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Sacked Andy Oldknow, banned nick Illingsworth, started to create the culture where good, long term members of staff felt it impossible to work under. Next.

This is of course true, although I for one am glad they decided to speak out on here. Along with Franks cousin and his insistence that we should not accept mediocrity I'm grateful that they acted and posted about it otherwise who knows what state we might be in?

It'll be part of their easyjet pricing model. £15 gets you into the ground, £20 gets you Into the ground and one use of the bogs, £35 gets priority entry and to blow bubbles as well.

Don't forget everything east from Grimsby down, that is their catchment area. There must be thousands of people in kent, Sussex, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk looking for a premier league club to support!

But you're forgetting you can draw an imaginary line from Upton Park down to Brighton, and north round the m25, up the M11 across to the m69 exit at junctions 21 and then Up the m6, across the m62, down the M1 and across to the north Lincolnshire Coast , And there isn't a premier league club in that entire area so with that catchment area they'd be tens of thousands of fans wanting to watch premier league football at the Olympic stadium. Not forgetting they get crowds bigger than us now and are a crap team playing unattractive football. Just imagine if they were playing good football in a nice stadium!

Why we spend £30m expanding the stadium and then reduce the price to fill it?

Keep sucking those lemons the reflex kid.

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So what exactly do you think the owners will look at Adrian? Do you really think private owners will saddle themselves with £30m worth of debt to be worse off week in week out and eventually have to try and sell their assets with that debt on the hope That 2 year old Sebastian from Alresford and other a like him become a season ticket holders in 2036? The lovely ideology of money doesn't matter let's find the fans of 2030 by letting them in for nowt now doesn't really work in real life now does it, otherwise put 11+ tickets wouldn't be amongst the dearest in the country.

Quickly rectified by getting shot of the bad apple Contract release clause?

Okay I knew it's early days but the clueless new board seem to have defied the odds and despite being the biggest bunch of jokers since coco the clowns stag do they seem to have got it right in the transfer market, early days yes but the initial view is bang on, it's rare for there not to be a single mistake in the transfer market, even the flawless cortese got a few wrong, but so far despite being lamblasted by many on here they don't seem to have made single mistake in the transfer market.

Exactly, 3,000 empty seats. If anyone seriously thinks this was 3,000 individual seats all over the ground without any more than two together anywhere they are as mental as MLG. What we need to do is spend £30m to build 10,000 extra seats and sell every seat for £15. They would generate us £630k a a match and £30m of debt when 29,000 at £35 generates us £1.015m a match and no debt. Something about the German model, flexible pricing, FFP, and all that bol*ocks.

Officially 31,044 v man united in the 60s. Although I've been told there were other games where more were there but the official attendance was less.

So is it soon yet or not?

I see the 'we'd sell out if every game was £15' bridage are at it again already

It's absolutely incredible how many people trott out the '55,000 to wembley line' everytime this subject comes up. Millwall and Luton have both taken similar numbers in recent years so I guess they should expand too? Anyway, back to the subject, I'm pretty sure the club would have looked into all avenues for expansion, the German model, more tickets for away fans, easy jet type pricing, flexible pricing, man walking on the moon, Chelsea crowds in 1984 and all the other brilliant ideas that our genuses said was reason we need a bigger ground now now now and decided that after all, it wasn't soon yet. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?37346-St-Mary-s-What-we-might-expect-to-see-happen-(and-possibly-announced-soon)

Kind of feels a bit like your wife leaving you for their teenage crush then finding out they're stuck at home cleaning the house whilst their old/new piece is out partying with other mates, doing all the things she thought she'd be doing with him.

I'm not saying it didn't have it's moments, as I said night games could be electric and It's a hell of a lot better than st Mary's is. I loved the dell and everything about it but taking the nostalgia away most weeks it was pretty average with the only noise coming from the back of the Milton and east stand terrace

So were you a going 'down the Dell' or a going 'up the dell person'? I was the latter.

Now that was something special, I've never heard so many people come steaming back into the Milton saying 'I only went for a p*ss and missed the goal'

Personally always thought nostalgia has overstated the dells atmosphere. I started going regularly mid eighties and whilst night games could be something special in general it wasn't that loud at all. The main singing areas were a small group at the back of the Milton and the lower east. With the open terrace of the Milton the noise didn't really travel. In fact I remember an article in one of the paper fanzines from that time saying how poor the atmosphere had become. I expect oppostion players found it intimidating due to the fact the first row of fans were about 5 feet away and could hear every word shouted at them. It might have been different in the 70s but certainly from the 80s onwards apart from big games and some night games where the Dell could be a magical place the atmosphere wasn't like some make out.

You must be hating how things have turned out

Many saints fans were prepared to accept anything if they were told what they wanted to here and given a sniff of the champions league, even if it was only talk.

Sums it up though doesn't it? An angry little man who should be nicknamed the reflex kid the rate which your knees jerk. Just admit you lacked faith in the club to get things right and now you're dismissing our decent start as simply boring and only beating a few sh*t teams. Are you even a saints fan pal? BTW we ain't qualifying for the champions league this season and we weren't going to last season. Try not to kick the table when you read this princess xxx

Whatever happen we can be rest assured that Les 'the milkman' Reed will deliver everything that we need acting decisively with the minimum of fuss as usual.