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Course you can be an idiot and not clueless. Prehaps the wrong choice of word though, i meant a pr*ck, a bell end a c*ck. A bit of a helmet as a bloke, or at least that's how he comes across. HTH.

But you said start prices for Man U at £50 and then reduce them if they couldn't sell. Then reduce them again and again. Norwich you were on about starting low and putting up. Again, i cant see people being too chuffed sitting next to someone who had paid £20 for a ticket when theyve paid £40, in fact i cant see too many people paying £40+ to see Saints v Norwich. West Ham were doing groupon deals last season, doing deals isn't new, it just seems Cortese isn't keen to slash prices. What makes you think that is going to change?

You said you wondered how playing behind a scottish teams back for can compare with strikers in the Premier league, im saying it didn't seem to be a problem for Niemi. HTH.

So say we sell tickets for Man United at £50 in our new 45,000 seater stadium. We sell 10,000 tickets at that price. So we reduce them to £40 we sell another 15,000 at that price then we reduce them to £30 and sell a few more. On the day of the game there are 2,000 left that we knock out at £15 each to get bums on seats. a few questions 1/ How do you p*ssed off do you think the fans will be that paid the higher price for the same tickets? 2/ What is to stop fans getting used to this and just not buying tickets at the inflated price and waiting until they drop? Leading to chaos at the ticket office with everyone waiting until the final week price drops before buying their seats. 3/ What is the benefit of having a season ticket when fans that decide at the last minute to go can buy tickets at fraction of the price you pay pro rata. 4/ Why hasn't Cortese used "dynamic pricing" to fill the average 8,000 seats we have left every week last season. He doesn't seem like the sort of guy who is in the habit of selling things off cheap. I appreciate dynamic pricing works the other way as well and pricing could go up, but do you really think you're going to have many takers paying £40-50 to watch Saints v Norwich or West Brom?

Be honest, did you read back your idea for dynamic pricing and realise how stupid it sounds?

No it isn't. Its because no one has come up with any compelling or convincing evidence that firsly we need a bigger ground and secondly that we can fill an extra 12,000 seats without reducing the price. Even your magnificent idea of starting prices at £50 and then reducing them and reducing them until they did sell still involved one imporant factor, reducing the price. I still cant see why an sensible CEO would spend £20m on expanding a stadium and then slash the prices to fill the seats, which however anyone dresses it up, flexible and dynamic pricing are going to do just that.

wasn't a problem for Niemi.

Thanks for the riveting breakdown. Are we the only club in the country that draws fans from outside the City? What about the counties surrounding Birmingham like Warwickshire, Staffs, Worcs, Gloucs, North Oxford****e. What about the counties surrounding London, like Kent, Surrey, Essex, Herts? Can provide a breakdown of these areas please so we can do a proper like for like comparision. Also you say we should wrongly exclude Portsmouth from our catchement area. I'm still yet to be convinced as to why anyone supporting Portsmouth would suddely swtich sides to Saints because we are in the Premier league. Even if the theory were true, surely we'd have masses of Southampton residents who switched sides between 2005-09 when the roles were reversed? Surely thousands of Cardiff fans would now be Swansea fans. The same goes for Millwall fans switching to west Ham, are Rangers fans now all going to become Celtic fans because they are in trouble at the moment?

He is an idiot but he's done well at every club he's been at. Even at Newcastle they were 11th when he left because this wasnt good enough for the geordies, the following season they went down. How anyone can say he's clueless is beyond me.

This can't be true Jamie. I don't believe you. Devon and Cornwall sit under this imaginary line from London, Birmingham and Liverpool which means everything below it is ours.

Anyone that says Allerdyce is clueless is an idiot. Great record at Bolton, decent record at Blackburn and was sacked when Newcastle were 11th, The following season they were relegated, then got West Ham up at the first attempt. He might be a bit of a tw*t and not play football that is easy on the eye but it's effective.

It is unique. Half of it is in the sea, a large % of it is Forest and overlapping with London club areas like Basingstoke. Yet Apparantly is massive, much bigger than anyone else in the country and it means thousands of fans from Surrrey, Kent, Sussex, Somerset, Wales, Warwickshire, Devon and Cornwall are all going got come to Southampton now to see premier league football.

So he hasn't bothered trying flexible pricing for the last two years because it's against PL rules? remind me whats divisions it is we've been in for the last two years. Remind me why West Ham were able to offer two for one groupon deals yet Saints weren't? Also if it is against PL rules to introduce flexible/easy jet pricing doesn't this rule out your brilliant idea of a starting mathchday ticket prices of £50 for seats, then when only a few thousand buy them reduce then price, then reduce it again, then again until they do sell out? I thought you'd have known this Timmy?

We'll see. Forgive me for being skeptical that thousands of fans in Portsmouth are suddenly going to start actively supporting their big rivals. It didn't happen in Southampton when we were L1 and they were winning the FA cup. Leeds fans haven't suddenly become Man U fans whilst they were in L1 and the championship? Are Caridff fans now following Swansea because they're in the Premier League? Are West Ham braced for all the Millwall fans set to pull in the claret and blue next season now their back in top flight? How welcome are all the Ipswich fans travelling to Carrow Road very week now they've switched teams? I could go on. Is it Happenng there?

Itll be months before its passed onto us, if at all.

Yeah, signed in 1989 I believe, what a signing he was. A lad at work used to be on saints books as first year pro in thea mid nineties, says Spurs tried signing Dodd and he turned them down as he loved Saints so much.

Does it? Although Just Mike was quite specific that fans either end of the M27 will now become Saints fans. I expect to see hundreds of Saints shirts next time I visit Gunwharf Quay in that case.

No, "it wasn't that great" you said. Was it excellent or "not that great"?

There should be thousands of them though, i wonder how many other people know all these young fans who are Pompey fans due to their success when we were sh*t, I don't know any, anyone else?

You're right, as dumbass says, any shower of sh*t can get to a cup final.

We weren't a shower of sh*t though, we finished 8th. One place below teams who you think have had so much more success than us and two places beneath a team that spent over £100m in three seasons. "not that great" though, yes?

FA cup final or UEFA Cup final? Not a lot of difference. I'll give you it but one carling cup win and a highest league postion of one place higher is hardly a massive success considering the amount they spent compared to us and our "not that great" performances and achievements.

Whats he like? I'd never heard of him until we were linked. Edit, just seen his stats 65 clean sheets in 117 games, impressive and still only young. Looks on paper a top signing.

Despite all the extra spending of Villa, Boro and Fulham their best finishes have only been 1 or 2 places above ours which "wasn't that great". What do you expect?

Both of theirs highest ever league position was 7th, one place higher than ours. They also both got to a cup final. Middlesborough have since been relegated and Fulham almost did before Hodgson save them. So how have they achieved so much more?