Saint_clark

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...

Bought him for £7million, we should be aiming for double that I reckon. £20million is unrealistic.

Well he's out of contract at the end of this season so if he performs well enough to command a decent fee he'll just be going anyway.

"Is it harsh if the crowd gives you a bad reception?". WTF are you on about, he's already come back and got applause when he came down to the Northam end Souness you sh*t stirring f*ck. He keeps saying he didn't put in a transfer request like that makes him look better - it actually doesn't. One of the reasons all of us were a bit more respectful towards him were because we thought he'd done things "the right way" by putting in an official request rather than trying to hold onto his loyalty bonus whilst asking to leave.

*So far. His first season with us fizzled out somewhat as well, lets see if the same happens here.

The fourth was straight at him.

3rd in the league with 14 games left under Koeman, I knew it was that late in the season.

Someone has to miss out...it was Clasie for the final, Hojberg for this game.

I think he may have been lucky, if you listen straight after the goal the ref gives three or four quick blasts on his whistle (I thought he'd disallowed it!) because the Watford players looked like they were about to rush the linesman to complain, so I think he was distracted keeping them in order.

Spurs at home, Arsenal in the FA cup...?

I'm not saying that's all it is, I was just making a comment mostly in reply to the post preceding mine.

I was at the Liverpool game and thought he was outstanding. When I watched it back after getting home I realised that our clean sheet that day was more down to Liverpools ineffectiveness up top than outstanding defending...

I guess Gabbis movement doesn't just create great opportunities for himself, but also creates more time and space for others to have even better chances on goal.

Shlong will still be an excellent alternative next season. Rodriguez, sadly, is done here though.

I agree, but that rarely actually happens.

Davis further forward in JWP position and Hojberg or Clasie in DM would see the midfield working even better IMO. Frustratingly the best side is probably with Davis dropped instead of JWP but we've backed ourselves into a situation where that "can't" happen now.