CB Fry

The chances of me doing that are about the same as me pushing a kebab skewer up my Jap's eye. So for you people that have done it, are the unavailable seats marked as "sold" or just "unavailable". Perfectly possible that the club aren't just selling every single block if they don't need to. If someone at the ticket office is saying 17,000 that might be a better guide than people totting things up on a ticket website designed to sell tickets, not track ticket sales.

No they didn't need to wait until Monday. Nice try.... SD was not just an announcement. It was a photoshoot and full quoted interview. i.e. the signing confirmed hours before and could have been announced earlier, with the lovely photoshoot following later. Anyway, not that important.

What a great thread. Brilliant stuff chaps. I vote number one. Like the rough and readyness.

Davis was announced at nine at night. That is not normal.

Probably the usual late night announcement designed entirely to f u ck the Echo off. Pointless pettyness.

Not really. They'll investigate the players involved not the clubs. What political advantage is there for FIFA in any punishment that would impact the Southampton football club of today?

How lovely. What are you telling me for? At no point have I said Saints have done anything wrong in this transfer.

Fair enough. I'd Punch was a calculated gamble. I am not sure this is a character issue..just a complicated money and family (if rumour is true) one. Doesn't make this kid a bad pro.

This is the same Alan Pardew that made it his business to bomb out the overpaid old guard at Newcastle, replace them with cheaper, younger replacements with the right attitude and got them to fifth. Pardew talked a lot about character when he was at Saints too. No one is ever going to get every single signing right and Puncheon is a better player than, say, Forte even if Forte is an amazing character.

...unfortunately thats the point. R1 have a specific remit to cater for young people, not the 30pluses driving to work. Commercial stations get the hump because R1 is too popular with "their" market. The same thing is happening on R2 which is being pushed up the age range and getting slightly less "hip" than it was five years ago. So its pressure from commercial radio and their woeful offerings that are pushing for this I'm afraid.

Probably the best way with the current avg age so much higher than target. A tenfold increase in the number of five year olds listening probably less effective strategy.

Absolutely. I've always said STs and specifically a waiting list for them are the key indicator for expansion. But this really upsets some forum users who then go off on one about nonsense like flexible pricing, catchment areas, selling loads of tickets to nuetral non saints fans, Chelsea in 1984, climbing everest and walking on the moon.

He called himself the saviour of Radio one within about three minutes of being on the station in his first spot on early breakfast (five am ish). Heard it when I was working as a drivers mate during the summer hols and remember thinking who is this guy? Haven't listened to R1 for about a decade or more though.

As I said previously. What we do is brilliant. We are the best at everything what with leading the market in "clearly stated policies". Maybe we should start a chant up about how brilliant our clearly stated policies are.

If you really need me, some schmuck on a forum to commit to a benchmark then yes, fine, that's mine. But not just once. Put it in your lever arch file about me. Anyway...so who is moving the goalposts now. Already weaving dopey theories why we might not sell 25,000. The way it is going I think we will get darn close to 25, but lets see.

Good point. Also we have MLG's lectures about not being able to definitively say whether X is bigger or smaller than Y because of information we don't have or information that might happen in the future that may or may not see or something about Goodison Park.

I wasn't intending to be sarcastic there. I think its just in my DNA...anyway we agree!

So 25,000 is not beating any of those numbers? Is 25,000 more or less than 22,000?

Well being that "doing something about it" involves significant logistical and capital commitment he's doing the right thing. On here I think we'll all pretty sure there are scenarios planned for expansion in the right time and the right way. Thats the only "doing something about it" he should be doing right now. Beating Lowe era levels (25,000 mark) would be a significant step on that journey though.

Or maybe not. It's a good story and they would have run it if it was any current or recent Prem club, esp as the activity happened when said club was in the Prem. Really not a vendetta against Saints.

Well my point was generally aimed at those on this thread suggesting Vitesse should adopt this 'Southampton Way". In reality Vitesse have done the right thing - it looks like they have agreed a fee to sell this player to us and that is what they have told their fans. I would expect Saints to do the same thing. Whether they would or not is debatable.

Hats off to Vitesse for taking the time to let their fans know exactly what is happening with one of their star players. I am sure their fans appreciate the honesty and the communication. I know we all support a far more progessive club and not being told anything at all is, like, so enlightened and foward thinking and really amazing. But maybe I'm stuck in the past and like a club trying to communicate with fans. Even if it is, like, sooo Eighties.

One post: not clogging up. HTH.

Not impressed with my twitter feed being clogged up with pointless tweets from a meaningless pre-pre-pre season friendly. Don't care.

As you say Mowlem a bit dopey. Saints got a good deal though and that additional money allowed us to purchase Rory Delap.