CB Fry

Correct. For example we are: filling the expensively assembled new ground with cut price 'flexible' tickets filling the new ground with thousands of people that aren't Saints fans at all just people that want to see a Premier League match filling the ground on the back of our gigantic catchment area stretching from Dover to Cornwall to Bristol and Guildford fill the ground with thousands of saints fans who previously have never even tried to get tickets but probably will with ten thousand more to choose from filling the ground with the wives and girlfriends that tagged along to our Wembley day out filling the ground because of Chelsea in 1983 or something filling the ground because they said man couldn't walk on the moon and the latest wheeze... filling the ground with people from Portsmouth, city of our hated rival. (this of course wouldn't happen in any other city in Britain). Just Southampton. So a pretty long list of speculation guesswork and wild assumption, neatly dressed up in a red and white 'I'm a super fan, me' scarf. And desperately trying to make anyone who disagrees with them as a anti-Saints pessimist. I honestly think it is only a about five people on here that beleive any of this horsesh it but you have to admire their perserverence. The rest of us? Hey, lets wait and see.

This kinda pi ss es on your previous ramblings about clubs geographically close together being unable to grow like MegaSolentSaints doesn't it? If you believe the above then the people of Derby will be buying red scarves by the truckload if Forest go up. Not such a barrier after all. Thanks for clearing that up.

So, whats that about mis-quoting... Jesus christ help us.

Its also pretty simple. These people will be accounted for in our forthcoming leap in gates back up to 31-32k. These people are not a reason for 8,9 or 10 thousand extra seats at significant cost.

...and our resident forum geniuses like to say that clubs in cities with other clubs close by don't have our potential because the fanbase is split. But for Saints turns out this isn't a problem after all because Portsmouth is a potential hotbed of Saints fans. Basically Saints are simply amazing and all the rules that the forum genuises apply to other clubs, other cities and other catchment areas don't apply to us.

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Hmmmm. Thanks for saying that. Hope your clueless chum Wes Tender is reading. It is of course bo ll ocks. We've had this apparent gigantic catchment for decades. All these "crammed together" clubs in the midlands though get perfectly comparable gates to us, often bigger. Our potential to grow gates is no bigger than Forest, Derby or Leicester, or Sheff Weds or whoever. The catchment area is just thickos scrawling red lines on a map of the south of England. Total, utter myth.

Oh shut up you dopey old tart. VFTT is a good sensible balanced poster whose opinions I read with interest. Happy to differ on definition of hardcore (I'd say it was go to matches come what may: 16-18,000 did precisely that after all) but really neither here or there. It's nothing like trying to educate a total spanner like you.

What are you grizzling about? I know at least four people who went to Wembley who had never been to, and will never go again, to a Saints match. Also, all I said earlier was that your sprawling list of people that used to go to SMS and then didnt but now might do again will be accounted for in our move from 25/6/7k gates to 32k gates. Those people are not a reason to spend millions on new seating. Saints v West Brom at 3pm in November 2015 is not a jolly day out in Wembley in the sun. You do understand don't you? Yes?

Disagree. Next time we're on hard times they'll be someone to blame be it chairman or manager. Its what happens when you're rubbish. People find a reason not to go. 18k hardcore. I'm not one of them by the way so no posturing here.

18,000 or so avg attendance in our champ relegation season, so your hardcore is a bit off. Didn't read the rest. Unquestionably tedious rambling around sixteen points of the debate with no actual point made. Am I right?

Two points. Ten games into the season I expect ten sell outs. Everyone does. Won't mean a great deal unless we have, prior to that, smashed our season ticket record. And this stuff about "my neighbour in dorset" is just irrelevent. Any club of similar size can easily say the same thing. I know someone from Oakham in Leicestershire: Villa ST holder. Long old trip. So what. All clubs have fans in a wider vicinity. What it isn't is a great unlocker for significant growth.

Yes, but aren't these people going to be accounted for in the upcoming leap from mid- late-20k gates and the 32k gates we're going to get next season? You're not seriously suggesting we need to spend millions on 6,7,10 thousand new seats entirely for random ex-Arsenal fans and day trippers?

We haven't been in the Premier League for the last two years. I'm surprised you didn't know this.

Also nice to see the old Easyjet pricing model banded about again. Absolutely stunning stuff. Anyone care to explain why Stelios Cortese hasn't bothered even trying it at all in the last two years with six to eight thousand spare seats to play with....?

Funny. No one has said Derby has a bigger catchment area than Saints. Just the simple fact that Saints do NOT have now, never have had, or never will have a "unique" catchment area which is what you and your self proclaimed "intelligent posters" like to claim. You also like to peddle uninformed guff about cities with two clubs or with clubs close by could never compete with Saints on attendances despite the fact a four year old could compare the gates of Forest or Wednesday and see they match or beat SolentCityMegaSaints over the years and the decades. Derby has been down the road from Forest for like, what, ten years or more, and amazingly never stopped Derby having comparable (sometimes better) gates than MegaCatchmentSaints. But feel free to make stuff up to cover up how pathetically wrong you are.

So we're back to being teeny tiny little Southampton again haven't we done well etc etc. That's a relief. I was getting a bit sick of the "we're bigger than Everton and how dare anyone say we can't be Champions league regulars" Glad that silliness is all done with. Anyway, on topic. Adkins I hope will get the chance to prove he is up to it but he might not get it unless he masterminds an upset or two in those big three ties. I think Cortese may not look past eight games. It won't be the fans on here that lose faith first.

Not really. Six million quid is a "significant chunk" of any small-medium Premier league clubs transfer budget. You don't need to know anything about Saints finances to say that. Just a lod of grizzling divs on this forum with a persecution complex about the evil media.

Nah. Leeds still bigger. Just like we've been bigger than Wigan the whole time.

Yes he does. MLG thinks we are a bigger club than both Everton and Leeds.

This quote alone is irrefutable evidence that you are an autistic fu ckjob.

There's more than two in the "Man climbed Everest" brigade and they all deserved to be mocked. A little, but often.

Well, I am superior.

Talksport peddling myth that Saggy took Spurs "from the brink of the Championship to the champions league". Errr, no. A couple of dodgy results and near bootom in August/September is NOT "on the brink of the championship". That Spurs team weren't ever going to be relegated.

There is no chance of him going to Spurs.