Glasgow_Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I’m really surprised by this – thought we would sell our allocation (4,000) easy Our average away following has been over 2,300 this year and this is our BIGGEST game for years. Appreciate the distance but come on – this is embarrassing! Where are you Saints fans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexstar Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Are you sure that figure is correct? Yesterday it was 350, earlier it was 800 and now it seems to be between 1,000 and 1,500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Like a few said, it might be our biggest game in years but it isnt worth the hassle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Are you sure that figure is correct? Yesterday it was 350, earlier it was 800 and now it seems to be between 1,000 and 1,500 No-one ever has a clue with stuff like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I’m really surprised by this – thought we would sell our allocation (4,000) easy Our average away following has been over 2,300 this year and this is our BIGGEST game for years. Appreciate the distance but come on – this is embarrassing! Where are you Saints fans?Are you going then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Author Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Are you sure that figure is correct? Yesterday it was 350, earlier it was 800 and now it seems to be between 1,000 and 1,500 Called the ticket office to buy another ticket - guy said there is just over 1,000 left! That was at 12:05 today Said he would be very very surpried now if we sold out - tickets will be availble on the day he thinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Author Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Are you going then? Yep - you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 anyone want to pay for me....plymouth to m'boro.....very far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Author Share Posted 19 April, 2012 anyone want to pay for me....plymouth to m'boro.....very far Few spaces in a minibus from Southampton offered yesterday? cant remember who Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Few spaces in a minibus from Southampton offered yesterday? cant remember who plymouth!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Yep - you?Of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Called the ticket office to buy another ticket - guy said there is just over 1,000 left! That was at 12:05 today Said he would be very very surpried now if we sold out - tickets will be availble on the day he thinks To be fair, I think most people that are going would have got their tickets by now, maybe 100 or so max that would make a last minute decision to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crisp Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Would love to go but Peterborough cost me about £100 so no way I can afford it. If you're offering a ticket and half my train fare though I'll be there and will pay you back some time next season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexstar Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 To be fair, I think most people that are going would have got their tickets by now, maybe 100 or so max that would make a last minute decision to do it. Yeah I somehow doubt that many people are in a position to just head 350 miles north at the drop of a hat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warsash saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Still think that over 3000 is a good effort for a trip sooo far up North. Certainly beats the 100 odd Saints fans that were there the last time I visitied Middlesborough back in the nineties! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minty Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I still think taking 3000 to Middlesbrough for what is a tv game, is pretty good, irrespective of the nature of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 They should allocate us 8,000 tickets so that people can be doubly disappointed we've only got 3,000 going... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 It is remarkable to think that as on TV at 5.20 that many people are still bothered by a trip to a wet Middlesbrough at Saturday tea time! The fact is money is tight and priorities change - I'm fortunate enough to be able to fund my only hobby, and love the occassions. I wasn't going to go to Middlesbrough originally because I had decided to get down for the Coventry game. But for all my "tightness" I have decided to go and give the boys one last shout away this season with a couple of thousand others, just to make the difference between getting the draw or a win. I am not contemplating losing or turning up like we did against Blackpool. Not my last game as I am still making Coventry. Frankly speaking the away crowds have been fantastic all season, and the increase over the last couple of months is nothing short of spectacular, especially as I can remember being one of only 60-fans for a night game in the Saints end at Hillsborough in the early 80's. Honestly I have no bone to pick with anyone who stays in Southampton (or anywhere else) to watch it on TV. I'm happy that they can get as much from it on the TV or laptop by streaming. I have done both with differing experiences - but I know I just want to have one of those "I was there" moments again. Just like at Orient last time, and Luton the week before that...it's something that lives with you forever. Somehow - "Yeah I remember that I was down the pub" doesn't cut it for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathan Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I simply can't afford it. Spent over £200 on away games over the last week. Can't justify another £60 on petrol, £50 on hotel, and £30 on ticket before food, beer etc. when it's on the telly. 