I was talking to a Widnes fan and he couldnt get a ticket for the game as we havent sent many over there so not sure how many tickets Widnes got

Looks like the North Stand will sell out, only 78 seats left.

C section in the south stand is going slowly, but if they sell out the corporate seats then it will be try line to try line with Saints fans.

I may have to end up standing in the away end on my visits if this keeps up. Well done all.

Do you not think there will be seating made available for away fans?
The HJ have a block at the end of their stand which they allocate to the away club.
Will you not be doing the same?

There are 'unallocated' blocks at the away ends of both the north and south stands, I think, which would be provided to away fans wishing to purchase a seat.

Reading on Saints twitter that the South West family block is pretty full.

Depends how many sales Saints get. They can't turn down a season ticket to keep seats open for possible away fans. Harsh but true.

I doubt all the unallocated tickets will sell the north stand holds 4600. The allocated seats only account for 2600 of those, so that leaves a further 2000 unallocated seats.

That's 1000 at either side of the allocated section (roughly). Some will be sold as season tickets, but I'd be surprised if all of them did especially towards the away end.

The south stand also have unallocated sections and family stands in the corners. The south west will always sell quicker as it's in the Saints end.

The south east will be pretty sparce I would imagine.

But hey its all guess work, the Chair recons we will hit 10k season ticket sales. So that still leaves a good 8k for everyone one else who turns up from week to week.

As with all things the mantra will be buy early as an away fan to get the best choice of what is left.

I doubt they will be formally given to away sides as few would sell any and those who would will be games that will sell out anyway. But there would be nothing stopping you going on and ordering seated tickets from the Saints website.

When getting season tickets the woman selling them was of the impression they werent available for the family stand next to the away stand as these would be mainly for away fans so some seats will be available.

I can understand wanting to sell a section at a time. Much better to have a full section sold out. But I'd be surprised if the other family stand was for away fans only.

If it's the old bag in the shop then she's just not interested. Everything is a effort for her and totally unhelpful.

+1

I know who you mean!

She is sort of in charge and spends a lot of time ignoring people and pretending to be reading something. The rest of the staff are pretty sound IMO.

Is that the one with dark hair and a grumpy looking face?

I think it was like a ginger colour. Pure horrible cow!

Perhaps there are two old bags in there then, although I'm a crap witness so I've probably got mixed up. Either way, the woman I'm thinking of had a face that would curdle milk and I really didn't want her to serve me, especially given that she had just loudly whinged about Saints fans to the couple in front of me, but I had no choice as she was the only one on the tickets counter and I needed a ticket for the Widnes friendly!

Speaking of tickets.

It's new season ticket collection time from tomorrow! Bring it on!

"And some fell on stony ground"

I've personally found the staff to be fine whenever I've visited the shop since its relocation, I've noticed that if you smile and speak to them politely and with respect they treat me in kind, if I was grumpy and dour-faced (I'm not saying any of you are) I'd expect a similar response.

Whilst it is expected that customer service staff should appear happy, jovial and helpful all of the time at the end of the day lets not forget that they are people, and as such are prone to off-days - it is a low paid profession in which they have to deal with long periods of inactivity coupled with dealing with a percentage of customers who are often dismissive of them and occasionally downright rude. I'm sure that description rings bells with many of you in your respective employment, and can you honestly say you are happy, smiley and cheerful in work all day?

they always seem happy to serve me, having said that im quite a cheerfull person so maybe it rubs off, some of you misserable gits should try smileing to them see if it works.

Indeed. Everybody serving in the Saints shop, bar sour puss, is just fine. I've only encountered her the once and it didn't make any difference that I was friendly and polite. She wore an expression that would curdle milk. And bitching about Saints fans in the Saints shop was out of order.

I went in to get two season tickets, four adult tickets abd two kids tickets for the Widnes game, pre order two saints shirts which is a alot of money but it was such effort for her.

She was very reluctant to show me which seats was still available and after I'd bought the season tickets asked her for Widnes match tickets abd she just huffed as if it was to much hard work.

Thats the one!
She wears glasses and her hair is sort of faux ginger come blonde.
If she is doing "paperwork" she just ignores everyone even if the queue gets really long and doesn't getof her harris to help out.

Everyone else is really good and helpful.
(p.s. warning for anyone getting the burgundy vintage hoody top - it runs when its washed and the white writing goes pink. It generated a lot of amusement for my wire mates).

What temp did you wash it at?

Are season tickets available to pick up from tomorrow.

Yup!

Since I'm out of work again at the moment I will be down there early to pick mine up. Dead excited, me.

Lets not get this thread closed by boarding on slander. A one off comment fair enough but lets not start an internet based jibe. Does not sit well with me, if you have an issue take it up with management. Maybe a refresher in customer service is all that is required. Too many years doing the same thing can lead to getting too comfy in a certain way of doing things.