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You'd think it wouldn't be so difficult to understand wouldn't you.

I'm not really quite sure what you're banging on about now. Are we charging £12 or £25? Are we talking hypothetical or did you not read my post about how i think Saints and any sensible business would plan before spending tens of millions of pounds to make sure that wasn't money down the drain? I think you need to work out what you are on about and then come back with a comprehensible point, or if all else fails mention Germany again.

It would be, when the FC Saints of Southampton roars then i'll give you credit, until then stick to ringing up the echo and begging them to let you comment everytime they want a voice of the fans on a subject.

As much as you might not want to believe it Francis, the whole culture of football in England isn't going to change so Saints can fill a staidum that is too big for us. As for your enterpreurer nonsense, you've also got the opportunity to complete f*ck a club up by building a stadium far, far bigger than they ever want or need. Just ask Darlington fans.

there is your answer steve, set up SF Saints of Southampton. Que a power struggle between you, Richard Chorley, Perry McMillan and Keith Legg.

Not at all Frankie boy. I would suggest like most normal people would that they way to see if you can fill a bigger stadium is to see if demand regularly outstrips supply over a reasonable amount of time, by how much and then consider expanding the stadium to cope with that demand. What i would suggest would be idotic, would be to spend the tens of millions of pounds expanding the stadium, then reduce the ticket prices to create a demand. We dont need a 48k or 58k stadium now and probably never will, we aren't even regularly filing the one we have at the moment. i'm sure MLG will be soon to bore us to death as to how we have more fans than Everton, Chelseas crowds in the 80s and all his other nonsense he likes to spout and you will just continue to bang on about Germany to fill a stadium the size of which we dont we dont need. Yes we could fill 58k possibly if tickets were free every game and everyone between the ages of 4 and 84 left the stadium with a free house and car and cheque for 50k but that isn't every going to happen and neither is us building a 58k stadium and charging everyone a tenner to get in.

BEcause it's never going to happen. If Cortese was going to reduce the prices to sell ticket, why did hen't reduce the prices to sell the 6,000 we regularly had available in the championship, or the 10,000 there were in L1. Everyone keeps telling us what a great businessman he is and if this is the case then you dont have to be an ex banker to recognise that spending £50m expanding a stadium to then reduce ticket prices to a 1/3 of what they are now is not good business. No amount of typing and typing and typing and typing about what Bayern Munich do is going to change that.

Who cares what eastleigh get? You're clearly missing the point. It's a fan owned community club, it's a great idea and good to see some people have got the gumption to get off their arse and do something. They have over 3000 members and each of them owns a part of the club.

FCUM is a great idea and credit it where its due to those who have made it a success. They've done something about the issues they had with their own club.

So if no one owns football, then f*ck the dads with kids, they dont have a right to attend. Lets price as much as we can and only the people who can afford it will be welcome. And as Dell days says, if you think a premier league club are every going to reguarly charge £12 a match then you're seriously deluded. I cant remember it being less than £15 to get into Saints since the seats went in at the Dell in the mid ninties, nearly 20 years ago.

Apart from anything else what is the point of sending someone to prison for 28 days? It's ridiculous. Their football ban means they wont be allowed near a ground for 6 years. What was "the potential for disaster" the judge was on about? Yet again stupid and massively over the top sentances.

absolutely nuts.

He didn't do much wrong against Man United.

i know you're just filling in for MLG but you've got some way to go yet, you haven't even mentioned Chelseas crowds in 1984 yet for a start, nor the fact that Everton only have an average 7k higher than us despite being 5th and having a 40k stadium (this means we have more fans than them), or what Reading might be doing one day, or that we sold out in 2004 for a game against Bolton. Massive tsk.

The only stumbling block i can see to this, other than the ones you mention, are the fact that Bayern Munich are one of the biggest clubs in Europe, regularly win the German title and make the latter stages of the champions league. As well as of course being in the third largest city in Germany with a population 6 times bigger than Southamptons and is city very popular with tourists. You're going to have to sell a lot of pie and pint deals to make up the other shortfall from cutting ticket prices to a tenner and increasing the debt to c£50m. Other than that it's an excellent idea.

As a business case it makes absolutely perfect sense to spend c£50m to expand St Marys and then reduces prices to £10.

Such a dell sized mentality!! They said we'd never fill st Marys when we moved here!

The capacity increases with every thread on the subject. We've gone from 40k to 58k in about 6 months and 20 threads.

Something about having more fans than Everton, a catchment area that covers 3/4s of the globe and man walking on the moon. Lock thread.

He's carrying a knock isn't he? Either way he'd have been brought in to improve the team, as we've been told we'll only sign better than we have.

She is now saying she that she has recognised the bloke that did it from a picture posted on twitter. An amazing conincidence that of all the hundreds of people walking past the area after the incident a picture the only picture posted on twitter was of the person that was supposed to have done it.

It was the Wigan lot doing all the spitting.

Not one person. I saw her comment that she was fine this morning apart for a sore jaw, if she'd taken a right hander flush on the jaw from a bloke she's going to go down or at very least off balance, as most people would yet she managed to carry on up the stairs carrying her child. So not one witness despite 100s of people seeing it, only very minor injuries on a small, slim girl after being punched in the face by a bloke. Not very convicing this little story is it.

I think it's a good thing, much like when Spurs adopted the nickname Yid Army.