3000 is bloody good for a north away game on the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Article on the website said there were only a few hundred left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I simply can't afford it. Spent over £200 on away games over the last week. Can't justify another £60 on petrol, £50 on hotel, and £30 on ticket before food, beer etc. when it's on the telly. 3000 is bloody good for a north away game on the box. £30 for a ticket, take a packed lunch, car share 4 x £15 each. You'll need £50 tops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Anyone else staying in Chesterfield on the way back? Not sure why we picked Chesterfield mind - apart from being able to gaze at the crooked spire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasoneuelllfanclub Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I’m really surprised by this – thought we would sell our allocation (4,000) easy Our average away following has been over 2,300 this year and this is our BIGGEST game for years. Appreciate the distance but come on – this is embarrassing! Where are you Saints fans? 3,000 tickets sold for m'boro is far from embarrassing even given the importance of the game. i think quite a few people will get tickets tomorrow being a friday, I think we will take around 3,500 fans which to me is a good turn out given the distance and cost of getting there. 3.500 fans will make a big noise @ the riverside as boro fans are very quiet and always turn out in low numbers there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexstar Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 £30 for a ticket, take a packed lunch, car share 4 x £15 each. You'll need £50 tops. £60 total petrol? It's 700 miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 £60 total petrol? It's 700 miles. We'll he said £60 for petrol. Calll it £100 so £25 each then. job done, still only need £60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Author Share Posted 19 April, 2012 £30 for a ticket, take a packed lunch, car share 4 x £15 each. You'll need £50 tops. Or buy a ticket and travel on the clubs organised coach = £60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I still think taking 3000 to Middlesbrough for what is a tv game, is pretty good, irrespective of the nature of it. depends by which standards you set it by. Newcastle got promoted away to Plymouth on a monday night, still sold out easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Unofrtunately off to see Leftfield, M.A.N.D.Y, Booka Shade, Laurent Garnier and James Zabiela in Brixton. But quite gutted I'm missing it all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 We'll he said £60 for petrol. Calll it £100 so £25 each then. job done, still only need £60. £80 for a tank, 280 miles a tank, I make that £200. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 £80 for a tank, 280 miles a tank, I make that £200. You need to get a new motor, i get 600 miles out of a tank in mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanimal Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I would love to go as most would, but we went to Posh and Palace, I have been commuting to work all week and its just the sheer amount of time spent on the road in the last 2 weeks! Sad to say though if it was not on the TV.....then a different story perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 one thing that saints have never been good at doing is organising ourselves as fans to get across the country. i know lads who follow many other teams, spurs for example have a good history of pubs organising unofficial coaches but they probably have more of a drinking culture than saints where certain pubs are "football" pubs. if a few more entreprenuers have got groups of mates together, booked a coach firm, smuggled a few bottles of pop onboard, you're laughing and not too expensive either. all about having enough get up and go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landford.saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Lets see.. Mortgage... Yep. Gas bill.... Yep. Electricity bill.... Yep Rates....Yep. Fuel bills astronomic.... Yep. Live on TV... Yep. Weather cold and wet... Yep. I am pleasantly surprised 3000 odd are going but hats off to them. Despite being the (again) biggest game of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I would love to go but I have work at 7am on Sunday, and the last train from Boro gets into Southampton at 1.20am and leaves Boro at 6.20pm (halfway through the match). Not a practical one for me, but I shall be in the pub watching hopefully with hundreds more Saints fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonToo Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 - but I know I just want to have one of those "I was there" moments again. Just like at Orient last time, and Luton the week before that...it's something that lives with you forever. That's so true. I can still see Terry Paine heading that goal at Brisbane Road nearly 50 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This Charming Man Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 one thing that saints have never been good at doing is organising ourselves as fans to get across the country. i know lads who follow many other teams, spurs for example have a good history of pubs organising unofficial coaches but they probably have more of a drinking culture than saints where certain pubs are "football" pubs. if a few more entreprenuers have got groups of mates together, booked a coach firm, smuggled