CB Fry

Except you believe we will catch Everton and finish seventh, don't you? Which considering the huge increase in matches we've had on multiple fronts, suggests a stronger squad than before. Because you do really think that, don't you?

Our club is run by no-ambition asset stripping scum who take all the fans for mugs. When is the protest march through town planned for?

No programme in the history of football has ever published the starting eleven.

WE ARE GETTING A BRAND SPANKING NEW TRADE YACHT MOTHERFU CKERS.

Pretty sure we don't own that land, so the club would have to sink investment into that, then the small matter of the investment in building and maintaining hotels and restaurants on the site - are you thinking we are building and running these developments or are we going to allow hotel companies and restaurants to do it? I'd call the whole thing a total distraction from the core business of the football club, and in reality with the returns barely moving the needle for the funds/energy invested. At best it might be a revenue stream to rely on if we end up in the Championship. And as I said before SMS is in the city centre. There are loads of hotels in walking distance. I know some people wish we were living the dream of being on a ring road trading estate but we're not. I'm struggling to think of a football club anywhere that can point to their hotel/entertainment interests being the driver of their on-pitch success. Certainly none of our current top six, and no global major club I can name. Will owning a hotel drive us up the table past sixth place? Reading and Bolton have hotels bolted on to their grounds, though.

Er, no.

I thought people were just making it up, like Mornington Crescent or something. Lovely play from Hesketh there.

There's drivel and then there's drivel.

You've done this routine already. 0.5/10.

Once they build a branch of JJB Sports, a Chiquitos and a Starbucks on the site of the old Gasworks the new fans will be flooding in.

Seriously, does it really matter? I don't think those gas towers have ever detracted from my match experience or stopped any single fan from going to the match, ever. We're less than ten minutes walking distance from town FFS. Stadium MK is out in ring road retail park nowheresville. You making out it is some kind of fan-attracting fun-palace is laughable. I'd rather the city was developed around the docks than around the St Mary's area anyway. That's what this city is supposed to be about. The sea. I notice you didn't answer the question - what has MK got that you want next to us that adds 5,700 fans to the gate and isn't already minutes away in the city centre? If you genuinely think that putting a Harvester and a Cinema next to a football stadium adds 6,000 to the gate then condescension is what you deserve.

So developing the surrounding area, in and of itself, is going to add 5,700 to the gate? This is what you're saying? I haven't been to MK since we knocked them out of the JPT so you'll have to advise me of what fantastic "development" there is round there that we could copy that is going to add nearly 6,000 regular fans. What have they got? Is it both a Frankie's and a Benny's? Is is a Megabowl? Is it a drive-thru Costa coffee? I remember the big Asda. I really wish we had that near St Mary's. That would be, like, so brilliant. And interesting in your mathematics that you have discounted any cost to this development and just added the cost of putting the seats in - being that this development is the supposed driver of these thousands of new fans why is that not included in your calculations. Lastly: football forum fan drooling about building fast food restaurants around the stadium to bring in new fans. Fu ck me, this is what it's come to?

When Sunderland inevitably go down, next season they will likely pull in average gates of about 28 to 31k going on their most recent forays at that level. If we go down the season after (perish the thought) we will likely pull in average gates of 22-26k, again based on comparable data. This is despite having us a stadium that could hold much more than 22-26k of course. We will have already "built it" but they won't "come". Funny that.

I think you brought up Milton Keynes in the first place. I seriously doubt there are many clubs who have followed the "if you build it, they will come" model. Maybe a handful of loons like Doncaster. Most follow the "let's evaluate the demand, construct a cost/benefit analysis/apply financials to some likely scenarios/work out whether we need it, can afford it and it will pay back" model.

There's no evidence of the fans losing interest. I imagine we will finish the season by selling more tickets this season that we ever have before in our history. We had excellent gates and plenty of full stadiums when we were battling relegation from the Prem and bimbling about in 12th-16th. Those facts suggest we would fill the stadium pretty easily from 12th place as we have a clear track record of doing so, so no evidence for that assertion either. It's a lovely little narrative you have made up in your head but it's not actually based in facts, is it?

Getting absolutely rave reviews from WHU fans on twitter. Personal favourite:

When we were at the Dell we could easily demonstrate we had demand which was not being met - it was murder for the casual fan to get tickets once we'd gone all-seater. Spurs have a huge season ticket waiting list demonstrating with unarguable, empirical facts that they have a huge unmet demand for tickets that justifies gigantic investment in a new stadium. Despite arguably the most sustained period of success in our entire history, we don't have that at all.

Pretty sure the answer is no - the Europa League winning side gets the spot on the CL but vacate their spot in the EL, and that slot gets allocated to a different club in a different league. The total clubs in Europe for the Premier League remains 7, but it is 5 + 2 not 4 + 3. Basically we ain't qualifying for Europe this time.

How is life in 1986?

Surprised it has taken quite this long. When piracy like this becomes so widespread- people I know with no computer knowledge etc are streaming every single game with ease - the bubble was always going to burst. It probably won't iradicate it completely but I imagine they can have a good go at killing off the easy targets like Sportsmania etc.

Whereas if the story was "Les delighted with VVD progress" and about how he will be fully fit in no time, you'd "read between the lines" that we were delighted that he is back in the shop window because we were clearly trying to maximise the transfer fee we get.

Open top bus at the ready. Just think how happy they will be. They're beating Crawley Town. Such a massive massive club.

Hats off, that is superb stuff. 9/10.

Not sure what you are remembering but the Evans being discussed here is Micky, who was definitely signed from Plymouth by Souness and he helped us stay up in 1997. No connection to Mark Wright.

The last squad had world beaters like Jesse Lingard, Michail Antonio and Rashford. Plus players like Andros Townsend have been around the squad. If he continues his current form, Nathan Redmond has all the ability to be as disappointingly poor for England as much as any of those players.