Matthew Le God

It doesn't say it won't be, just said they haven't planned for it to be atm.

I haven't had my file back to work on so very little will have changed. David Connolly will be as the Sunderland researcher left him. I will make changes during January when I get the Saints file back.

Was a typo, I mean NDA.

I couldn't tell you either way as I signed a NDA. Try suggesting it on the forums and see if you get any support for the idea. Will be another one in February after transfer window.

Well your argument also falls flat on its face as you don't know the ins and outs of what happened and are all based on assumptions on your part.

It was done by Solent Uni students possibly as part of their media course. Fair play to them for offering their time and giving a service that possibly if they didn't volunteer we wouldn't get. However I don't think long term a career in this field is a path they should be following.

Why is it different?

No. This isn't as indepth data wise as the one after the January window. If Saints spend alot in January I will have a good case to put forward that he should be foreground(along with the new training buildings).

Of course you can't ban a child of that age running onto the pitch. However I think it would be perfectly acceptable to ban the parents/guardians of that child from the stadium for a period of time. People are fined/jailed for not getting children to school, so a ban for them not controlling their children to enter the field of play(a criminal offense) during a game is reasonable and fits the crime.

Those that are laughing this off answer this question... What if the stewards ignored him on Tuesday and a different youth or number of youths take his lead and ran onto the pitch whilst the game was happening against Exeter and stopped Saints scoring because the ref halted play? Would you laugh it off then? Remember on Tuesday the game wasn't over at the point he ran on. A few penalties were still to be taken. So he clearly wasn't celebrating a Saints win, because they hadn't at that point.

Have you forgotten he didn't run on the pitch out of joy at Saints winning? The penalty shoot out was still in progress.

So you are in favour of children repeatedly invading the pitch whilst the game is not finished?

Already happened in other threads before this one.

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No chance They have massive problems financially, close to relegation zone and Pardew knows he is potentially onto a winner to rebuild his reputation at Saints with Liebherr's backing.

So if the pitch gets invaded for every game at St Mary's from now until the end of season whilst the game is still going on, by large numbers of young children you'd be happy with that? Not cracking down on offenders(in this case the parents) sets a very bad precedent.

Yes, I'm pretty sure that was included on the 10.1.1 patch which is also in 10.2

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Yep, but most are leaving and not doing what you do. Also whilst leaving they obstruct the view of those that stay(yourself included).

If they had the potential to draw big crowds then this would be reflcted in attendances they get in the League below the Premiership. This is clearly not the case as they get 10k. If they really did have the potential to get big Prem crowds of 46k then they would be getting 25k at least whilst in the Championship rather than 10k.

I agree the plastic Plymouth fans would turn up but to jump from 10k to 46k is a huge leap! Are there really 36k non regulars that would turn up week in week out to a bottom half Premiership team if they ever make it? A leap from the 10k to 27k is much more realistic and even then on the high side.

Where are Bolton, Wigan, Blackburn, Hulls, Pompey etc plastic fans? They are all in the Premiership with gates in the low 20k's. Why would Plymouth be any different?

Hull is twice the size of Plymouth and they get 22k in the Prem. City size means nothing. 46k makes Home Park the 5th biggest ground in the Prem!!!

StuRomseySaint watches 30 minutes of football sometimes. Considering the ball is only in play for just over 50% of play according to research he only watches 15 minutes of football whilst paying for 90 minutes. I know you are free to do what you want but thats insane and you may aswell stay at home if 15 minutes of football is all you get!

Saints averaged over 30k for each season in the Premiership at St Mary's. 2004-05: 30,610 (The FA Premier League) 2003-04: 31,699 (The FA Premier League) 2002-03: 30,680 (The FA Premier League) 2001-02: 30,633 (The FA Premier League) That was Saints in the Premiership without large investment in players. If Mr Liebherr gets us there I predict if we had a 46k stadium we'd get close to max for all the "big" teams". For all the other teams between 34k- 38k if doing well. Saints in the Championship had far larger attendances than Argyle. Saints in League One have larger attendances than Argyle.