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And both Middlesbrough and Fulham reached the UEFA cup final! Believe lads... if run properly we can dream!

Wasn't that a mock up from this very thread?

Obviously!

There must be an in joke i'm not aware of here. It's a saints player with a box for a head and stubble.... that's it. Can't say that Jos has ever reminded me of packaging before.

Sharper then your winklepickers, not bad.

Love these threads!! Congratulations mate!

Mongoose, you need a Mongoose.

Good luck to Doble, not good enough to make the breakthrough but more then good enough to carve out a league career.

They do however have an extremely large catchment area in the Italian region of Friuli. Nearly a million people or so. Also, while it may be capable of holding 41k it's restricted to a capacity of 31k.

Adam Lallana

Tadanari Lee, beautiful British name.

Winning the group, a pleasant surprise.......and.... Say what!?

I'm sure they stand by their choice!

Move away from merseyside.

Would agree with that. Also, I do enjoy the Keys and Gray show, mainly due to their contacts which allow for some genuinely interesting guests to be on there.

Yep, utterly agree with that.

See (at the risk of starting this type of discussion off again) I don't believe that a stadium expansion is required per sé. An improvement to the stadium facilities on the other hand would make a lot of sense.

Once he has 'calmed down' and regained his composure i'm sure he will be joining us.

Here we go: http://www.footballgroundguide.com/manchester_city/

And so it would seem from those drawings.

Not at all, within the tone of the DVD documentary (Rickie talking about the future etc) and the showing of the pictures directly after similar pcitures for the new confirmed and under construction academy and training facilities put these across as something that is certainly at least under consideration or a 'proposal' stage. What I feel would be 'bizare' is why they would have specifically released these images!? There was no need for it really.... unless they want to show just how serious we are being about further future development.

No, it's quite bizare, just a few pictures in the background during an interview with Rickie Lambert where he is dicussing the club's future ambition. No real further context is given.

Conclusions: 1. Based on the road layout, it's a revamped St Mary's not a totally new stadium 2. The new buildings would require the purchase of the Industrial Estate behind the Chapel Stand and Cemex moving out from the Riverside. 3. There is a question mark after 'Our Future...' these are just a taster, not a finished plan. 4. The quality of the drawings say to me that these have been done by a professional graphical designer. That the club has released them into the public domain indicates to me that at least investigation has been held into upgrading St Mary's (but then we know that's happened in the past anyway...)

Those proposals have been done by a professional graphic artist. Do not take the poor quality of the image against them, I photographed them from my tele.

There would need to be work doen around the ground to allow it, not least the purchase of the Industrial Estate behind the Chapel stand and Cemex plant on the river. Aiming for the stars hasn't done us any apparent harm so far though.