CB Fry

We have built it, and we've never had a season ticket waiting list in 20 years of being at St Mary's. In which time we have finished top 8 and been in Europe. So they haven't come.

"Players that don't cut it at the big clubs" include Romeu yes but also include Lemina and Hoedt. So is a more expensive and risky method than the one we are trying.

Except some of the genius ideas on here are that some of our potential 50,000 mega fanbase is going to come from Bristol. So it doesn't quite hold that there are problems with Bristolians supporting their own club, but that they are going to suddenly start passionately supporting a club in a smaller city 100 miles away.

I am starting to think that my many years ripping the piss out if this utterly ridiculous notion was just a gigantic waste of time.

But not enough of those people to create a huge waiting list for season tickets or really any particular difficulty for a casual fan to get a ticket for an average Prem game with a minimal amount of planning. Filling a Southern Railway carriage or two with some expats from Guildford or Crawley does not make a case for a significant expansion of the stadium. I believe West Ham have a season ticket waiting list even now, with a 60k seater stadium. Someone will know better than me but I am not sure we have ever sold our maximum number of season tickets in any season. That's the foundation for stadium expansion.

This is like slipping into a familiar pair of comfy shoes after a long break. #catchment

Jesus wept.

I think the point is that Semmens isn't talking to the clubs. He's talking to you. Its an interview on Five Live, not a conference speech at the Football Administrators Association. I repeat my earlier point. If he says "what you want to hear" then all that happens is you hold it against him the minute we sell someone or don't spend £38m on a player but Palace do. "He said we were challenging top 6 well it doesn't look like it to me".

Did she say "for my sins"?

The alternative is say a load of stuff about aiming to be regularly challenging top six and then when inevitably that doesn't happen people like you get pissed off because the CEO said we'd do it that time and he's a liar just trying to get season ticket money.

Except in the last couple of years we've shown ourselves to be really rather good at recruiting. To be honest I am not sure how we could be any better than we've been. So the picture is as rosy as anyone could reasonably expect. Without sarcasm I have absolutely no idea what you are expecting.

I don't understand why we can't be like every other club and only sign guaranteed brilliant players.

Give what game away? Whoever it is is not going to be our manager as Semmens inferred. Graham Potter's next step is going to be higher up than us. A mediocre spell at Villa/Everton/Newcastle/Leeds/Leicester awaits.

Actually I think its David Moyes, he's only been at West Ham like a couple of years or something and Semmens probably got mixed up and he meant Moyes. Basically definitely matches everything he said.

If by "everything Semmens said" you mean "nothing Semmens said", you're bang on.

I don't want to labour the point too much, but Semnens was talking about how it is difficult to plan too far ahead because things change, but of course you track people. And the point he was making about this mystery manager was that we would most likely not get him now because his next step is now beyond us. He was talking about a manager we won't get, not one that we will. So everyone can stop playing the name game.

About ten minutes in, and goes on for about 10-15 mins.

In fairness they've left out the bit where he said "....and he's out of our reach now" suggesting he is likely to move on to a higher level beyond us for his next job.

Maybe, just maybe, never ever say Matchweek.

Especially as we have been a decent bogey team for them at home for years. Always look at this fixture a one of our best bets for points in any season.

I'd say it generally got used as an indication of a team that could do better, a team with potential. I don't ever remember it being used as a way of comparing us to Watford or Norwich. It's always used as a way of pondering the "what-if" of us not dropping those points and being top half, top eight or whatever. It gets overused by commentators but always from a place of "this team can do better" not "this team isn't very good" Like you say, no one uses it about Watford or Norwich. For good reason.

It is: last season we'd got to 29 points by the 4th January, after the Liverpool win. It took a long time to get another point after that.

What i do know is he is a Forest boy and Forest fan. And I also know that he is giving a perfectly reasonable opinion on MOTD (a manager shouldn't use post-match to have a go at the other teams attitude/approach) because that's what he thinks. And not because wah-wah Spurs lost to that team the other day. Get a grip.

Last match of the season I think.

Jermaine Jenas is a Nottingham boy and Forest fan. He wouldn’t give a flying f**k that Saints beat Spurs. Honestly you people are absolutely insane.