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Or something totally unexpected, a shot from a player unmarked on the edge of the box through a crowd of players so he's unsighted...

Nothing wrong with the freekick routine. Davis just forgot to f*cking go for it. Should have been a penalty as well. Joke.

Davis is ****ing ****e in DM, get him out of there for ****s sake.

Gabbiadini out for the season, fantastic. [emoji23]

Shocking from the linesman, shocking from Tadic.

Initially thought so, on second viewing other keepers would have just fallen on it...he just rather flapped at it.

Davis in DM does not and has never worked against all but the worst teams. He's too weak defensively and too far back for his decent attacking play to be effective.

Davis has been sh*te so far.

Why did Forster not come for that cross in? Ball high in the air in his 6 yard box ffs. Great, 1 down straight after that.

Redmond looks so good.

Ffs forster just kick it down the middle if you can't accurately kick to the touchline...

None of them have signed as many quality players as we have either. Anyway, I bet anyone our record transfer fee that Gabbiadini won't go this summer. That's not how we do things.

None of Palaces songs are original and that United song was nicked from their non-league counterparts, FC United. Fyi I actually did suggest that chant for us last season after hearing them chant it and long before Man United fans started, but all the people who moan about a lack of originality are sadly nowhere to be seen when you try to get a new chant going... Woolston Ferry is another example, gets sung every now and then in parts but you generally just get weird looks from people.

Jesus christ...

That song would have been loved by all if it had come out at a different time rather than just after a meek exit from the Europa. If we had gone through, everyone would be bang up for it.

No, because despite spending more on transfers than we receive we still made a profit overall. Incredible that after years of misinformed "we should be spending these big fees we receive FFS!" We get the proof that we HAVE been, and people spin it into a negative thing.

No, he won't. We spent all season moaning about our lack of depth, why on earth would we go back to that?

And Bertrand, Tadic, Romeu, Cedric...we spent more than we received because we bought more in than we sold to improve the squad. Look at our strength in depth under Poch just before our first "firesale" and look at it now, infinitely better.

Any sort of development is fantastic compared to a cement works and a disused gas tower. Never said I was drooling, just using a forum for discussion to discuss a topic raised by someone else, by using other examples instead of just sarcasm and condescension. Also, I have been to MK since the JPT, when we beat them 6-1 either last season or the season before. There's a lot more there now than back in 2010 - as I said, the development was completed late 2012.

Even if we look at MK more closely, it shows an improvement. Since the development alongside the stadium was completed in late 2012, their attendances have risen from an average of approx. 8600 to 10091 this season, at an increase of just under 1500. Our attendances this season are about 3.8 times that of MKs attendances in 2013, so by multiplying their increase by that 3.8 you could argue we might see an increase in attendance of roughly 5700 from developing the surrounding area. I think you could justify expansion on those numbers - bearing in mind playing in the top flight and potential European football might also push that further. Looking at returns, those 5700 seats sold at £30 each would raise £3.24million over the season. If the rumoured "3k per seat" thing is true, that means we would pay that off after 5-6 seasons.

I think you need to read posts more carefully, I brought up MK regarding the development of the area surrounding the stadium as something we should be looking to do.

I don't want a new stadium, the location of St Marys is fantastic. Expansion and development of the surrounding area is what we should be aiming at. Probably in reverse order, to be fair.

Good thing we'd be expanding in the Prem and not in League One then.

Oh well. Only Newcastle that affects isn't it? Although Old Trafford isn't technically pitch side, there is a small amount of home fans in front of the away section - wonder if that rule will be enforced for them.

The book Soccernomics has an excellent part on stadium expansion and proves the old adage "if you build it, they will come". If we expanded St Marys and were able to buy some of the surrounding land for development (think the area around Wembley, MK Dons stadium etc) we would absolutely draw more people in. Personally, I think it's worth adding another tier on top of the Kingsland/Northam just to shove the away fans up there and finally have the Northam just for Saints fans...