CB Fry

Possibly made more money per ticket but not neccessarily sold the most tickets we could have. But impossible to prove apart from fact that pretty much no other club does it our way.

Don't forget, when we build a 45,000 seater stadium you won't be able to move for flexible ticket prices to bring the fans in. The "enlightened ones" told us so. Just like all those flexible ticket pricing initiatives this season when we had between seven and ten thousand empty seats to fill. Oh.

I think it is reasonable to suggest that there is a small number of fans that would have been inspired to buy a season ticket in the euphoria of promotion, but have reflected and decided not to. So it's the reverse - not time to decide to buy but time to decide not to buy. Funnily enough the build-it-build-it-build-it-now brigade can't stop banging on about how we are going to attract precisely these type of impulsive casual fans. Let's put this back into context - every other club in our division has decided to sell theirs. Arsenal. Man U. Man City. Chelsea. Obviously none of them have a clue what they are doing and this is clearly revolutionary by our club and they'll all be doing it our way next year. What's that? We did it our way last season and the biggest clubs in the Premier League haven't copied us? Oh. Funny people were saying that kind of thing when we kicked out the local press photographers as it was going to open up a revolutionary new revenue stream. It didn't. It flopped. It was dropped. Let's take off the red and white specs that everything we do is brilliant because we are doing it.

This sounds incredibly unlikely.

Why don't you simply ignore the many people that say everything you write is a masterclass in soul destroying tedium?

93% wages to turn over is not that great an example of "smart, tight finances". We've done well but not for the reasons you say here. With a big wage bill and some significant tranfer fee outlay, we've spent our way up. Money is far more important to our progress rather than guff about "true love of the game".

I think you cult of Cortese people need to get your story straight. So is it We are breaking new ground in East Africa definitely East Africa to unearth the next Haile Gebreselassie to play right wing or It is actually the entirity of Africa that Jaidi is scouting or When Les Reed says East Africa, he actually means the Ivory Coast after all and of course he definitely doesn't mean actually East Africa as it actually I think it really stretches from...etc etc.... Just work out which party line you people are all going with because you're falling to pieces at the moment.

Ask 100 people to "calculate" an average, and at least 90% would do the "add them all up and divide by the number of things" calculation that is the common usage of average that we all learn at school. The other ten percent might ask the question about mode and median, but they'd just be showing off. "Average" is mean in British common parlance. It just is. And the AVERAGE command on Microsoft excel does the mean as well. Funnily enough. And, although no one knows the exact details of Bayern's structure, the news reports majored on the £104 figure. If there was a more newsworthy, and lower, number, which there would need to be to make the AVERAGE around £100, then don't you think that would have been in the news reports? So lets just agree that the average season ticket price is not £100, shall we?

You're not wrong. I'd say it's North Africa. And far better to scout out there than East Africa, which although certainly "thinking outside the box" might be a wee too much for a medium sized English football club to take on. SolentCitySaintsFC academy in Uganda anyone? Hmmm.

That managerial stability thing is the biggest myth in football. Pretty much every successful manager in every successful club is successful within a year (or a first full season). And that includes common poster boys for stability Moyes and Wenger, both successful very quickly. And all our successful managers since the eighties have been instant successes: Ball, Hoddle, Jones, Strachan, Pardew, Adkins. Instant success works, so you can see why chairmen chop and change. If the team aint working after a year or so, twisting is just as good as sticking. Thankfully for us is it is working, so no need to do anything except support our Nige.

Was it balls. Actually it was Frank's Cousin's original idea, but he had it as a 4,000 word badly spelt ramble. I turned it into a handy seven letter acronym.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/products.php?term=HCDAJFU&defid=2684427 Get your HCDAJFU mousemats here. Nothing to do with me BTW.

You've forced me into it. I have said this a couple of times before. I invented HCDAJFU. So there. I was the first person to use it, and I did the first HCDAJFU mega thread, it was a bit different to how it is now. And I think it was six years ago this month just after I got made redundant and had far too much time on hands. I don't expect anyone to care. But I am having it on my tombstone.

In what way is it a wind up and in what way is it stupid to make the almost embarrassingly obvious point that Adkins would leave us for Liverpool. You do realise Nigel left another club to join us don't you? We didn't pluck him out of the Northam and give him a contract.

You've heard what I have. Don't let them get to you.

You've never got the better of me, especially when you're wan king over fantasy catchment areas. Anyway. Bored.

Sounds about right to me. To be honest "serious debating" with you and your div mates is not something I plan to do any time soon. Forest was obviously a gag. Villa wasn't. MLG is, of course, a joke.

MLG mainly.

You are a moron.

Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea Everton, Man City and United, Villa, Newcastle and Nottingham Forest.

Massive catchment area.

Only a £20m difference between Wolves and Man United. I know lots on here think that Financial Fair Play is going to even things up but I am not so sure. If big clubs can only spend what they earn, then they will look to find ways to earn more. Big clubs pushing back on the current relative "fairness" in the TV deal will be the one way they will be able to realise their worth ahead of the smaller clubs.

I bring plenty of sensible thought to most debates I partake in. But I am a pi s staker and will continue to do so. Cyber bullying it aint and you can see my chums Frank and Wes, MLG and aintforever are happy to dish it back. I was called a mong tonight on this very thread. Who cares. And My pi sstaking will not stop FC writing another epic tomorrow. And don't worry I am a very happy Saints fan. Certainly don't need to ruin it by mooning over the Champions League. Anyway, is this thread over yet?

Why on earth do you post on here if you don't enjoy it? You're on here more than I am. If its a sense of duty then I think you're wasting your time.