SaintBobby

That's a slightly weird argument. Man Utd is an outlier. Virtually any decent club in the world could probably sell 50,000 for a Man Utd game. It does not follow, of course, that virtually every club in the world needs a 50K stadium! Because that club may also face a long stretch in the lower divisions playing teams like Stevenage and Dagenham in the JPT on wet Tuesdays in a cold February.

The ticket systems may be awful. But it did look like about 29K to me. (from the mid of Itchen, it looked pretty full in Kingsland, Chapel and our slice of Northam)

Have to say, I'm a bit disappointed with 29K. If we have 23K season tickets and 1K away fans, that means the uptake from other members of the human race was pretty thin tbh. Reaffirms my gut view that a 32K stadium is almost exactly the right size for Saints. We'd need at least an extra 10K people to be desperate to get in every week to make expansion worthwhile.

I didn't think we were too bad, tbh. Utterly sh1te result, obviously. But a just about okay-ish performance. On another day, with the same balance of play we wld have won that 1-0 or 2-0. No need to panic (yet!) Agree with those asking (a) what are we doing with Jay Rodriguez and (b) how do we get some pace on the pitch?

Lol. What a screw up.

This thread is going well then. We should all be proud.

That ain't a great website is it? At least they translate the words "we're fu cked" into the mother tongue of the various crooks who have been in control. A nice touch, I thought.

Mark Littlewood @MarkJLittlewood3mI'm pretty sure Chanrai only interested cos 17K "packed the park". If it had only been 14k, he'd have given up. What do#pompey fans think?

Deal for Ramirez coallpses: http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11700/8009779/Saints-fail-to-secure-Ramirez

@BackPage Southampton have pulled out of a deal to sign Gaston Ramirez. #SaintsFC

So, we haven't signed Ramirez yet. Hey ho. Life goes on. My own view is he probably isn't worth £15m or whatever (slipping to £16m or £17m to "get it over the line") I still wonder if Turkish will be right about our overall outlay this window being less than £20m (was that the claim?). I think he'll probably be wrong, but let's see.

errr....probably not. Not utterly mad, but prob not.

not petty. I like the lad. But we aren't going to have threads on the main board about e.g. Theo Walcott's latest performance or publicity shot either, are we? Thank God.

He's not obviously there, is he? And ur mate has no iPhone. And I know someone who has been there since 5pm this evening and has seen f*** all.

One player who left. One player who we scored two goals against on Sunday. One player who we might sign if he was as good as Lallana. NOT Saints related anymore than a spherical piece of leather is Saints-related. Please don't start a thread again on the main board for several years. I'm starting to loathe the Premiership and X-box....

In my gut, I don't think this one is happening. We can't quite close the deal (understandably so) and both Bologna and Ramirez know they have very attractive options elsewhere. It's not like Saints are their one shot call in the Last Chance Saloon. Not attaching any blame here, btw. And also so hope I'm wrong.

Lol. Odd that block 33 is so unpopular :-) So, can we sell 2677 tickets in five days? Having sold about 30,000 so far? I reckon - sticking my neck out a mile here - probably "yes".

It will be a sellout (with exception of whatever empty seats are in the increasingly retracted Wigan end of the ground). Probably the least glamorous opening fixture imaginable, but we will get 30K - 31K. Better than many other Premiership clubs. Are you still also sticking to your view that we won't spend £20m+ on transfers this window, btw, Turkish?

All things being equal, the longer this thread goes on, the bleaker it looks basically, right?

Mark Littlewood @MarkJLittlewood4m@jezatron @HarryHaskettPFC a local lifeboat appeal to try & raise enough £ to pay Trevor Birch for 2 hrs of his time. Beyond parody. #pompey Who is this bloke?

Fair enough. I claim no expertise in this area. But I'd think the rich probably do buy their houses outright rather than over a period of 3, 5, 25 years or whatever. I accept that installments are the norm - but this smells to me like football living on tick. If the thinking is "we are spending our whole transfer budget for the next 3 years now, so let's spread the payments over 3 years" I get it though.

Can I just strike a note of concern here? Seems that this transfer looks like it will happen based on tweets/Italian articles above. But there are two possible sticking points. 1. The % owed to Penarol and how this is handled, but more worryingly: 2. Whether we pay in installments or cash up front. If we don't have the ability to pay upfront, I'm a tad concerned about our finances.

This anti-Guly stuff just perplexes me. He had a very good game with a very tough remit for first 55 minutes. He is a frustrating player on occasions, I guess, e.g. the semi-airshot. But I'd give him 8/10 for today's performance, I think.

Great performance. Still choked we didn't get a point or 3, but that's me being greedy. I thought Fonte was our MotM and truly superb - am I alone in this? (it's all a blur now)

The fact that he was infinitely wrong doesn't get you infinite pints. Sorry.