CB Fry

Well, I am debating the cost of the infrastructure development, because it would cost a lot of money. You don't need to be a "master" of ecomics to understand that. And what any sensible business does not do is establish the need by spending a load of money on infrastructure and hoping.

Sensible comment alert. Unfortunately you will be set upon by simpletons who have decided that anyone saying anything they don't agree with must upload their CV and have it compared to a millionaire.

Folk don't have the spare cash at £40+ a ticket and there are empty seats, so lets spend lots more money on new seats and charge less for them. Yes Frank, that is, without doubt, simple economics. Christ almighty.

Of course people have loyalty to a football club, that's why price hikes work, and running it like a discount airline would be ridiculous. And of course, how silly of me. He's waiting until we get to the biggest league in the world, and waiting until we've spent £xx million on a gigantic capital expenditure project and then he'll start devaluing the product. Of course he will. My qualifications is I understand supply and demand better than most of you divs on here, including you. You seem to think you are channelling Nicola Cortese's thoughts butyou have absolutely no idea he is planning reducing ticket prices to attract the kids on any kind of regular basis or that he looks at the club like a BMIBaby. Don't ever forget that you are speculating just as much as me sunshine.

That's funny, when have I ever said anyhthing about St Mary's being too big, "my logic" is not being applied in your stupid example. There are still people on here that say we should have moved to Stoneham (25k) and there was an absolute torrent of people saying that after we were relegated and they watched Pompey storm up the league with no infrastructure whatsoever - plenty then were saying our ground was too big for us then. Increasing the £ per seat in the Premier League on zero revenue is a far, far, far, far lower risk than spunking god knows how much on capital expenditure on infrastructure that we may or may not need. All the "risk" is in your suggestions, not mine. And managed, controlled supply is not "not very common" but it is very, very common. Most businesses I know do not go out to sell as much of their thing as is humanly possible. They go out to sell what they can make in the most profitable way possible. Apple could easily sell three times more ipads than they do now. But it almost certainly wouldn't make them more money. Controlled supply is a business principle in pretty much every walk of life from packets of crisps to Range Rovers. Why don't we have a 100,000 capacity stadium on £2 a seat? We can all make dopey extrapolations.

Tell your mate.

No it isn't. It's a way, but it is a freaking mental way. A more efficient way to do it is to see how many season tickets we can sell - is it 20,000 - not sure we have ever done that. Is it 24,000, which would be a really good indication of a maxed out stadium. Can we do that two seasons in a row. This may then tell us what our base level of support is. Another way is to put £5 on the ticket price. Then another £5. Then another £5. Lots of lovely cash to reinvest, and if we have this massive demand for tickets, no problem because all these fans just north of Basingstoke desperate to see us play Bolton on a Monday night will be ripping each others throats out for a ticket. Building additional seating as some kind of test to see how many fans we can fit in really really is mental beyond belief.

None of us really know what is being planned. Comparing a football club to a discount airline or hotel group really is nuts, unless the headcount costs of Easyjet is running at 93% of turnover. Those business are run as close to the bone as is humanly possible, a business model that is as far removed from a football club as you can possibly get. Being that we have been running massively under capacity this season, how come the club did so little to attract these little kiddie-winkie future supporters this season? We had 6,000 odd seats to play with for the last eight months or so to do just that. Why do we have to build seats to get these loyal supporters of the future through the door when we could have been aiming for maxing out the stadium with them this season? Just asking. Nothing in anything Cortese has so far done has shown a particular desire to devalue his product to bring people in, so I doubt that kids for a quid or anything like it is particularly on his radar. And I can question Cortese if I like, just like people on here question Adkins, or players, or previous managers, or polititians or anything. It's an internet message board, I'm dishing out opinions as creatively as I can to wind people like you up. So point and laugh, at you, I will.

Chill out. It's in the bag.

Fine. Just don't talk about it as 'competing' then. Massive stadium with loads of cheap tickets plus a construction bill to pay on top is not going to help us compete.

You're wasting your time my son. These people won't listen.Scarcity is one of reasons we'll sell lots of tickets for Bolton or whoever next season. The geniuses blathering on about 40k+ will tell you in all seriousness that we will fill it with slashing ticket prices and doing kids for a quid. When faced with spectacular logic like this, spending vast sums to drive over supply and value per seat DOWN, the only sensible thing to do is point and laugh. It's just nuts.

Signed one on Jan I think. Wouldn't rule out him going in summer.

I'd be amazed. Precisely the type of person we don't need and won't sign. Hungry and young not expensive and bloated. Defoe can go to Stoke, Villa or Sunderland. Or QPR if they stay up.

That will because they got promoted last night. If it was us, it would have been us being "bigged up". Next season is going to be agony. Agony from the "Media are against us" gang. Agony. "We beat Man City 1-0 and all anyone wants to talk about is how badly they played and no one is giving us any credit and its a media conspiracy and we may as well not be playing and we don't get any credit and four minutes on match of the day and and and..."

Chill out. It's in the bag.

We don't want to sign a striker to replace Barnard. We want to sign a striker that will challenge Lambert for a starting place. Hooper may fit the bill - I'm aware he is not the same typd of player but not the point. Point is to buy better, not buy reserves.

I did think shouting "whoooo" at the old guy was funny and to be fair he gave our end a wave so fair play to him. But whoo at cuurent subs is just pointless and embarrassing. Wotsit mildly amusing first time but no need for duration of entire second half. We're top of the league when we weren't was utterly spasticated.

Not sure how "no chance in the play offs" equate to Alps saying they will definitely get to Wembley because they will definitely beat us. Isn't that quite a good chance in the play offs? In your head they've got a bye to Wembley?

How about all three teams draw on Tuesday. That's my prediction that I have pulled out of the air. We then draw again on Saturday. And then beat Coventry to seal promotion, probably in second. Worth remembering that West Ham really need to win three more in a row (which would make it four in a row in total) to catch us*. Forget the six nil against Brighton, it's gone. They've still got a hell of a lot more to do than we have. We have a margin for error and they don't. We can stumble over the line and still go up. West Ham have to be on fire for the rest of the season. *I am asssuming that we won't just collapse and lose three in a row like some on here think.

Get behind the scapegoats FFS.

And as the rest of us has said many times before no it wasn't. The target this season was and is promotion. Good thread so don't ruin it. Promotion would be an adventure but I am not looking forward to randoms in the office having a opinion on my team because we are on MOTD.

Rather have pollyanna Adkins than Eyore Burley who with a title winning budget talked the entire club down to sixth place being the promised land. Get behind Pollyanna FFS.

Oh that. Thought you were referring to a quote about points and WHU. I stand by that all day long. Apologies for being confident. It's got tighter but still three points clear, which is still a lot.

This thread is up there with the birth of daughter. Thanks for being part of it.

Is it? Do show.