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#8 15 Aug 2009 17:29 Complain | user_quote.gifuser_reply.gif Signed: July 2009 re: re: re: re: re: The crowd... ... Posts: 68

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People in the local area can't afford it and even know we have a wide area of supporter base, a lot of people can't be arsed to drive or train in from West Sussex and North Hampshire, shame but that's the reality...we have to admit that we would never ever fill a 32'000 stadium even at £30 ticket...unless of course we had a team full of big names and there was a Semi Final ticket allocation up for grabs..!!!

 

Oh. How. I. Laughed!

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Laugh all you want lads, as much as i took pleasure in the skates dire situation, we lost 3-1, nuff said

 

We did, but in the grand scheme of things its just one loss. We are pretty much at the bottom of our downward spiral, Pompey are at the top of a very long and slippery slope. And yes, I will enjoy every minute of their slide, just as their fans did ours.:cool:

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We did, but in the grand scheme of things its just one loss. We are pretty much at the bottom of our downward spiral, Pompey are at the top of a very long and slippery slope. And yes, I will enjoy every minute of their slide, just as their fans did ours.:cool:

 

With all the lucre washing around the Gulf states it seems the 'Skates' have successfully found somebody without any.

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I noticed plenty of empty seats in the farton end too when they showed fulham's goal, maybe now the myth of the skates being the best fans in the world can be put to bed, they are poor fans, very very poor, more concerned with fans of other teams adopting them as their second team because they used to sing ( when the tv camaras were there) than they are anything else.

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I noticed plenty of empty seats in the farton end too when they showed fulham's goal, maybe now the myth of the skates being the best fans in the world can be put to bed, they are poor fans, very very poor, more concerned with fans of other teams adopting them as their second team because they used to sing ( when the tv camaras were there) than they are anything else.

 

Thats just reminded me of when Thierry Henry ripped them apart at Fratton, and they applauded him for it. So cringeworthy.

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Thats just reminded me of when Thierry Henry ripped them apart at Fratton, and they applauded him for it. So cringeworthy.

I remember that, then all we heard from them for the rest of the season was how henry praised the home crowd after the match, that made their season, if it was a choice between that happening or relegation they would have chosen to go down :)

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the entire time Saints were in the Premier League we had to survive by working on a budget and flogging our best players, most of the time with an unpopular asshole in charge.

 

Yet 5mins of the same and the skates are turning their back in droves - a bunch of plastic fairweathers.

 

I can't wait til Marcus has us in the prem with a team littered with England internationals - it will be build a second tier on SMS time.

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the entire time Saints were in the Premier League we had to survive by working on a budget and flogging our best players, most of the time with an unpopular asshole in charge.

 

Yet 5mins of the same and the skates are turning their back in droves - a bunch of plastic fairweathers.

 

I can't wait til Marcus has us in the prem with a team littered with England internationals - it will be build a second tier on SMS time.

 

I was thinking about that the other day!

 

If we do get back in the Prem this must be a definite possibility.

 

Under the old Prem regime to do so would have meant raising further debt and so it wouldn't have happened for fear of it being a white elephant should we go down.

 

Under Marcus, we simply write a cheque for £20m or whatever, no probs!

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I was thinking about that the other day!

 

If we do get back in the Prem this must be a definite possibility.

 

Under the old Prem regime to do so would have meant raising further debt and so it wouldn't have happened for fear of it being a white elephant should we go down.

 

Under Marcus, we simply write a cheque for £20m or whatever, no probs!

 

I don't think that we should be as blase about it. Nice to have but let's get this club stable in L1 first?

 

Anyway, has CorpHo enlightened us as to why we are so poorly supported in comparison to our near, almost extict, neighbours?

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Originally Posted by stevegrant

Serious question: how many season tickets have been sold at FP for this season?

 

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Originally Posted by Thedelldays

I seriously reckon we have sold more..

 

I have asked this on Fans-Online and no one wil answer

 

 

Our resident in the know Skate replied ---

 

I don't think it's a case of no-one wanting to answer, more that it hasn't been reported anywhere. If it's been made public you should be able to find out just as easily as any Pompey fan, surely. I asked a friend at the club and was told it's somewhere around 12,000 so far but with numbers expected to go to the full 16,000 once the takeovers completed and new players start to arrive to calm people down a bit.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by stevegrant

Serious question: how many season tickets have been sold at FP for this season?

 

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thedelldays

I seriously reckon we have sold more..

 

I have asked this on Fans-Online and no one wil answer

 

 

Our resident in the know Skate replied ---

 

I don't think it's a case of no-one wanting to answer, more that it hasn't been reported anywhere. If it's been made public you should be able to find out just as easily as any Pompey fan, surely. I asked a friend at the club and was told it's somewhere around 12,000 so far but with numbers expected to go to the full 16,000 once the takeovers completed and new players start to arrive to calm people down a bit.

 

The guardian has this

only 4 prem teams with reduced season ticket sales

and who is first on the list

yep

pompey!

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/aug/13/premier-league-season-tickets-manchester-united

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I don't know what's funnier, the sight of all the empty seats as the wheels pop off the caravan bandwagon or a sweaty fat man dressed as an ice cream seller sat politely next to the man who has been slagging him off all week, both watching an awful team go down to a comedy goal in a living museum of 1960's football stadia.

 

This season has great comic potential, I do hope they don't turn the corner too soon.

 

I don't wish them out of business, just administration, financial meltdown and to be well adrift long before Christmas followed by an agonising slide through three or four divisions in front of that fanbase of 3,000 hardy souls.

 

Then gain if Maradona is on his way that might not happen, and as the sweaty ice cream seller says, 'it's all on course still........and would you like sauce with that, and if you need to rent a flat in Barnet I have a fellow billionaire who can help you.'

I'm sure it will be fine, what can go wrong?

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