You raise a very good point. Marketing aside (yes, I said Marketing aside) the Club do seem to ride roughshod over the few fans they have at times.
Sorry, but if the Saints fans (who I always thought were a great bunch of fans) who travel down in numbers every year are sacrificed for a "double header" gate to drag our average up by its bootstraps, then the club have some real soul searching to do.
£25 to watch a team at the bottom of the table, after travelling hundreds of miles to get there and probably forking out money for a hotel and paying £1 more for a pint......or do they go to their local and watch it on SKY?

Oh...and if we were forced into this Double Header as has been suggested then I would suggest our landlords are in breach of contract......if we are paying for the pitch, then it's our pitch/stadium on that day and WE should dictate the ticket price.....In my ill informed opinion that is.

At least the sun won't be in anybody's eyes, with our game being an evening kick off.

It’s the evening kick offs that cause the problem, as the sun is lower in the sky and directly opposite the halfway line. I’ve never had a problem at the back of the stand for afternoon kick offs but was caught unawares at the first late kick off last year. Anyway, presumably the entire ground will be open this weekend following the union game so it shouldn’t be impossible to move to one of the other stands. In fact wouldn’t it be a shame if [ieveryone[/i moved to one of the other stands and left the Sky cameras pointing at a completely empty East Stand?

Got that one wrong Dave