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The fans are only saying what his common sense should have told him long ago.

Really doesn't matter. This wasn't a meeting between friends. He made his remarks in public. Crazy under the circumstances.

Still the funniest movie ever made. South Park: Bigger, Longer and U**** is next.

I'm not sure that the students of Hogwarts ever expressed a view on gay marriage. Deleted chapter?

I like the way people post that Jeff Stelling rant as a positive thing

Fear not, KelvinsRightGlove - I'd be one of these proto-w4nkers that this show is parodying. Watch Breaking Bad. And The Wire.

Don't worry Tokes; it lives on in my alternate reality Saints universe, the one where NA abuses Brian Laws ( Watford fans made that up! ) and Pinnacle have £450 million quid to put into the club. Apart from the obvious comedic gems, we're better off in this timeline.

Sorry, but completely agree with the club pulling out of the talks with MLT. Put it this way, if Sky TV had said to Matty "Hey Matt, we'd like a private chat in a few weeks time", do you think he'd have gone onto Twitter/journos banging on about it? Would he f**k. He'd have kept his mouth shut, because he knows what's good for him. So yeah, huge olive branch from the club following the repeated accusations from MLT. You'd have thought he could have kept it buttoned up pending the outcome of the talks, but no, let's spend the weeks before the meeting saying stuff that'll probably derail a positive outcome. I don't know the ins and outs of the Benali story. I can't quite believe that it's all over bathroom flooring, but that's an excellent story if true. Not really about choosing a favourite here. It's about asking the question who has appeared more reasonable. NC has the high ground at sea level. MLT just digging himself deeper.

Dunno if this has been posted before, but very funny given all the Breaking Bad and The Wire love around here.

Why? Because he ended up with a less p!ssy smelling bathroom?

If the fallout with Benali really is over bathroom flooring, that is hilarious.

It's probably one of the bravest shows I've ever seen in terms of the real world themes it was riffing on. The stuff that went down on New Caprica? Whoa.

Poppycock. The original BSG was devised to cash in on the newfound success of Star Wars. Alright for its time, but not even on a par with the new show.

New version kicks the old version's arse. I'm re watching it atm. Such an excellent show.

Most businesses share broadly similar aims, irrespective of what they actually do. 1) Increase profitability 2) Expand customer base Assuming that the board fancy achieving both of these, how do they go about it? Profitability could theoretically be increased either by hiking prices or lowering the quality of the experience. Both have risks. We're not filling the ground with prices as they are. A big part of that is down to existing pricing. There have been plenty of times where I've quite fancied going to a game but have had to jip it off due to unjustifiable costs. Some might argue that the expansion of the customer base is already happening by virtue of us being in the Premier League, and being presented across the world in the various EPL packages. That's true in terms of people watching us. I do wonder how much revenue our global exposure actually makes us, over and above the TV money we get from the Premier League. Is it just shirt sales and merchandise that we get once the TV revenue is in? Reading this thread, there are two conflicting opinions on what we should do. One of them makes no sense from a football perspective, or at least the perspective of certain Saints fans ( we'll never make 48K ). The other makes no sense from a business perspective ( we will never expand our premises because we'll never need to ). Now, a jump from 32K to 48K looks mental on current attendances, but in reality, it's another 16K more fans. If we're going to expand, then it makes sense to cover ourselves for the future as well. Like Frank's Cousin and suewhistle, I suspect there is a sweet spot to be found regarding pricing which would get a lot more people into the ground.

I've sent them to the club. They have been on Cortese's desk a couple of times. However, MLT, who is much against the proposed revamp, has foiled my designs at very turn. He climbs to the top of Albion Towers and takes long range free kicks at Cortese's office window. He is accurate enough to "pot" my proposals into the waste bin. It's not unlike snooker.

I didn't know that, but I assumed they'd be ripping it down and starting again anyway, with a wide pedestrian avenue called Southampton Way. At the end of the avenue, two giant Cortese statues high five to form an arch. It'll be magnificent.

Sigh. It's truly saddening to see someone parading as the Faceman fail on basic A Team nostalgia. It is Colonel Decker, not Becker. Becker was the Ted Danson show with the girl he nicked off DS9.

Like many on here, I do wonder whether a 58K stadium is remotely fillable. Once again. Half the city doesn't give a crap about footy. Only around half of what's left support Southampton, and we still don't get all of those to come. I think pricing really does matter. Three of us at Wigan cost £45, which I thought was excellent. Now you could argue that low ticket prices haven't helped Wigan to pack their ground, but they are such a special case it's unreal. Rugby League town, and full of scousers and mancs ( or their kids ) who retain their original allegiances. Put footy on a par with going to the cinema, and tons more people will go. That's really the apt comparison, as cinemas make most of their profits from the crap they sell, not the films they show. If I could take my family to footy for 50 quid every week, I'd probably go a lot more often. The other thing to consider is that the stadium doesn't necessarily have to be 58K all the time. There are already a couple of venues worldwide experimenting with adjustable capacities. Some use a curtaining system which visually brings the size of the stadium down. A football stadium would need to consider acoustics, but it is possible to have a 58K seater stadium that looks like a 30K one.

I am not "Team Relegation". I don't go to games and will our players to make defensive errors or score own goals. But if we do get relegated, no biggie for me as a fan, and I'm one of these wingnuts who wants to see us pushing for Europe.

None of that fan on the board stuff for Flower Roads United, Turks. Fan going to parole board possibly, but largely, it'll be a dictatorial arrangement where whomever has the most weed at any given time gets to be chairman.

Pick yourself up Tokes, you're a f**king disgrace. (still isn't getting old )

One of my longest ever posts on S4E was about this. At the time, said it wouldn't be that terrible, and that Premier League football was too often seen as the be-all and end-all. Well, I got to experience all of that first hand. It wasn't that bad, but I do wonder how terrible it could have been without the eventual buyout. Coming back up was excellent, but boy did we fall. That was not fun. It wouldn't be that bad, as long as the resources are there to get back.

I think I heard it on a worthy northern drama somewhere. I had pretty much the same reaction, before adopting it for occasional use.