SaintBobby

MLG has been v quiet recently. Just saying.....

The Channon suite is a total fiasco too. Absolute amateur hour. Almost "so bad, it's good"

Laughable fiasco. Just mental that the club went down this route.

this....

this is wonderful. Just wonderful. Draw out the agony.....

Obviously we should aim to get something out of each game. But that doesn't mean 32-33 points will be insufficient. If we go into our last game with 30 points, I still think we have a chance of staying up.

I think it will be about 32-33 points to stay up.

This is beyond mad. We are 4th from bottom after 7 games. Why panic?

Way too much panic on here. After a very tough start, we're out of the relegation zone. 17th or above this season would be amazing. We got into this league two years ahead of schedule.

Who has ever spoken about the "miracle" of January 2013? In my view, we were always about 50-50 to be relegated this season. And I stand by that. It's odd that people think relegation would be a complete and utter failure. I think staying up would be an amazing success.

Do you have the stats anywhere? Genuine question. I haven't seen any evidence at all to suggest we get more training injuries than other clubs. Have you?

I'm now in the Nigal out brigade, as well. Sack Atkins as well while you're at it.

Genius. Pure comedy gold. ***t.

Very, very weird indeed. I'm just trying to work out what possessed anyone at the club to think changing our programme sellers was any sort of priority at all. It's stuff like this that inclines me to feel that there is a certain deep steak of "mentalness" in the Cortese administration, despite the many triumphs and upsides.

I think there's a strong case for looking into whether we can pick up a new centre back and full back on a free. Pretty dreadful game between two very mediocre teams. On the upside, at least it's obvious where our weaknesses are. November looks like a huge month.

I guess one consideration is how much extra money we make out of each attendee. If the average ticket price in a larger stadium is lower, but we have an extra 10K people drinking/eating/buying stuff, that helps. There's also the issue of whether bigger crowds help the team on the pitch. I assume home advantage is greater with 40,000 people paying £30 each than with 4,000 paying £400 each (although revenue is higher in the second case). It's all moot at the moment there as SMS seems almost exactly the right size and the club seem to have got the pricing just about right. Just a few tweaks needed.

Very good results all in all. I'm starting to think Norwich, Reading and QPR are favourites for the drop. Table will look much. much better if we can grab 3 points tomorrow.

The screw up in corporate and players seats in block 5 must be costing us 500 seats a game. The club's marketing seems deeply crap too. The only posters in town are from Barclays welcoming us back to the Prem. Our early results have been on the poor side. Seems to me that 32K is about the right capacity for us. But it wouldn't take an enormous amount (an upturn in form or staying in the Premier League for a season) for demand to increase quite measurably. Of course, demand has to increase massively before any stadium expansion should be considered.

I understand the tax dodge is that loans can be written off in some tax deductible way and donations to a club can't be.

I'm a little reassured by what I've heard this evening. This isn't any ITK knowledge at all. But I am told this would be a be highly tax efficient way of injecting cash into the club (considerably more tax efficient that the Liebherrs writing a cheque for the same amount, by way of hypothetical example....)

I'm glad there are no programme sellers anymore. Gone are the days when I had to pay the parking fee in order to run over to the stand to buy my programme. I thank Nicola for stripping away this temptation from me. Top stuff.

Hopefully, if we do sell more than 30,000 seats we might be able to afford to restart the building work at the training ground? If we get to 31,000, maybe the club will have the money to employ an architect to put some drawings together that we can all mutually w@nk over. I'm sure you'll all with me on this one. Unless you have a tiny, Dell-sized penis.

So far, I'm pretty untroubled by this. (although it may indicate that the Liebherrs aren't writing blank cheques). A simple explanation would be: 1. In order to have a fighting chance to stay in the Prem, the club judged it needed to spend £30m on players. This is an upfront cost, the potential benefit of which is spread over four or five years. 2. If we stay up, no problems. We pay off the loan and keep getting huge premiership TV wonga. 3. If we get relegated, we sell off players to payback the loan. So, Ramirez gets sold for, say, £12m+. Lallana for £8m-ish and we rebuild from the Championship.

You are aware that housing benefit isn't just for the unemployed, right? It's mainly claimed by those in work. The key thing is to taper benefits, not guillotine them. (e.g. for every £1 you earn, you lose, say, £50p in benefits, not £1.20!) The government is taking some tentative steps in this direction, but not sufficient steps.

There is a problem here, but it's not property being owned by private landlords. It's the antiquated and absurd planning system. Only 10% of this country is developed and only 5% under concrete. Getting something built is harder than anywhere else in the developed world. We therefore have a ludicrously limited housing stock, which pushes property and rental prices up to obscene levels.