The Kraken

I've only been emailed it, but apparently this picture is part of it all? As I say, I've only been emailed it so I don't know what context its in, but it obviously looks like a design to increase capacity of St. Mary's by working on all three ends to some degree. Glad they've published this, I've always thought that the club must have at least put together some designs of future expansion plans. I guess we'll see if this leads to a formal planning application!

BT's contract doesn't begin until season 2013-14, so no.

I'd imagine the person who owns the ticket might be; being as you're displaying the name, membership number and customer number Send a message to the mods and get it taken down FFS

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If his new wages have only been activated on Premier League promotion then its not quite the same as choosing to take a big pay cut from a salary you've been on for a while. I imagine he will have been told by the club that he won't be in the 25 man squad (and maybe even that we won't look to loan him out unless a club pays 100% of his wages), and therefore he won't feature at all. So he has a choice; either accept a deal from another club on lower wages (and a lot lower than his new found wealth), or take the cash and play for the development squad.

Andy Johnson also scored 8 goals from 12 games in the Europa League. A total of 11 goals from 26 starts (1 in the FA Cup) is a decent return. I also prefer JRod to AJ, but that's why we paid an extra £6M on the transfer fee. And I sincerely hope we sign someone like Nelsen. I think we genuinely need an older head at the back; someone like Jaidi when he came in. Its great that we look to invest in youth but we've got a pretty young side, hardly any Premier League experience, and i think we need a wise head like that at least in the squad. I don't know why he played so little for Spurs, whether it was injury or manager's choice. But if he is fit then he'll be fairly fresh and if only for one year I think will add a great deal to the QPR squad.

If a member of the royal family is the head of a particular arm of the miltary, whether as an honorary title or not, I can't see why so many people are getting their knickers into such a twist about the idea of them actually wearing the uniform. Especially when those in the military (i.e. those who it should in theory be offended the most) are actually very supportive of it. Weird. It seems like some people just like to try and act offended on behalf of others.

Nelsen and AJ are two very good, if short term, signings IMO. A wise old head at the back (still only 34), and proven PL goal scorer up front. They won't win any titles with those two but its an excellent introduction of quality and experience in the spine of the team, and anh youngsters in team or coming in will learn a lot from them. I certainly wouldn't have minded signing either of them.

They've also just signed Andrew Johnson. Both decent (if short term) signings IMO.

Ah ok, if you're instead saying "as much" then fair enough. Your original statement stated that hardly any other clubs are spending on infrastructure, which is clearly not true. Man City with their huge project, Spurs £45M training ground, Arsenal's improvements to London Colney, Chelsea's new stadium search, Reading & Wolves investments in stadium and academy, Brighton increasing their ground further, Cardiff's new owners plans to improve infrastructure, West Ham with the Olympic Stadium, and that's just the ones I can recall right now. It's great though that we're improving in the right areas, mind.

That's not really what you claimed though, was it.

A few media outlets reported on it, this was the first result froma quick google searc. http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2012/01/19/wolves-to-stall-molineux-stadium-revamp/ "But construction has been stalled to plough funds into ensuring the club’s new football academy at Compton Park is up to the top Premier League standard. That £6 million development work will also include a new training ground."

Wolves have just completed phase 1 of their stadium expansion. They've put on hold plans for phase 2 right now; partly because of relegation, partly because they're diverting some of the funding towards development of their academy. Reading, agreed. They've had a massive boom on season ticket sales but I imagine once the novelty starts to wear off they'd often struggle to get close to regularly filling a stadium of the size they're considering.

Colonel Sanders was an honorary colonel.

Yes, I know that, but thanks for the irrelevant comment. I was stating that I was suprised it was announced as lower than the 15K figure being talked about.

How does it show we're one of only a handful of clubs spending cash?

A bit surprised about the season ticket level; the document states "more than 14,000". I thought the figure previously being talked about was 15,000 or more.

Man City Chelsea Man United - - Norwich Wigan Reading Saints 17th.

Their club is seriously f*cked, I'd suggest. Players won't leave until they are paid what they are owed. Birch has said they will pay what they owe in staged payments over a number of years. Birch claims some of the players will attract a transfer fee. Birch has also let it be known that the wage defferals mean that players can give 14 days notice and walk away from their contracts if another club comes in for them. So; no immediate rush for players to leave (they're still getting paid plus topping up their defferal pot). Hardly any movement of transfers right now; even if there was, what club with any business sense would add players to their wage bill when pre-season training doesn't start for another few weeks yet? And even then, with players available on a free, who is going to want to get anywhere near Dave Kitson's £19,000 per week (for 4 goals last season)? Or Kanu's thousands per week, for the privilege of not even being able to get through a training session! And we haven't even mentioned Super Tal yet, with his £2M wages for the year still required to be paid. One David Lampitt; there's only one David Lampitt....

Absolute nonsense. Even a struggling QPR with 10 men last season took a lead against Man City into injury time. Blackburn beat Man United last year. Man City lost to clubs including Sunderland, Everton and Swansea. Any team can beat any other team at some point. An no Premier League team goes into any game resigned to a defeat, genuinely believing they can't compete.

If you're saying we can't compete with some teams in this division during a one-off game then we shouldn't bother being here.

I'm less worried about whether Nigel Adkins is up to and more shocked and horrified that we've only signed one person so far, and we're already into late June. Its typical of this club that we don't have all of our signings wrapped up by July, like every single other club out there. Adkins is setting himself up for failure with that type of lazy, carefree approach.

I think West Ham under-performed last year. They were overwhelming favourites for the title and, akin to our time in League 1, were the one side that most teams in the division really revved up for. Also some of their players didn't consistently handle the pressure of being the side to beat. Despite having money problems they still seem determined to spend a fair bit; and despite the criticisms of him Allardyce will have them set up to be hard to beat, which is something we really need to learn very quickly, I have big fears that our style will be far too open against sides in this division, we too often looked a little bit leaky in defence last term and teams of a better quality will punish us for that.

I've seen a few slight variations on that Liverpool thrid kit mock-up. I absolutely hope that they bring it out, its an utter abomination!

My ex was a veggie and used to use that as an argument against my meat eating; that if I wasn't prepared to kill the meat I was eating then maybe I shouldn't be eating it in the first place. I thought it was an entirely redundant argument; should I have to be able to build a car in order to drive one? Should I be able to brew beer in order to be able to enjoy a pint? In any case, bacon sandwiches are awesome and one of the primary reasons I could never go veggie.