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There is no way the PL would give PFC any money early unless they had some sort of control ie. Lampit. I also think the reason they have escaped any punishment is because they are still in a position where the ruskies can turn the whole place into a big car park.

Are you really that naive? Of course Fry was going to come out with that sort of stuff, how else would he get people to throw their tenners in a bucket or in Leon Crouch's case probably tens of thousands. He let Pinnacle d!ck about because he knew there were other buyers willing to jump in - it was a no lose gamble. If SFC was liquidated when people of the calibre of Leibherr were interested then Fry would have looked like a complete muppet.

There is no way in a million years we would have been liquidated.

How do you work this one out? - give specific examples.

You can easily draw a line, one could be: people with parts of St Marys named after them can buy some tickets for their friends. If Richard Dryden had phoned up and wanted 8 tickets for his mates the club would have made another £240 odd, so yes, it would make sense to let him have tickets.

Why is everyone banging on about freebies? I don't remember Mat le tiss ever saying he expects freebies. The Man U game last year he just wanted the chance to BUY tickets for his mates. That's arguably the club's greatest and loyalist player, wanting to spend his hard earned money on some tickets and told he wasn't allowed.

We should have stumped up the cash for CMS.

Wenger can **** off, I can't wait til they fail to qualify for the Champs League and their scummy club starts falling apart.

I don't think there is one person on here who is not happy with the club at the moment. I am over the moon with the team and the way it is being run. It is possible to criticise Cortese on certain issues and still be very happy, problem is some people are scared of expressing an honest opinion in case they upset a few happy clappy mongs.

It didn't even sell out.

League tables don't mean a great deal at this stage IMO. Burnley are a decent side, a point isn't a bad result.

He won't win anything at Arsenal, better of moving to one of the Champions League contenders.

Nicely put. Cortese says no one is bigger than the club, but his ego is obviously is.

Decent result, we can't win every week.

Exactly, whenever I have gone in the corporate section one of the highlights is listening to anecdotes from the old pros and their views on the game. Plus people like Le Tiss and Lawrie Mac are always in the media and have contacts throughout the game - how does alienating them benefit SFC in any way at all?

I actually think it would make commercial sense to let Channon, Rodrigues or Neimi have the occasional freebie, they might even be able to shift a few of those empty corporate seats if there were a few interesting people mincing about upstairs.

or for someone paid to comment on football he was just doing his job. If you remember rightly Le Tiss just wanted to BUY some tickets for the Man U game for his friends and was refused.

Agree with every word.

So you admit we might come 4th, thank you, at least we both agree CL qualification is possible. If there is one thing the PL has shown us is that things can change, Chelsea's Russian and City's arab could walk away next season leaving them screwed. UEFA might bring in new rules re: wages/turnover/foreign players etc. You never know what is around the corner.

They still qualified though, and according to some people you have to spend £200 million to do that.

Why is it possible for Everton to reach the CL and not us?

Good interview, love his ambition and ruthless streak. Just needs to get over his problem with the legends (Matt le tiss wasn't even allowed to BUY a few extra tickets last year). Looks like he's learning about using the media though so that is encouraging signs.

Hope this is not true, would be sh!t having to get the bingo bus. Half the fun is getting p!ssed up in town and catching the football special, which usually resembles one of the Aushwitz trains. Anyway, the trouble at this fixture traditionally involves the local skate street urchins smashing up their own neighborhood and fighting with Police - I don't see how forcing Saints fans onto coaches is going to stop that.

The opening post said staying up would be our only realistic aim, I was the one pointing out that European football would be the aim.

I don't for one moment think we will do a Man City or Chelsea, but you don't need to spend billions aim for Europe, as Stoke and Fulham have proved. With a well run club and modest investment we could be knocking on the Europa door EASILY. The lack of ambition in some Saints fans is astounding. THank god we have someone like COrtese running the club instead of some hobbit like Sotonian.