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How far do you travel (one way) to watch Saints at home?  

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  1. 1. How far do you travel (one way) to watch Saints at home?

    • Less than 2 miles
      15
    • Between 2 and 10 miles
      42
    • Between 11 and 25 miles
      26
    • Between 26 and 50 miles
      28
    • Between 50 and 100 miles
      43
    • Over 100 miles
      46

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Guest Dark Sotonic Mills

Guest Dark Sotonic Mills

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18 miles to airport

3,459 miles to Heathrow (approx)

80 miles to Southampton

 

Then back again

 

And no where NEAR enough times a season even these days

 

That'll be the 'Over 100 miles' option then...

Arizona

Arizona

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450 mile flight from Prestwick to Bournemouth, 30 miles train journey to So'ton Airport Parkway, short drive to SMS... and back again

 

Would have done it for the first time on Saturday but I was working.](*,) Now planning on going to Cardiff game again. Don't let me down please Saints.

Johnny Bognor

Johnny Bognor

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I travel from east of the dark side - about a 70 mile round trip & I am proud (or possibly embarrassed) to admit that I have been to every home game

 

I live in Chichester and I'm about 30 miles away (60 mile round trip) so 35 miles puts you at Fontwell-Arundel?

Guest Dark Sotonic Mills

Guest Dark Sotonic Mills

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450 mile flight from Prestwick to Bournemouth, 30 miles train journey to So'ton Airport Parkway, short drive to SMS... and back again

 

Would have done it for the first time on Saturday but I was working.](*,) Now planning on going to Cardiff game again. Don't let me down please Saints.

I thought you were living in central Europe at the moment?

Dimond Geezer

Dimond Geezer

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I drive from Bitterne Park to Woolston, then walk over the Itchen Bridge, I used to get the shuttle bus over the bridge and on a good day the driver would drop us by the mega-store so I only had to walk about 200 yards each end (that’s probably why I’m on the cusp of obesity ).

 

Mind you I probably walk further from Woolston than I would from home in Bitterne Park now that our great leader has stopped the shuttle.

 

I doff my proverbial cap to those of you that travel from outside the city boundary to watch the rubbish we’ve been served this season.

:smt038

Mole

Mole

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It is a FACT that during our Premier League days Saints had the highest proportion of season ticket holders outside a 50 mile radius of all the clubs in the division. I assume this market has been severely hit this past few years and it's an important market the club needs back.

 

Watford have a reduced season ticket price for fans outside a 50 mile radius, Saints would be very wise to offer a similar incentive to win back a key section of the support base.

bungle

bungle

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It is a FACT that during our Premier League days Saints had the highest proportion of season ticket holders outside a 50 mile radius of all the clubs in the division. I assume this market has been severely hit this past few years and it's an important market the club needs back.

 

Watford have a reduced season ticket price for fans outside a 50 mile radius, Saints would be very wise to offer a similar incentive to win back a key section of the support base.

 

Why should I get a cheaper season ticket because I live further away?

Thedelldays

Thedelldays

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clubs in the london area have to compete heavily with about 10 other clubs for support...

 

charlton give free buses to fans in the gillingham area (or used to) in order to get the gates up...

 

we at saints are in a great position...we have pompey one way (who struggle to fill their ground in the prem) and lowly bournemouth the other...we should not need to offer cheaper season ticket holders to fans that live further away...

 

what we have at sms in a combination of fair weather/fickle/bored of losing/fed up lowe set of stay-awayers..

saintwarwick

saintwarwick

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It is a FACT that during our Premier League days Saints had the highest proportion of season ticket holders outside a 50 mile radius of all the clubs in the division. I assume this market has been severely hit this past few years and it's an important market the club needs back.

 

Watford have a reduced season ticket price for fans outside a 50 mile radius, Saints would be very wise to offer a similar incentive to win back a key section of the support base.

 

Very good idea imo.

saintwarwick

saintwarwick

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450 mile flight from Prestwick to Bournemouth, 30 miles train journey to So'ton Airport Parkway, short drive to SMS... and back again

 

Would have done it for the first time on Saturday but I was working.](*,) Now planning on going to Cardiff game again. Don't let me down please Saints.

