Nope. Hope things pick up for you and you can manage a game this season..should be great. Myattendance depends on my work schedule..sometimes I made a little string of matches then a drought. I can't cherrypick games; just glad to get to any. Made the MK Dons game-fantastic.
I sit in Block 41 on the fringe of 42 and it PI**ES ME OFF when block 42 think they can do this. It is only a small handfullof planks who start singing, abusing and waving season tickets at block 43...... PATHETIC!!! Like previously mentioned.... there are several reasons why people may be sat there!!! 1- Not able to sit in Northam unless that block is open and normally sit elsewhere 2- Not afford to go to as many games an the 'real' fans :S 3- Change of atmosphere from previously sitting elsewhere in the stadium 4- Location 5- Other commitments Total bellends in my opinion! Should we not be encouraging these fans anyway! At the end of the day they wear the SAME BADGE on there chest as us season ticket holders! Some of the fans sat in Block 43 previously may have even injected more money into the club than me! I paid 330 for my season ticket, averaging only 14 per game!!!!! Those fans may normally sit else where in the stadium week in week out and pay as much as 25 per game totalling 575 over the season! Why judge! TBH block 42 have been quiet lately and seem to soend more time moaning RANT OVER! We are all in this together! COYRs!!!!!
I'm sure Nicola sitting in his counting house likes all these new fans, because some of them could be future season-ticket holders watching their first game. Make everyone welcome because the better supported the club the more money to spend on the club! Also as Nashy said, Saints would get more money from a few thousand seats occupied by itinerant fans paying full whack. The advantage of STs is that the club gets money up front through the closed season. The club needs all of us.
On Saturday I was sat in Block 42 next to the steps between 42 & 43, we got into our seats at about twenty to three and I lost count of the amount of 'kids' I saw walking up the steps before and after kick off waving their season ticket books in the air. Correct me if I am wrong but can't you get a season ticket in Block 43 with the understanding that you will be moved if the away fans take their full allocation? So much for together as one!!
i work all day saturday and 4 til 10 tuesday so first season in ten years that i havent been to a game :'( we have 14000 season tickets so thats average 7000 normal tickets, but that wont be the same 7000 every week so, when u think about it i reckon theres pushing 14000 regulars which doesnt leave that much glory supporters
Often wondered how many fans make up the non-ST purchases. Someone must know how many on data base buy tickets. This is why you can jump from 20,000 to a near full house for the big games. These are not people who've never come before, but all have decided to come to the same game. Unfortunately, as I said before, I can't cherrypick so my games are random, but I just love being there. No longer work Tuesdays so may get to more evening matches.
I am a season ticket holder.........Through business and other commitments I cannot get to away games. I probably miss maybe 6 games a year including cup games at home, for the same reason. My son lives in the states he is an ardent Saints fan like his Dad. I have known him get up early and drive up to a hundred miles or so to watch a lunch time kick off here. it is rare that a saints match is shown over there but he found out and went. When we played United it co-insided with a business trip home. Unfortunately I could not get him a ticket as by then they all had gone. However had I got one, some people around would have classified him as I quote "plastic" fan, or some other name. Others will say no because he is an ardent fan and just can't get to matches that often which of course is the truth. In this case it was a genuine business plan made by his boss that just co-insided with the united match. The truth also is he would have wanted a ticket to whoever was playing down here when he is home. The point I really am trying to make and am a bit long winded about it.....any one seeing him at any one venue would, if they think that way, say....... huh.... look at that guy only comes when we get decent team down here. So just don't be so judgemental and categorise people, as I've said before it is better they swell the crowds if and when so their money can be used to our, the regulars benefit. As for the guys that can't make it for financial reasons.......I feel for you, truly. Most will follow saints on the radio on the TV or by what ever means they can. It is that we just can't see them.........they are the true fans, the die hards! It's just that they can't show it. There are always going to be the other sort too, don't moan at them, create the type of atmosphere they would want to feel and like. Show them what they are missing day in and day out invite them to come again. the more money the club gets in, the more they can spend on the type of players you would like to see at St Marys.
here here beddytare one of my residents listens to solent so i tend to skive for an hour and a half lol
This is all very pathetic and sad. If every Saints fan bought a season ticket we would need a bigger stadium - fact. I remember thinking how lucky I was when I had a season ticket at the Dell because there were thousands of people who could not go because of the minute capacity. Now my life has moved on and I am now not able to go to every game. Am I less of a fan? If anyone thinks so then they do not know me at all. If Southampton FC is all you have in your life and can afford both the time and money to go to every game then that's your choice. Doesn't make you any more of a fan. All I know is that at 3.00.pm on a Saturday I know where I would like to be and if I am not at the game I am following the Saints game on the internet via my phone from wherever I am. So let's end all this nonsense about who is and isn't a fan.
