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Utter joke, if Swansea can't host switch the game to Cardiff. (not sure if serious but seriously peed off!)

Ouch:blush:

Epic fail:blush: It didn't make much sense when I wrote it cos I couldn't work out when AL would have been in a relegation slog! It also rather undermines the point that STs were put out cheap in terms of relegation, obvs what I meant to say was when we get the near the top of the champs but we are not guaranteed automatic we quickly get the tickets out at a decent price irrespective of whether we go up or not. Doh!

I remember going to WBA a few years ago, the game where Lallana came on and scored, when they and us were both deep in the PL mire with about 4 games to go. They were selling early bird season tickets for about £299 irrespective of which league the club ended up in the next year. If the club had any sense they would be putting them out now at a considerable discount - if we stay up the PL money covers any loss. You could argue that a lot of people will renew at full price anyway, but it looks like there are any number of people who won't - the club needs to find a way to keep it's core support if it goes down and without discounting now and locking people into another season it will surely be harder to get people back next year, at full or near full price, and once the big names have all drifted away.

Wouldn't have counted, Gabi was a yard off-side in the build-up.

The wonders of hindsight: tons of mentions for Brighton and Bournemouth, not very many for West Brom. As ever the bookies will be having the biggest and best holiday.

5m to keep Koeman or 20m for Carillo .....? Maybe the #SouthamptonWay took a wrong turn somewhere?

So basically if we had only given all the Ramirez/Osvaldo/Boufal/Carillo money to Dale Stephens we would still be better than Brighton and we would still be in the PL? Black box= dead fox.

Kind of the point. TBF the lad's done good to make himself into a PL player. He looked like an honest journeyman here, then went backwards to Charlton.

Gutting to see Brighton getting safe; how many of their players would get in our team? GK definitely, both CBs, both wide mids, maybe Glenn Murray over CA/SL, looks like Dale Stephens ex Oldham and Charlton could be the tie breaker - how much ££££s did we have on the bench on Saturday (approx 100m!). Oh dear.

Beyond caring. Kevin Friend has always batted for the big 6.

Maybe, if they use slightly smaller goals in the championship; otherwise probably not considering that the top corners, bottom corners, 6yd line and p spot are all in 'exactly' the same unreachable positions in the Championship as they were in the Prem. As an aside I'm surprised we haven't a thread for McCarthy who I think has been decent (only seen him on telly, not live). His stats don't look great but they're not going to playing behind our 'defence' and I can't think of many goals where he could have done more, he's certainly made more saves in half a season than Forster made in the preceeding season and a half. Interestingly one of the reasons many of the forum soccer nuts gave for staying with Forster so long was that McCarthy was incapable/unpickable at this level. Think he would be plenty good enough next season (hopefully with something a bit more solid in front of him).

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/11/fa-refinances-wembley-stadium-debt-consortium-banks-reinvestment-football Apologies, we are both half-right, it did indeed cost a fortune to build, around £800m by most estimates but according to the link attached it was refinanced in Oct 2015. The FA effectively have a large mortgage on it but their turnover covers the re-payments with plenty left over. Obviously this turn-over includes the prices they currently charge for their events (which include the 2 FA cup SFs). In theory they could charge less, but if they did it would be at the expense of their nominal 'profits', some of which are re-cycled to grass roots football etc. At the end of the day should the fans of the 4 cup semi-finalists be screwed silly money for their tickets? The fact that neither Man Utd nor Chelsea haven't yet sold 32k tickets shows that the pricing relative to the product is way off beam.

No chance, it cost an absolute fortune to build, think it pays back over 25 years or something like that.

My 3-3 is looking a good bet!

watch where the free kick is taken from

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squeaky bum time!

Brilliant half, same again and we can win this, but we can't sit back, Long and Tadic need to give it everything then go Austin and Redmond last 15 mins.

mike dean total ****#house he's going to cost us this game card count is a joke

Fair play to MH for backing Bednarek and playing the same team as last week. #non-tinkerman

GET IN, we've been fine so far

3-3? I reckon they will get 3, can we get 3? We were much improved last week, we need to take the chances when they come.

Is there an actual window for 'general sale'? I don't have a ST or a membership or games from this season but plenty of db history, ex ST holder etc. Will it actually get this far or is there a non-members-with-games-from-this-season window first?

I thought watching the Wigan game it would be his last game in a Saints' shirt; not seen anything since to disprove this. 20 million pound for Ali Dia v2.0.