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Anyone who drinks a breakfat coffee (like a cappuccino or latte) after 9am in Italy, is a Philistine. I'll be the one with a Macchiato.

Travel to the cultural and metropolitan city of Milan. Spend your time in an Irish bar. Brilliant.

Agreed. It's not as if non Saints, or opposition supporters without purchase history, are going to be sneakily buying Saints end tickets!!

That's like someone wanting to eat traditional Norwegian food and haggis being suggested because Scotland isn't too far away [emoji849]

If he can't go and doesn't use his ticket, he's going to lose his original £165. It's a bit rich to charge someone £45 on top of the original cost to save himself a £165 loss! [emoji1] With regards to the additional allocation and reducing qualification levels, this will go to General Sale, for sure. However, the club is going to sell a shedload of Memberships tonight so that people can be sure of getting theirs in the morning! [emoji386][emoji386]

This hasn't sold out yet because hundreds, if not thousands, were on the ball and snapped up flights within a couple of hours of the fixtures being announced regardless of whether they'd qualify fir a ticket. The first load of tickets sold to the regular away travellers were always going to go fast. But if there are a load of season ticket holders who have only done one away in the last two seasons and didn't do a European away last year, they are hardly hardened away travellers; so the likelihood of them suddenly getting off their arses to quickly book flights to Milan before flights sold out, when they couldn't be arsed to do even a couple of domestic aways in the last two seasons is remote. If it goes to any Season Ticket holder without any aways, the likelihood of selling more than a couple of dozen is remote. I went to Midtjylland last year, got 8 tickets through the club, but none are on my official purchase history. I also do not have a season ticket, but went to every home game in the last 2 seasons and plenty of aways. I know loads of people who have flights and accommodation booked but no ticket yet. Out of our group of nine, one has so far got a match ticket; the other eight include four of us who went to Midtjylland. There are going to be thousands out there without tickets, with 50k empty seats. If the Italians are happy with the prospect of boozed up ticketless fans when there is more than enough space to accommodate them, then they are idiots.

All they need to do once the 5k are sold, is to invite evidence from each person that can provide proof of flight/travel and accommodation bookings and are without match tickets. This will tell the clubs and police exactly how many will either need to be catered for with an additional ticket allocation within the empty 50,000 seats; or how many ticketless fans they are going to have to contend with roaming the streets and bars.

This draw program is bo11ocks. Just press a button and let a computer instantly display all of the groups and matches. Job done.

Yeah, it's not ok to spear it to death, but it's ok to eat it to death.

Fonte and Cedric likely, but not today.

Another new contract extension signing later today.

No.

Sana Gomes.

Three times. Teach me not to actually read it [emoji16] Glad to see The9 has finally understood the choices/options thing, though [emoji1]

That's one choice from three options.

So you don't mind coming on here, having a read and being able to post and converse in a sensible fashion; but have this ongoing scummer-hunt mentality on your board, whereby any one of us isn't even allowed to read your forum. That sounds perfectly balanced - like having a chip on both of your shoulders.

You've clearly heard 2nd and 3rd hand accounts of what happened, not the truth.

The very fact that you (and everybody else) refers to it as 'The Patrick Kit' probably doesn't endear it to any the manufacturer. I'm sure Adidas, Under Armour and any future kit makers wouldn't want to produce a kit that people would refer to as 'The Patrick Kit' - it's not great for their marketing, really.

Oops, that'll teach me to not properly read all the recent posts! I thought VFTT was backing up a previous comment he made. I'll accept my apology

Your version didn't come from Graziano's mouth, that's for sure! As I said, the only way he'll even consider a move to Italy is if Saints don't offer a 1yr extension and/or if he doesn't get a minimum 2yr deal from another Premier League club.

Lazio may want him, but Italy is not his first choice. He feels he has at least 2yrs left at the top level and wants that to be in the Premier League - preferably at Saints or a London club. It would take both a continued lack of a 1yr contract extension offer from Saints, plus a big offer from any other club to make him even consider a move to a Midlands/Northern PL club.

For what - The9 to start a thread about the 2017/18 kit and the potential sock colourway clashes?

If you knew what he was offered in the January transfer window by a Chinese team, you wouldn't be saying that. Let's just say the annual salary (plus a 4yr contract) puts Koeman's Everton salary in the shade. By a LONG way. If he was solely about money, he wouldn't still be with us, that's for sure. He feels he has at least 2 good seasons in the Premier League left in him and wants to stay in this league (not return to Italy, as keeps being suggested).

I can guarantee that Roger is wrong.

I wouldn't want Sicknote Pahars. Maybe we could tempt Ivan Golac out of retirement though...