Rich or poor, season ticket holder or not, regular attender or get then when you can, go to the game or listen to the radio, go to away games or not, live in Southampton or the other side of the world so long as you love the Saints you're my man. God bless you if you are a Saints' fan.
For years I stood on the terraces at the Dell and could not afford a season ticket if I wanted one. Anyway I enjoyed standing to watch the game. When the game became all seating I bought a season ticket and have had one ever since. I also think I could not physically stand at a match for a couple of hours. I have the time and the money to go regularly. My nephew works all over the world but ever since he was a lad I took him to the Dell. When he is home and there is a game he goes and he is a most passionate fan. For goodness sake lets cut out this hierarchy of support nonsense.
You are correct and a lot of people misunderstand this. If 20,000 people attend game 1 and 22,000 people attend game 2, it does not mean 2,000 more people have decided to go, because a lot of the 20,000 won't be there either. Like others I can't go every week and probably went to 70% of the home games, and twice away. It will be less next year, as I can't go on Tuesdays for a start, so I think I will have to drop my season ticket and buy individually. The people who want to sing about season tickets and being there every week don't offend me because I know they are wrong.
Yeh I got a ticket on Saturday, that's how I witnessed what the minority were doing. You can't take the piss out of fans that can't go due to circumstances. In fact, don't take the piss out of anyone that takes time out to go to a game.
A discussion that keeps coming up and it should be irrelvant at the end of the day as we are all saints fans in our own way, if that is a season ticket holder or someone who comes once in a blue moon. I was made redundant and had to give up my season ticket this year for the first time since the stadium was built, that hurt a lot but the wife and family come first. As it happened the axe didnt fall until the start of this year so i was able to go to a few games before xmas and I picked the more high profile games according to some so called fans I am now a plastic fan. I was also lucky enough to watch the last six games of the season as leaving present thank god I didnt miss the last game!! Thankfully were I sit in the Kingsland with my brother (still a season ticket holder) all the guys around us have been there since the stadium went up and thankfully I dont have to endure any of this plastic fan rubbish. Also I got my old man a ticket for the JPT final he hadn't been for years due to ill health and being retired does that make him a plastic fan as well .....anyone that thinks like that is a t**t. For the guys that listen to the matches radio good for you ....drives me mad that iIcant be there so I take the dogs out, looks like my dogs will be getting a lot of saturday afternoon walks next season unless things change for the better!
There is something in what you say SH...............Probably 15% of any crowd at St Mary's are out and out hardcore fans but for a variety of reasons cannot go regular. Probably the next 10/15% are still good fans but choose simply not to buy a season ticket. The next 5% are possibly the casual visitor. Just fancy watching a game of football on a Saturday afternoon or its their home town club visiting, just that casual. Oh yes they are the type that will come along for the big match too. The next 25% are the hard core fans who simply cannot get enough money together at any one time to buy a season ticket. The rest are simply the season ticket holders. All these people are the back bone of any club's fan base. The casuals and the irregulars are the future hard core fan, they can come from nowhere else. What is left are those that simply do not have an interest in football or support other teams!!!! So where else is your extra fans going to come from? The answer is very simple you turn whoever has an interest in football into a Saints fan. Casuals "plastics" or just the plain curious. You are doing the club big favours aren't you by disrespecting and berating these fans when the do turn up aren't you? No, the answer is obvious even to the most uneducated of us!! So come on rap this disrespect up!!!!! Knock it on the head!!!
OK so what about people who have season tickets but don't go? There are a number of seats around me that are frequently empty (i don't believe I smell!), they have season tickets but chose for whatever reason not to go, seems a waste of money to me, but does that make them good fans because they have season tickets or worse because they cherry pick the games they go to? Of course not, it means that they are normal human beings who can and do choose what they want to do, albeit with a more cavalier attitude to money than most
If these numpties were waving their ST's in a derogatory fashion, that is out of order, maybe it is just because they are proud to be ST holders, I have no problem with that, so am I for the moment.
We will have to take your word on that ashby about the smelling.......... We do have a couple like that around our area in the chapel. The couple have been Saints fans at a guess before you were born Ashby.......unfortunately....there health is not so good, if one is OK tother might not be. They will not go with out each other. My understanding is that between them they have around 130 years of supporting Saints. One is 84 I think the other 86. So sometimes you will see the daughter and her son and grand son or Grand daughter. Which is what has happened of late. My understanding is they are renewing next season as well. Now there's a record of a real pair of Saints fans. I think if those two were to stand up and wave their tickets everyone would probably stand up and clap them!!!