 

Free flights :smt023

Legod Third Coming

Legod Third Coming

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I drive from Bitterne Park to Woolston, then walk over the Itchen Bridge, I used to get the shuttle bus over the bridge and on a good day the driver would drop us by the mega-store so I only had to walk about 200 yards each end (that’s probably why I’m on the cusp of obesity ).

 

Mind you I probably walk further from Woolston than I would from home in Bitterne Park now that our great leader has stopped the shuttle.

 

I doff my proverbial cap to those of you that travel from outside the city boundary to watch the rubbish we’ve been served this season.

:smt038

 

 

Two things spring to mind:

 

1. The 90 minutes in the car on the way home is a good chance to let off steam so you don't kick the missus, kids, cat, etc.

 

2. Both sets of 90 minute journeys have often been far more entertaining than the 90 minutes in between...

Legod Third Coming

Legod Third Coming

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Why should I get a cheaper season ticket because I live further away?

 

It's called marketing...

 

It wouldn't necessarily have to be a cheaper ticket but they could look at something for long-travelling fans...

 

Anything the encourages more people should be looked at.

bungle

bungle

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Hampshire Cricket do it with their memberships...

 

I know, and it always amused me when I lived in East Dorset that I could get a cheaper membership than someone in North East Hants, despite the fact my journey was probably easier. I reckon people in Salisbury probably had a good laugh as well.

Thedelldays

Thedelldays

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Very much open for abuse too. Who doesn't know a good friend with a handy address 50 miles away?

i reckon if they did this, I would have so many season tickets registered at my address..:eek:

JohnnyFartPants

JohnnyFartPants

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i reckon if they did this, I would have so many season tickets registered at my address..:eek:

 

I could use my address or the girlfriends, both of which have mail diverts on to the house we will soon be living in in Wiltshire.

Jez

Jez

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Ace poll results!! So far, one person travels less than 2 miles to get to Saints home matches. So that pretty much covers the whole of Southampton centre, so our fanbase isn't even based in the city anymore!

krissyboy31

krissyboy31

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Very much open for abuse too. Who doesn't know a good friend with a handy address 50 miles away?

 

Holy sh!t. Do you always see the bad in everyone? Or are you just judging them by your own standards?

 

I drive a 190 mile round trip on some occasions and a 420 mile round trip on others, to see games at St Mary's. That's a bloody lot of petrol money, before you even think about match ticket etc., etc., etc., I have probably been to 10 home games this season and Saturday was the first game I've seen us win (at home) since Bristol City last season. There is no way at the moment, I can justify the cost of a ST but if they were to offer cheappies for out of area fans, I would consider it.

Arizona

Arizona

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Holy sh!t. Do you always see the bad in everyone? Or are you just judging them by your own standards?

 

I drive a 190 mile round trip on some occasions and a 420 mile round trip on others, to see games at St Mary's. That's a bloody lot of petrol money, before you even think about match ticket etc., etc., etc., I have probably been to 10 home games this season and Saturday was the first game I've seen us win (at home) since Bristol City last season. There is no way at the moment, I can justify the cost of a ST but if they were to offer cheappies for out of area fans, I would consider it.

 

Think it's a perfectly valid point though. Nothing to stop someone registering their ST with an address far away, then getting a mate to post it to Southampton. It would pretty much mean anyone could get the discount and would defeat the entire point.

JohnnyFartPants

JohnnyFartPants

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Holy sh!t. Do you always see the bad in everyone? Or are you just judging them by your own standards?

 

I drive a 190 mile round trip on some occasions and a 420 mile round trip on others, to see games at St Mary's. That's a bloody lot of petrol money, before you even think about match ticket etc., etc., etc., I have probably been to 10 home games this season and Saturday was the first game I've seen us win (at home) since Bristol City last season. There is no way at the moment, I can justify the cost of a ST but if they were to offer cheappies for out of area fans, I would consider it.

