset bye bye. I have become dissillusioned and sad. good luck to you all

All of them as I have packed up after more than 50 years. Refuse to be continually ripped off by the present executive.

Don't expect any customer service and you won't be dissapointed. The fans don't rate very highly in the overall thinking.

I thought we were in a recession. What business is going to pay these prices. I watch with interest.

What a joke. What amazes me is how so many fans stand for the rip off price hikes that are going on at present.

Exactly our point. Sorry if some of you dont agree and from some posters thanks for the abuse but thats why we have decided to pack up. In my case after 57 years.

Beatlesaint you make a good point about what has gone on in recent years but I do go back a long way and I miss the days when fans were held in high regard and not treated as some form of cash cow with little or no respect. There have been plenty of posters on this site complaining about the way the club customer services has dealt with fans in the last few years. In my opinion that is symptomatic of the way this club now regards its customers. I would suggest that Norwich is a good example of how supporters should be treated. Delia wears her heart on her sleeve, loves the club and consequently carries the fans with her. They sold a massive number of season tickets for this season way before they achieved promotion. I accept your comments ref concessions but my point all along is not that the age limit should be raised but it should indeed be ringfenced for existing senior season ticket holders many of whom had been paid up fans for decades. Is there anyone who would be happy with a 72% hike in the price from one season to another.

Kraken your offensive remark referring to our opinion as mock outrage is sadly typical of so many on here when they disagree. y You are right about one thing we wont go but make no mistake I have as much right as you to express my opinion. After all isn't that what a proper forum is all about

At the moment we are disgusted with the way the club and the executive have treated us and it is not all about cost. It is primarily the principle of what has gone on. We all feel that the fans are only as good as the money that can be extracted and we want no part of it. The idea that we all held of Saints being a family club and that we were all in it together is no more and it is very doubtful that we will ever return under the present regime concession or no concession. However i am personally of the opinion that the club is being run with a sale in the future at a massive profit the main aim so never say never. Sadly I do not share the optimism for the future that is widespread on this forum. I feel that many good and true fans are being mislead as to the true intentions of the present executive. It could be that future buyers will be true Saints fans and will return to past values. If that turns out to be the case I will be at the front of the queue.

5 of us all from the Andover area 4 aged 60/65 and 1 aged 55 (WIFE). been attending matches together for generations. None are renewing and Im sure you know why.

It was a huge mistake that will come back and haunt the club in the future. Talking to many senior long term fans that have been "culled" like me I have never heard such ill will towards the Saints but they will never admit they were wrong so that is the end of it. When Cortese and co sell the club at a big profit, which is undoubted the plan, maybe we will all return. Until then we will have to watch things develop at a distance. I can hear the abuse already coming my way from some younger posters but that is normal for this site as you are not allowed to have a different view without suffering some form of bile. That I will not miss.

No good to me 65th birthday in October. After 57 years I will not be renewing. No 72% price hike for me thank you. This club not interested to my appeals so like a number of other very long term supporters bye bye all.

Why have I got to get over it Alain Perrin. With your permission I will continue to be annoyed and upset if it is all the same to you.

If your bored Hedgehog go and read something else. Some of us are very interested in this thread as at present we will not be at St Marys this season. I am hoping that the club read the posts and take note of the depth of feeling on the subject.

Yes Weston Saint I did have a season ticket when we were in the premiership but surely that is the point. In my fifties I could afford to pay the full price and thought nothing of it but when you retire in my case forced in the early sixties the funds are limited. Surely that is why many many government agencies and commercial operations offer a senior concession. For example prescription charges etc are free over 60. It is distincly possible that I would not have been able to afford a season ticket if we were in the premiership but we are not and I could have afforded a ticket this coming season if my ticket had risen at the same percentage as everybody else. Existing senior concession holders should have been asked to pay pro rata and not 72% as is the case.

Really then the next time your car insurance etc goes up you wont expect the company to write to you and let you know. You will read about elsewhere will you. Unbelievable

It's simple really. After supporting this club for 57 years Southampton Football Club, who were more than happy to charge me the going rate with a senior citizen concession in recent years have decided in their wisdom to up my season ticket price by 72%. As I am 64 and have limited income it has come as a huge financial shock. In addition I freely admit that I am extremely annoyed that the club has not notified me of this decision and expect me to either read it in the press or on their website. I do not know of any other business that would treat long standing clients in such a high handed and arrogant manner. Some of the abuse that I have read on this site towards people like me leaves me sad but I suppose that is the way of the world now. For the first time in almost 2 generations I wil not be in my seat next season. It appears that not only am I not wanted but will not be missed. I wonder if the senior age concession would have been raised to 65 if the club was still in Division 1. I think not.

If I had your sense of humour I would have to shoot myself due to extreme embarrasment

If I had your sense of humour I would have to shoot myself due to extreme embarrasment

"Oh, and I forgot to tell you to shut the **** up." That's the trouble with this forum you are not allowed a different opinion before you attract this sort of abuse. Keep your opinion to yourself Whitey Grandad and just dissapear into the sunset like me. Neither you or I are part of this club anymore.

"Oh, and I forgot to tell you to shut the **** up." That's the trouble with this forum you are not allowed a different opinion before you attract this sort of abuse. Keep your opinion to yourself Whitey Grandad and just dissapear into the sunset like me. Neither you or I are part of this club anymore.