a few bottles of pop onboard, you're laughing and not too expensive either. all about having enough get up and go. But Spurs have a 'laddish' following. Ours is full of elderly people and middle-aged drips who would never dream of doing something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This Charming Man Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I believe Charlton took around 6,000 to Boro for an important game a few years back and it was midweek as well. The fact we're struggling to shift 4,000 tickets for it is embarrassing. Look at Plymouth last year, people were paying silly money for tickets purely because it was a couple of hours on the rattler. Our support really isn't all you lot make it out to be. I await the comments from the usual suspects who live in a world of blissful ignorance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 You need to get a new motor, i get 600 miles out of a tank in mine. It is a new motor, but it's not a pussy wagon, so does 'proper' miles to the gallon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I believe Charlton took around 6,000 to Boro for an important game a few years back and it was midweek as well. The fact we're struggling to shift 4,000 tickets for it is embarrassing. Look at Plymouth last year, people were paying silly money for tickets purely because it was a couple of hours on the rattler. Our support really isn't all you lot make it out to be. I await the comments from the usual suspects who live in a world of blissful ignorance. I think 3000 odd is a great following myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 It is a new motor, but it's not a pussy wagon, so does 'proper' miles to the gallon. M3 right......**** that. costs too much had one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Kint Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I believe Charlton took around 6,000 to Boro for an important game a few years back and it was midweek as well. The fact we're struggling to shift 4,000 tickets for it is embarrassing. Look at Plymouth last year, people were paying silly money for tickets purely because it was a couple of hours on the rattler. Our support really isn't all you lot make it out to be. I await the comments from the usual suspects who live in a world of blissful ignorance. Why do you care so much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This Charming Man Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I think 3000 odd is a great following myself. If we weren't playing for anything and it was just a traditional last away game of the season game then it would be a decent following. It's not though, we're going for automatic promotion and the title still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This Charming Man Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Why do you care so much? Why do you care that I care? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucks Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 But Spurs have a 'laddish' following. Ours is full of elderly people and middle-aged drips who would never dream of doing something like that. Rubbish. But I am quite happy we get some mixed away fans, including families, middle aged women and elderly folk. Good on all of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 but I know I just want to have one of those "I was there" moments again. Just like at Orient last time, and Luton the week before that...it's something that lives with you forever.My sentiments exactly. You don't get to witness these sort of things first hand very often. I was at Luton and Orient that year. Can even remember getting hit in the eye by a sugar cube on the coach coming home from Luton, and seeing an old lady on the pavement (who looked like my recently deceased nan) waving at us before some bloke behind me gobbed at her out of the window. Then there was the wall collapsing at Orient.......great memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 M3 right......**** that. costs too much had one Yeah, starting to take a lot of trains now... Thinking I may pick up another car at some point, diesel estate would be useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilchards Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 anyone want to pay for me....plymouth to m'boro.....very far Why don't you earn some real money like the rest of us....C O C K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 It is a new motor, but it's not a pussy wagon, so does 'proper' miles to the gallon. Quick and economical is the way forward, especially when you do 35k a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buenos Aires Saint Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 I believe Charlton took around 6,000 to Boro for an important game a few years back and it was midweek as well. The fact we're struggling to shift 4,000 tickets for it is embarrassing. Look at Plymouth last year, people were paying silly money for tickets purely because it was a couple of hours on the rattler. Our support really isn't all you lot make it out to be. I await the comments from the usual suspects who live in a world of blissful ignorance. Yes but Charlton put on free travel for the fans... If saints did the same we would get more ppl up there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This Charming Man Posted 19 April, 2012 Share Posted 19 April, 2012 Rubbish. But I am quite happy we get some mixed away fans, including families, middle aged women and elderly folk. Good on all of them How is it rubbish? Can you please inform of an away game where there have been numerous unofficial coaches at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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