 

Calm down deary. All I was saying is that the system would be open to abuse. Considering you do not know me, I would suggest you keep your abuse of my "standards" to yourself, though you have rather just proved my point. Gobby little cretins will always try and get something for nothing. Some will try to get a cheap ticket, others will try and make mischief where there was none.

 

I stand by my original point in that some people (don't get emotional, I don't mean you) will try to abuse the system.

krissyboy31

krissyboy31

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Think it's a perfectly valid point though. Nothing to stop someone registering their ST with an address far away, then getting a mate to post it to Southampton. It would pretty much mean anyone could get the discount and would defeat the entire point.

 

There is such a thing as proof of address: I.e. you would have to bring utility bills, driving license and other proof of identities. In any case, most of us are already on the club's database.

JohnnyFartPants

JohnnyFartPants

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There is such a thing as proof of address: I.e. you would have to bring utility bills, driving license and other proof of identities. In any case, most of us are already on the club's database.

 

Now you are changing direction. You had a go at me because I suggested it could be open to abuse. You said not everyone has standards like mine, or implied it. Now you wish to substansiate your post by suggesting that checks could take place to ensure fraudulent behaviour could not take place. I think you should pick somewhere to sit, sit down and shut the ***** up.

Arizona

Arizona

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There is such a thing as proof of address: I.e. you would have to bring utility bills, driving license and other proof of identities. In any case, most of us are already on the club's database.

 

There are still ways around it, like giving a friend who lives far away the money and asking them to buy it. I'm not saying everyone would do it, but as JFP says, it would certainly be open to abuse.

Guest Dark Sotonic Mills

Guest Dark Sotonic Mills

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I left Frankfurt in October, keep up.

 

Frankfurt or Ryanair's version of Frankfurt?

krissyboy31

krissyboy31

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Now you are changing direction. You had a go at me because I suggested it could be open to abuse. You said not everyone has standards like mine, or implied it. Now you wish to substansiate your post by suggesting that checks could take place to ensure fraudulent behaviour could not take place. I think you should pick somewhere to sit, sit down and shut the ***** up.

 

I'm not changing direction at all. Arizona said you had a valid point in that it was open to abuse. Ok maybe it is but there are ways of ensuring that no such abuse takes place.

JohnnyFartPants

JohnnyFartPants

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I'm not changing direction at all. Arizona said you had a valid point in that it was open to abuse. Ok maybe it is but there are ways of ensuring that no such abuse takes place.

 

Apology accepted.

 

I still maintain that you did not need to mention that I might be a dishonest person. That was just abusive.

badgerx16

badgerx16

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I generally travel less than 40 miles to watch Saints, but then it is usually Preston, Blackpool, the Dingles, and once, Morecambe. To watch them at "home" is about 500 miles round trip :p

hamster

hamster

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18 miles to airport

3,459 miles to Heathrow (approx)

80 miles to Southampton

 

Then back again

 

And no where NEAR enough times a season even these days

 

Phil, hy you not fly to CDG then transfer to an SIAL flight, then just jump on a number 1 bus or train to town? It's the shortest airport terminal to rail platform walk in the whole wide world I have heard.

Dicko

Dicko

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I bet Man U would have a cataclysmic fall if they were to ever drop a division or two, apparently their fans average distance from Old Trafford is a crazy 77 miles!

 

Some of us are old enough to remember Man Utd getting relegated!

 

Strangely enough, their attendances in the Championship rose

 

1974 Ave attendance 42721 (Relegated)

 

1975 Ave attendance 48388 (Promoted)

Legod Third Coming

Legod Third Coming

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Some of us are old enough to remember Man Utd getting relegated!

 

Strangely enough, their attendances in the Championship rose

 

1974 Ave attendance 42721 (Relegated)

 

1975 Ave attendance 48388 (Promoted)

 

Do you recall who they were relegated with... ;)

jawillwill

jawillwill

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62 miles on the train from Weymouth.

It's a lovely journey by car but by train it's a nightmare.

 

Is it really that far? Oooh well I voted the wrong option on the poll. I must be a better fan than I first thought.

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