CB Fry

Okay to do that, but maybe don't interview/sound out/nearly give the job to several experienced candidates and go on national media with a very memorable quote in "this job is not for a novice" before buggering about for three weeks and then giving it to Connor. You can hardly fall back on the "all part of the plan" defence in that situation. The Wigley appointment was mental, but at least Lowe did it the day after he sacked Sturrock, so at least Wiggers knew he was the chairman's first choice, if not the fans.

Naaah. Fulham. QPR. Sunderland. IF we don't go up. (we will go up). Liverpool I think would aim higher. Anyone see Liverpool being in for Grant Holt? No. Thought not.

Just so you know for next season, the date and kick off times for the last day of the season are usually set in stone when the fixture list comes out. Of all the matches to plan your life around it is the easiest as every single fixture always kicks off at the same time.

Definitely no. I would be in the "maybe" camp if we had won the title but not now.

Yes, you're right. I'd forgotten that the as it stands table will give us a point for being nil nil. Happy days.

Eh? I very much doubt Nigel Pearson has any opinion on Nicola Cortese.

Kaspars Gorkss probably would have done a job for us. Oh well.

Actually called an ironic comment about the thread. Stop being such a div. (Just thought I'd keep the abuse levels up on this thread).

I think he was just making a general comment about this forum at its absolute best.

Amen brother. We're still going up. What's the point of a points cushion if you don't use it.

Sky will be showing a key match too. It depends who gets first choice.

Even a point would have pretty much ruled out the chance of WHU going into second at any point during next Saturday's game. Now, assuming they win on Monday (they may still blow it) they can go an early goal up next week and be second "as it stands". That, my friends, is hell on earth. But I think we'll still do it. We have the perfect opponents so really we should finish the job.

This would definitely offer flexibility to those people who couldn't otherwise afford to have a slash at the stadium. Those new people would all get to have a slash for free of course. Anyone who bothered to have a slash during the Exeter games in L1 we don't need to be flexible for of course. They'll be paying the full eight quid.

This "luxury" of having tickets that only hard up people can afford that Frank loves to talk about....I am still waiting to hear how you stop people that could afford to pay more from buying them? ie - how can this idea not devalue the entire stadium?

Really don't get this anology at all. The clubs aim is clearly NOT to sell "our product cheaper than our competitors can" and it never will be. If Cortese was trying to do anything like that then he would be doing all he can with the six, seven, eight thousand tickets he's had to play with all season. But he hasn't. He's maintained his price position at the expense of more through the gates (and all these burger sales that are being massively overplayed in the theories being banded about on here.) A football club is not a car factory or a supermarket. And football clubs, ours especially, are not going to invest in capital building projects just to turn our box office into the Easyjet of sport.

Don't need one . It's you and your chums who are projecting your own dreams of a wonderful world on flexible pricing on a man whose ACTIONS show him as someone who has no desire to devalue his product whatsoever.

The club are going to use it to bring in a swathe of flexible pricing plans to bring the masses in. After all who can forget the raft of flexible pricing initiatives the club have run in the last two seasons when we've only had between six and eight thousand empty seats to fill. Bringing in half season tickets was brilliant. And I rememember Cortese doing something special for the old folks earlier this season too. All those family special discounts to bring in the kids in this season - brilliant - I'm sure Frank and Wes can remember the precise details of what those offers were. And that way he made the Pompey game really accessible for everyone. I was worried he would just use it as a way to flog full price tickets for other less attractive games but he is far more flexible than that. So with all the activities that Nicola "Mr Fleixible" has put in in his time here to fill the thousands of seats each week I cannot wait to see how flexible he is going to be when we have ten thousand more. Those school kids are going to be so lucky. They're our future fans you know.

I am very calm, and even think two draws will do it. I think we may not win tomorrow - a rare 0-0 maybe - but I think WHU have gone. Even if they don't blow it on Monday, fine, we won't be denied against Coventry. The only thing I think probably has gone is the league title which I really don't think we can get now, I can't see Reading letting it go. But stranger things have happened.

Tell your mate Mr Watertight Wes that this is a forum for trivial musings. He's trying to cross examine my backside like he's Rumpole of the freaking Bailey. I don't think I am being sensitive - you're bawling into your beer about not being as clever as I am. Cheer up Frank, it just wasn't meant to be for you.

That's funny, because my alternative suggestion - keep pushing up the average price per seat to sweat value out of this phenomenal demand you all think we have - is not something you want to discuss mainly because of how it will push fans away. Although apparently now you say 99.99% fans are not worried about ticket price and that "it's not all about the price on the ticket". My alternative suggestion assumes just as much success on the pitch as yours, and also frees up cash to spend on players and the academy because we are not saddled with infrastructure we really don't need. Fulham, Stoke, Blackburn have all seen European football in recent years on the back of lowish gates and minimal stadium redevelopment. If I am a miserable fecker for wanting money spent on retaining young players and signing good pros to the squad rather than 10,000 dubious seats, then yes I am a miserable fecker. Pretty sure I support a football team not a property development portfolio. But hey, that's miserable old me.

My arguments aren't "watertight" on an internet discussion forum. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Didn't realise this was the formal planning application process. The club in its current guise can and will do what they like, whatever they do will prove me neither right or wrong. I am just dishing out my opinion on what I think are good or bad ideas and expressing some rationale for it. I'll keep dishing it out, and my god I'll do it funnier than you time and time and time again. You love me.

Well I don't enjoy myself reading the arse aching drivel you post on here. And you seem to want to chew the fat on a topic just so long as everyone agrees with you. Anyone that says - hang on, this really is a long, long, long way off and don't we need to hit some KPIs first - gets labelled as being a miserable sod. I didn't realise that wa nk ing off on an internet message board about having 46k capacity football stadium was the last word on "enjoying yourself". Utter fu cking plank.

I have to say I have no idea what you are getting at here. I am not here to defend how the club sold season tickets last season. It certainly doesn't in any way prove that season tickets aren't vitally important as revenue streams and as a guarantee of a base level of support. Next.

We're not Sunderland in 1995. More recently Sunderland blew our average attendance out of the water last time they were in the second tier. Sunderland historically have a history of far bigger attendances than we have ever had. We're not Sunderland in 1995 who were moving out of an old tired stadium to a new one. We're not Sunderland in 1995. We are not Sunderland in 1995. Season tickets are, aside from television revenues, the single most important revenue stream for any club. Being that TV revenues below the Prem are middling to poor, season ticket revenues are the single most important revenue stream for every club below the top tier. I don't care what you think about Sunderland in 1995, it's a pi ss weak response to a pretty universal truth in football. The fact you need to pick away at it shows how pathetic and petty you are.

First off - that comment is not a statement presented as fact. It's a comment proceeded with the word "I think". It's my opinion expressed on a message board. Everything I type on here is my opinion. So just to summarise your theory here - we need a bigger stadium so people that are too busy to have season tickets and go to games have the flexibility to not go to games. Season tickets, I am afraid, is the be all and end all. As much as the footings in the ground, they are base foundation of a stadium, a fan base, a balance sheet and a football club.